Sentences with phrase «postsecondary courses»

Postsecondary courses of between one and two years are available for this profession, but many medical office assistants have only a high school diploma and are trained on the job.

High school or postsecondary courses in automotive repair, electronics, and mathematics provide a strong educational background for a career as a diesel technician.

Postsecondary courses in criminal justice and political science are helpful to aspiring private detectives and investigators.

Founded in 2003 as a traditional education company, Sunlands transitioned to an online education model in 2014 and offers various degree - and diploma - oriented postsecondary courses, as well as online professional courses and educational content, through its online platforms to help students prepare for STE exams and professional certification exams and attain professional skills.

For other people, a unique collection of postsecondary courses, apprenticeships and online training may be what they need.

Blending traditional instruction with advanced postsecondary courses and real - world career preparation prepares high school students for their next steps and helps them gain practical skills in growing fields.

The P - TECH program provides a course of study — at no cost to the student — under which students in grades 9 - 12 combine high school and postsecondary courses, allowing them to complete high school and obtain an associate degree, postsecondary certificate or industry certification within six years.

Teacher quality largely refers to how well teachers know their content as measured by the postsecondary courses they have taken.

Students have the content knowledge and skills to be eligible to enroll in credit - bearing, postsecondary courses, workforce training and / or apprenticeship programs without the need for remediation, and complete them successfully.

The CCR Determination will provide policymakers, educators, parents, and students with a clear signal about the level of academic preparation needed for success in these postsecondary courses.

The ILP process helps youth, including youth with disabilities, to plan secondary and postsecondary courses aligned to career goals.

- P - Parent / Guardian: Code Gender Name Back to Top Part - Time / Full - Time Student Period Number Permission to Share Lunch Status Physical Education Waiver Postsecondary Career Education Completion Point Code Postsecondary Course Status Postsecondary Education Plans Post Test Status Prekindergarten Program Participation Pretest Outcome - Math Pretest Outcome - Reading Primary Instructor Indicator

A local dual credit course is a high school course (taught at the high school by high school faculty) that is aligned to a postsecondary course.

(i) successful completion of a postsecondary course that pertains to instruction techniques or instruction related to driver education as provided by an accredited college or university.

Not exact matches

To determine whether institutions are in compliance with the law, the Office for Civil Rights looks at things such as whether women have equal access to advanced course work in high school as well as postsecondary schooling and graduate work.

Several longitudinal studies in the 1980s and 1990s did find that high school students who took both an occupational course sequence and a core academic curriculum fared better after high school, both in the labor market and in postsecondary education.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

In a recent nationwide survey of 181 secondary and postsecondary vocational educators, more than 60 percent said their students have a «decreasing» amount of time to take vocational courses.

It suggests offering more courses that provide students with college - level work; assessing students early on so they have some idea of whether they are prepared for college; recruiting adults and older peers to support students» postsecondary ambitions; prodding students to take the necessary steps to search for and apply to colleges;...

As noted on the event page, «when underprepared students enter postsecondary education, they face steep odds; ninety percent of individuals who start community college in remedial courses leave without any sort of credential.»

Sixty - three percent of all postsecondary institutions surveyed reported enrollment increases of 10 percent or more in such courses; 4 percent of the institutions reported decreases of 10 percent or more.

• Blurring the boundaries between secondary and postsecondary education has its pluses — such as acceleration opportunities for smart students — but some of what passes for «dual credit» in high school lacks any real collegiate quality control and some of what passes for corequisite courses on campus really is high school stuff and doesn't deserve college credit.

How the effects of postsecondary remedial and developmental courses vary by level of academic preparation (NCPR Working Paper).

But securing any sort of postsecondary credit for academic work done in high school means that the College Board (and anyone else devising «early college» strategies) must produce courses that resemble those that the students would otherwise take in college.

