Sentences with phrase «elite academic school»

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The annual report said 50 cases of sexual assault had been reported at the elite US Army academy during the 2016 - 2017 academic year, nearly double the number from the previous school year.

Because of the college preparatory school's academic standards, it's not easy to put together an elite sports team, Langston said.

Occupying the same prestigious academic «neighborhood» as Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Minnesota and other elite state flagships requires a greater commitment — but the Maryland community still has traces of its «commuter - school» past.

Academic powerhouses such as Harvard - Westlake School, which services Hollywood's elite, or the Trinity School in New York City, which caters to the children of Wall Street, still serve as direct pipelines to Harvard, Princeton, Yale and MIT, as prep schools did back in the day.

A 2005 Sociology of Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite coSchool Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite coschool surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite college.

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As elite colleges and universities continue to invest billions in academic and non-academic amenities, a new study finds that what students say they want in a college doesn't always jell with which school they choose.

That's the reason he was given a full academic scholarship to Rushmore, an elite California prep school.

Among many affluent families who want their offspring to attend elite colleges, the school / home / culture values are quite well aligned, and as a group these youngsters have high levels of academic achievement.

Trow mentioned that he had attended an elite academic public school in New York City, where distinguished alumni, including Nobel laureates, returned to speak at assemblies.

These folks have no patience for warm - and - fuzzy edu - babble; they want teachers who themselves attended elite schools and can help their charges attain the pinnacle of academic achievement.

galvanizing reform elites around a vision of high academic standards for all, the overall environment that high - school educators have to negotiate is no more coherent or manageable today than it was 20 years ago.

If the answer to those questions is yes, a serious conversation about strategy will cover not just how to create incentives for elite schools to access public funding but also how to assist private schools of all types in building the academic capacity to serve students of all backgrounds.

Whatever one thinks of standardized tests, it is hard to argue that fragmenting or complicating academic measurement will aid parents whose children attend less elite schools that don't have top - notch college lists to validate institutional quality.

Although more creative subjects like music, drama and art will continue to be offered by schools, critics of the EBacc say pupils could be discouraged from taking them in favour of more academic subjects and have warned that arts subjects could be pushed out of schools and become the «preserve of the elite».

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

The consortium's subsequent studies found that elite public schools with admissions criteria did not improve academic benefits, test scores, grades or college selectivity, and for lower - income students, these actually worsened.

The traditionally elite private schools such as Punahou do not participate in the academic teaching of and will not for many decades to come.

And a 2009 study commissioned by the Boston Foundation and conducted by Harvard and MIT researchers found that the academic impact of a year in a Boston charter school is roughly equivalent to a year spent in one of the city's elite public «exam schools.»

The researchers looked at a group of borderline kids, the last few eighth - graders who made the cut - off to go to an elite school and the first few who didn't; that meant there was little if any academic difference between them when they started their freshman year.

We believe that selecting some pupils on the basis of academic ability and giving them elite academic training can make sense for them, but it does not write off the other schools.

A lively discussion is underway at The Volokh Conspiracy blog on the issue of whether law schools hire the wrong type of people to be professors by overemphasizing «elite academic credentials at the expense of practical knowledge and experience.»

I have often worried here about how small the American legal academic community is, especially given its multiple connections to the few elite schools.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the elite magic circle player takes a tough stance on the academics of its 80 or so annual rookies, who study an accelerated version of the LPC at BPP Law School.