Sentences with phrase «lower tier schools»

The so - called «elite schools» are turning to so - called «lower tier schools» to learn more about their clinical programs, as I described here, while schools like Detroit Mercy are elevating their rankings by building the types of prominent connections that elite schools already have in place because of their alumni.

Sanders then proceeds to analyze the statistical significance and reliability of his findings - and also compares the results against those from white students who chose lower tiered schools over their first choice.

«A home located in a good school district carries the benefit of maintaining its value in comparison to lower tiered school systems,» says real estate consultant Linda Brincks.

«A home located in a good school district carries the benefit of maintaining its value in comparison to lower tiered school systems,» says Linda Brincks, real estate consultant, The Raines Group.

Not exact matches

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

The difficulties facing low - income students help explain why so few attend top - tier schools.

Two of the network's Tier - 1 schools (Congress Heights and Shaw) place among the top five charters for reading growth scores, and both serve overwhelmingly low - income African American populations.

Its Edgewood Middle campus, a Tier - 1 school for four consecutive years, secured the highest score on the PCSB tool and serves a predominantly low - income African American population.

But the bottom tier of graduates — from lower - ranked schools and without good general skills that employers value (like communication and teamwork) and without specific task training that the labor market values — does not always share in these strong labor market rewards.

Compared with 2000, the proportion of 2003 Blue Ribbon public schools that performed well or in the middle tier on state tests increased, while the number of low - performing schools dropped.

In 1994, a second tier of awards was added to provide incentives to those lower ranked, but improving, schools.

One notable exception is Washington: The District of Columbia's school voucher program did lead to more low - income students gaining admittance to top tier private schools such as Sidwell Friends.

Tier 4 — Lowest - Performing School: A school that is in the lowest - performing 5 % Title I schools in Illinois and those high schools that have a graduation rate of 67 % orLowest - Performing School: A school that is in the lowest - performing 5 % Title I schools in Illinois and those high schools that have a graduation rate of 67 % orSchool: A school that is in the lowest - performing 5 % Title I schools in Illinois and those high schools that have a graduation rate of 67 % orschool that is in the lowest - performing 5 % Title I schools in Illinois and those high schools that have a graduation rate of 67 % orlowest - performing 5 % Title I schools in Illinois and those high schools that have a graduation rate of 67 % or less.

Priority schools and school divisions receiving SIG funds for «Tier I» and «Tier II» schools must implement one of the following four USED intervention models in their persistently lowest achieving schools:

IL - EMPOWER: As indicated in the summative designation definitions above, Tier 3 and 4 schools qualify for support services due to low performance, which will provided using a system called IL - EMPOWER.

I am a staunch believer that removing the shackles that anchor too many schools to the lowest performing tiers by any measure is of paramount importance.

We plan to introduce a tiered monitoring system that will focus efforts on the lowest performing schools and districts, with an emphasis on both compliance and outcomes and with the turnaround practices as a unifying framework.

Ministers believe some schools are unwilling to recommend apprenticeships or other technical and professional routes to any but the lowest - achieving pupils — effectively creating a two - tier system of careers advice.

DC PCSB uses a tiering system to rate a public charter school's academic performance, and places each public charter school in one of three performance tiers: Tier 1 (High Performing), Tier 2 (Mid Performing), and Tier 3 (Low Performing).

Fordham even implicitly shows how its testing approach will eventually impact non-voucher private school students: «[i] f a private school's voucher students perform in the two lowest categories of a state's accountability system for two consecutive years, then that school should be declared ineligible to receive new voucher students until it moves to a higher tier of performance (emphasis added).»

Entrepreneurial educators and leaders who have the talent, energy, and capacity to found a new high - performing charter school — ideally, fellows have a proven track record of generating top - tier academic achievement for low - income students.

Tier 1 schools are high performing scoring between 100 - 65; tier 2 or mid performing schools score 64.9 - 35; and tier 3 or low performing schools score 34.9 tTier 1 schools are high performing scoring between 100 - 65; tier 2 or mid performing schools score 64.9 - 35; and tier 3 or low performing schools score 34.9 ttier 2 or mid performing schools score 64.9 - 35; and tier 3 or low performing schools score 34.9 ttier 3 or low performing schools score 34.9 to 0.

