Sentences with phrase «eliminating class rank»

Now West Chester may be joining a growing number of districts around the country in eliminating class rank in its high schools — a high - stakes strategy that educators hold could help some of their students get into the nation's elite colleges, since those schools often overlook candidates who aren't in the rarefied percentiles.

The Williamsville Central School District is poised to eliminate class rank for 10th and 11th graders, five months after the district made the change for students in all of its younger classes.

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But Gregory did not develop a doctrine of the indelibility of ordination, while the weighty contemporaneous Apostolic Constitutions supply an ordaining prayer beseeching God never to withdraw his Holy Spirit.50 At the Council of Chalcedon (canon 29) the Eastern fathers will presently give evidence of continuing uncertainty as to whether, for example, a bishop for disciplinary reasons may be reduced to the rank of presbyter, or whether he should be eliminated from the clergy altogether and classed as a layman.

We have found that eliminating valedictorian status and class rankings has reduced stress at certain schools — especially those where achievement in the form of grades and test scores and college admission rates is valued above all other traits.

The decision by Spokane Public Schools to abolish the valedictorian system and traditional class rankings is defended as a way of reducing student stress («Spokane schools will eliminate valedictorian system, class ranking,» The Spokesman - Review, Feb. 3).

Teachers should use multiple assessments to allow students more opportunities to show what they know and improve over time, and schools might consider eliminating «zeros» and class rankings.

A No. 25 in West Chester might be a No. 5 or 6 in another district, said Scanlon, whose school board will vote next month to eliminate ranking and adjust weighting systems — that can push GPAs well above 4.0 — to account for the more challenging courses, effective with next year's freshman class.