Sentences with phrase «students from taking»

There are a couple reasons as to why the school would have had a legitimate backing to ban students from taking a knee.

The gainful employment rule is a regulation designed to prevent students from taking on excessive student loan debt at programs that are not likely to lead to success.

The report also recommends that colleges work to relieve the pressure associated with standardized testing, such as by «discouraging students from taking an admissions test more than twice.»

Effectively addressing problems in the schools when children are still young, including finding solutions with professional help and training, can prevent students from taking a path toward lifelong failure.

And we as a state have accomplished all of that with the highest achievement gap in the country and without excluding our lowest performing students from taking those tests.

It's going to prohibit students from taking risks.

Or did the school (or district) purposely exclude some students from taking the exam?

In the above article Chalkbeat focused on how some district practices, in Boulder specifically, discouraged high school students from taking state standardized tests: for the second year in a row, Boulder high schools continued instruction for ninth - grade students who opted - out of PARCC assessments, effectively penalizing students who took the state assessments as they had to catch up on the content later (1).

However, the Civitas think tank is warning that the EBacc could disadvantage the poorest students because the pressure of league tables could lead to schools discouraging students from taking non-compulsory subjects if they were not expected to get a C or above in them.

Decades of research shows that grades diminish students» interest in whatever they're learning, discourage students from taking academic risks, and reduce the quality of students» thinking, writes Kohn.

According to Chalkbeat, «state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

state education department officials say this will provide schools with more useful information about what students have actually learned, while other supporters say it will spare those students from taking tests they have no chance of passing.»

They are also showing a commitment to preventing students from taking unnecessary remedial courses, which too often put students off track before they even start their college education.»

And here in Connecticut, we know, thanks to Steven Adamowski, Hartford's former superintendent of schools, who presently serves as Malloy's «Special Master» for the Windham and New London schools that when you keep one out of every ten students from taking the Connecticut Mastery Tests, your test scores go up, as long as the 10 percent are the lowest performing students.

«The committee also has learned that some teachers discourage students from taking AP... courses or the final examinations when poor performance is anticipated.»

Leaders need to understand that for - profit «diploma mills» have scared away some students from taking online classes.

A group of nearby independent schools could band together and agree to prohibit students from taking more than three AP courses or jointly lobby nearby colleges to revise admissions practices that unduly jack up achievement pressure.

The furor over allowing parents to pull their students from taking state tests is a newer phenomenon, but can affect the legitimacy and even funding of high - stakes tests.

Among the report's recommendations for reducing undue pressure on high - school students are making standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice, raising awareness of overloading on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and prioritizing quality, not quantity, of extracurricular activities.

It encourages colleges to revise their applications to ask students about two or three extracurricular activities, rather to encourage them to submit long lists of sports and clubs they participate in and to consider make standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice.

To maintain control without preventing students from taking responsibility for their work, follow these steps:

The Social Liberal Forum now calls upon Dr. Cable, and all Liberal Democrat MPs, to continue to press for a system that ensures the abolition of student tuition fees, the reduction of student debt and their replacement with a graduate contribution, varying progressively with income and set at levels which do not deter students from taking less well paid, but socially beneficial, post-graduate employment.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo asked state education officials Thursday to investigate reports that some New York schools prevented students from taking part in Wednesday's nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence.

Cuomo asked state education officials to investigate reports that some New York schools prevented students from taking part in Wednesday's nationwide student walkout to protest gun violence.

Both the Illinois State Board of Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture say they have no rules prohibiting students from taking fruit home.

State law authorizes parents to excuse a student from taking a statewide assessment.»

Not exact matches

From Facebook to Google to Walmart, every huge company started with a crappy idea (a college student taking on Rupert Murdoch's Myspace??

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

To provide as much scheduling flexibility as possible, Asper students can take classes on one of three timetables: afternoons and evenings from Monday to Thursday, all day on Saturday and Sunday, or Saturday and Sunday mornings.

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

In August, students spend two weeks at Kellogg, and in October Schulich hosts an International Week, where students take electives with contemporaries from around the world.

According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

Unlike Waterloo's program, you can't apply directly from high school — this program requires students to take a qualifying first year before specializing.

What does it take to change your life from student to entrepreneur?

As Levitt tells it, the lecture went wonderfully — some students claimed it was their favorite lecture of their undergraduate career, which might be a separate lesson for some econ professors — until the woman took a question on pricing strategy from a student toward the very end of her talk.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters)- Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party and were taken to a local hospital, police said on Friday.

Students, teachers, and local officials took turns giving impassioned speeches before the crowd, simultaneously celebrating those who died and blasting inaction from lawmakers in Washington.

Plus, today's 15 - year - olds are just years away from potentially taking out student loans, a debt decision that could follow them for decades.

You can take an online course at your own pace, immerse yourself in live presentations or participate in interactive digital «labs» with student partners and mentorship from successful coaches.

From a practical perspective, a student writing a paper no longer has to walk to the library, spend hours digging through reference books, taking copious notes in longhand, then write and type up the essay.

A current student, Chisa generously walks readers through the ten courses every first - year MBA student must take and reveals the most mind - blowing insight she took away from each.

All MBA students take part in two annual «integrative case weeks,» during which classes are put on hold to allow for real — world experience and networking with senior executives from major Canadian companies.

From their mission statement: «March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.»

After testing beta versions with friends, they launched their student loan payment app ChangEd in April 2017 and also took their idea to a January 2018 episode of «Shark Tank,» where they received an offer from Mark Cuban.

You're not a straight - A student anymore, but you learned more from the tough classes than you ever would taking it easy.

At Bowdoin College, the second - ranked liberal - arts school on our list, first - year students can choose from 35 first - year seminars and are required to take a course in each of five general subject areas.

The ranking takes into account a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data captured in the five major lists, from surveys of corporate recruiters, MBA graduates, deans and faculty publication records, to median GPA and GMAT scores of entering students, as well as salary and employment statistics for the latest graduating class.

After he handed out flyers on campus and in coffee shops, demand took off immediately from students who needed help fast.

At these hubs, students will be able to take MOOC courses together and get assistance from in - class facilitators for free.

Know your numbers, from your credit score down to the interest rate on your student loans, and take advantage of the bevy of financial tools on the Web.