In an article for Education Next, Pieter De Vlieger, Brian A. Jacob, and Kevin Stange of the University of Michigan report that students taught by skilled postsecondary instructors receive higher grades and test scores, are more likely to succeed in subsequent courses, earn more credits, and are better positioned to complete a college degree, with larger effects for in - person than online classes.

Note: Self - reported estimates of remediation rates are substantially lower than transcript - based estimates such as those available in the Beginning Postsecondary Student database, note that these self - reports are lower than transcript - based estimates since they are not cumulative over students» entire period of study, and because students don't always know which courses are remedial.

At Central Education Center, a new charter school south of this city, some students will have their pick of $ 35,000 - a-year jobs right after graduation because of the opportunities they have here to take postsecondary - level technical courses while finishing high school.

One argument in favor of the requirement is that the outcome from taking an online course — gaining the skills to succeed in a digital environment and perhaps become more self - driven — is valuable in a world in which postsecondary education and workforce training are increasingly done online.

Students who have access to, and enroll in, rigorous courses are more likely to go on to complete postsecondary education.

Participants take two years of English - language acquisition, and then they can continue with either occupational skills courses or GED and college - entrance exam - preparation classes, giving them a variety of opportunities for postsecondary education.

When they prepare to enter ninth grade, the students select either an entry - level pathway, which could result in a diploma and a certificate in a field upon graduation, or a professional pathway, which would mean more math and science in core courses, probably leading to postsecondary education.

But in combination with the postsecondary studies, a clear pattern emerges: academically challenged students do worse in online than in face - to - face courses.

The U.S. Department of Education requires that postsecondary schools be accredited in order to participate in federal student - aid programs, and course credits from unaccredited institutions are often not transferable to accredited schools.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

If courses meet rigorous criteria yet students are denied transfer credit at another postsecondary institution, the value of dual enrollment as an option for students to save money and time to degree is negated.

Western Governors University (WGU) has developed a strong name in the postsecondary education world not only because it delivers degree programs almost entirely online, but also because students earn credit solely based on demonstrating competency in their course of study.

High school feedback reports provide educators and school leaders with information on how a class of high school graduates fares in postsecondary — information that can inform improvements to lesson plans and courses to better prepare future students for college.

Official and unopened transcript (s) from each postsecondary institution attended (including institutions from which course credits transferred) showing all courses and grades.

At the college level, more than 2 million students, nearly 15 percent of all postsecondary enrollments, will register for distance - learning courses in 2002, according to Department of Education projections.

The outcome from taking an online course — gaining the skills to succeed in a digital environment and perhaps become more self - driven — is valuable in a world in which postsecondary education and work - force training are increasingly done online and lifelong learning is critical to people's lifetime success.

In the course of the research, I've listened to hundreds of students tell their story about how they made the college — or any postsecondary education — decision.

The course will be facilitated by Michigan experts in college advising and postsecondary planning.

The Michigan College Access Network and the Southern Regional Education Board's Go Alliance Academy are co-hosting a training course in postsecondary planning for Michigan school counselors.

The course includes 12 sessions on topics spanning the college access and postsecondary planning space.

Registration is now open for the Michigan College Access Network's 2018 - 19 School Counselor Postsecondary Planning Training course.

It is also required of instructors in postsecondary teacher preparation programs who instruct or supervise field experience courses or internships (section 1004.04, Florida Statutes).

In addition to being able to take challenging college courses that are not offered at their home high school and to earn college credit that can be transferred to many postsecondary institutions.

Louisiana's Jump Start centers around public - private partnerships — regional teams of K - 12, postsecondary and industry representatives come together to create course pathways in demanded fields, which include related workplace experiences and are anchored in an industry - recognized credential.

«Ensuring that English learner students are prepared for and have the option to take advanced courses in high school is critical to addressing disparities and preparing English learners for postsecondary success.»

Emerging research shows that successfully completing advanced high school courses (such as dual - enrollment and Advanced Placement classes) is an important predictor of positive postsecondary education outcomes, including college enrollment and persistence.