Sentences with phrase «admission exam schools»

• They included programs in the review that are only tangentially related to school choice and that drove the alleged mismatch, namely early - college high schools, selective - admission exam schools, and career and technical education initiatives.

The authors included programs in the review that are only tangentially related to school choice and that drove the alleged mismatch, namely early - college high schools, selective - admission exam schools, and career and technical education initiatives.

Not exact matches

To become a lawyer, you need to complete a bachelor's degree, take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a laSchool Admission Test), go to law school, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a laschool, and finally, pass your province's Bar exam and spend a year articling (training under the supervision of a lawyer).

Globally, the percentage of candidates considering only business master's degrees has increased from 15 % in 2009 to 23 % in 2016, according to a 2017 report by the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), the organization that administers the GMAT, the business school entrance exam.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

Please consult the ISEE website for information about the exam required for admission to many New York independent schools.

Those continuing must complete the 4 - year senior high school programme (which has been changed to three years) and take an admission exam to enter any university or tertiary programme.

It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the premises of the school located in a swampy area covered with bush around 9.20 pm on Friday and made away with eight persons including three regular students and two others who were preparing for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board exams and three members of staff.

The issue of admission into the Ghana Law School became contentious following a Supreme Court decision last year which scrapped exams and interviews as entry requirements.

The proposed L.I. in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance Examination.

The proposed LI in question, among other things, states that the General Legal Council will conduct an entrance exam for the admission of students to the school, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance Examinschool, and conduct interviews for all applicants who pass the Ghana School of Law Entrance ExaminSchool of Law Entrance Examination.

Plans are already underway to turn Hughes elementary into the Syracuse Latin School, which will offer a classical curriculum to high - achieving students who pass an admissions exam.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

According to the LGA, there isn't capacity within the system to withdraw funding and the proposed reduction will «leave councils with little resource to perform their statutory duties», which includes education welfare, school improvement, admissions, exam validation and recruitment.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

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

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

This last finding is consistent with recent evidence showing no academic benefits of attending a Boston or New York City exam school for students who just met the admissions criteria (see «Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 20exam school for students who just met the admissions criteria (see «Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 20Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 2012).

These high schools are sometimes known as «exam schools» in reference to their selective admissions criteria, which can include entrance exams.

They were all waiting to take the admissions test for New York's three vaunted «exam schools.»

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.

In 1999, after taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), the standardized exam required of applicants to business schools, Mark Breimhorst sued the test's maker, the powerful Educational Testing Service (ETS).

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

• Tuition or fees at a qualified school or an eligible postsecondary institution • Textbooks • Educational therapies or services from a licensed or accredited practitioner or provider • Tutoring or teaching services • Curricula and related materials • Tuition or fees for an online learning program • Fees for a nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, an advanced placement examination, or any exams related to college or university admission • Contributions to a college savings account • Services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs • Any fees for the management of the ESA

The Educational Records Bureau, a Wellesley, Mass., research and subject - matter testing group for private schools and suburban public schools, will jump into the admission market with an exam promising a better candidate profile, a timed essay, and a 72 - hour turn - around time on test scores, among other features.

AP exams... college admissions tests... the dreaded state standardized tests... no matter where you are in America, if you teach high school, you're probably teaching to a test.

But we already have selective - admissions magnet schools (of the sort profiled recently by Checker Finn and Jessica Hockett in Exam Schools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their aboschools (of the sort profiled recently by Checker Finn and Jessica Hockett in Exam Schools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their aboSchools) and I don't remember many reformers calling for their abolition.

Officials from purveyors of the nation's two most widely used admissions tests linked lagging scores in different sections of the exams to high school students» failure to take enough of the core classes needed to prepare them for higher education.

Each student's scaled school assessment is then added to their exam score to obtain their subject result, which is then used in the calculation of their tertiary admissions rank (ATAR).

They also help students prepare for New York's specialized high - school admissions exam.

Several OPSB and BESE public schools have selective admissions based on entrance exams, language proficiency exams, prior grades, essays, and other criteria.

Report examines statewide testing for general education students in grades 9 - 12 during the 2006 - 07 school year, including end - of - course tests, exit exams, and college - admissions tests.

The seventh graders at the Brooke Charter schools in East Boston and Roslindale fare as well on a state math test as students at the prestigious Boston Latin school, the country's oldest public school and a school with an admissions exam.

The expansion of this prep program targets students from traditionally underrepresented schools who are seeking admission into the district's three «exam schools.»

In Britain, too, both Oxford and Cambridge have long pointed to a dearth of students from poorer backgrounds who achieve the standard required in exams at the end of high school to be considered for admission to most courses at those universities.

To remediate achievement gaps and prepare for the demands of the most selective schools in New England, each Scholar puts in hundreds of hours of extra school work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool work and prepares to take the Independent School Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeSchool Entrance Exam for admission to a selective school in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - gradeschool in the fall of his or her fifth - or sixth - grade year.

Ninety percent of Scholars who have completed Steppingstone's demanding program of academic preparation gain admission to an independent, Catholic or public exam school.

Some schools open their doors to poor and harder to educate children, while others play fast and loose with the admissions code to ensure they get better exam results.

Just keep in mind that schools that don't use the SAT or ACT for admissions purposes may still use the exams for awarding scholarships.

Standouts among the states are Delaware, which passed a law last year raising admission standards to the highest in the country, and Rhode Island, which will eventually require that each class of students at its education schools score in the top third of everyone taking college entrance exams.

Boston also continues to offer exam schools, which require students to attain a minimum test score for admission.

What Is It: Currently, screened middle schools consider a student's grades, test scores, and attendance record (sometimes alongside their own admissions exam, an interview, writing sample, or other portfolio items) when ranking students they wish to accept.

The exams will be given at school and must lead up to the culminating college entrance exam that can be used for college admissions.

In their 2012 book, «Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational models.

The options include private or parochial school tuition, textbooks, tutors, homeschool curriculum, public school and virtual online classes, education therapy, AP or college admission exams and college tuition.

For those of you high school students who have decided to take the ACT as your college admissions test, and for those of you required to take it as a high school exit exam, you'd better prepare yourself for the ACT Reading portion of the exam.

Their exit exam, required to gain admission to high school, was far more difficult than today's high school exit exam (eliminated by Governor Brown last year) and many college level achievement tests.

There are no required entrance exams for admission to EQUITAS ACADEMY's schools.

For high schools: College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high school.

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