Sentences with phrase «public exam schools»

Applicants must have interest in applying to Boston Public Exam schools or independent schools.

The Steppingstone Academy serves middle - school students from Boston who plan to attend selective independent, Catholic or public exam schools.

The Steppingstone Academy prepares motivated, underserved students for acceptance to and success at top independent, Catholic, and public exam schools in the greater Boston area.

Steppingstone partners with more than 40 independent, Catholic, and public exam schools to place students.

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.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

Ninety percent of Scholars who have completed Steppingstone's demanding program of academic preparation gain admission to an independent, Catholic or public exam school.

Not exact matches

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

So if the public schools don't by default give the days off, parents should talk to the school (principals, teachers) about not having exams on days they plan to have their kids miss school.

The winning team in every grade, in other words — with the exception of those outliers from San Benito — came from a private school, an exam school, a parochial school, or a public school populated by the children of Apple engineers.

Nearly 80,000 public school students in 100 districts across Long Island refused yesterday to take the state mathematics exam given in grades three through eight, in a fifth straight year of boycotts driven by opposition to the Common Core tests, according to a Newsday survey.

«Over 2.7 million public school students are counting on the Senate and Assembly to do their homework when it comes to education — not cram for the exam,» the statement continues.

Charter school's students of the poorest neighborhood of New York City are doing excellent test scores in the state exams & the traditional public schools are falling miserably where those charter schools are co located.

They say the test results show that charter school students scored higher on the exams than did public school students.

They have to complete coursework in their subject area, have extensive supervised teaching experience and pass certification exams — just like teachers in traditional public schools.

Allegations of tampering with Regents exams have soared since Bloomberg took control of the NYC public school system.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

Students enrolled in public pre-kindergarten programs in New York City are more likely to take the city's exam for entry into gifted and talented programs, according to a new study by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

NYC public school students have substantially closed the achievement gap with their counterparts in the rest of the state on standardized English and math exams, according to an analysis released yesterday.

More than half of Long Island students eligible to take the state Common Core test in English Language Arts refused to take the exam this week, according to a Newsday survey of public school districts ending Thursday, the third and final day of the assessment.

Renegade NYC public school teachers have been sending emails to parents the past week encouraging them to boycott the state English and math Common Core exams being administered citywide starting tomorrow.

Public school districts across Long Island and the state are bracing for what many educators and parents expect to be a fifth consecutive year of Common Core test boycotts in grades three through eight, even as eight districts in Nassau and Suffolk counties and dozens elsewhere introduce computerized versions of the exams.

Education in New York: Art Students League of New York • Bard College Conservatory of Music • Capital Region Independent Schools Association • New York State Education Department • Global History and Geography Regents Exam • Mathematics education in New York • New Visions for Public Schools • United Nations International School • White Plains Public Schools

That purported de-emphasis comes one week after de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña called a press conference to celebrate hikes in public - school exam scores while crediting their initiatives for the progress.

De Blasio said the gap between public - and charter - school exam proficiency was due more to an ideological divide than educational effectiveness.

Personal Info Birthplace: Staten Island, NY High School: Brooklyn Tech High School (public - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prpublic - requires entrance exam) Higher Education: SUNY New Paltz, University of Buffalo Law School NY19 Connection: Attended SUNY New Paltz, 1970 - 1974; Returned to live in Kingston in 1981 and thereafter moved to Woodstock where he has resided through today Length of Residency in NY19: Kingston, NY and Woodstock, NY since 1983; greater than 34 years Prior Job History: Served as a Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) Volunteer working with Native American tribes in Nebraska, Western Nebraska Legal Services attorney between 1977 - 1980; Ulster County Public Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until prPublic Defender's Office in the 1980s and early 1990s, Law Offices of Dave Clegg practicing predominantly personal injury law and elder abuse cases until present.

History can be a contentious subject in public schools, and so the state's Board of Regents agreed Tuesday on a new exam that would measure students» knowledge of events starting around 1750 — a date chosen partly in hopes of avoiding arguments.

Quinn said public school children shouldn't be forced any longer to take private testing companies» field tests, which aren't graded, and which are only intended to help for - profit companies such as Pearson develop questions for the next year's exams.

But at 19, the Sudanese immigrant had just two years to learn the language and pass five Regents exams before he would age out of the traditional public school system.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

You should know that the IDNYC Card is an official form of identification that can be used in City Agencies, the NYPD, for entry into public buildings like schools, to take the high school equivalency exam in New York City.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

And it's too bad the beeps felt obliged to include in this report yet another call to scrap the entrance exam for the city's top public high schools.

Get a good grade, pass the entrance exams, an then get into the best public high schools and colleges.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

We've allowed selective - admission «exam schools» to operate within the public education system for over a hundred years.

She more or less goes her own way in teaching the course, but after the first year of «Civics in Action,» the Boston Public Schools introduce standardized, districtwide midterm and final exams for it, and Levinson worries how her students will do.

'» One of eight specialized public «exam» schools in New York, Stuyvesant had 3,200 students and a 98.4 percent four - year graduation rate.

The research team used data from more than 1,300 8th graders attending 32 public schools in Boston, including traditional public schools, exam schools that admit only the city's most academically talented students, and oversubscribed charter schools.

The cram schools prepare children for the next school year and school entrance exams, giving them a leg up into gifted classes and, hopefully, into one of New York City's specialized public high schools.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

According to U.S. News, only 15 public high schools in America can boast that 100 % of their graduated students passed a minimum of one AP exam last year.

During Alonso's tenure, students in the Baltimore City Public Schools reached their highest outcomes in state exams, across all categories of students.

In announcing the 2000 test results last week, Virginia education officials said that 22 percent, or 406 of the state's 1,874 public schools, had posted acceptable passing rates on the state's rigorous Standards of Learning exams administered to students last spring.

Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false public perception that most students in the class of 2003 who haven't yet passed the state's high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

Disgusted by what he and his staff considered to be poorly written, poorly stapled, and generally disorganized mandatory citywide exams sent to Fritsche Middle School by the Milwaukee Public Schools central office in the fall -LSB-...]

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The Educational Records Bureau, a Wellesley, Mass., research and subject - matter testing group for private schools and suburban public schools, will jump into the admission market with an exam promising a better candidate profile, a timed essay, and a 72 - hour turn - around time on test scores, among other features.

But when Jessica Hockett and I searched for them in connection with a Hoover - Fordham study that led to our book, Exam Schools, we found just 165 that met our criteria within a public - school universe of more than 20,000 high sSchools, we found just 165 that met our criteria within a public - school universe of more than 20,000 high schoolsschools.