Sentences with phrase «academic track»

This program targets schools with the lowest academic track records in the nation, awarding federal grants to help them make adequate yearly progress and boost test scores.

This «one - size - fits - all» approach works well if we want to sort students into academic tracks.

Many black and Latino kids end up in lower academic tracks and white parents protect exclusive opportunities for their kids.

As graduate students and postdocs, you likely know that the majority of Ph.D. scientists enter rewarding careers outside the traditional academic track.

For the first time, the program has also established two distinct academic tracks for the available courses: the college - transfer pathway and the career and technical pathway.

For those who've read my advocacy about letting parents decide whether their child should be placed on an accelerated academic track, no, I haven't given up on choice.

The proposals are intended to increase socio - economic integration within these schools and open up higher - level academic tracks to all students.

Other studies support this finding, showing that teachers tend to expect more of students in higher academic tracks.

She has directly - related work experience in the financial sector, gained from an internship or prolonged work experience, and a solid academic track record in her honours degree in business.

I have a good overall academic track and record.

Some charters place students into academic tracks, others do not.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

Keen interest in teaching Chinese language with excellent academic track record along with three years of teaching experience in the concerned field

From a business perspective, they've got a proven academic track record as well as more work experience.»

He found kids fighting in the corridors, poor attendance, seven layers of academic tracking that placed students in classes ranging from college bound to vocational to disregarded — mostly along racial and socioeconomic lines — and a disheartened teaching staff.

must strengthen programs and offer academic tracks so students are able to transfer into 4 - year public institutions after two years

A 2017 study in Germany has shown academic tracking school students with «considerably higher intelligence score gains» than their non-tracking and comprehensive school compatriots.

It also needs to be able to say «no» to a charter school that has a poor academic track record, lacks basic financial competence, or would weaken an ongoing effort to put a strong school in a struggling neighborhood.

KIPP has a strong academic track record; its campuses rank among the top at CPS.

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The New York Genome Center has many other open positions, in other research groups and e.g. in the bioinformatics team outside of the standard academic track.

When diverse schools institute rigid academic tracking that places students of color in low - level classes or employ harsh discipline policies that exclude students rather than providing support, they are not truly integrated.

In Minneapolis, Michael V. Walker's job has a singular purpose: keeping the school system's black, male students on a positive academic track.

This even though an advanced academic track would help to reduce inequalities in opportunity between rich and poor (and suburban and urban) students with great academic promise.

One of the first things he did at King was to eliminate academic tracking.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

Eventually, schools began grouping students into these «tracks», based on the jobs they wished to pursue: rigorous courses for those on a more academic track, more basic life skills for students with their eyes set on lower - skilled work.

We can also describe instruction as it exists across a wide variety of U.S. classrooms, for example, asking whether — as is often assumed — instruction in urban districts is inferior to those in other areas and whether differences in instructional or teacher quality by academic track (honors, general, or remedial) exist.

Children in roughly the bottom third of the distribution of linguistic and logical - mathematical ability are «just not smart enough to succeed on a conventional academic track.»

As a result, these families — and white counterparts who either have kids labeled as either special ed or placed on the general academic track — seek out private schools at great expense, even when they are paying out $ 5,000 or more every year to support traditional public schools their kids won't attend.

Other areas scored in the rubric include: prior academic track record, transparency (including funding levels and decisions), a strategy for continuous improvement, sustainability and a «vision» for reform.

Meeting minutes of the Charter School Advisory Board indicate that CSAB members were aware of Newpoint's questionable academic track record.

Because they have been navigating high school on a college prep academic track, these students haven't had room to address many of these communication and independent living skills and school districts may not even recognize that they are lacking.

Finally, there is Emily, an eighth grader in Silicon Valley, whose problems with math will place her on a lower academic track if she remains at the same high school in her affluent community.

Rather than helping children and parents and informing teachers, tests are being used to justify academic tracking, over-representation of Black and Brown kids in special education, push outs and school closings.

OFT president Melissa Cropper said her union supports the majority of the bill, which would apply only to Cleveland and would allow the city's mayor unprecedented authority to reconstitute schools and establish partnerships with charters in the city in a bid to improve Cleveland's dismal academic track record.

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While I don't doubt he has an impressive academic track record, his walls lined with degrees and diplomas, he seems to waste a lot of this ostensible intelligence crusading against fictional violence represented on a screen by a collection of multicolored pixels.

Linares also discusses other highlights that are new to this year's Techshow, including a startup competition on the opening night, a hackathon to improve veterans» access to justice, and a new academic track.

To secure a training contract with Clifford Chance or a place on one of our vacation schemes, you'll need to show a strong and consistent academic track record throughout your degree.

The state of California has created a scholarship opportunity open to all students accepted to or enrolled in allied health academic tracks, including medical assistant programs.

Aschwanden also said program administrators have been tracking its graduates since 1983 and they have a 76 percent college attendance rate — higher, he said, than that of grads from the traditional academic track.

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We compare two alternative methods to account for the sorting of students into academic tracks.