Sentences with phrase «highest academic potential»

«Charter schools in California are groundbreaking innovators inspiring students to excel and reach their highest academic potential,» said Lisa Leslie, four time Olympic Gold Medalist, former WNBA player and charter school advocate.

The act authorizes grants that challenge all children to attain their highest academic potential through schoolwide programs proven effective in school dropout prevention and reentry.

To support parents in their efforts to help their students fulfill their high academic potential, the LEA Initiative offers a variety of workshops to parents that teach them strategies for implementing the «Ten Education Commandments» for parental involvement in their child's education:

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The initiative focuses on the bottleneck that academic research centers and their faculty face in advancing their high - potential but early - stage and therefore high - risk ideas and inventions to the point where they can attract private sector investment.

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

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This foundation leads to a rich academic high school experience that supports young men and women in realizing their full potential as students, as people, as members of the human community.

On topic questions included: what defines a «community school», whether community schools are only located in low - income neighborhoods, whether there is a plan to extend universal pre-K to three year olds, how much more expensive community schools are to operate than «regular» schools, why was the UFT not at this announcement, whether academic gains are expected from community schools and how will such gains be measured, what programs are added to «regular» schools as they are converted into «community» schools, potential changes to the admissions process for specialized high schools and whether the seats announced today are new programs or new spaces.

Began this academic year, the FSHS initiative aims to provide Senior High School education to every qualified Ghanaian child who completes the Basic level of education at no cost to parents in order to remove the barrier of finance which has undoubtedly deprived Ghana of many potential leaders.

Second, the fact that children of high ability but from disadvantaged social backgrounds are unable to fully realise their academic potential indicates a substantial wastage of human resources, the study concludes.

On the opportunity to undertake an academic stay in London, the doctor in electronics specializing in semiconductors emphasizes that it was a very valuable experience, because of the number of experts at the highest level in all areas, both in comprehensive training in business models, management of a company, presentation of the development to potential investors, as well as how to convey the message.

Their research finds that academic scientists who receive industry funding are significantly more likely to select research projects that have a higher potential for commercial application.

For those with a higher education looking for like - minded potential partners, Academic Singles provides an online dating platform with quality, screened singles.

A growing body of evidence suggests that providing students with simplified information, reminders, and access to assistance during critical junctures, like FAFSA completion and the summer after high school, can help students navigate challenging bottlenecks and transition into collegiate environments where they've already shown the potential for academic success.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

This is partly about fairness: It's wrong for any child to miss out on academic challenges at school, and we should do everything we can to develop the full potential of all our students, including high achievers.

The potential of Linked Learning compels our attention, even with the challenges of bridging the long - standing divide between academic and job - training classes in high school.

To launch this report to data experts, academics and HE institutions, co-chairs Lord Norton and Sarah Porter of the Higher Education Commission are holding a breakfast in the House of Lords from 8.30 - 10 am with special guest speakers who will discuss the potential that data holds for HE and students.

In addition, business leaders committed to change their hiring practices so that a potential employee's academic transcript is considered in the hiring decision, and to give high priority to the quality of a state's standards when locating or expanding their businesses.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

The opportunity to support the academic enterprise and what takes place in the classroom represents Huntington's primary interest in higher education and university leadership, and he sees great potential to do so at Heidelberg.

Their goal: for each student to reach his true academic potential, graduate high school, and become a productive adult.

Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential, and physical vigor, among other attributes.

Disadvantaged high school students in the 59,000 - student Santa Ana, Calif., school district have a new opportunity to realize their academic potential, thanks to a donation from a private foundation.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

On one side: the informal network of advocates, philanthropists, educators, and nonprofit organizations that all back higher academic standards, greater accountability, and improved teaching, and who saw the city as a potential proof point for their theories of how to improve student outcomes.

Laker was put in touch with K - Ryan through The Access Project, an education charity that works to get high potential students who face barriers to achieving their full academic potential into top universities, by pairing them with graduate tutors.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» because test scores are typically part of their selection process and a handful of them rely solely on such scores, they tailor their curricula and teaching to high - performing, high - potential kids who want a high school experience that emphasizes college - prep, or college - level, academics.

Schools also need to identify more high - potential youngsters for inclusion in gifted education, and equip all them, especially children of color, to succeed in these challenging academic opportunities.

The academics highlight a number of potential issues with virtual reality, including the high cost of the more immersive devices.

Your application of the video game model to instruction encourages the habits of mind through which your students can achieve their highest academic, social, and emotional potentials.

This is not just in terms of high academic expectations but having a belief in the best of someone — perhaps seeing beyond poor attendance, uncooperative behaviour and erratic performance to a thread of gold potential.

In addition to addressing the academic potential of out - of - school programs, the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant will allow Higher Achievement to expand to nine additional centers, strengthen its standards» alignment, and write new English Language Arts and math curricula for the mentors.

The same characteristics that lead students with considerable academic potential to leave high school before graduation apparently make them less - productive workers later in life.

Second, given the potential concerns about schools cherry - picking students and other concerns with high - stakes testing, it's worth looking at other evidence on academic achievement.

We work specifically with groups of pupils currently under - represented in higher education, who have the academic potential, but lack the confidence, knowledge or support to get into and stay at university.

«This book demonstrates high regard for the complexity of teaching and delivers an even higher regard for the promise and academic potential of the students we've made most vulnerable in our school systems if we, as educators, choose to act on what we know.

Implement with strong district and building leadership, high - quality instruction in every classroom through a highly coherent, child - centered instructional model where students meet their self - determined academic and personal goals to their highest potential.

Breakthrough schools are communities where students reach their full potential — and where the academic achievement of lower - income students is indistinguishable from that of their higher - income peers.

Alternative schooling provides potential dropouts a variety of options that can lead to graduation, with programs paying special attention to the students» individual social needs and the academic requirements for a high school diploma.

Alternative schooling provides potential dropouts a variety of options that can lead to graduation, with programs paying special attention to the student's individual social needs and academic requirements for a high school diploma.

The academic program at The Early College is built to challenge students to reach a higher level of academic potential and to prepare students for college level courses.

Charter schools are transforming the lives of African American students by helping them unlock their full academic potential, reach grade - level proficiency, and graduate high school at high rates while prepared for college.

Our mission is to provide a caring environment of high expectations, individualized attention, and great teaching via a distance learning delivery system that is sufficiently adaptable to help K - 12 students in traditional and non-traditional educational settings achieve their maximum academic potential and life goals.

But what ultimately resulted in New Living Word's expulsion from the voucher program was not its low academic standards; rather, it was found to be charging voucher students higher tuition rates than students paying their own way — which is prohibited under Louisiana's law (nothing in the North Carolina statute specifically addresses this potential consequence).

Academic survivability in high - potential, middle school students.

«It is crucial to the future of our nation that these students, and all students, have equal access to a high - quality education and the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential,» administration officials wrote in an open letter to the nation's state and local education officials.

The best teachers practice what we call the pedagogy of confidence, a pedagogy that is rooted in their passionate belief in their students» potential for high academic achievement and in their own ability to support all students (Jackson, 2001).