Sentences with phrase «tier one schools»

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

Major in science, engineering or math at a top - tier school, and your predicted return on investment sky - rockets.

And students who may not have the resources to attend a top - tier school can access its courses without having to travel to its campus.

I agree, I would rather see a loss to a top tier school than a win over another nameless tier 3 school.

This move will create a two - tier school lunch program, forcing less affluent school districts to purchase the less expensive, pink slime beef.

ICYMI: Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo told me during a CapTon interview last night that she's worried Southern Tier school districts impacted by recent flooding won't be able to stay within the 2 percent property tax cap pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the Legislature this past session.

The top schools have excellent advising, he says, but at second - tier schools, the Ph.D. mentors may not always be qualified to supervise students, and only 20 to 30 percent have a Ph.D. themselves.

«These scientists are well qualified and on par with those graduating from the top - tier schools.

Top - tier schools rely on rankings, too.

A «cascading» effect was proposed in which minority students who would have attended a first - tier school under affirmative action have now been shuffled to second - tier schools.

Additionally, a proportional increase in minority admissions was observed for second - tier schools.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

The program sends teams of 10 to 12 students, tuition - free, from five metropolitan areas to 19 participating, top - tier schools.

The difficulties facing low - income students help explain why so few attend top - tier schools.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

all contribute to one of the most important characteristics of bottom - tier schools: their inability to follow through.

Our long - term goal is that all three tier schools in our MAT will use ParentPay, meaning parents will only have to activate one account.»

By 2000, most states had earnings ratios near 100 percent for all aptitude groups, indicating that graduates of the most highly selective colleges earned no more as teachers than did graduates from bottom - tier schools!

For a woman from the bottom - tier schools, there was little change in the ratio of female earnings to male earnings.

In April 2015 he caused controversy by granting permission for neighbouring academies in Redditch, Worcestershire, to convert into two - tier schools, despite concerns that it would «decimate» the town's education system and threaten other local schools.

He will be attending Syracuse University in New York on a full tuition scholarship from the Posse Foundation - an organization focused on sending diverse young leaders to top - tier schools around the country.

In communities where the shift has been mandated — high schools in and around Portland, Me., for example — it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time - consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top - tier school administrators.

The council's plans were to close and merge many of the three - tier schools to create more of a two - tier system in the county, after it warned that many other schools are also undersubscribed, running at a deficit and in buildings needing substantial improvements.

While many high schools push poor students toward less competitive college, this New York nonprofit helps to graduate kids from top - tier schools at remarkable rates

Many of these middle tier schools are places facing the same challenges as the tier 3 and 3b schools, but with highly dedicated and motivated staffs who learned how to do more with less.

Also, I'd like to point out that the middle tiered schools really struggled in the tiering scheme as well as the top and the bottom.

Help them out and make a splash at the same time with a four - tier school supply cake!

From 2016 to 2017, the number of bottom - tier schools for math and ELA performance approximately doubled (page 8 here).

Beginning the 2018 - 19 school year, the Illinois State Report Card will display the tier your school falls into and the type of supports that are being utilized by your school.

While the McKinley drama was playing out in Compton, in mid-May parents in Buffalo, N.Y., pulled kids out of schools for half a day, protesting a two - tier school system.

Few top - tier school administrators can claim as high a level of intimacy with the education of English - language learners as Valeria Silva, the superintendent of the school system in St. Paul, Minn..

Sir Albert claimed he was frustrated with the two - tier schools system in which academies operate outside the local authority's control and report directly to the DfE.

This doesn't bode well for the two - tiered school system in New Orleans, where massive charter expansion is already destroying the neighborhood school system.

Anyone running a private school in a city BASIS Independent enters, especially a second - tier school charging first - tier tuition, has to be worried.

While many of these school districts lack the manpower to directly recruit talent from these top - tier schools, they are establishing new programs that have comparable opportunities to popular alternative teacher certification programs.

For current residents, the lure of affordable housing, upper tier schools and a booming job market are all great reasons to relocate within the state.

Not having a huge educational foundation I could not attend a 1st tier law school so I had to settle for a 2nd tier school.

Missing from the collection are several top - tier schools such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.

Another lower - tier school by U.S. News standards, St. Thomas, is 38th on the Caron / Princeton list.

Their prospective students can't get into top tier schools, but are savvy enough to know all about the non-profit schools» misrepresentation of how many of their graduates get law jobs.

As The New York Times summed up the situation earlier this week, law firms» decisions to cancel or downsize summer programs is having an impact even at top tier schools, where firms traditionally drew the majority of their summer classes:

Imagine you're a law school dean at a traditional non-profit third - tier school.

The so - called «elite schools» are turning to so - called «lower tier schools» to learn more about their clinical programs, as I described here, while schools like Detroit Mercy are elevating their rankings by building the types of prominent connections that elite schools already have in place because of their alumni.

We look at resumes from any law school, we're not snobbish about where a student goes to school, but if a candidate is from a so - called second tier school we'll probably be looking for high level of success, although we're looking for success regardless of the schools we draw from.

Two op - ed pieces have graced its editorial pages, one tellingly authored by Dean Dan Rodriguez from Northwestern Law School, a top tier school.

In my resume, you will find prestigious credentials (such as top grades at a top tier school, a federal clerkship, and big firm experience).

And, according to Professor Taylor's report, these numbers may be an overestimation, because fewer minorities are gaining admission to top - tier schools.

Only 4 percent of graduates of lower - tiered schools work in law firms, and many of these graduates work in small, solo practices or in state government jobs.

Professor Taylor attributes this development to many factors, including the need for lower - tiered schools to maintain revenue by (wittingly or unwittingly) using diversity to help accomplish this goal, as well as elite law schools using the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus more on admitting students with the highest LSAT scores.

Absent a willingness on the part of firms to go deeper into the class at top - tier schools, and / or expand target schools beyond the top 50, a better approach is to accept the pipeline numbers for what they are and accept that diverse representation will ebb and flow because the competition is fierce and these students have a lot of options.