Sentences with phrase «academic rank like»

A: I think we need to bring into the elementary and secondary schools a system of academic rank like we now have in higher education.

Not exact matches

In Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic rank.

we see college rankings for things like academics, student life and best party.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

Colleges and universities that have lower academic rankings in publications like The Princeton Review and The Wall Street Journal, including Catholic schools, could lead to an increase in the number of closures.

In CORE's new system, a school with high test scores won't necessarily be ranked the highest, like it was with California's Academic Performance Index (API), which was discontinued in 2013 to give the state time to transfer over new Common Core - aligned standardized tests and develop a new accountability system.

Comprising of campaigners, corporate responsibility specialists and academics, the group has an ambitious program which includes working on ethical procurement programmes, creating educational materials for schools and training for businesses, and even, potentially, the ranking of corporations based on their ethical practices, like those in Ethical Consumer.

As a follow - up to this earlier post on law firm rankings, David Bernstein of Volokh complains that one reason that there's so much focus on the U.S. News rankings is that the publication has a virtual monopoly on the rankings, though others (like Leiter) provide more useful information to those concerned about academic quality.