Sentences with phrase «high school applicants»

The report recommends that universities take concrete steps to reduce the pressure placed on high school applicants.

Year 3: Reach Higher System Impact Grant MCAN is seeking innovative, aggressive, reform - minded high school applicants with buy - in, engagement, and formal participation from the building principal and school counseling staff for the Reach Higher System Impact grant.

Year 4: Reach Higher System Impact Renewal Grant MCAN is seeking innovative, aggressive, reform - minded high school applicants with buy - in, engagement, and formal participation from the building principal and school counseling staff for the Reach Higher System Impact Renewal grant.

MCAN is seeking innovative, aggressive, reform - minded high school applicants with buy - in, engagement, and formal participation from the building principal and school counseling staff for the Reach Higher System Impact grant.

Among high school applicants, charter lottery winners are more likely to switch schools than losers, a marginally significant difference of 5 — 6 percentage points.

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

Among charter high school applicants, lottery winners are 5 percentage points less likely to be Hispanic and about 6 percentage points more likely to be black than losers.

For high school applicants, a standardized test is followed by an essay which is graded based on Hunter's internal standards, ones they do not share with the public.

Not exact matches

Applicants must be graduating high - school seniors who are entering their freshman year at an accredited two - or four - year university, college or vocational institute in the fall of 2013.

The jobs require applicants to be born and raised in Saudi Arabia, between the ages of 25 and 35, and hold a high school diploma or valid equivalent.

Most applicants have a high school diploma and several years of experience in the industry.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

«Yale also enrolls the top law school applicants in the country, and has maintained the highest reputation among both academic peers and lawyers and judges / hiring partners,» Morse continued, circling back to subjective assessments that factor into the ranking.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

The school offers a high quality education at a more affordable price than comparable Princeton private schools, as well as generous tuition assistance to qualified applicants.

We saw a tremendous number of high - quality applicants who want to work for the Cherokee County School District,» said Rick Beaulieu, Chief Human Resources Officer.

Students using the free and reduced - price lunch program % % Percent change Applicants Fall Spring Fall 2008 to Fall School district 2008 2009 Spring 2009 2009 Barrington Community 220 1,236 1,440 16.5 % 1,565 (Mundelein) Diamond Lake 76 509 514 1.0 % 550 Elmhurst Community 205 581 638 9.8 % 665 Elgin School U-46 17,721 19,693 11.1 % 21,016 Glenview 34 687 719 4.5 % 812 Lemont Township High School 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool district 2008 2009 Spring 2009 2009 Barrington Community 220 1,236 1,440 16.5 % 1,565 (Mundelein) Diamond Lake 76 509 514 1.0 % 550 Elmhurst Community 205 581 638 9.8 % 665 Elgin School U-46 17,721 19,693 11.1 % 21,016 Glenview 34 687 719 4.5 % 812 Lemont Township High School 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool U-46 17,721 19,693 11.1 % 21,016 Glenview 34 687 719 4.5 % 812 Lemont Township High School 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool 210 57 58 1.8 % 67 Mundelein High School 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool 120 545 545 No change 605 Naperville Community 203 1,199 1,459 21.7 % 1,770 (Highland Park) North Shore 112 1,027 1,100 7.1 % 973 Plainfield Community 202 3,228 3,464 7.3 % 3,631 (Frankfort) Summit Hill School District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool District 161 162 215 32.7 % 242 (Arlington Heights) Township High school 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaschool 214 2,077 1,851 -10.9 % 2,767 (Palatine) Township High School 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool 211 2,369 2,490 5.1 % 2,822 (Gurnee) Warren Township High School 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applicaSchool 121 650 654 0.60 % 758 West Aurora 129 5,585 6,251 11.90 % 6,862 (Romeoville) Valley View 365 8,445 8,291 -1.80 % 9,326 % % * Preliminary numbers of approved applications.

Demand is high for pre-K at charter schools: Spencer Robertson, the executive director of PAVE Academy in Brooklyn, which offers pre-K through a nonprofit affiliate, said he has 140 applicants for 36 pre-K seats.

Applicants must be seniors attending from public high schools in New York City's five boroughs and the surrounding New York counties.

