Sentences with phrase «marginal students»

Very few schools use admit - deny, because studies have shown that lack of sufficient financial aid is a key factor in the performance of marginal students.

Second, increases in high school persistence and graduation rates may have increased the number of academically marginal students who remain enrolled in school and are therefore included in the testing pool.

A few schools will use financial need to decide whether to include marginal students in the wait list.

In spite of their exposure to much higher - achieving peers and a more challenging curriculum, marginal students admitted to exam schools generally do no better on a variety of standardized tests.

They have in mind enhanced programs to meld school and job so as to put marginal students on a track to some kind of livelihood.

Sponsoring religious bodies expect and sometimes require them to accept marginal students.

Learning takes place, and good kids get educated by good teachers, but the presence of a permanent class of «students» who can not function in this setting continually destabilizes the learning environment, tempts marginal students to behave badly, and squanders untold treasure for no good reason.

These findings provide strong evidence that Noble measurably improves students» preparation for college as opposed to just pushing marginal students into low - quality institutions.

The Common Core will — by design — make some courses more difficult for many students, and for marginal students that may be enough to nudge them out of school altogether.

And it's also likely that, Common Core notwithstanding, our dropout rates will increase in the coming years since they are currently at an all - time low and an improving economy will give marginal students better alternatives outside of school.

As a result of this strategic classification, marginal students in certain schools were placed in less - demanding courses and acquired fewer skills, accounting for the negative impact of accountability pressure on long - term outcomes for those students.

Rather than lifting the performance of marginal students, alternative schools serve too often as way stations for future dropouts.

It's not really there, it's just statistical noise — sometimes generated by the benign intentions of markers to bump up marginal students, not necessarily for accountability purposes.»

One hypothesis, for example, is that retesting reduces the pressure to unduly focus teaching effort on the marginal students — students who may or may not pass — in the months before the initial test, and thus teachers can give relatively more effort to the infra - marginal students, including those high - achieving students at little risk of failing.

So the marginal students who choose to work harder may benefit from higher testing and curricular standards.

Or is it better to ensure high standards for all, even if that prompts some of the marginal students to drop out?

The state school board voted Tuesday to recommend that students maintain a C average to be able to play sports in public high schools over concerns raised by some educators and coaches that marginal students might drop out without the incentive of sports.

Admit - Deny A practice in which a school will admit marginal students, but not award them any financial aid.