Sentences with phrase «as high admission»

We cited barriers such as high admission fees for preventing low - income individuals from ever becoming museum - goers.

One study reported that states with medical marijuana dispensaries had higher rates of both marijuana and alcohol use, as well as higher admissions into alcohol treatment facilities.

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Such borrowers will face higher mortgage rates, but they might view them as the price of admission to lucrative property markets that seem almost impervious to corrections.

«As an open admission high school, students come to us from various schools throughout the metro New Orleans area and we don't necessarily know the academic acumen of students coming through the building,» he says.

So some admissions offices often are under pressure to keep those scores as high as possible.

Admission to the program is based on criteria that ensure high standards of academic quality and student achievement, as well as diversity.

On Monday, April 23, Xtreme Action Park offered free admission from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. to all students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a way of showing their support following the events of Feb. 14.

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

In fact, we should have organizations develop admissions tests aligned with other high school orientations as well — multicultural curricula, Afrocentric curricula, STEM - and arts - based curricula.

He is arrested, condemned by the high priest, on his own admission that he is the Christ, the Son of Man, who is to come with the clouds of heaven, and again condemned as «King of the Jews» by Pilate, is crucified, and dies.

Again, the very frank admissions of weakness or stupidity or lack of faith or downright blindness and disloyalty on the part of the disciples are sometimes explained as due to Peter's lifelong penitent self - accusation: he could not recall incidents from the life of his Master without breaking into tears once more, as once he did outside the high priest's house in Jerusalem.

For most ladies, this as a rule likens to around 75 — 150 grams every day, albeit some may locate a higher or lower carb admission to be more helpful.

There is a solution to consider that will let us compete with every top club in the world and I'm amazed nobody has thought of it as it is 2 very simple steps 1) Build a new stadium and charge the highest admission prices for tickets.

If the daytime high temperature in Hampton, Georgia on Saturday or Sunday of race weekend fails to reach at least 50 degrees as observed by the National Weather Service, or if weather issues postpone the day's activities to a different day and fans are unable to attend on the rescheduled date, fans who do not enter the admission gates on the day the event is held will receive an account credit for the full price of their tickets.

Montclair Cooperative School 65 Chestnut Street Montclair, NJ 07044 973-783-4955 www.montclaircoop.org Ana Younghusband, Director of Admissions [e-mail] About Montclair Cooperative School: For more than 50 years, Montclair Cooperative School has been dedicated to providing engaging, creative, multi-disciplinary learning as a rigorous preparation for high school and beyond.

So what can you as a parent do to relieve the pressure on your high school student (and put your own mind at ease) around the issue of college admissions?

She is a frequent contributor to various higher education and college admissions websites as an author, panelist, and blogger and regularly presents seminars and talks for students and families about preparing for college.

After 28 years working to get kids into college, Thacker left his job as a high school counselor in 2004 to write «College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy» and found the Education Conservancy, through which he is building a broad - based reform coalition of educators at both the supply (high school) and demand (college) sides of the equation.

Prior to founding the Education Conservancy, Thacker, 62, split his education career working in admissions offices at three different colleges before working as a guidance counselor at Portland's Jesuit High School from the early 1980s until 2004.

A solid work ethic will serve our children well as they grow up in an era of multitasking, demand for achievement, rigorous school workload, and a college admissions process that places a high priority on extracurricular activities.

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

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Another parent who had gone through the admission process without paying for anything at the St. Mary's Boys Senior High School at Apowa in the Ahanta West District also explained that «it has come as a relief to me.

The meeting will feature a presentation by New York City Department of Education (DOE) officials for parents about how to navigate the high schools admissions process, as well an overview -LSB-...]

Lord Hill also assured peers that the academy funding agreements will require academies to comply with the school admissions code and law, as with all maintained schools, noting that «the code and related legislation outlaw additional selection and require the highest priority to be given to looked - after children.»

