Sentences with phrase «quality of students enrolled»

The College also received top billing for it online graduate program in education, and received the nation's highest score for online student selectivity — considered a benchmark indicating the high quality of students enrolled.

Not exact matches

Has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of education; it only addresses the backgrounds of the enrolled students.

The program might allow certain students opportunities for higher - level work, yet it also can siphon off the best students and teachers and may reduce the quality of education for non-AP students, and in some cases, cause undue stress for students enrolled in the program.

It is nonetheless plausible that the lack of effects on college selectivity that we find may hold in higher - income districts as well, since students in these districts who fall just shy of the top 10 percent likely face fewer informational and financial barriers to enrolling in high - quality colleges absent an automatic admissions guarantee than do students in our sample.

Using the full population of all first - year undergraduates enrolled at Northwestern between fall 2001 and fall 2008 (over 15,000 students in all), we empirically generate two new measures of teaching quality — one an indicator of inspiration (the rate of «conversion» of non-majors to majors) and the other an indicator of deep learning (the degree to which a professor adds lasting value to students» learning that is reflected in success in future classes).

But educators know little about the quality of the courses, who is enrolling in them, or how students are doing.

The report also found that nearly one - third of all students enrolled in a charter attend an A-rated school, but that too many charter students attend mid - or low - quality schools.

That means that 70 percent of public charter school students are enrolled in a quality school.

This pattern suggests the program disproportionately attracted certain types of private schools, such as schools struggling to keep students enrolled, relative to the high - quality schools that do not have this enrollment issue.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

«If Congress passes legislation to help states and local communities improve the quality of their public schools absent federal intrusion, we applaud it, but this should apply to all students equally, not just those enrolled in charter schools.

On the other hand, these reforms were poorly designed to ensure quality education for all students and left many schools severely under - enrolled through the process of unregulated / unplanned school choice and constant crisis from high - stakes testing.

«The goal of [our] movement is not simply to increase the number of schools and students enrolled, but, rather, the number of high - quality public school options for families who need them most,» Rees said.

Students with limited English proficiency were more likely to be enrolled in the lowest quality programs - those with just three of fewer benchmarks - and less likely to be enrolled in programs with six or more benchmarks than their peers.

Using nine specific quality benchmarks, including things like whether teachers had specialized training in early childhood education, if the maximum class size was 20 students or fewer and what the student to staff ratio was, Erin Baumgartner found that none of the 50 campuses included in the study met all nine of the quality benchmarks and that students of limited English proficiency were less likely to be enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs with six or more quality indicators.

Complicating that finding, though, was the fact that students with limited English and students enrolled in bilingual programs did seem to benefit from programs with a higher number of quality benchmarks.

Now, more than 90,000 students using opportunity scholarships are in jeopardy of losing the opportunity to attend the quality school of their choice in which they are currently enrolled.

Inclusive enrollment policies and procedures and high quality special education programs are essential to enrolling and retaining students with a diverse array of disabilities.

School districts collect students» names, the classes in which they are enrolled, their reading and math proficiency and whether they graduated on time, said Paige Kowalski, director of state policy and advocacy for the Data Quality Campaign, a national advocacy organization.

The funding, the study says, has rapidly improved the quality of learning for the students while simultaneously enrolling a significant number of new students in top - tier programs.

Overall, DSCRN recruited 769 families last year, but the number of students who actually enrolled in what it defines as a quality school was only 115.

Looking at the school district more broadly, a study that classified all New Orleans public schools as Tier 1 through 3 in descending order of academic quality found that, for the 2013 - 2014 school year, Tier 1 schools enrolled half and one fourth as many special education students as Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools, respectively (Adamson et al., 2015).

Research, in fact, consistently finds a strong correlation between measures of principal quality and school characteristics — especially student performance levels and the percentage of the school population living in poverty enrolled in the school.

The fact that something that is required for most people to have a decent quality of living has increased in price by such an astronomical figure in just 14 years should rightly scare the living shit out of any parent who expects to send their kids to college, and any students currently enrolled.

Overview: The intent of this award is to recognize commitment to excellence in high - quality high - volume spay / neuter practice among junior and senior veterinary students who are enrolled in the Professional Certificate in Shelter Medicine.

Columbia MFA students demand tuition refunds According to the Columbia Spectator, 51 of 54 students enrolled in Columbia University's Visual Arts MFA programme have asked for full reimbursement of tuition fees ($ 63,961) for the academic year 2017 — 18, claiming they were not receiving the quality of education they had paid for.

They said in their e-mail that the so - called Bruce High Quality Foundation University «has grown into a truly remarkable experiment in artistic community with over 700 enrolled students, a summer residency program, and even a forthcoming production of the musical, West Side Story.»

But with the school continuing to focus on its reputation for high - quality instruction, the number of enrolled students has held steady.