Sentences with phrase «of admitting students who»

«The number of students admitted is greater this year to allow for a class of engineering students that is 25 percent larger, as well as to compensate for a yield» — the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend — «that may be smaller,» the university said in a statement on its website on Friday.

Not exact matches

Prospective students who have been admitted to enter the Berkeley - Columbia Program in May 2012 will be offered three options: 1) enter any of Columbia Business School's EMBA programs, 2) enter the Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA Program at the Haas School, or 3) enter the new Berkeley MBA Program for Executives when it begins in 2013.

The survival of institutions in the «80s will be linked to their ability to admit and retain students, both in the traditional 18 - to - 21 age bracket and in the «nontraditional» categories; i.e., anybody who missed out on a college education the first time around.

This view becomes more ambiguous when increasingly large numbers of men and women students are admitted who are not «in orders» and require a different sort of spiritual formation.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.

State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core related Math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

Somide disclosed that 125 students were admitted but only 123 of them have commenced training at the College which includes indigent students, who are beneficiaries of the scholarship provided by the Kwara State Government and drawn from the 16 local governments (LGs) of the state.

New York State Education officials say there's some improvement in the Common Core aligned math and English tests taken by third through eighth graders this year, but admit that two - thirds of the students who took the test are still, essentially, failing the exams.

Granted, in the case of the student who contacted me, some of the responsibility may fall on her, which she readily admits.

«For example, 83 percent of the students who had been cyberbullied within the last 30 days also had been bullied at school recently, and 69 percent of the students who admitted to bullying others at school also bullied others online.»

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

Because the students in this pool of applications differ (on average) only in where they were offered a place, researchers can make apples - to - apples comparisons to see how the students who are admitted via lottery perform, compared to those who were not admitted.

Jones wants to admit students of both sexes who will not just survive but thrive on stress.

«The universities admit too many graduate students who end up in a cul - de-sac due to the lack of academic research posts for new Ph.D. s», says graduate - student spokesperson Kerstin Beckenius from Karolinska.

«The vast majority of students who are admitted with large racial preferences are talented people who are well equipped to succeed in higher education,» they continue (italics in original).

UT automatically admits Texas high school students who graduate in the top 10 % of their class.

Similarly, a 2012 study of 160 U.S. and German college students published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that those who called themselves heterosexual, despite admitting same - sex desires, were more likely to be hostile toward gay individuals that those who did not report such desires.

And the state of Hawaii, which challenged the revised ban, argued that the policy would harm the state by barring students who had been admitted to the University of Hawaii.

Falling state support for public universities has created «perverse incentives» to admit foreign students who pay full out - of - state tuition and don't receive financial aid, Teitelbaum said.

38 % of female undergraduate students of the American university who answered the questions admitted to having experienced sexual victimization.

The Lottery (Unrated) «Ticket out of the ghetto» documentary follows the diverging fortunes of four NYC families who feel their children's prospects in life depend on whether or not their names are drawn in the lottery admitting students to a phenomenally - successful, Harlem charter school.

JJ Abrams managed to work alongside Steven Spielberg himself for throwback fantasy Super 8 before taking charge of the rebooted Star Wars franchise, Gareth Edwards admitted that his take on Godzilla was influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and others such as Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon are clear students of the multiplex masters who birthed the event movie.

The third thing is that I need to spend time trying to explain what I have just taught to the few students who openly admit they don't understand it.It isn't an ideal method of learning (from either the students» or teacher's perspective).

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

In another Pew study, while nearly three - quarters of high school teachers admit that digital research tools can have a positive impact on student performance, 87 % also say that digital tech has resulted in a generation of teenagers who are far more easily distracted than teens of the past.

«Only about 10 undocumented students are admitted to Harvard each year,» speculates Meza - Pena, who had planned to attend University of California — Berkeley — and pay in - state tuition — if she hadn't attended Harvard.

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Noble Street College Prep admits students via randomized lottery, allowing the authors to estimate the effect of attendance on postsecondary outcomes by comparing Noble students to their peers who lost the lottery using college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse.

If the program gets funded, it will begin admitting students in a couple of years — too late, unfortunately, for students like Gracie Hurley, who graduated this past spring and is determined not only to teach because she loves it, but also because she wants to change the mindset that going into teaching is a waste of an Ivy League degree, that it's not the noble career Ryan refers to.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that officials of the Austin (Tex.) Independent School District had provided adequate due process to a student who admitted to possessing marijuana at school.

• Believe in the value of what you are teaching and make sure your students understand why it is important; so preparation is paramount • Show your students you care about their wellbeing and progress; that is your job; there is nothing they despise more than a teacher who doesn't care • Admit when you don't know or when you're wrong; they need to see you're a learner too • Collaboration with your colleagues is powerful support and very rewarding.

KIPP schools admit more new students in grade 6 than the number of students who left through attrition in grade 5.

We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at nearby public middle schools.

More than half of students who were admitted to Oxbridge last year came from a state school, figures show.

Given their academic accomplishments, many of the students who gain admission under a percent plan may have been admitted to selective universities in the absence of the plan.

This is alld one in a discreet way to avoid embarrassment for the student, who may not want to admit they are finding the work challenging in front of the whole class.

E-schools would be able to admit students best situated to take advantage of the unique elements of virtual schooling: flexible hours and pacing, a safe and familiar location for learning, a chance for individuals with social or behavioral problems to focus on academics, greater engagement from students who are able to choose electives based on their own interests, and the chance to develop high - level virtual communication skills.

The impetus to educate parents and even deal with their own learning needs (most of the dyslexic students I've taught have at least one parent who admits to having similar problems).

Many, if not most, high - performing private schools admit students who may be seen as high - risk or come from less than ideal backgrounds, so long as the student is capable of carrying the workload.

While we celebrate these milestones, the number of students of color and low - income students who are admitted to and complete college are still too few.

Several students at Reno high school who were interviewed for this documentary admitted they'd never heard of Common Core until their teacher told them a reporter was coming to ask them questions about it.

Furman University education professor P. L. Thomas, who admitted in a recent speech at the University of Arkansas to never having been in a No Excuses charter school, complains in a widely referenced 2012 Daily Kos post that in such schools, «Students are required to use complete sentences at all times, and call female teachers «Miss» — with the threat of disciplinary action taken if students fail to complyStudents are required to use complete sentences at all times, and call female teachers «Miss» — with the threat of disciplinary action taken if students fail to complystudents fail to comply.»

Using detailed student - level data to compare what sorts of students enter KIPP as compared to public schools in the neighborhood, and what kinds of students replace those who leave, authors find, on average, that KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools.

The scholarship is available to all students who are admitted to and enroll at any public university or community college in the state of Michigan.

Once students have been admitted as degree candidates, Harvard University requires international students who need a Harvard - sponsored student visa to submit financial certification that demonstrates adequate funding for one year of study.

Because these charters held a lottery to select their students, the research team could compare the achievement of applicants who were admitted with a similar group who remained in a traditional public school.