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According to this statistic, 32.8 % of high school students admitted to having texted or sent an email while driving, and 12 % of all distracted drivers in fatal accidents in 2013 were teens.

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They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

Varying surveys of both private and public high school students showed from 80 to 90 percent admitting to some form of cheating during the school year, from copying another student's work to cheating on a test.

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This unfortunate development is widely believed to have been caused by congestion in our Senior High Schools due to the large numbers of students admitted after government rolled out the Free SHS scheme.

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.

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 getsHigh 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 getshigh 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.

Citi News» checks at some Senior High Schools in the country indicate that although they were preparing to receive the first year's today, not all of them had displayed the list of admitted students on their notice boards for easy access by prospective students and their parents.

Despite «return to play» laws now in place in all 50 states, which typically mandate youth and high school athletes must leave the field if they are suspected of having a concussion and return only after a medical examination by a health professional, the incentive to keep playing — especially if students are trying to impress recruiters — remains strong, and players may not admit their concussion symptoms.

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

Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.

In a 2006 poll conducted by the Josephson Institute's Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, 60 percent of the 35,000 high school students polled admitted to cheating during a test at school within the past twelve months, and 35 percent of students said they'd cheated two or more times.

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.

One of my teachers told me about how he was admitted to Cornell, a really hot Ivy League school, but chose the University of Rochester because he'd felt lost in a 4,000 - student high school and wanted a small college where he thought he'd have more opportunities.

A 1998 national report by Who's Who Among American High School Students showed four of five top students admitted cheating at somStudents showed four of five top students admitted cheating at somstudents admitted cheating at some point.

Admitting that students with a 3.2 grade point average were not in the top half of their class at the high school — and that more than 140 students in the school had over a 4.0 average — a superintendent in our region recently advocated dropping class rank.

She was admitted to Wadleigh High, a public exam schools for girls, where she was one of a handful of Negro students, and where she studied classical languages under the tutelage of the dean, graduating two years later with the Greek and Latin prizes.

According to Educational Testing Service, the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, between 75 and 98 percent of college students currently admit to cheating in high school.

And a survey of 70,000 high school students across the United States between 2002 and 2015 found that 58 percent had plagiarized papers, while 95 percent admitted to cheating in some capacity.

That is, the majority of students are admitted if they rank in the top 10 % of any high school in the state (with ranking determined by student grade point averages).

School districts are monopolies that operate within a state regulatory framework that insists that high school students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuSchool districts are monopolies that operate within a state regulatory framework that insists that high school students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuschool students not take any online courses unless they take all courses online at an all - virtual school that can admit only a limited number of stuschool that can admit only a limited number of students.

Even parents of high - achieving students would admit that their children are often given low - level assignments and are bored by school.

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.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

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.

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.

Bridging the gap between high school and college by using high school assessments for admissions and placement, providing feedback to high schools on the college performance of their graduates, and holding postsecondary institutions accountable for the academic success of students they admit;

In the University of California's first major admissions - policy decision since its board of regents voted in 1995 to end race - based admissions, board members have approved a plan to admit the top 4 percent of students in every graduating high school class in the state.

In a 2001 Rutgers University survey of 4500 high school students in 25 schools across the country, 97 percent admitted to cheating at least once in high school.

But perhaps the most intriguing bit of the mayor's lengthy list of proposals was a demand that the state change its law to allow students who attend a charter elementary school to receive preference in the lottery to be admitted to the middle and high schools operated by the charter school.

The discussion focused heavily on whether high schools adequately prepare students for college coursework, although the presenters admitted that there was little data on why roughly a third of college freshmen drop out after their first year.

Standardized tests are one of the barometers schools use for admitting students into middle school, and subsequently high school, making the State Exams in the 4th grade and 7th grade respectively, all the more crucial.

Enrollment at out - of - boundary schools is higher in high schools in part because 20 percent of all public high school students attend DCPS application high schools, which require students to submit an application and admit students based on specific criteria or eligibility requirements.

After all, why would high - quality private schools with competitive admissions and more applicants than available places accept potentially less - prepared students who are only paying a fraction of the tuition paid by competitively admitted students?

Parents Allege Massive Enrollment Fraud at Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City Los Angeles Unified will let schools use public records to verify student addresses after a high - performing charter in Studio City complained that scores of parents from outside the neighborhood committed fraud to get their kids admitted, officials said Monday.

For its fall 2015 class of freshmen, UC schools admitted 2,659 students who attended public high schools in Los Angeles.

Many elite colleges and universities no longer offer undergraduate teacher preparation programs, and many teacher preparation programs are housed within less selective colleges.5 Nonetheless, the academic profiles of teaching candidates in regional comprehensive universities are high relative to other programs offered in those schools.6 Furthermore, many teacher preparation programs do not have admission criteria beyond those of their home institution, and only have access to a pool of candidates already admitted to the overarching college or university.7 For these reasons among others, the average SAT scores of students going into education have historically been lower than those of their peers entering other professions, although there is some evidence that this is shifting.8

For high schools: College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high school.

1998 The Belin - Blank Center establishes the National Academy of Arts, Sciences and Engineering (NAASE), the first program of its kind at a major state research institution to admit outstanding high school seniors as full - time students prior to high school graduation.

It is telling that, of the hundreds of students who have graduated from Success Academy elementary - and middle - school charter programs in New York City, none gained admission in 2014 or 2015 to the city's highly competitive specialized public high schools, and only six (out of 54 who took the admissions test) were admitted in 2016.

The heart of the project is a micro-history of one formerly white New Orleans public high school from 1967, which was the year it first admitted black students, to 1975, which was the year its last white students left.

• Large numbers of students with high school diplomas admitted to county and community colleges require remediation to pursue college - level courses, especially those requiring academic rigor, including math and science.

CRPE has launched a small study of how independent, district, and charter high schools minimize student attrition and admit and integrate new students to replace those who do leave.

It should not make a difference whether they are in high - needs schools or full of gifted kids admitted by competitive exam as are 1/3 of the students at the school at which I teach.

to budge the needle on the number of Black and Hispanic students admitted to NYC's top high schools.

The latest findings show that 67.9 percent of the students who entered small high schools in 2005 and 2006 graduated four years later, compared with 59.3 percent of the students who were not admitted and instead went to larger schools.

Investigators say a 17 - year - old admitted he went on a shooting rampage at a Southeast Texas high school that left 10 dead, most of them students.

The outcome of a test can determine whether a student gets promoted to the next grade, graduates, gets admitted into certain middle and high schools, and colleges.

As with high school, it is vitally important that the student work to maintain a very high college GPA in order to maximize his or her chances of being admitted to a veterinary program.