These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.
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There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.
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The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.
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The summer program run by a nonprofit organization has helped many underserved students learn advanced math.
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The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.
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The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.
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The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.
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The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.
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The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.
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The 224 students who make it to the national competition get an all-expenses-paid trip.
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Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.
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Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.
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Students may take advantage of online resources to learn to solve math problems.
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Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.
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Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.
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Students apply to the program directly through their schools.
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Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.
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Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.
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Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.
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Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
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Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.
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Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.
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Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.
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Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.
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Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.
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Math circles provide students with access to advanced-math training by university professors.
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It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.
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In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.
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Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.
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But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.
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But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.
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But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.
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Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
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According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.
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About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
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About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.
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A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.
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I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.
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The study found that strong teachers in the fourth through eighth grades raised the skills of their students in ways that would last for decades.
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That's an insult to students.
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Student performance has a lot to do with teachers.
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Protecting the union demand sacrifices those students, in effect turning a blind eye to the injustice in the education system.
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Most politicians are kind of crooked ( ' , 不诚实的), one student declared.
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Many students are dissatisfied with their teachers.
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It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.
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It totally ignores students' initiative in the learning process.
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It protects incompetent teachers at the expense of students.
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It makes students feel that they are discriminated against in many ways.
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Interviews with students find many of them are only concerned about personal matters.
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In our interviews, many students viewed politics with suspicion and distaste.
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Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.
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What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.
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University education is becoming attractive to students who can afford it.
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There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.
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The study's authors surveyed 12,395 students and analyzed nine risk behaviors, including excessive alcohol use, illegal drug use, heavy smoking, high media use and truancy ( ' , 逃学 ).
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Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.
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Students at university also meet those likely to be in leading jobs in the future, forming contacts for life.
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Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.
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Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.
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It is natural for students to make complaints about university education.
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If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.
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Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.
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Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars.
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About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.
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Professor Henderson, could you give us a brief overview of what you do, where you work and your main area of research? I have many Business English students.
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When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.
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What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.
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Unfortunately, there tends to be a lack of information and support to help students think bigger and broader.
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Train students to think about global issues.
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To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students— young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.
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They underestimate themselves when selecting a university, said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.
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They fail to give adequate help to the needy students.
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These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping- stone to middle-class mobility.
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The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction.
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The graduation rate of first-generation students at Nijay's university was incredibly low.
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The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).
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That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
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Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.
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Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more.
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Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( ' , trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity ( ' , 联 系 ) groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( ' , the latter being one of the most common programs for students).
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Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.
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Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
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Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.
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Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.
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Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality ( ' , although the college students had better spelling skills).
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Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum.
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Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' he said, hinting at mentors ( ' , 导师 ), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about belonging at such a top institution.
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Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.
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Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.
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Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students.
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Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.
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Like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.
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Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Laura Hamilton, the author of a study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations arc overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students.
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It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity.
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It trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.
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It helps students realize not every question has an answer.
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It has tried hard to satisfy students' various needs.
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