Sentences with phrase «preparation for college entrance»

His district is already testing kids with a suite of preliminary SAT assessments, starting in ninth grade and leading up to the SAT, as well as providing other preparation for the college entrance exam.

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The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

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.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

With the recent decision of the UW College of Education faculty to raise admissions standards for entrance into its educator preparation programs, UW's College of Education educator candidates are now selected from among the top 50 % of the university's current student body.

Consequently, we had a simple goal for the three studies featured in the PNAS article: finding out whether these growth mindset and belonging interventions could be replicated successfully in other settings, and when delivered as preparation, prior to students» entrance in college.