Sentences with phrase «admit students by»

Most of the city's 99 charter schools admit students by lottery.

When charter schools receive more applications than available seats, they admit students by random lottery.

If there are too many applicants for available spots, the law requires the school to admit students by lottery.

Over-subscribed urban charter schools that admit students by lottery have produced the largest improvement in student achievement.

Unlike charter schools, which usually must admit students by lottery if they are over-subscribed, many magnet schools have admission standards.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

Each school admits students by a random lottery, which by law, is subject to an independent audit.

Not exact matches

I argued that the opposite is true: Teachers who respond to a student's question by admitting ignorance evince strength.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework - up to a year of it - in order to stay.

Even more troubling, I've found that many white male pastors and seminary students have an even harder time admitting that these privilege and power issues exist in the church and are even perpetuated by the church.»

Despite innumerable private testimonies of help and solidarity given — often at great risk — to persecuted Jews, despite innumerable touching signs of friendship and fidelity that dismissed Jewish professors received from their students, no public protest has been made by any educational body; and some new corporative institutions, among the liberal professions, are willingly admitting a kind of numerus clausus.

Religion has even become a problem at religious schools, as when Gonzaga University, a Catholic Jesuit school, initially denied the Knights of Columbus official student club status because the club practices «religious discrimination» (and «gender discrimination») by admitting only Catholic men.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework — up to a year of it — in order to stay.

On USC's website, they released a statement saying that a Student Manager admitted to deflating game balls prior to the game, after they were inspected by officials.

Elk Grove Village Trustee and Youth Commissioner Chris Prochno admits she feels «really bad» about the furor caused by a survey the Youth Commission recently sent to high school and junior high students in the suburb.

to the housing request form, which is completed by all admitted students.

These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»

The Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast has allegedly refused to admit some students who were posted to the school by the Computerized School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).

State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

This unfortunate development is widely believed to have been caused by congestion in our Senior High Schools due to the large numbers of students admitted after government rolled out the Free SHS scheme.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

Somide disclosed that 125 students were admitted but only 123 of them have commenced training at the College which includes indigent students, who are beneficiaries of the scholarship provided by the Kwara State Government and drawn from the 16 local governments (LGs) of the state.

New York State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core aligned math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two - thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

Citi News» checks at some Senior High Schools in the country indicate that although they were preparing to receive the first year's today, not all of them had displayed the list of admitted students on their notice boards for easy access by prospective students and their parents.

The Health Ministry has instructed principals of nursing training institutions to reduce the number of students they admit for the 2017/18 academic year by 40 per cent or more.

Despite «return to play» laws now in place in all 50 states, which typically mandate youth and high school athletes must leave the field if they are suspected of having a concussion and return only after a medical examination by a health professional, the incentive to keep playing — especially if students are trying to impress recruiters — remains strong, and players may not admit their concussion symptoms.

And the state of Hawaii, which challenged the revised ban, argued that the policy would harm the state by barring students who had been admitted to the University of Hawaii.

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

JJ Abrams managed to work alongside Steven Spielberg himself for throwback fantasy Super 8 before taking charge of the rebooted Star Wars franchise, Gareth Edwards admitted that his take on Godzilla was influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and others such as Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon are clear students of the multiplex masters who birthed the event movie.

In a 2006 poll conducted by the Josephson Institute's Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, 60 percent of the 35,000 high school students polled admitted to cheating during a test at school within the past twelve months, and 35 percent of students said they'd cheated two or more times.

Students are admitted into YES Prep schools by random lottery from the neighborhood.

Head teacher Alan Gray said: «The funding for additional accommodation provided by Hertfordshire County Council has allowed the school to successfully admit students and meet local demographic pressures to the north of St Albans.

At lower grade levels, students may simply respond to a question posed by the teacher orally as an exit or admit slip, but upper - grade students typically respond through writing.

And in contrast to the G&T program as a whole, students admitted by lottery to G&T magnet program were assigned to more effective teachers.

A 1998 national report by Who's Who Among American High School Students showed four of five top students admitted cheating at somStudents showed four of five top students admitted cheating at somstudents admitted cheating at some point.

The lottery study corroborates these results, as students admitted to the G&T magnet schools show little improvement in test scores by 7th grade, despite having higher - achieving peers and being taught by more effective teachers.

Noble Street College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

He admitted that the pedagogical research component was often contested by students («we are teachers, not researchers»), but, he says, alumni later tell him that it was one of the most valuable parts of their educational experience.

I recently had students fail at colliding two rockets, but they admitted to knowing more about calculus, rockets and trajectories than they ever would have learned by staying in the classroom.

The principal caught the pair, and while the principal admitted that he believed the hug was innocent, he was compelled by school policy to bring the two students to the school's dean, who penalized them with in - school suspensions.

Even students in private schools, despite hailing from more socioeconomically advantaged homes and in some cases being selectively admitted by schools, fail miserably at attaining NAEP proficiency.

In a sealed room, to which no - one was admitted, exam papers were printed andpacked for each student by name using computer - linked equipment.

Although the doctoral students are humbled and surprised by their awards, many admit that they are not surprised to see so many HGSE students receiving the fellowships.

Only 18 percent of the public know that charters can not hold religious services, 19 percent that they can not charge tuition, 15 percent that students must be admitted by lottery (if the school is oversubscribed), and just 12 percent that, typically, charters receive less government funding per pupil than traditional public schools.

While Tatum admitted that none of the students arrive on day one eager to spend part of their summer reading and writing, their writing samples show a great depth by the workshop's end.

The NEA admits that some methods might be considered more efficient, but points out that the correct answer can be found using multiple methods and that «by allowing students to think flexibly about numbers, we encourage them to «own'the math forever, instead of «borrowing» until class is over.»