Sentences with phrase «advantages over other students»

Section 504 and IDEA allow for accommodation on testing, but they do not require schools to accommodate students to such a degree that they have advantages over other students.

Another reason for regulation, and this is unfortunate but true, is that there are people who attempt to get modifications for their children when they are not really needed because they believe it will give their children advantages over other students.

Not exact matches

She did a Ph.D. at the Pierre et Marie Curie University, but her ENS connections — such as access to prominent people in her field — gave her a large advantage over other university students working on a Ph.D. thesis.

The foundations and donors supporting the education reform movement do have one enormous advantage over their philanthropic counterparts in the arts, health, the environment, human services, and any number of other fields, namely, the presence of measures of student achievement that allow real comparisons of school performance.

Since suburban students certainly have other advantages over the average student in the cities, we might not expect equal spending to produce identical results.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

For example, schools should watch to see whether students who have more access to technology outside of school than others display an advantage over students who have less, she said.

MYTH # 3: Race - based affirmative action gives Black and Latino students an unfair advantage over others.

Yes, charter schools have an advantage over traditional public schools because, among other things, they don't have to take students midyear — and because families who choose to apply to charters are more likely to be motivated and engaged.

Students coming back to us again and again will surely have advantage over our other customers.

While student loans have advantages over other types of debt, such as lower interest rates, longer deferment periods and more flexible repayment policies, they can be tough to pay off while you're making the transition to the work force, buying a house and building a family.

But if you have other debts, it's definitely wise to make those a priority over student loans since you can have this tax advantage.

For lawyers and law students, having demonstrable skills in public legal writing should provide an advantage, all other things being equal, over others lacking those skills.

She says it provides an advantage over students at other schools who won't get their first taste of corporate law until second year.

I provided information on resume development that gave these recipients of newly minted master's degrees an advantage over other graduating students.

I make extra effort to ensure my students have a decisive competitive advantage over other investors — If you're not using a computer in your investing business, you're definitely losing some advantage.

Joshua, as a computer science student you may have an advantage over many others in the market — your skills at putting the great real estate databases to work for you sifting and sorting deals.