Sentences with phrase «adopted by college students»

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Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

I began by teaching it to my college students, and over the past year have seen it turn peoples» life around and even benefit entire families who adopted it!

Cuomo also pushed his plan to provide free tuition — beyond state and federal grants already received — for some public college students; he said 85 percent of families from the Buffalo area would be eligible to participate if his plan is adopted by the Legislature.

Cuomo defended New York's move to the Common Core, which has been adopted by nearly every state and aims to boost students» readiness for college and careers.

The Common Core curriculum standards have been voluntarily adopted by 45 states and aim to boost students» readiness for college and careers.

«It's important to emphasize that the changes in scores do not mean that schools have taught less or that students have learned less, but rather reflect this new standard, the Common Core adopted by 46 states because these standards represent the trajectory to college and career success,» King said, on a conference call.

The Oregon legislature adopts a nationally watched plan that requires students by age 16 to earn a «certificate of initial mastery» before moving on to at least two years of college - preparatory work or job training.

In sum, although there may be some migration by high - performing students to APIP schools, schools that adopt APIP see better scores on college entrance exams among students who have always attended their school.

Complete College America, which pledged to scale its corequisite remedial education model — that is, pairing remedial courses with enhanced academic support for students — said that by 2015, three - quarters of its remedial education programs will have adopted that model.

The Common Core, which has been adopted by 45 states including New York, is described as a more rigorous curriculum intended to better prepare students for college and career.

The researchers found that six key policies had been implemented by all five states: adopting academic standards for teaching students about the history and culture of America's indigenous peoples, involving Native Americans on advisory boards, promoting Native American languages through teacher certification, allowing students to learn their native language as part of their education program, and providing tuition assistance for college - bound Native American students.

High schools are seeking to build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).

The new tests will reflect Common Core standards, adopted by Utah and most other states to better prepare kids for college and careers by outlining concepts and skills students should learn in each grade.

That being not enough, he then decreed that states could apply for flexibility waivers to get out of the terrible mandates of NCLB as long as they agreed to the terrible mandates of Arne Duncan: to adopt the Common Core state standards, the common core national tests, link teacher and principal evaluations to standardized test scores, and, instead of all students being «proficient» by 2014, assure that all students will be «college ready» by 2020.

In response to these concerns, community colleges across the country are working to improve developmental education by changing how they assess and place students, adopting reforms that accelerate students» progress through developmental education and enhancing student services.

The state adopted rigorous Common Core State Standards in ELA and Math that identify what students should know and be able to do at grades 3 - 8 and 11 to be on track for college and career by the end of 12th grade.

The new assessments will be designed for a wide range of students with significant cognitive disabilities and will be aligned to the common set of college - and career - ready standards that were recently developed by governors and chief state school officers and have been adopted by 35 states and the District of Columbia.

After Highline and Seattle shared their results with the Road Map ELL Work Group, the World Language Credit Program was adopted by the seven Puget Sound - area districts that make up the Road Map Project whose aim is to double the number of students who are college or career ready by 2020.

By adopting a learner - centered approach, schools are finding ways to better prepare their students for success in college, career, and in life.

Perry's chief objection to the RTTT grant was its requirement that a state adopt either college - and career - ready standards that are common to a significant number of states, or standards that are approved by a state network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the postsecondary level.

Wisconsin college student Tassie Keltgin is hired as a child - care provider by two sophisticated transplants from the East Coast, who are in the process of adopting a child.

Our dogs are adopted by all kinds of people, including families with young kids, retired people, college students, and many more.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, 50 colleges and universities have adopted the STARS Computing Corps leadership program whereby college students collaborate with regional K - 12 schools, industry and community partners to inform, engage and prepare students for higher education in college - level computing programs.

FOCU's petition echoed the arguments put forward by the student occupiers: «The college has illegitimately been made to adopt the policy of tuition as a result of a top - down administrative structure that, from [its] inception, relied on disregarding the voices and contributions of students, faculties, and the community at large in vital decision - making processes.»

The state of California — a big player in establishing educational standards that are often adopted across the nation — is moving to approve legislation that will require colleges in that state to honor and give credit for faculty - approved MOOCs taken by their students.