Sentences with phrase «at exam schools»

Especially at exam schools, boosting admissions for some groups comes at the expense of other groups — usually Asian Americans, who have also faced harsh discrimination over the course of American history.

Not exact matches

Exams at school or university, job interviews, even the nerves of a marriage proposal - these are all moments of apprehension that shape us and take us to somewhere new.

The average GMAT score for Rotman's 2013 entering class was 674, and York University's Schulich School of Business says a competitive score would be 660 with a balanced score — that is, in at least the 50th percentile — across the four measures of the exam.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

Now an adviser at a hedge fund and a distinguished visiting fellow at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, Shapiro took the unorthodox course of staying in Israel after leaving his diplomatic post so that a daughter could finish high school exams.

China's Communist Party is a merciless meritocracy... if you're in Chinese leadership, you made it there by scoring high on a long series of exams, starting at age twelve — which means you haven't met a stupid person since you were in junior high school.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

By the time the average theological student begins to think about a religious profession (at age 24.6 years), the average medical student is already in medical school and the average law student has taken the LSAT exams.

For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

At least six fighters entered the military - run school in the Pakistani province of Peshawar, while exams were taking place.

Atherton, a lecturer in English language and literature at Oxford University, says that in 1930, Tolkien was grading secondary school exam papers at his home in North Oxford, and he was bored.

I had to poach some fish for one of my exams at culinary school.

As I said before stop chatting to your mates at school and go and study for your exams

Every Bianconeri youth player passed their high school diploma exams at Juventus College in the Vinovo Training Center

The on - site improvements (e.g., computers, books, lower student / teacher ratios — the secondary school used to operate at a 1:67 ratio) and quantitative results (e.g., in the past 5 years, the rate for passing university entrance exams has climbed from 60 to 89 %) are remarkable and I wanted to share some audio and video.

If the average high - school student takes five classes, that's two - and - a-half hours per night, not to mention that long - term assignments (like papers and preparing for exams) are generally not considered homework and are additional work to be done at home.

Feeling pressured during an exam at school?

At this stage, schools are not teaching to exams, but it is time that they should.

He graduated from high school two years early by taking the CA High School Proficiency Exam, and started at Foothill when he was onschool two years early by taking the CA High School Proficiency Exam, and started at Foothill when he was onSchool Proficiency Exam, and started at Foothill when he was only 16.

Therefore, the American Optometric Association is recommending that infants have their first eye exam around 6 months of age, again at 3 years, and then before starting school.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

Then we could have lived out Crazy Week with him, where he stayed at school until about bedtime trying to finish papers and projects and grading and take - home exams.

Von's Vision partners with optometrists, opticians and retailers to provide school kids with eye exams and eyewear, all at once.

The most obvious sign of that were the scores on the citywide math exam at our middle school, which had been the school with the most challenges.

Some colleges like to see that students have taken AP courses when these classes are offered at their high schools; some give extra points to student GPA's when they take AP courses; some give credit for passing scores on the AP exams, while others do not.

We chose ACE because it was the only curriculum at the time which provided a distance - learning certificate programme (the National Christian Schools Certificate) without exams which is acceptable at British universities.

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Many submissions called for to end the 11 + exam and to stop supporting selective schools the Forum ended up with no commitment at all but just a vague statement saying that selection is not a good thing.

At the Accra High school assembly hall, which was packed with over 500 energetic and enthusiastic high school students who were already in reading mode as they prepare for their exams next week, said they were eager to talk about their own ambitions and to read passages from The Fishermen.

So 263 out of nearly 700 school districts agreed this year to offer computerized exams to at least some students.

At 10:30 a.m., de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina make an announcement about last year's Advanced Placement exams, Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria, 23 - 15 Newtown Ave., Queens.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

The ACT has scheduled a makeup exam on Jan. 14 for 53 students whose answer sheets went missing after taking the test at Roslyn High School in October, which has left them lacking scores to submit on their college applications.

Yet despite all the encouragement and the reasonable exam results, I left school at 16 and started working as a care assistant.

Also at 11 a.m., charter school parents, organized by Families for Excellent Schools, will gather on the steps of City Hall and demand that de Blasio apologize for insulting charter school students» achievement on 2016 state exams, Manhattan.

New regulations approved by the SUNY Charter Schools Committee at its meeting Oct. 11, 2017 would remove or reduce most of these standards, including fewer hours of instruction in teaching skills, only a week of practice instruction and only one certification exam, among other lighter standards.

A fourth - grader at Ulysses Byas Elementary School in Rooosevelt takes the Common Core math exam on the first day of three days of mathematics testing, on April 13, 2016.

At 32 city elementary and middle schools, the average English - math proficiency rate on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students...

The girls were taking exams at a secondary school in the remote northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 when the Islamist gunmen surrounded it, loaded them onto trucks and carted them off.

But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age out of the traditional public school system.

Zimpher noted that before a new high school exam is created to assess college readiness, officials at all levels must decide what «readiness» means.

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The Career Collegiate Institute serves students between the ages of 17 to 21, preparing them for the high school equivalency exam while at the same time working in partnership with Erie Community College to get them ready for college.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

The $ 2 million center at Brooklyn's PS 188 will offer comprehensive eye exams, vision care and glasses to students from PS 188 and neighboring schools.

Here's another: He was working at the patent office because he failed his engineering school entrance exam in 1895.

«He was extremely bright,» recalls Satish Dhalla, director of general internal medicine at Downtown Hospital and a professor at New York University School of Medicine renowned for his seminars preparing residents to ace their medical board exams.

During its first year, not only did its students greatly outperform an equivalent group of at - risk high - school students, but they also performed on a par with average Binghamton high - school students on state - mandated exams.

«Even though their exams and lab tests didn't show much in the way of a common or clear biological marker or markers of PTLDS, it's clear these patients don't feel well,» says study co-author Kathleen Bechtold, Ph.D., associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.