Sentences with phrase «of academic selection»

Campaigners who oppose the expansion of academic selection are «exploring the possibility of legal action» over government plans to encourage existing grammar schools to expand.

We are committed to fighting all forms of academic selection, and phasing out grammar schools in areas where they now operate.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

Not exact matches

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

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In 1985, he earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, where he received numerous academic honors, including selection to the national medical honor society, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Story of the Day: Bronx Charter School on Probation for Shady Lottery Practices The Academic Leadership Charter School, which opened on East 141st Street in 2009, is in hot water and in danger being closed after city investigators discovered that the school may have manipulated its lottery selection process to weed out unwanted students.

Pushing for academic selection to drive up educational standards has been a key pillar of Tory policy for decades, but David Cameron's new - look party has shifted support for grammar schools.

The poll also showed a female running mate for lieutenant governor would help the ticket, thus leading to the selection of academic Betsy McCaughey as Pataki's running mate.

Secondary students enjoy a full and rich selection of academic, vocational, and extracurricular programs.

Is that really such a bad thing to be though — some Labour MPs may retain a visceral hatred of the 11 - plus, but what do the public think about academic selection in schools?

Although the majority came from an academic background, Fox claimed that an interesting selection of opinions was raised, and no single group seemed to dominate.

The big difference with university students is that their selection doesn't take place at the gate like for the Grandes Ecoles, so there is less recognition of their merit to pursue academic studies.

Since the early 1990s, independent scientists in academic laboratories around the world have published hundreds of articles demonstrating how a broad selection of chemicals can interfere with the normal development of a baby at extremely low levels of exposure — in fact, levels similar to those experienced every day by people worldwide.

The early rounds of the selection process are administered by home academic institutions, so procedures and timetables vary from campus to campus.

«It gives academics at Dutch universities subscription access to Elsevier journals and allows them to publish Open Access in a selection of these journals.

Evidently mindful of the huge pay - off in well - paying jobs and growth of the nuclear technology infrastructure that the selection of the right partner will bring, a mid-state consortium of business groups, academic institutions, and nuclear operators (called «NuHub») along with statewide counties and chambers of commerce spent nearly two years evaluating the competing SMR technology developers.

The selection of participants is based on academic records; letters of recommendation; science and engineering background; interests and professional goals; statement of research to be performed; compatibility of research interests with the sponsor's research programs and resources; and availability of funds, staff, programs, and equipment.

The emphasis in the selection is on the excellence of the academic track record; evidence of unusual creativity and ingenuity in addressing scientific problems; both the novelty and feasibility of the proposed approach; and the quality, adequacy and appropriateness of the host environment.

Of course, stronger (self −) selection prior to enrollment may reduce the number of graduate students available to work in academic labs, potentially requiring changes to how scientific labor is organized in academic research [3], [4Of course, stronger (self −) selection prior to enrollment may reduce the number of graduate students available to work in academic labs, potentially requiring changes to how scientific labor is organized in academic research [3], [4of graduate students available to work in academic labs, potentially requiring changes to how scientific labor is organized in academic research [3], [4].

Having lived through decades of academics offering different views on the benefits or not of cow's milk, for what it's worth, I enjoy a selection of those you mention above.

Each year, this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students of varying ages and backgrounds watches over 250 films and participates in illuminating discussions with directors, actors, producers and screenwriters before announcing their selections for the best work of the year in early December prior to an annual ceremony in January.

Alongside her academic work, Rich has been International Curator for the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival; has served on juries at the Sundance, Toronto, San Francisco, Oberhausen, Havana, Sydney, and Guadalajara film festivals; and is a member of the advisory board of the Provincetown Film Festival and previously of the Sundance Selection Committee.

I was especially interested in the influence of a teacher's gender on students» perceptions, because engagement with an academic subject may be an important precursor to subsequent achievement levels, course selection in high school and college, and also occupational choice.

Previously, students in Florida for example, could choose from a limited selection of state - created, usually academic and online, courses to supplement offerings at a school.

The selection of reviewers is the responsibility of the editors of the magazine, who will take into account academic and scientific merits as well as their professional experiences.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» because test scores are typically part of their selection process and a handful of them rely solely on such scores, they tailor their curricula and teaching to high - performing, high - potential kids who want a high school experience that emphasizes college - prep, or college - level, academics.

In suburban San Antonio, the schools are too new to evaluate by academic achievement, and self - selection bias will make it hard to do so: schools that are designed to appeal to students and parents looking for faster - paced academics would be expected to appear at the top of state school rankings.

The final stage of selection involves scoring student applications according to weighted scoring criteria that consider three factors: academic achievement, disadvantage, and responsibility.

Coleman and his colleagues were subjected to blistering attacks in both academic journals and the popular press, many of them questioning whether the analysis had adequately controlled for the self - selection of students from more - advantaged families into the tuition - charging Catholic sector.

The selections also support increasing levels of academic vocabulary with definitions, pronunciations, contextual sentences, and illustrations.

Instead of making high academic achievement the centerpiece of the selection process, the application asks last for evidence of student learning.

Lewis» dedication to her students, their high academic achievement and care for their personal well - being are among the reasons for her selection as the Arizona Charter School Association's 2016 Teacher of the Year.

Selection Criteria Applications will be evaluated on the basis of academic promise, the analytic promise of the applicant's research interests, and the match between the candidates» interests and the strengths of our program and faculty.

Selection of content words to teach in - depth: identifying a smaller set of essential academic and content vocabulary to teach in - depth using instructional strategies such as Frayer cards, Concept Definition Map, Two - Column templates.

It dramatically restarted a row over academic selection at the age of 11 which for almost 20 years had been quietly sidelined.

Academic selection at eleven makes outcomes worse for the majority of children in that area.

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The report continued: «Rather, if anything, the opposite may hold true — countries with more academic selection into secondary schools have the same amount of, or fewer, resilient pupils.»

To help guide the selection, public schools are issued grades of A to F, based on academic performance.

Countries with low levels of selection, such as England and Canada, have similar levels of pupils who attain strong academic results despite their socio - economic disadvantage, as countries with highly selective systems such as Germany, according to the data.

Unfortunately, numerous significant barriers to the appropriate selection, adoption, implementation, and assessment of assistive technology exist for students with disabilities who receive the majority of their academic instruction in inclusive classrooms.

In Singapore, for example, 100 percent of new teachers are selected from the top academic third of their class.35 Finland uses a multiround selection process that includes both academic - and competency - based components and admits only the top 10 percent of applicants.36 After a concerted effort to increase the selectivity of its teaching profession, Canada now consistently recruits a majority of its prospective teachers from the top 30 percent of their college classes.37

Yet despite the DfE report stating that the PISA data «provided little support» to arguments that academic selection boost the progress of the most disadvantaged pupils, ministers said the PISA results support plans for more grammar schools.

Partial selection would allow it to «fulfil [its] vision of meeting the needs, academic and otherwise, of all children in the local and boarding communities».

The report also looked at the impact the academic selection of grammar schools had on other schools that the grammar pupils could have gone to.

Research in the United States has also found that parents look at a variety of factors in addition to academics when making a school selection.

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.

Some of those schools have indicated they would defy the bishops and continue academic selection.

But if his selection to be the department's chief academic officer offers any hint of the direction of the city's schools, one thing seems certain: Mr. Polakow - Suransky will continue the same kind of data - driven reform embraced by Joel I. Klein, whom Ms. Black is expected to succeed as the city's schools chancellor.