Sentences with phrase «published exam schools»

In 2012, Hockett published Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools with Chester E. Finn, Jr., a big - picture look at a high - performing, but understudied, niche of American education.

Not exact matches

Pope's organization, Challenge Success, advocates school policies such as holding final exams before winter break, not publishing college acceptance lists and taking steps to make teachers approachable.

a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where dads are involved before the age of 11, children are less likely to have a criminal record by the age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing with their dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery school · Nine out of ten dads attend the birth

Reforms to make the school curriculum for 11 to 14 - year - olds more flexible and better tailored to pupils» needs have been published by the exams watchdog today.

The study, published as a QMUL School of Economics and Finance Working Paper, looked at the period from 1998 to 2007, when English schools used a process called «borderlining» to regrade exams from students who narrowly missed out on a higher Key Stage result.

Furthermore, studies in Texas and elsewhere have found that some schools raised their published test scores by retaining low - performing students in 9th grade, by classifying them as eligible for special education (or otherwise exempting them from the exam), and even by encouraging them to drop out.

In 2004 the CEP published its largest study of these exams, «Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams.&rexams, «Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams.&rExams.»

Checked (all titles published by the Center on Education Policy): From the Capital to the Classroom, Year 1 (January 2003) Year 2 (January 2004) Year 3 (March 2005) State High School Exit Exams series: A Baseline Report (August 2002) Put to the Test (August 2003) A Maturing Reform (August 2004) States Try Harder, but Gaps -LSB-...]

According to a recent report published by Sir John Holman, president of the Royal Society for Chemistry, high - stake exams are preventing schools from carrying out enough practical science activities.

Republican Reps. John Lamar III, of Senatobia, left, and Ken Morgan of Morgantown, listen as House Education Committee Rep. Mark Baker, R - Brandon, presents House Bill 385, banning use of a Common Core - related test, wiping out high school exit exams in biology and U.S. history, and pushing the state Board of Education to adopt standardized tests published by the ACT organization in House Chambers, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss..

Scottish exam data is still published online, but it is not in a format where schools can be easily compared.

«Compared to students in the nearest regular public school, charter students are 4 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 2 percent more likely to be proficient in math, on their state's exams,» Hoxby wrote in her study published in September.

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I do not blame law school professors for not wanting to have more hands - on classes or clinics or courses with many skills - based assignments instead of a 100 % final exam — they are being pressured to publish and research.

One of her law school exams for the Law Office Management course is published in the Instructor's Manual for the casebook, Materials and Cases on Law Practice Management: a Learning Tool for Law Students (Thomas McKnight Steele — Lexis / Nexis).