Sentences with phrase «lower academic rankings»

Colleges and universities that have lower academic rankings in publications like The Princeton Review and The Wall Street Journal, including Catholic schools, could lead to an increase in the number of closures.

Not exact matches

A similarly structured study looking just at academic science jobs found that application materials from female candidates received lower rankings and lower starting salaries than male candidates, even when a job application reviewer was female.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

Aug. 22: The state Education Department places Hempstead High School on its «priority» list, the lowest academic rung, meaning it ranks among the lowest 5 percent of schools statewide.

Star professors may have larger networks of collaborators not just, as the authors suggest, because they have more students and postdocs than lower - ranked competitors, but because more of those students and postdocs win academic jobs that permit them to participate in collaborations as independent investigators; the rest just disappear from academe.

Many of the young mathematicians in heavily affected fields ended up moving to lower - ranking institutions or leaving academic mathematics altogether.

It is persistently at the bottom of most national rankings for academic performance and students» well - being, and faces daunting challenges: nearly three quarters of students are from low - income families and some 16 percent have limited English language proficiency.

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

But the strategy has produced steady results: a decade ago, Denver had the lowest rates of academic growth among Colorado's medium and large districts; for the last three years it has ranked at the top.

Ed Trust - West's annual district report cards grade and rank California's largest unified districts on academic and college readiness outcomes for Latino, African - American, and low - income students.

These five charter schools are among the lowest performing schools in the state, have not demonstrated substantial growth over time, and have consistently ranked near the bottom of state and local measures of academic performance.

They found that in middle schools, for example, low - income parents ranked schools higher if they had higher academic proficiency rates - information that was easily available on the MySchoolDC website - but high - income parents tended to rank schools based on their accountability ratings, information that tended to be harder to find.

, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and ranking Democrat Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.) want to shift decisions about academic standards, whether and how to evaluate teachers, what to do about low - performing schools and other matters to states and local school districts.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

Beginning this year authorizers will be ranked based on three components: the academic performance of the students in charter schools they authorize; adherence to «quality practices» aligned to NACSA standards; and compliance with applicable laws regarding charter school authorizing.36 Low - performing authorizers can be prohibited from authorizing new schools, or have their authorizing authority revoked entirely.

In 2010, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary and Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy ranked 5th and 15th among all California schools serving 70 percent or more low - income students on the state's Academic Performance Index.

The main problem with landscape was that it ranked very low in the academic hierarchy of the genres (types of painting).