Sentences with phrase «only early college programs»

Not exact matches

But only two were of programs that districts could use as interventions for struggling high schools: a study of the Early College high school program, which provides students the opportunity to simultaneously pursue a high school diploma and earn college credits, and a study of the Check and Connect program, which pairs at - risk students with an adult advocate who monitors their progress and intervenes as College high school program, which provides students the opportunity to simultaneously pursue a high school diploma and earn college credits, and a study of the Check and Connect program, which pairs at - risk students with an adult advocate who monitors their progress and intervenes as college credits, and a study of the Check and Connect program, which pairs at - risk students with an adult advocate who monitors their progress and intervenes as needed.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

The authors included programs in the review that are only tangentially related to school choice and that drove the alleged mismatch, namely early - college high schools, selective - admission exam schools, and career and technical education initiatives.

• They included programs in the review that are only tangentially related to school choice and that drove the alleged mismatch, namely early - college high schools, selective - admission exam schools, and career and technical education initiatives.

Charter schools, STEM schools, «governor's schools,» regional vocational schools, «tech - prep,» and «early - college» programs are only the tip of the iceberg.

Editor's Note: This story was updated to indicate that comparing college readiness rates based on the previous Early Assessment Program with those based on the current EAP is misleading because only students who were more advanced in math preparation took the earlier test.

Only about 46 percent of children aged three through six in families below the federal poverty line are enrolled in center - based early childhood programming, compared to 72 percent of children in families above the federal poverty line.1 Poor children are about 25 percent less likely to be ready for school at age five than children who are not poor.2 Once in school, these children lag behind their better - off peers in reading and math, are less likely to be enrolled in college preparatory coursework, less likely to graduate, and over 10 percent more likely to require remediation if they attend a four - year post-secondary institution.3 All of these issues compound one another to create a cycle of low opportunity: children in poverty are less likely to achieve high educational attainment, and low educational attainment leads to lower median weekly earnings and higher rates of unemployment.

Midlands Middle College is one of only two programs statewide selected as a recipient of a $ 50,000 contribution from AT&T for TransformSC Early College programs.

In the early 1980's, only five colleges had programs that could support post-graduate training in veterinary nutrition, and only 3 colleges would have board certified nutrition diplomates.

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Not only did he focus on the college market early in Apple's history — taking on then computing - giant IBM with its Apple University Consortium program — but he also founded NeXT to focus on college and the broader education community.