Schools were ranked by a series of standards, including
admissions selectivity, classroom management instruction, and student teaching programs as measured by public documents such as class syllabi and required texts.
Not exact matches
The debate over the use of race in
admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade - off among three worthwhile goals: race - blindness, academic
selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.
6) Perceived difficulty in obtaining
admission: My usual advice to even the strongest candidates is to apply to schools with a range of
selectivity.
«We have previously documented social
selectivity in secondary schools, but today's findings warn us that primary school
admissions are far from a level - playing field.»
It is nonetheless plausible that the lack of effects on college
selectivity that we find may hold in higher - income districts as well, since students in these districts who fall just shy of the top 10 percent likely face fewer informational and financial barriers to enrolling in high - quality colleges absent an automatic
admissions guarantee than do students in our sample.
Education schools do not make it possible to examine
admissions data specific to their administration and leadership programs, but we can garner a rough idea of
selectivity by comparing overall
admissions data from colleges of education with those from graduate business schools.
The Sutton Trust has previously published research on
admissions to comprehensive schools highlighting the social
selectivity of some comprehensives and grammar schools.
This means there is no
selectivity during the student
admission process.
Table 1 captures
selectivity requirements for
admission into teacher preparation programs and entry into the profession.
She added that the preparation programs that use the PACT, including the University of California system, Stanford, and several schools within the California State University system, have the highest
selectivity in
admissions to their preparation programs.
The consortium's subsequent studies found that elite public schools with
admissions criteria did not improve academic benefits, test scores, grades or college
selectivity, and for lower - income students, these actually worsened.
Set these disconcerting figures against a backdrop of harried, overworked
admissions officers under pressure to read thousands of applications on tight deadlines, the fierce competition among colleges to maintain their
selectivity, and the need to enroll enough affluent students to generate revenue, and the manifold obstacles low - income students already face appear impassable.
The Fordham report looked at two schools that used lotteries for
admission, two with open enrollment and two — John Hay and the Cleveland School of Arts — that select their student body, but found that
selectivity alone couldn't explain success, particularly since more than 60 percent of students in both Cleveland schools were from poor neighborhoods.