Sentences with phrase «percent of academic classes»

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The number of applications and the academic competitiveness of a school's incoming class were increased by making the lists for Happy Students (2.9 percent increase) or Most Beautiful Campus (2.3 percent increase), whereas applications and competitiveness were negatively affected by being on the Least Happy Students (about a 5 percent decrease) or Unsightly, Tiny Campus lists (5.2 percent decrease).

Core classes taught by highly qualified teachers is the percent of core academic classes (defined as English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, arts, history, and geography) taught by highly qualified teachers (defined as teachers not only holding a Massachusetts teaching license, but also demonstrating subject matter competency in the areas they teach).

Coleman and Wilhoit told the Gateses that academic standards varied so wildly between states that high school diplomas had lost all meaning, that as many as 40 percent of college freshmen needed remedial classes and that U.S. students were falling behind their foreign competitors.

Other findings were: 82 percent of people supported focusing on building students» job or career skills even at the expense of traditional academic subjects; 86 percent said schools should offer licensing programs and; 80 percent said technology and engineering classes were a very important element of school quality.

At Sennett, 50 percent of the students» academic classes are taught in English and 50 percent are taught in Spanish.

Berliner seemed to shield teachers from much of the responsibility for poor academic performance by students as he testified that conditions beyond the classroom — he mentioned about nine of them — account for 60 percent of what influences a student's scholastic achievement whereas in - school factors such as class size, curriculum, the quality of the principal and the teacher account for only 20 percent.

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

Prior to 2013, most Rhode Island teacher preparation programs required a minimum 2.5 GPA for admission, which did not even denote an academic rank within the top 50 percent of the incoming college - bound class.

For national overviews, try USA Today (Hurricane Irma: 8.5 million students lost school time), the NYT (Under academic scrutiny, Houston schools seek a quick recovery from Harvey), or The 74 (Ten Percent of All Public School Students Missing Class on Tuesday as 6 States Continue to Cope With Irma), or NPR (Houston Public Schools Open After Delays From Hurricane Harvey).

One Colorado school run by K12, Inc. had a graduation rate as low as 10 percent in 2010, Tennessee may shut down a K12, Inc. - run school following poor academic results and the NCAA has indicated it won't accept classes for prospective student athletes from a number of K12, Inc. - run schools.

The last four graduating classes (2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017) have all earned 100 percent acceptance to college, the hallmark of LEAD's high - quality, college - preparatory academic program.

According to the 2017 poll, 82 percent of Americans support job or career skills classes even if it means some students might spend less time on traditional academics.

About 94 percent of Broward high school students attend classes on a typical day, according to a memo from the school district's chief academic officer.

1997 — 2001 Jordan High School Columbus, Georgia College Prep Diploma I graduated in the top ten percent of my class, was the president of the National Honor Society, received numerous awards for academic honors, events coordinator for my senior class, Vice President for my junior class, represented my class each year in the Student Government Association, and received other various awards during this time.