Sentence examples for marginal students from inspiring English sources

His counseling job often involves persuading marginal students to try to earn a degree.

Some analysts worried about the effect of a tough test on the survival of marginal students in high school.

"The kids are marginal students to begin with," he said, "and many of their parents, who lived from paycheck to paycheck, had to go above and beyond to get them to school".

Ernest Whitaker, 46, a popular science teacher often trailed by students, added that reaching the marginal students will become easier next year as returning teachers get to know them even better, and vice versa.

And human capital would be expanding by having schools focus on the long lower tail of under-achievement instead of meeting targets which cause schools to focus on pushing marginal students over arbitrary thresholds.

In the past five years college enrolment among those finishing high school has fallen, as cash-strapped community colleges turn applicants away and for-profits restrict recruitment of marginal students".America seems to have hit a wall," says Simon Marginson.

They might not be admitted over a similarly marginal student whose parents can pay.

But, Ms Schafer admits, a good essay might win an otherwise marginal student admission.

The one exception, Mr. Dobbie and Mr. Fryer wrote, was borderline students: "Attending an exam school increases rigor of the marginal student's high school course work, and makes the marginal student more likely to graduate from high school with an advanced diploma".

But he also believes he will eventually be able to take more chances with "the marginal student" because those players will be more likely to conform to his agenda, as opposed to setting it from the start.

And by "continuous" I don't mean "continual," a distinction that Bryson elucidates in "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words," one of several also improbably entertaining books on language he has written, despite, if his memoir is to be believed, being a marginal student in high school and a onetime college dropout before lighting out for England in the 70's.