On topic questions included: what defines a «community school», whether community schools are only located in low - income neighborhoods, whether there is a plan to extend universal pre-K to three year olds, how much more expensive community schools are to operate than «regular» schools, why was the UFT not at this announcement, whether academic gains are expected from community schools and how will such gains be measured, what programs are added to «regular» schools as they are converted into «community» schools, potential changes to the admissions process for specialized high schools and whether the seats announced today are new programs or new spaces.

Duke was referring to the fact that the while refusing to hold town hall meetings, Faso has met with large groups of people at paid events, including a fundraiser this week that cost a minimum of $ 1,000 a plate, and the January breakfast meeting of the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce, for which the admission price was as high as $ 35.

Community members will have the chance to weigh in on the programs, along with the specialized high schools admissions process, as part of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams» and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s «Gifted & Talented Task Force.»

Students, who were placed in Bongo Senior High School, were to pay the said money as a Parent Teacher Association levy and other items before they would be issued admission...

Washington's blood pressure was so high upon admission to Rockefeller Hospital — 225/145 mm Hg — that today's clinicians would treat it as an emergency, with high doses of medication.

They pointed to the experience of Texas, Florida, and California, which have substituted admissions based on high school class rank for race - conscious policies (although the extent of their success has been disputed)(4 - 6), as evidence that there are workable alternatives.

Opponents of affirmative action are requesting admissions data from institutions of higher learning to make sure the schools are adhering to the policy of using race as one of many factors rather than having it be the determining factor.

Its activities include assisting undergraduates with the graduate admissions process, mentoring local high school students, connecting black graduate students with faculty of color, as well as several social activities, including bowling, barbeques, and an annual formal with alumni.

That is true, it said, for each of the three types of specialized schools that it reviewed: selective STEM schools such as Thomas Jefferson, inclusive STEM high schools (e.g. a STEM emphasis within an open - admission school), and STEM - focused career and technical education schools.

Liliana Garces, assistant professor of higher education at Pennsylvania State University, said racial diversity has fallen significantly at schools that are barred from considering race as a factor in admissions.

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

They found that hospitals in weakly regulated states reported substantially lower rates of hospital - acquired infections as well as higher rates of infections that were «present on admission.»

The researchers» analysis revealed that opioid - related ICU admissions increased an average of more than half a percent each year over the seven - year study period and that patients admitted to ICUs as a result of overdose required increasingly intensive care, including high - cost renal replacement therapy or dialysis.

Hospital admission rates are 55 per cent higher in some areas than in others because of a greater prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, alcoholism, dementia and socioeconomic deprivation.

By contrast, in the historiometric approach, a person's IQ is quantitatively estimated based on variables having known correlations with IQ, such as highest level of education, academic honors, scores on college admissions exams, occupation, and preferences.

Cardiovascular admissions tended to be highest during the first two days of a smoke - wave and then decrease, while respiratory admissions exhibited the opposite trend, increasing as the days go by.16

The level of support and commitment to excellence regarding the curriculum as well as the integrity and high level of professional teachers that are available is by far worth more than the cost of admission.»

The Assassin finds its worth in cinema as high art, and while the story may not match up to the dizzying heights of its visuals (this film is truly the most gorgeous film of the year to this point), the mastery of that visual poetry is more than worth the price of admission.

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A majority of U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT are entering college poorly prepared to tackle key subjects such as math and science, concludes a report by the sponsor of the nation's second most widely used college - admissions test.

A current study of 10 Linked Learning programs in California, for example, has so far found that students in these programs have dramatically lower dropout rates and slightly higher graduation rates, than the state as a whole, and are more likely to graduate with the courses required for admission to California's public universities.

Colleges and universities were hailed as the well from which national greatness flowed, and a bachelor's degree was seen as an admission ticket to the highest levels of government, commerce, and the arts.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

Calls for at least a year of education or training after high school, as President Barack Obama has issued, put special pressure on community colleges, which are arguably the most democratic of higher education institutions, with their low price tags, broad missions, and open admissions policies.