Sentences with phrase «at their admissions policies»

Event organizers are going to have to look at times, they're going to have to look at admissions policies, and exit policies,» MacMartin said.

He said grammar schools should look again at their admissions policies and ensure they were making provision for children from disadvantaged areas or with special needs, even if that means altering the entrance requirements, and do more outreach work in deprived areas.

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The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

The Department of Justice is investigating admissions policies at Harvard to see whether they discriminate against Asian - Americans.

Significantly, it said its assessment had «not been agreed with the other parties in the policy discussions» — an admission that the fund is at odds with its troika partners, the European commission and the European Central Bank — over the need for debt relief.

Other athletes use their dogs to erect stockades, garrisons, barbed - wire fences, moats in which the dogs themselves serve as the alligators... and some athletes, like Kenny Norman of the Atlanta Hawks, assign their dogs the intricate task of enforcing a policy of exclusion while at the same time setting the standard for admission.

The comments that Arsenal is now at par with Chelsea in spending power is a clear admission that Wenger's policies are far superior to the others and have started to yield dividends.

In response to a parliamentary question tabled in the House of Lords, the Department for Education (DfE) has at last conceded that the overwhelming majority of objections submitted to school admission policies by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) correctly identified breaches of the law.

We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.

Cuomo said rapes become difficult to rule on since other students do not want to admit to being at the party, a potential admission of a campus policy violation.

Commenting on the report, Jon Foster, Senior Research and Policy Officer at IAS said: «Even modest reductions in bar opening times would take the pressure off hard pressed A&E departments, who would undoubtedly welcome a 25 % reduction in alcohol - related admissions, as happened in Australia.

The Buffalo School Board has decided to review its admissions policies at two of the district's most sought - after schools — City Honors and Olmsted 156 — after some parents complained that the present formula penalizes students who opted out of taking state tests.

A civil rights consultant hired by the Buffalo School District to review admissions policies at criteria - based schools, is accusing Board Member Carl Paladino of making «a clear effort to control my work and intimidate me.»

But we all know, from Ed Miliband's admission that Labour's policies are a blank piece of paper, they haven't provided a credible alternative at all.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

Others are looking at shifting diets or changes in hospital admission policies.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

AAAS has had a long history of supporting more diversity in science - related fields and has noted the setbacks that can occur when courts, state lawmakers, or regulators try to scale back efforts at more inclusive admissions policies.

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.

The Higher Education Research Institute reports that 40 % of incoming first - year students in the fall of 2004 come from families making more than $ 100,000, despite «need - blind» admissions policies at the 42 most selective state universities.8

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

If hospitals are unable to demonstrate that NICUs are necessary, then it is very likely that, at some point in the near future, policies will force them to reduce those admissions, which will have major implications for NICU and hospital finances.»

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.

For now, University of Texas at Austin admission policies will go on to a «strict standard scrutiny» review within the Fifth District Court, based in New Orleans.

But now three girls are back in court, trying once more to break the Philadelphia School District's all - male admissions policy at Central.

We summarize a body of work documenting that when institutions can not consider race in admissions — as has been the case in states that have banned affirmative action via ballot measures or other policies — racial and ethnic diversity has declined across various educational sectors, not just at selective undergraduate institutions, but in the professional fields of law, business, and medicine, as well as other graduate disciplines.

Overall, 73 amicus curiae (friend - of - the - court briefs) were filed in support of the University of Texas at Austin's holistic admissions policy.

In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national poliadmissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national poliAdmissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

Coming in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold race - conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin — a case in which Garces authored briefs on behalf of 444 social science researchers — the Schuette case will rule on changes to the admission system at public postsecondary institutions in the state of Michigan.

Book Claims Negative Impact of SATs In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national poliadmissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national poliAdmissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

12, and Matthew Shaw filed an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief supporting the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in Fisher v. University of Texas, a United States Supreme Court case regarding UT's race - conscious admissions policies.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

It urges more discussion with higher - education officials about how such reforms affect the admissions process, as well as how changes in admission policies can drive reforms at...

An article by Christine Rossell that appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of Ed Next looked at the history of magnet schools in the U.S. and changes in their admissions policies over time.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

On October 15, Askwith Forums presented a discussion of the case before the United States Supreme Court concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin and its implications for higher education.

MPCP thus provides an excellent context for detecting the admission policies of private schools when a modest - value voucher program for low - income students is operating at scale.

Question: Do you think that the evolving focus on policies aimed at improving the quality of our teaching force will continue, and move from almost a sole concentration on professional development (in - service) to more stringent quality controls for preservice education (admission and exit requirements), together with...

Importantly, the admissions policy is not the only source of diversity at Blackstone Valley Prep.

No one, he said, should be «excluded or discriminated against as a result of enrollment and admissions policies at any public school, including charter public schools.»

Or one could look at the UC admissions policy as incentive to attend more ecomically diverse schools.

This admissions policy does not affect students who transition during their time at Barnard.

Last week I was invited to speak at the annual conference of the Education Writers Association, with the topic of my panel being the perspective of Asian - Americans on Affirmative Action policies in college admissions.

Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools By Jonathan Taylor Adviser: Dr. Herbert Saltzstein Although

Alison Ryan, education policy adviser at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «While many state faith schools are excellent schools, with mixed pupil intakes, some voluntary aided schools, whether intentionally or not, are less diverse ethnically and have fewer disadvantaged pupils because of the faith criteria they use in their admissions policies.

Admissions policies vary between schools and areas, although the closeness of a child's home, and whether they have a sibling already at the school, are often factors.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

«You operate at the nexus of high school and college,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, president of the Learning Policy Institute and a professor emeritus at Stanford University, who spoke about LPI's newly published report, «The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and College Admission.»