Sentences with phrase «elite exam schools»

Nonlottery pilots share this feature with Boston's elite exam schools (the most famous of which is the Boston Latin School).

Not exact matches

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.

Many elite private schools argue that the courses and exams are too shallow and encyclopedic and do not develop a student's critical thinking skills.

In NYC, students are starting to file public applications for next September for various high schools (Screened, Limited Screened, Unscreened, Ed Opt, Arts / Audition, Zoned and more), while students applying to the handful of elite, specialized high schools have already taken the qualifying SHSAT Exam and are now just waiting for their results and placements.

«Those taking the exams in the early years were largely male, largely students from private prep schools and elite public high schools, and probably mostly Protestant.»

Exams intended for a set of elite schools or advanced courses influence standards at the top, but they have little effect on the rest of the students.

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.»

While the Boston papers are writing glowing tributes to the next President of the Boston Teachers Union and the heart - wrenching search for the next headmaster of the exam school that educates mostly the white elite in the city of Boston, the real news...