Sentences with phrase «nonselective high»

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools.

Not exact matches

Because the student body of community colleges differs from that of four - year colleges, researchers limited their comparison to financially - dependent students enrolled full - time in their first semester of either a bachelor's or associate degree program at either community colleges or nonselective or minimally selective four - year institutions and who aspired to a bachelor's degree or higher.

• Despite our national struggle to create high - performing nonselective - admissions urban high schools, six D.C. charter high schools made Tier - 1 status.

I assigned the teachers from each school a number that corresponds to that school's Barron's rating, from 9 for Barron's top rating, «most competitive,» to 1 for its lowest, «nonselective,» which is reserved for schools that will accept nearly anyone with a high school diploma or GED.

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

At the heart of these reforms lie 123 new «small schools of choice» (SSCs)-- small, academically nonselective, four - year public high schools for students in grades 9 through 12.

Given the relatively low academic skills and high poverty rates of double - dosed CPS students, it is unsurprising that double - dosing improved college enrollment rates at relatively inexpensive and nonselective two - year postsecondary institutions.

Among the most popular selections were «small schools of choice,» which are small, nonselective public high schools that emphasize academic rigor, strong relationships between students and teachers and community partnerships.

New York City transformed some of its large high schools into 100 small, nonselective ones and realized dramatic improvements in graduation and college - going rates.