But downtown's exclusive Millennium High School, which accepts just 3 percent of its applicants, is also eyeing the space in hopes of expanding.

In Accra, about 13,205 applicants who passed the screening exercise on Thursday, were hosted at the St Thomas Aquinas Senior High School for the test.

The NCCC EOP will serve approximately 75 student applicants each year who are first - time, full - time students with no prior college, residents of New York state and high school graduates with a C average or a High School Equivalency Diploma (GED / TASC), and members of an economically disadvantaged househhigh school graduates with a C average or a High School Equivalency Diploma (GED / TASC), and members of an economically disadvantaged housschool graduates with a C average or a High School Equivalency Diploma (GED / TASC), and members of an economically disadvantaged househHigh School Equivalency Diploma (GED / TASC), and members of an economically disadvantaged housSchool Equivalency Diploma (GED / TASC), and members of an economically disadvantaged household.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

They also hope that university admissions officers consider taking into account what applicants «know» (for example, what they learned in their high school elective classes), in addition to their grades and standardized test scores.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

They also need to be reasonably confident that the available resources and institutional arrangements have a fighting chance of producing the desired outcomes — that salaries are high enough to draw talented applicants, that school districts can provide students with up - to - date textbooks and technology.

Applicants can apply on behalf of a brand - new school, a restart of a persistently failing one, or a complete redesign of an existing, higher - performing school.

Nor did students with low initial levels of achievement and applicants from SINI schools experience significantly different reading gains from the program than high achievers and non-SINI applicants.

One transfer applicant who came close to bumping Simion was a 71 - year - old math teacher from Seward Park High School.

At the same time, alpha authorizers need to conduct sound due diligence and avoid being mesmerized by applicants who have political, financial, or star power, but lack the competencies necessary to open and operate a high - quality school.

In New York City, «roughly a quarter of the city's middle schools and a third of high schools screen applicants based on their grades, test scores, artistic talents and other criteria,» Monica Disare notes in an article for Chalkbeat.

Inherent Flaws (Inside Higher Ed) Natasha Warikoo reflects on helping her son apply to a private school while also reviewing applicants to a graduate program.

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

In 2014, 27 percent of applicants selected and were assigned to the city's high - performing schools.

The Fishman, which is awarded annually to exceptionally effective teachers working in high - poverty public schools, has a long and rigorous application process that gradually winnows down hundreds of applicants to four winners.

The National Union of Teachers said that the Government should focus on issues such as insufficient school places, a drop in the number of applicants for teaching and fact that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent since 2010.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

Applicants to Prairie score about the same in math as students in the neighboring regular public schools, but their reading scores are higher (4 percentile points higher).

When a school screens applicants for academic talent, it ends up with pupils who perform well on tests, earn high grades, and get into competitive colleges.

Delaware employers hire thousands of recent graduates and part - time high school students, but few bother to look at records of attendance and punctuality or find out how well applicants have done academically.

Every public high school in the state had been asked how many times each year it received requests from employers to review transcripts of job applicants.

With the number of university applicants at an all - time high and the number of students leaving school with the adequate STEM skills needed in the modern workplace at a worrying low, we believe that this partnership approach can help to fill the widening gap.

Beyond the work that high schools do, colleges will have to indicate to applicants the value their institution places on community service and ethical development — and what exactly service means to them.

Other popular choices are so - called screened schools like Bard High School and the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, which rank applicants on various criteria, and innovative charters such as the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice.

Professors at M.I.T., Columbia, Michigan and Berkeley have tracked thousands of charter - school applicants, through high school and beyond, in Boston, where most charters fit the «high expectations, high support» model.

Gateway requires applicants and their parents to answer four pages of questions, responding to prompts such as «My best qualities are...» and «When I graduate from high school, I hope...»

Q: I'm an assistant principal in a high school, and I'm in the applicant pool to become a principal.

(In the current study, charter school applicants do in fact have higher than average test scores even before they enroll.

District rates for public high schools include only first - time filing applicants no older than 18.

Unlike other industries that often offer higher pay to compensate for less desirable working conditions or to attract more desired applicants in high - need areas (like STEM fields), public school systems are generally limited by collective bargaining agreements or state law in their ability to offer differential compensation (see Goldhaber et al., 2015).