Top-drawer universities like Harvard and Columbia advertised for students steadily through August and September right up to opening day and offered entrance exams the weekend before classes resumed to give students every chance of taking and passing them.
Over the years, the intake of Catholic/nationalist students steadily increased, due mainly to being situated in the Catholic side of Lurgan.
The high-performing students steadily improve their exam scores over the semester, and are more likely to attend class and submit extra-credit work, whereas the low performers show a steady decline in exam scores and become less likely to be fully involved in the course.
And by traditional standards, Muscota students have steadily raised scores every year.
Over time, however, the neighborhood has changed and the proportion of white students has steadily decreased in the area's middle schools, down to roughly 40percentt in 2007.
New York City public school students have steadily increased their performance on reading and math tests over the last decade, contrary to popular perceptions and raw test data that suggest the opposite, Harold O. Levy, the interim schools chancellor, said yesterday.
A18 Gains Seen in Test Scores New York City public school students have steadily improved on reading and math tests in the last decade, contrary to perception, the interim schools chancellor said.
Need-based scholarships are one way to increase low-income enrollment, but over the past three decades, the value of Pell Grants – the basic form of federal scholarship aid to poor students – has steadily declined as tuition costs have grown at a much faster rate than inflation.
In the three decades I've been teaching, I find that the subset of students is steadily increasing who consider nearly all words of three or more syllables pretentious, with the exception of "pretentious" — which is for them an indispensable term.
Times have changed, and efforts to foster and promote the participation of graduate and, most recently, undergraduate students have steadily grown.
The study, conducted in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, identified schools "where students progress steadily toward high academic standards and where every student matters".
