Sentences with phrase «students at college prep»

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Past activities for students at YES Prep North Central have included National Outdoor Leadership School wilderness trips, college - prep immersion programs on university campuses, and service trips to India and Ghana.

A focus on family involvement is one reason for student success in the rigorous college - prep environment at YES Prep North Central in Houston, Texas.

He also developed an annual business plan competition through his microeconomics classes at a nationally - ranked college prep charter school where his students presented their plans in teams to investors, entrepreneurs, and college professors at the Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University.

An obvious flash point will be the idea that states require students to take at least one college - or career - prep course online to earn a high school diploma.

At Boston Arts Academy, high student achievement is driven by infusing the rigorous college - prep program with visual arts, dance, theater and music.

Low - income students are often at a triple disadvantage when it comes to advising and mentorship: their schools have fewer counselors, they can't afford extra advising or test prep, and often can not turn to their parents or peers for college insight.

An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college - or career - prep course online to earn a high school diploma.

Based on decades of scientific research, Achieve3000's solutions for grades PreK - 12 and adult education reach all students at their individual reading levels to accelerate their learning, improve K - PREP, KY - ACT, and KYOTE performance, and prepare them for college and career success.

Our innovative social science teacher will be responsible for executing and implementing a rigorous college - prep curriculum that integrates technology and flexible use of space + time in order to deliver the right learning for students at the right moment.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve sCollege Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve scollege prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

A room full of parents, students, educators, and community members listened to a panel at Trinity College discuss problems with SBAC and test prep in urban public schools.

NSCS wants its students to be college - ready and is cognizant of the strong reputation the International Baccalaureate program and curriculum has for being the best college - prep program — even better than Advanced Placement, especially at preparing strong writers, speakers and thinkers.

Students at another high school in Philadelphia successfully brought college prep classes to all of their learning communities.

Currently, they are called «college core» courses, which are designed to help students work on college prep material at a less rigorous pace.

Theme may be important too; looking at the table above, we can see that the themes with the highest percentage of minority students, character education *, college prep, and career prep, enroll 48.5 %, 43.5 %, and 43.1 % Hartford students, respectively, while the themes with the lowest percentage of minority students, early childhood *, STEM, and arts, enroll 24.8 %, 35.7 %, and 39.4 % Hartford students respectively (weighted averages based on total school enrollment).

However, one critic of the report cautions against making too much of its findings because the report fails to delineate what students actually experience at various teacher prep programs at colleges and universities throughout the nation.

The Charter School's «competency based» high school and college prep program allows students to master material at a comfortable pace, providing more time for additional coaching when necessary.

But the reform adopted to address that — a policy requiring all students to pass college - prep courses with a grade of at least C — could prove just as damaging.

The existing model was already rigorous, with all students participating in a college - prep curriculum, including at least six Advanced Placement courses before graduation.

Despite participating in a rigorous, college - prep curriculum and taking at least six AP classes at Summit before graduation, some students still had fundamental learning gaps — or as we say, the Swiss cheese — going all the way back to elementary and middle school.

If a school markets itself to high - achieving students as a rigorous college - prep curriculum, families and parents of special education students may be dissuaded from pursuing enrollment at that school (Marcell, 2010).

Students» earnings cover the majority of tuition for their rigorous college - prep education at Cristo Rey Atlanta.

If you are a high school student and wish to prepare and qualify for this field, you should first take a college prep curriculum that includes English, math and the sciences and aim for at least a C grade in these subjects.