As it happens, a handful of the state's high schools seem to do a better job at sending low - income kids to top - tier colleges, a list of 169 compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

In Colorado, the two programs that send the most low - income kids to top - tier colleges are George Washington High School «s International Baccalaureate program and Denver School of Science and Technology.

But on Radio 4 in June, Tom Bennett described the two - tier system in most schools with SLT experiencing behaviour very differently to lower status beginner teachers.

In other words, many of the low - performing district schools (Tier 1) have improved over the course of last year!

If a school does not meet or exceed its growth targets and is ranked in the lower tiers of the state's base API scores, it may be identified for participation in state intervention programs, and also risk losing federal funds.

The three - tier system of education, where pupils move between lower or first schools, through middle schools and then high or upper schools, gathered popularity in the 1960s, but it's no longer widely used after many areas moved back to a traditional primary and secondary model.

Schools that admit a lot of students from low - income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren't leafy private schools, but mostly uSchools that admit a lot of students from low - income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren't leafy private schools, but mostly uschools, but mostly urban...

At the next tier down, schools where 60 to 80 % of students are proficient or advanced, housing prices aren't much lower: median sale prices vary from the high $ 600,000 s to over $ 1 million.

Tier I Schools Title I Program Improvement Schools identified as the lowest five percent.

Just so I have this right - calling a low - performing school «tier 3» is bad while calling a young student a «transcient,» regardless of academic record, is good.

By the time you get to a median price of under $ 500,000, the map is a ribbon along the eastern edge of the District, where most of the schools fall into the lowest three tiers.

After the state implemented the new four - tier Compass model in the 2013 — 14 school year, 43 percent received the highest rating of «Highly Effective,» while 8 percent were classified in the lower two tiers (6 percent in «Effective: Emerging» and 2 percent in «Ineffective»).

The first tier rewards improved attendance and creates an engaging school climate with low suspension rates.

Tier 1 - Exemplary School Tier 2 - Commendable School Tier 3 - Underperforming School Tier 4 - Lowest Performing School

For example, in Massachusetts, Lawrence Public Schools created a five - tiered compensation system, based on experience, contribution, and responsibilities, that Massachusetts is working to share with other low - performing districts in the state.

When you really analyze the international tests, what they primarily show is that we have a two - tier (or more) system of education in this country, with many excellent, high - achieving public schools, but a disadvantaged lower tier with students who are not achieving.

However, Tier III schools can only receive funds once all of the state's persistently lowest achieving schools have received funds.

Another lower - tier school by U.S. News standards, St. Thomas, is 38th on the Caron / Princeton list.

Legally Blonde has probably done more to lower prospective law students» expectations on the difficulties of getting into and succeeding in a top - tier law school than any other film.

Only 4 percent of graduates of lower - tiered schools work in law firms, and many of these graduates work in small, solo practices or in state government jobs.

Professor Taylor attributes this development to many factors, including the need for lower - tiered schools to maintain revenue by (wittingly or unwittingly) using diversity to help accomplish this goal, as well as elite law schools using the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus more on admitting students with the highest LSAT scores.

And like it or not, most prominent firms will favor minority graduates from elite law schools over those who attended lower - tiered schools.

Meanwhile, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned another unintended consequence of the Harvard waiver program: its potential to block opportunities from graduates from lower - tier schools.

Some students who plan on entering public service make an affirmative decision to attend lower - tier schools which may give them in - state tuition rates or part or full scholarship.

I have friends who've attended every type of law school ranging from top tier schools, lower ranked schools, and even unranked schools.

Indeed, many are arguably more qualifed because they may have access to skills training and practice courses that are more prevalent in the curricula at lower - tiered schools.

If such options are designated only for Flex Time law students, moreover, this distinction may give rise to stigma or a «second tier» impression for Flex Time students, just as «night school» legal education in the US often is referred to as less rigorous and of lower quality than «day programs.»

The 2011 data showed that top - ranked schools sent graduates into long - term legal jobs in high numbers, but 87 lower - tier schools had placement rates of 50 % or less.