Sentences with phrase «honors courses students»

More modestly, schools might limit the number of advanced placement (AP) and honors courses students can take and strongly encourage students to limit extracurricular activities to those that really interest them.

Not exact matches

I once taught a Great Books course to freshmen honor students at Boston College in which I tried to focus the class on exposing common misconceptions about the classics by going back to the data.

She looks like the excellent student that she is, with her three honors courses and 4.2 GPA.

The right high school for your student goes well beyond statistics available about standardized testing results and the number of advanced or honors level courses offered.

Some schools even require students who take AP courses to take the AP test, and I've heard of schools that will downgrade on a student's transcript a course from AP to honors if that student fails to take the AP test.

For instance, we have students in our study who are taking one AP or honors course, and they may indicate feeling as much stress as students who are taking 3 - 4 AP or honors courses.

The parents of the children in my Brain Gym practice and the students in my courses are very eager to learn from all Pam's years of experience and from her deep understanding and profound honoring of the uniqueness of each individual child.

Following the week of orientation and training for the fellowship at AAAS headquarters, Ernst began working on a new idea: a course for freshman honors students focused on discussing concepts and information that are not disputed scientifically, but face public controversy.

Svoronos now uses his introductory chemistry courses to identify students with exceptional interest and abilities and funnel them into an honors program that includes research courses.

Now, as an associate chairperson for the Honor Council, it is more than obvious to me that these RCR courses are an integral part of our training as graduate students.

There have been many conversations about how to build a sense of unity for online faculty and students, how to present concepts such as «healing presence» in online courses, and how to honor each student's special qualities and learning needs.

As examples, she cites the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program at Brandeis University, which gives students who haven't had access to AP and honors courses a year of academics designed to prepare them for advanced undergraduate level coursework, and Northeastern University's Foundation Year, a similar program for students living in Boston.

So when these top - flight schools decide that advanced honors courses in physics and chemistry are to be given the same weight in calculating a student's official grade point average (GPA) as any other course, including cooking, check - book balancing, and make - up algebra, it becomes ever so clear — once again — that the country's progressive educators have successfully pushed back the forces of school reform.

If it is not an honors course, the student is penalized by the college admissions office, so the change won't really make any difference to student chances of getting into a good college.

Additionally, the potential costs of not addressing the needs of high - achieving high school students through honors and AP courses are great.

When students finally reach high school, especially if they live in poor neighborhoods, they may find just a smattering of honors or AP classes, nothing like the ample course offerings of well - resourced suburban districts and elite private schools.

«I'm honored to be selected for the Radcliffe Fellowship, and am very much looking forward to learning in the vibrant Radcliffe community,» Mehta said, noting that he will miss his Ed School colleagues and teaching students in his deeper learning and education policy courses during the sabbatical.

Accelerated or honors courses offer above - grade - level curricula to students who are ready for it, and allow high - achieving youngsters to move at a faster pace than their peers.

The school is designed to engage its 650 students with a college - prep and honors course load that includes intensive elements of information technology and preengineering.

In District 3, spending on regular and honors courses was on par, while the cost per student was 28 percent higher for the International Baccalaureate courses.

Many of the students at the public grade 8 to 12 school in affluent Old Westbury, New York, wrack up honors and Advanced Placement courses, while participating in school clubs and community service.

Evidence of a high rate of inclusion of low - SES students and students of color in honors, AP and IB classes and, more generally, evidence of course enrollment by sub-population.

In this self - paced course you'll learn how to take your current practice to the next level to create interactive learning experiences that transform students into creators while honoring their curiosity and providing opportunities for collaboration.

For three of the last five years, OCPS was named to the AP District Honor Roll by the College Board for increasing access to Advanced Placement course work while simultaneously maintaining or increasing the percentage of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.

«What has happened now in honors literature courses, the teachers are not able to keep up with 300 students, so they'll just cut curriculum.

Do all students have access to honors, IB and AP courses?

This can happen in a traditional public high school where high - achieving students only take honors or AP courses.

For already high performing students, many middle and high schools may offer pre-advanced placement, honors, and advanced placement (AP) courses.

Students take honors level courses and are held to the highest standards in this accelerated curriculum.

That will be critical in districts like the Modesto City High School District, which decides which freshmen from eight to 10 feeder districts will take an honors Integrated Math I course, a standard Math I course or a support class for students needing extra help.

Each enrollment period, the VirtualSC Latin teachers identify those students in their courses who qualify for the National Latin Honor Society, which is...

Is the focus to provide access to higher level honors and Pre-IB courses or is the focus to create a great education program for students that don't get on the honors or IB track?

Create multiple levels of courses (from special needs to honors and AP levels) in order to appropriately accommodate a wide range of student interests and needs.

A student with a GPA in the «A» range and a transcript filled with AP, IB, dual enrollment, and honors courses will be a contender at even the country's most selective colleges and universities.

Students can earn as many as 10 awards each month, based upon course grades, citizenship, attendance, honor roll, and reading goals.

«Beginning with first - time ninth grade students in 2018 - 2019, graduation requirements shall include a requirement that students either (i) complete an Advanced Placement, honors, or International Baccalaureate course or (ii) earn a career and technical education credential that has been approved by the Board, except when a career and technical education credential in a particular subject area is not readily available or appropriate or does not adequately measure student competency, in which case the student shall receive satisfactory competency - based instruction in the subject area to earn credit.

All students are offered a comprehensive range of courses at all grade levels, including honors and advanced placement, and adapted and modified programs are available through day, night, and summer sessions.

Virtual high school students study core classes online including English, history, math, science and a wide variety of elective, AP and honors courses — all taught by experienced, Wisconsin state certified instructors.

The algebra track students complete a high - school - level honors program in algebra; geometry students master a high - school - level honors geometry course.

Progress in completing advanced coursework data were collected annually for intervention students and their matched controls and included the number and types of STEM - B honors, advanced placement, and dual enrollment college courses students completed.

Measures the percentage of juniors and seniors in high school who complete broad and challenging coursework — including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and honors courses — in order to incentivize participation in rigorous coursework and to reduce equity gaps among student subgroups enrolled in advanced courses.

As part of the agreement, which the district agreed to enter prior to any OCR compliance determinations, the district committed to take specific actions to ensure that it is providing an equal opportunity and equal access for black students to participate in its college and career preparatory programs, in particular its advanced courses and enrichment programs, IB program, AP courses, honors courses, and dual enrollment courses.

Intervention students completed more honors, advanced placement, and dual college - high school enrollment courses than did their matched controls, an indication of their greater interest in these subjects.

As well as, the specific needs of students who require accelerated high school courses are met, whether these individuals wish to participate in an honors program or prepare for a college entrance exam.

Students who demonstrate high achievement in one or more areas of academic strength may participate in honors courses in any of the four core academic subject areas.

A robust selection of classes and afterschool programs in the arts, languages, ethnic studies, AP, IB, and honors courses as well as services, for example to support special education students.

Courses include standard, accelerated, honors, Advanced Placement ™, SAT, ACT, and Keystone Prep and electives, and may be used for initial credit, credit / unit recovery, for homebound students and for alternative education programs.

When an honor student wrote an editorial for Northern's school newspaper, criticizing its practice of advancing students to the next grade regardless of skills mastered and lamenting the course catalogue's lack of college prep, the principal refused to print the article.

We offer a full suite of online core curriculum, AP ®, honors, elective, dual credit, and concept and credit recovery courses for middle and high school students.

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