Sentences with phrase «attracting high achieving students»

The difficulty of attracting high achieving students to university education programs is more challenging than is reflected by ATAR entry scores.

Not exact matches

«College Selectivity and Degree Completion,» by Scott Heil of the City University of New York (CUNY), Liza Reisel of the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, and Paul Attewell of the CUNY Graduate Center, is the first study on this topic to use nationally representative data and to account for the higher graduation rates of highly selective institutions in terms of their ability to attract and enroll higher achieving students.

However, it is possible that these trends are due to occupational courses in HSTW schools attracting more high - achieving students than before.

EW: What do you think is needed to attract more high - achieving students to teaching?

The launch event, which attracted business leaders from across the region, saw guest speakers including Northumberland Tourism Director, Jude Leitch and Northumberland College's Chair of Governors, Jacqui Henderson, outline the benefits of Career Colleges to high achieving students.

The school attracts few high - achieving students, so few they can be counted on one hand.

Financial support is critical to recruit and retain low - income students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.75 Therefore, teacher preparation programs should use loan forgiveness, scholarships, and other financial incentives to attract diverse, high - achieving candidates.

Further, charter schooling may produce improvements in the broader education system by creating an environment where schools must compete for students; to attract students, schools must maintain a high level of quality.2 And though results vary among schools, states, and student subgroups, on average charter schools achieve positive results relative to traditional public schools, particularly with traditionally underserved student groups.

Breakthrough Principals leads readers through these processes step by step, drawing on case studies to illuminate how real principals have approached common problems, and providing practical guidance and tools that principals and teams can use to build a shared vision while increasing the quality of teaching and learning; improving school culture; attracting and supporting high - performing teachers; and involving parents and community to help students achieve.

While some of Arizona's college - prep charters focusing on attracting high - achieving students with a rigorous curriculum have gotten significant attention in the media, two independent studies using student - level data have found the charter sector as a whole for similar demographic students underperforms relative to the public district schools.

In fact, it's commonplace for high achieving students to take college credit courses in high school - so these are students who are on a fast track in their education; and these are the students that colleges need to prepare earlier for attracting.

Regardless of the quality and tenure of the principal, low - achieving schools and schools with high proportions of poor and minority students face increased barriers to attracting, hiring, and retaining quality leaders.