Sentences with phrase «academic schools available»

Highly academic schools available throughout south east England Academics Ltd are a highly renowned international teaching agency working directly with a UK government funded program called Quantum...

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The school I'm planning to attend doesn't offer financing, but a loan from Meritize will allow me to continue my education knowing the funding is available and that it's personalized based on my academic merit.

Clearly, the average theological school is not awash in funds available for discretionary spending, for covering the start - up costs of major new academic «experiments,» for providing new student services, or even for providing adequate support services for administration and faculty.

Officials describe the dinner initiative as having three goals: hedging against childhood hunger, reducing alarming rates of obesity and drawing more students to after - school programs, where extra academic help is available.

Any non-FHSAA member private school that has a student who wishes to participate in this program must make all student records, including, but not limited to, academic, financial, disciplinary, and attendance records, available upon request of the FHSAA.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Kilgus said the student version, which was given to middle school students in the study, is available through Fastbridge Learning, a software company that works with schools to offer online academic and behavioral screening, as well as other assessment services.

Through music school, I met parents with high school and college education, and in this way I learned about the only city - wide public high school of high academic standing available at that time to girls.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

The new schools offer is available from September 2018, for the next academic year.

These charges seemed odd, given that the best studies available on the subject — from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)-- show that Michigan charter students make large academic gains relative to similar students at district schools, particularly in Detroit.

Two completed teacher surveys are available for 21,324 of the 8th - grade students — a bit smaller than the full sample of NELS students because some teachers did not complete their questionnaires and some students did not have a class in one or both of the academic subjects randomly assigned to their school for which teacher surveys were administered.

We have teachers available after school for academic assistance, and that is available as often as a student needs it.

The SMART Grants — for National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent — and the Academic Competitiveness Grants were signed into law in early 2006 and became available to students starting in the 2006 - 07 school year.

«School Poverty and Academic Performance: NAEP Achievement in High - Poverty Schools» is available by calling (800) USA - LEARN.

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Most K — 12 teachers didn't learn this in school, and many of the available resources are written by high - level academics.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

In addition to their academic studies, therefore, Turner Tech freshman learn about the academy programs available at the school, explore the career options within each academy, and complete personal inventories to determine where their interests and abilities lie.

I obtained data on school demographics, high school graduation rates, and college entrance examinations from the publicly available Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) on the Texas Education Agency web site.

Students can choose to compete either with other players within their class, school or country, and are matched to children at the same academic level as themselves (or against the computer if no suitable match is available).

Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: «Our school leavers now have a widening range of opportunities available - from industry - led technical professional options to long standing well - established academic routes.

In addition to submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test results.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Available for each campus in Texas, the SRC is intended specifically to inform parents and guardians about a school's individual characteristics and its academic performance.

Schools seldom have coherent content standards, accountability systems based on assessments of student academic growth, or an ethic of making publicly available the performance data that do exist.

The guide uses a question - and - answer format to explain the relevant terminology, recent academic research, the breadth of software offerings, important legal requirements, and additional resources available to school board members and school lawyers.

Research shows that having a rich and diverse array of subjects, including social studies, science, art, music and physical education, and other interesting electives available throughout the school year improves student learning and academic success.

In addition to the diagnostic screening required pursuant to section 117.3 of this Title, students entering the New York State school system for the first time, or reentering the New York State school system with no available records, shall be screened to determine the need for academic intervention services.

Terry Ryan, president of the Idaho Charter School Network, adds «Charter schools have provided an academic lifeline for students in troubled urban school districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural stuSchool Network, adds «Charter schools have provided an academic lifeline for students in troubled urban school districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural stuschool districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural students.

School districts may use time available for academic intervention instructional and / or student support services during the regular schooSchool districts may use time available for academic intervention instructional and / or student support services during the regular schoolschool day.

All of the available data provide a wake - up call for researchers and policymakers to renew their commitment to high school students and ensure that the academic gains that elementary and middle schools have produced are not squandered.

Beyond information on academic achievement, states should collect and make publicly available information on graduation rates, student turnover, teacher turnover, teacher quality, school size, program offerings, and school safety.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

Variation at the state - level — involving tuition rates, state scholarships, and licensure requirements, among other things — makes it important for school counselors, teachers, and other academic advisors to be aware of the opportunities and restrictions available to DACA - enrolled young people in their localities.

Within the limitations of available data and methods, the empirical evidence is very encouraging for private school choice on ethnic segregation — just as it is on academic outcomes, effects on public schools, fiscal effects and effects on civic values and practices.

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

Academic Standards (PDF) Academic and Career Plan (PDF) ADA 504 Notice (PDF) Asbestos Management Plan (PDF) Assessment Information (PDF) ATOD (PDF) Attendance Policy (PDF) Bullying (PDF) Child Nutrition (PDF) Directory and Yearbook Information (PDF) District Wellness Policy (PDF) Education for Employment — Career Counseling (PDF) Education Options Available to Resident Children (PDF) Homeless Education Program (PDF) Human Growth and Development (webpage) Indoor Air Quality (PDF) Limited English Proficiency (PDF) Meal Charge Policy (PDF) Participation (PDF) Public Use of School Facilities (PDF) Possession or Use of Cell Phones (PDF) Program and Curriculum Modifications — Programs for Children At Risk (PDF) School Accountability Report (webpage) Special Education (PDF) Special Needs Scholarship Program (PDF) Student Locker Searches (PDF) Student Non-Discrimination and Complaint Procedures (PDF) Student Records (PDF) Suicide Prevention Resources (PDF) Student Privacy — Pupil Records (PDF) Student Privacy — Directory and Yearbook Information (PDF) Title I Family Engagement Policy (PDF) Title I Professional Qualifications — Teacher (PDF) Title I Professional Qualifications — Teacher Assistant Youth Options Courses (PDF)

The available empirical evidence on these private school choice programs makes it clear they positively affect the academic performance of participating students, while doing so at a lower cost than public schools and benefitting public school students, decreasing segregation, and improving civic values and practices.

A key goal of the program is to create a safe and supportive environment where mentees can be comfortable asking their mentors for academic assistance; discussing barriers to achieving academic success; and learning from mentors about college, graduate school, and other career opportunities that are available post-high school.

We collect the most recently available school finance data from the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for the 2011 - 12 and 2013 - 14 academic years.

«If you spread grammar school places throughout the country and make them available to lots of disadvantaged children then you would give these disadvantaged children the same opportunity to get an academic education.»

African American students who attend charters in California are more academically proficient and more likely to graduate college - ready than their peers in traditional schools according to an abundance of publicly available data and academic studies.

Now, despite evidence to the contrary, Charter schools are available statewide for every student regardless of academic need.

It is immoral for the government to force parents to send their children to schools that do not meet their academic and related needs, especially when other public options are available, including charter schools.

The report anticipates a longer school year or even school day, but specifically does not call for changes in that area until the time now available is put to better academic use.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

In what may be an important step to making some new instructional materials available during a purchasing freeze, a recently amended bill would allow districts to buy new textbooks for schools scoring in the lowest three deciles of the Academic Performance Index.

High Standards for All Students: A Report from the National Assessment of Title I on Progress and Challenges Since the 1994 Reauthorization (2001) provides a comprehensive summary of the most recent data available from the National Assessment of Title I on the implementation of the Title I program and the academic performance of children in high - poverty schools.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.