Sentences with phrase «admit via lottery»

Another Mumsnet user called Nynaevessister said: «It doesn't help that our two closest schools are both highly sought after and also admit via lottery so being close to them doesn't help us at all.»

Because the students in this pool of applications differ (on average) only in where they were offered a place, researchers can make apples - to - apples comparisons to see how the students who are admitted via lottery perform, compared to those who were not admitted.

Not exact matches

During their testimony, Wadhwa and Arora each argued strongly for raising the percentage of foreign immigrants admitted to the United States on the basis of their STEM skills, at the expense of immigrants admitted via family reunification policies or the diversity lottery.

Because the oversubscribed charter schools in our sample admit students via random lotteries, comparing the outcomes of lottery winners (most of whom enrolled in a charter school) and lottery losers (most of whom did not) is akin to a randomized - control trial of the kind often used in medical research.

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.

The final evaluation found being admitted to a KIPP middle school via a lottery leads to significant improvement in students» average math and reading scores after two years.

Right now, the only public charter high school in Holyoke is the Paolo Friere Social Justice High School, which admits slightly more than 100 9th graders from all over Holyoke every year via random lottery.

All charter schools are required to admit students via a lottery - no admissions testing is permitted.

Charter schools are publicly funded, but can be privately run, and often admit students via lottery.