This report reveals that schools across the city are misleading parents by giving students high marks on
school coursework even though the students are performing below grade level.
Not exact matches
I know of teens at
school who manage to keep up with all their
coursework and spend time doing other things that they want to do in the
evenings and weekends.
Prior research has demonstrated that additional mathematics
coursework in high
school is associated with higher earnings later in life, and that
even one additional year of math
coursework increases annual earnings by between 4 and 8 percentage points.
In K — 12
schools and
even for some adults who never took coding courses in college, computer science
coursework represents a significant pocket of nonconsumption among learners.
During the
school year,
coursework resumes in the early
evening.
Even certified teachers who have completed education -
school coursework and student teaching need a structured induction program in order to become effective teachers.
Digital learning advocates Tom Vander Ark, Susan Patrick, and John Bailey argued that we should have considered how innovations in digital assessments embedded in online
coursework could inform
school improvement and
even roll up into district and state
school performance dashboards.
Suspension, expulsion, and in -
school detention lead students to miss classroom time and fall
even further behind in their
coursework.
When the 1998 reforms were passed,
schools suddenly had to fit
even more required
coursework, such as health and technology education, into the year.
Today, too many teacher candidates are barred from
schools, or delayed in their hires, because they did not complete lower - level
coursework even if they have a clear mastery of their subject area.
Problem is, the traditional high
school measures of college readiness are crude, as seen by the shockingly high number of incoming college freshmen who require remedial
coursework before they are
even allowed to take for - credit courses — a fault that leads to millions of degree - earning failures.
Other
schools have experimented with innovative teaching methods, including curriculum focused on AP
coursework or
even virtual learning.
Currently, 75 percent of first - time adult students require remediation when they enroll in community college;
even though they have graduated high
school, these students can benefit from additional supports to succeed in credit - bearing
coursework.
If forced to name a single educational skill set that all learners should have as part of their
coursework, Grauer feels a greater emphasis on real computer science will have the greatest impact on future learners,
even going so far as to suggest that knowledge of coding should be taught in public
schools, almost as a foreign language.
Even if your
school only let you formally choose one, if you earned multiple concentrations in terms of
coursework, you can put down several.
Even if you're going to
school full time for something unrelated, like astrophysics, include this
coursework on your resume — it proves that you're conscientiousness.
Even if you didn't get your degree from that
school, the fact that you completed
coursework at a
school that may rank higher within the algorithm is still resume - worthy information that makes you a more interesting candidate to the software and the person who may someday sit in on your interview.