Over the years, the portion of students who are children of United Nations employees has shrunk; today, they account for 38percentt of the students, and the rest are foreign and American residents of the New York region.
To test for any effects of question order or test format (paper vs. online), we selected a portion of students from a single course to take a paper version of the survey (n = 27), while the remaining students took an online survey with randomized question order (n = 25).
Judith Johnson, deputy assistant secretary of the federal Department of Education, noted that the portion of students finishing college in four years has dropped from 45.4percentt in 1977 to 31.1percentt in 1993.
Doctors and teenagers from more than 15 schools across the nation with high academic standards estimated that the portion of students who do so ranges from 15 percent to 40 percent.
Mr. Geffen's fund represents the first sustained scholarship to cover all expenses, not just tuition, for a sizable portion of students at a single medical school.
In the Cabrini Green housing project, the portion of students at the Jenner Academy for the arts who meet the national average has jumped to 21percentt from 14percentt in reading and to 29percentt from 15percentt in math, since Lighthouse began.
The study, conducted by computer scientists at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, finds that in a given high school, a small portion of students who lie about their age to get a Facebook account can help a complete stranger collect sensitive information about a majority of their fellow students.
That system looks at the portion of students overall who are performing at or above grade level, as well as within subgroups such as race and special education, and it judges progress by comparing this year's third graders, for example, with last year's.
In a half-dozen districts with the worst reading and math scores, only a small portion of students who failed last spring's standardized reading and math tests were required either to attend summer school or to repeat a grade, according to an analysis of Board of Education data by The New York Times.
Shael Polakow-Suransky, the City Education Department's chief academic officer, said that the districts that fared the best had a smaller portion of students from low-income families, reinforcing the notion that "a lot of what drives the data is connected to the needs of the children in the district," he said.
