Sentences with phrase «lower school candidates»

Conducted admissions testing, evaluations, and recommendations for prospective lower school candidates.

Not exact matches

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.

My fear stems from the fact that a renowned economists and a vice Presidential candidate of a party whose philosophy stands on ideals of conservatism, will confidently move around with a message of establishing one factory in each district at this point of our national reconstruction.How do you implement such a policy after scrapping 70 % of taxes across, build 350 secondary schools, free secondary school etc.You sum up all these deceitful platitudes and you begin to shiver.We are made to believe that the issue of unemployment would be buried under their government forgetting that, we were made to lineup in hot sun to register for employment only to be told in 2005 by Ghana Statistical service that unemployment figure for that year was the highest do far and remains the highest today.The lowest unemployment figures recorded between 2001 - 2016 was recorded in 2013 under Mahama.So who possess the practical record to support his call.

Also at 6:30 p.m., the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, Historic Districts Council and others host a candidates night on historic preservation issues for NYC Council districts 1 and 2, Third Street Music School, 253 E. 11th St., Manhattan.

Republican Senate candidate Julie Killian in a TV ad released Thursday afternoon features voters giving their reasons for backing her: Lower property taxes, fighting for school aid, combating corruption and term limits.

It's clear the association will continue to support candidates who implement the same unproductive policies that maintain the schools in low - quality conditions.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

But at the same time, the regulations lower the amount of time for teacher candidate field experience and lessen requires for charter school certification for ESOL and special education.

The chief operation officer of numerous bar associations, community organizations, and law schools designated the following members to the panel, which will report the three (3) «most highly qualified» candidates from among the seven applicants (all lower court judges) for the one (1) «open» seat.

All of the candidates have said they support the key components of Superintendent Kriner Cash's agenda, such as community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on early literacy.

«We believe we are developing a tool that can help with personalized decision - making to help refine patient selection and thus reduce the failure rate by saving candidates with low potential benefit from futile procedures and complications,» says senior author Hiroshi Ashikaga, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«Despite possible similarities in the relationship between early menarche and sexual and reproductive health in low -, middle - and high - income countries, the factors associated with early menarche and early marriage may differ across ethnic groups within the same country,» noted Mobolaji Ibitoye, MPH, DrPH candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School and lead author.

«Because of relatively low survival rates and their advancing age, these patients tend to be poor candidates for aggressive therapies, like a bone marrow transplant,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Moores Cancer Center.

«We found that HbA1c was systematically lower in African - Americans with sickle cell trait than those without sickle cell trait despite similar blood sugar measurements using other tests,» says lead author Mary Lacy, a doctoral candidate at the Brown School of Public Health.

Teacher candidates from alternative route programs like Teach for America and the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) program have much lower three - and five - year retention rates than other routes into North Carolina schools.

Or Los Angeles, where a Boston University doctoral candidate found significant declines in achievement in high - poverty schools after a ban on suspensions for low - level infractions was put in place.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Important as it is that candidates address the effect of college debt on low - income students, the odds for poor kids will not improve without change in the elementary and secondary schools that equip students for college in the first place.

Teacher quality is the most important in - school factor related to students» academic success, and low - income students benefit most when taught by skilled teachers.9 Just as in other sectors, strategic recruitment in the education sector is critical to identify candidates who are likely to succeed.

Because of the higher demands placed on the candidates and the host school, Merritt says it's now standard to expose teacher candidates to his school's improvement plan and work with them to develop high - impact strategies for target groups such as boys and students from low - income families.

More discouraging, assigning a low grade to a high poverty school division will decrease its ability to attract and retain top teaching candidates who could have a significantly positive impact on the students, school, and the entire school community.

Dr. Darling - Hammond and Julia Daniel, Ph.D. candidate of the University of Colorado Boulder, also focused on why evidence supports that well - implemented community schools meet the educational needs of low - achieving children.

Melvoin launched his challenge more than a year ago and has raised nearly $ 425,000, more than any school board candidate going into a primary since LA lowered its individual contribution limit to $ 1,100 in 2007 the same year former board member Tamar Galatzan raised $ 2.9 million.

Here we have an example of a school district with a serious achievement gap, large numbers of low - performing schools, and municipal top - up money in the tens of millions, and they still lose the well - educated teacher candidates that they so badly need to «nicer» suburban districts.

Yet teacher recruitment and retention are both at dangerously low levels with many schools unable to fill vacant posts with suitably qualified candidates.

Additionally, the proposal would allow only programs ranked «effective» or «exceptional» to be eligible for TEACH grants, which are available to teacher candidates who plan to work in a high - need field in a low - income school.

It's bad enough that Mr. Obama enthusiastically endorsed Mr. de Blasio despite the candidate's commitment to reducing educational choices for poor families stuck with Gotham's lowest - performing schools.

Anderson was handpicked by Gov. Chris Christie to shake up this state - run district, and she had said that as many as 20 schools were possible candidates for closure — ones with sagging enrollment, poor building conditions, and low achievement levels.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

Specifically, this report conveys what UVA / PLE researchers and field team members have learned from a project examining how districts prioritizing their lowest - performing schools attract and recruit high - potential candidates for principalships and teaching positions.

Today, too many teacher candidates are barred from schools, or delayed in their hires, because they did not complete lower - level coursework even if they have a clear mastery of their subject area.

Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor has chosen Clark, a North End neighborhood school that has struggled with low test scores and chronic absenteeism, as a candidate to enter the state Commissioner's Network after this academic year.

Tuck, who has a Harvard MBA, has a strong background in educational reform, gaining national attention for turning around 18 high - poverty, low - performing charter schools in Los Angeles, before then - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who's a candidate for governor, recruited him to improve schools within the conventional public school system.

These include attracting a diverse group of promising teacher candidates, retaining effective teachers in schools serving low - income and diverse families, and creating a teacher development continuum with strong leadership and learning opportunities.

At a campaign stop on Sept. 8 in Cleveland, Ohio Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pitched his education plan, which calls for $ 20 billion in federal funding that he says would allow poor children in low - performing public schools to enroll at charter and private schools.

Prom - Jackson, Johnson, and Wallace (1987) conducted a study of minority graduates of A Better Chance, Inc. (ABC), a nonprofit educational organization that identifies academically gifted low SES minority students as possible candidates for college preparatory secondary schools.

And then [CEO of Green Dot] Marco Petruzzi and [onetime school board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schschool board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schSchool Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schools].

Those using CRS are able to see an applicant's GCSE and A-level results in the context of the performance of their whole school — meaning it is immediately obvious when their results may be lower than a rival candidate's but their achievement may have been greater.

However, due to the unlikelihood of the lower tier cities having international schools and an expatriate community, most candidates are proving unwilling to move.

Candidates who have excelled as campus leaders, athletes or worked many hours while in school may get selected with somewhat lower GPAs.

Wireless Consultants come from various educational backgrounds and candidates holding as low as a high school diploma are accepted.

The lowest level of education desired for candidates in this position is a High School diploma, G.E.D.. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for...