Sentences with phrase «baccalaureate program does»

The Advanced Placement program has worked hard to justify its gold standard reputation, and the much smaller International Baccalaureate program does that, too.

Not exact matches

Given these obstacles, it's not surprising that, although about half of all enrollees enter community college intending to transfer to a 4 - year institution, only about 25 % actually do — a gap that programs such as NIH's Bridges to the Baccalaureate and NSF's Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation aim to remedy.

Even programs that link different types of institutions — such as the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Degree from community colleges to 4 - year institutions, and the Bridges to the Doctoral Degree from master's to doctoral programs — don't promise students a slot as they advance.

Emanuel was going to do bold, concrete things — enact a longer school day and year, implement principal performance bonuses, expand International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, and revamp teacher evaluations — and get them done as quickly and visibly as possible.

Without early identification, youngsters are apt to lose out on opportunities to accelerate, to get into such special classrooms and supplemental programs as do exist, to enroll in magnet or charter schools designed to challenge them, and to gain access (when they reach high school) to Advanced Placement courses, International Baccalaureate programs, and other offerings that typically presuppose a solid education in the early grades.

But the students in the college - bound track of fifty years ago did not get the high quality of education that is now typical in public schools with Advanced Placement courses or International Baccalaureate programs or even in the regular courses offered in our top city and suburban schools.

Simpson noted my complaint that few American high - schoolers, except those in International Baccalaureate programs, were ever asked to do a research project as long as 4,000 words.

With grade - by - grade content, a state could also develop better tests: Specifying course content and testing a sample of it is what our most highly regarded programs — Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate — do.

It is the first research to be produced through Reimagining College Access (RCA), a national initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel that brings together for the first time k - 12 and higher education policy and practice leaders (see list below) to recognize high - quality k — 12 performance assessment systems and enable higher education institutions to understand and recognize evidence from such systems (as they do with International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement programs, for example).

As the only school in Indiana with a full - continuum, preschool - to - diploma International Baccalaureate (IB) program, we do the most to prepare our students for the IB diploma and beyond.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme: Examining College Readiness A study by the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) published in May 2014 used student data from the University of Oregon to determine that students who participated in the International Baccalaureate Diploma program in high school were more likely than those who did not to earn post-secondary degrees, persist over two years and earn higher GPAs in their first two years of college.

In order to scale - up the quality and rigor of the International Baccalaureate program, school leaders have needed to introduce more structure for the staff, which left some wondering «How do we hold on to things that made us really special without turning into a K - 12 traditional school?»