Sentences with phrase «school over admission»

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«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

The seven people around the rectangular table in room 112G are enacting a scene that is playing out at business schools all over the world, as admission committees decide the fate of tens of thousands of applicants to their MBA programs.

Graduate Management Admission Council CEO Dave Wilson explains why he'd rather his child head to China for biz school over Harvard.

The admission is likely to increase pressure on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to resign over the scandal involving the sale of state - owned land to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, which had ties to Abe's wife.

In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

Progressive Catholic groups vented outrage Friday over the decision of a Roman Catholic school in Massachusetts to rescind the admission of an 8 - year - old student because his parents are lesbians.

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

Over 94 % of North American Waldorf graduates gain admission to a post-secondary school of their choice and 50 % go on to postgraduate education.

Thacker is a driving force behind «Turning the Tide,» a new report he co-authored, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project and endorsed by over 85 major college stakeholders, including deans of admissions from the most elite American universities.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

In January, Tudor Grange proposed to give priority to pupils from two Church of England primary schools, including St James, in admissions, over criteria based on catchment and distance.

e. Ensures that selection in admissions on the basis of religion or belief to state - funded schools is phased out over up to six years.

Further votes are due later today when MPs return to debate the final stages of the legislation, which aims to create a network of self - governing trust schools with control over their own assets, staff and admissions.

Knowing that religious selection in admissions creates segregation along class and ethnic lines, having a clear policy in favour of inclusion and taking great care not to allow any state - funded faith schools to have control over its own admissions would also make sense for a Labour approach.

The Buffalo Public Schools district potentially faces two lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial students.

With competition for school places set to intensify over the next decade, the government's recent proposal to relax admissions rules for new faith schools has been met with mixed responses.

In the cohort study, researchers from Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, Harvard Medical School and University of Chicago analyzed nearly 23 million adult hospital admissions at 162 hospitals in 44 states over a seven - year period: January 1, 2009 through September 30, 2015.

Shortly after Hiro chooses admission to Callahan's school over Krei's big mony, the hall erupts in flame — and when Tadashi goes back into the building to save Callahan, he doesn't make it.

We've allowed selective - admission «exam schools» to operate within the public education system for over a hundred years.

Among these students, winning admission to a preferred school reduces the average number of felony arrests over the study period from 0.77 to 0.43, a pattern driven largely by a reduction of 0.23 in the average number of arrests for drug felonies (see Figure 2).

Among male high school students at high risk of criminal activity, winning admission to a first - choice school reduced felony arrests from 77 to 43 per 100 students over the study period (2002 - 2009).

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

Especially at exam schools, boosting admissions for some groups comes at the expense of other groups — usually Asian Americans, who have also faced harsh discrimination over the course of American history.

He said: «Over a million state school places in England are subject to religious selection and it's well known that religious schools have been abusing the admissions system for some time.

A report seen by The Gazette from Stockton Council's Education Admissions Appeal Panel, outlines concerns over «lack of space» within the school - including dining facilities that can only accommodate 250 pupils when there are more than 1,000 per day requiring them.

An article by Christine Rossell that appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Ed Next looked at the history of magnet schools in the U.S. and changes in their admissions policies over time.

Riverside gives admissions preferences to in - district kids over out - of - district students, except at its STEM school, where both enter the same lottery.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

In the study Passmore advised that «too many schools» were continuing to flout the rules over the consultation and publication of admissions arrangements and that it was «still no easy matter to find» admissions policies that should be readily accessible.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

Dr Becky Allen, Director of Education Datalab, said: «There are many benefits to giving parents a choice over where their child is educated, but our new research shows that that there is not equity in access to many primary schools, either because higher - income families are advantaged in their ability to exercise choice or because their admissions criteria favour certain pupils.»

In response to a Harvard Graduate School of Education report centered around reforming the college admissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achadmissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achAdmissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achievements.

Among those schools surveyed, 85 percent also said they had made their curricula more demanding over the past five years, and 94 percent said they had made at least one change in their admissions procedures designed to improve the quality...

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Rules that grant greater discretion over admission and expulsion decisions to schools may lead to competition based on the composition of enrollments rather than the quality of academic programs.

Enrollment has increased by over 200 students, scholars consistently perform well above grade level in math and literacy and gain admission to college - preparatory secondary schools, and the school serves as an effective training ground and research site for developing teachers.

Archbishop Malcolm MacMahon, speaking on behalf of the Catholic education sector, said the government had «broken a promise» over changes to free school admissions - but Humanists UK described the retention of their 50 % cap as a «victory for integration».

Furthermore, in accepting public funds, religious schools run the risk of being mired in political debates, battles over regulation and accountability, and disruptive inquiries into their school standards in admission, curriculum, and hiring practices.

Control over admissions may well have been a factor but we don't have to guess whether bureaucratic burdens and testing requirements played a major part in the decision by private schools in FL and LA not to participate.

Over 1 in 5 of California's charter schools have restrictive admissions requirements or other exclusionary practices that keep out many students with the greatest academic needs, a report released Monday by the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and the public interest law firm Public Advocates alleges.

While some state schools, like Florida State University, could be willing to tweak its foreign language requirements — «in certain cases,» said Hege Ferguson, a representative from the admissions office — students who are attending private or out - of - state schools could be at a disadvantage if coding is promoted over foreign language, because those institutions do not have any obligation to alter admissions criteria.

For example, in medicine, doctors» preparation programs went through wide variations in program requirements and candidate qualifications before the American Medical Association (AMA) began to exercise control over admissions to educational programs, program content, and school accreditation.

In the Canadian 2009 PISA dataset (which includes over 23,000 students), 74 % of students attended a high school where residence in a particular location was required for admission.

Report author Anne Pinney says she is concerned about moves to extend school freedoms, which include giving those schools control over their admissions policies.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

... now you have a failing school to hand over to a private entity who can now deny admissions even if you live in the neighborhood.

Academies have greater autonomy over the curriculum, school budgets, admissions (within the statutory code) and teachers» pay than other state - funded schools.

For over 85 years, and with over 2,000 member schools and districts around the world, ERB continues to be a trusted source to inform admission decisions and / or to support curriculum and instruction.

Despite this admission by the state that schools need these essential resources, the state did nothing over the past 10 years to try to ensure every Connecticut school be properly equipped.