Sentences with phrase «strong academic rigor»

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We selected St. Benedict Prep because of the school's high academic rigor, committed faculty, small class size and its strong faith - based, community - focused mission.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

Explicitly designed according to a set of design principles that stress academic rigor and personalization, attention to youth development, strong community partnerships, and accountability for results, these schools have produced powerful results for students — many of whom fall squarely within the cohort of the «underprepared.»

High Tech High School, located in North Bergen, New Jersey, is a county - wide vocational school that combines high levels of academic rigor with a strong focus on vocational subjects.

SSCs emphasize academic rigor and strong and sustained personal relationships among students and faculty.

Among the most popular selections were «small schools of choice,» which are small, nonselective public high schools that emphasize academic rigor, strong relationships between students and teachers and community partnerships.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

For analytically oriented or research positions, employers favor candidates with a strong record of academic rigor and achievement.