Sentences with phrase «tested scholarship students»

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An exception to the general aimlessness is Adam Gellin, a scholarship student who, by following all the rules and acing every test, hopes to ride a Rhodes scholarship to the top of the capitalist heap.

The honor was awarded to all the students that placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT).

Enter Jane Chase (Shue, playing a character apparently named after Tarzan's commonlaw wife and for her function in the film's second half), a student at the college where Dr. Phillip teaches who's there through some kind of ill - fated scholarship program rewarding legendarily bad test scores.

In 1999, Michigan increased the reward for good academic performance by offering the Michigan Merit Award, a one - year $ 2,500 scholarship for any student who scores at Level I or Level 2 on the Michigan Educational Achievement Program (MEAP) tests in reading, mathematics, science, and writing.

Meanwhile, John Bishop highlights a promising innovation, Michigan's college scholarship program for students who perform well on state tests.

Two recent experimental evaluations of the Louisiana Scholarship Program found negative effects of the program on student test scores but one study was limited to just a single year of outcome data and the second one (which I am leading) has only analyzed two years of outcome data so far.

In the experimental evaluation of the initial DC Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led from 2004 to 2011, the number of students in testing grades dropped substantially from year 3 to year 4, leading to a much noisier estimate of the reading impacts of the program, which were positive but just missed being statistically significant with 95 % confidence.

Two experimental studies of the Charlotte privately - funded scholarship program, here and here, reported clear positive effects on student test scores but were limited to just a single year after random assignment.

In addition to requiring schools to administer a nationally norm - referenced test to all students and report learning gains, it required scholarship - granting organizations to present detailed statistical and financial reports to the state and barred them from directing scholarships to specific schools or religious denominations.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

For instance, schools taking kids with scholarships funded through Florida's tax credit program must be approved by the state, meet teacher - qualification requirements, and administer either state exams or nationally norm - referenced tests and share the results with a researcher contracted by the state to report on scholarship students» progress.

Additional amendments required private school students to take the state's standardized tests and the state to fully fund its school aid formula before implementing the scholarship program.

In a recent policy paper, we argued that private schools participating in voucher programs should have to administer their state's tests to their scholarship students.

Florida's scholarship students are among the most disadvantaged — the average household income of scholarship families was only $ 24,067 this year, 4.5 percent above the poverty line — yet on math and read tests, they still score near the national median among all students from all income ranges.

Moreover, while the researcher tasked with tracking the achievement of scholarship students was unable to make clear apples - to - apples comparisons with Florida public school students last year, he was able to do so in years past when Florida's public school students also took the nationally norm - referenced Stanford Achievement Test.

In order to determine the effect of scholarship - induced private school competition on public school performance, we examine whether students in schools that face a greater threat of losing students to private schools as a result of the introduction of tax - credit funded scholarships improve their test scores more than do students in schools that face a less - pronounced threat.

We examine an intervention designed to expand Hispanic students» college exposure: the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP), a College Board initiative that identifies top - performing Hispanic students based on their 11th - grade Preliminary SAT / National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT / NMSQT) scores.

The state had already required FTC scholarship students to participate in standardized testing using a nationally normed exam chosen by each private school; a study commissioned by the Florida Department of Education found that, in 2007 — 08, their academic gains were similar to students nationally across all income levels and to similar Florida students who remained in public schools.

Under the new rules, private schools with 30 or more FTC scholarship students must release to the public gain scores on standardized tests for those students.

Government grants and scholarships are available in Chile, but students must obtain a minimum test - score in the Chiles's high school exit test (among other criteria, such as family income level and institution status) to be eligible.

The study used both standardized test scores and surveys of parents and students to evaluate the effect of the scholarship program on both academic performance and student and parental satisfaction.

All scholarship students take state - approved nationally norm referenced tests such as the Stanford 10 or Terra Nova.

For this reason, students who decide to use their $ 500 scholarships at private schools would still be required to participate in their state's testing program.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

The collaborative - learning style incorporated into the fabric of the school helps students to be resilient by aiding them with identifying their resources (peers) and testing their theories to see if they are on the right track all while developing habits of mind that form the foundation of scholarship.

In the state's annual reports on test score gains, the researcher has repeatedly taken note of the lower average income for scholarship students.

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

In a 2013 survey, only 10 percent of parents of students receiving tax - credit scholarships in Georgia listed «higher standardized test scores» as one of their top five reasons that they chose their child's school.

Scholarship students must take a nationally recognized norm - referenced test or the state public school assessment.

Participating schools must also provide parents of scholarship recipients with the student's annual test scores.

Our institutions are listed among the nation's best by any measure — national rankings, Advanced Placement and PISA / OECD testing, the National Merit Scholarship Program, or college admissions and merit aid, among many others — because we treat the classroom as sacrosanct, and teach students to love learning.

There is no requirement that students receiving scholarships take a standardized test (O.C.G.A. § 20 - 2A).

On school requirements, the program requires schools to have state approval and administer a nationally norm referenced test to scholarship students, but avoids unnecessary regulations.

Students must take the state standardized assessment and participating schools that receive a grade D or F in two consecutive years must suspend admitting new scholarship students until test scores Students must take the state standardized assessment and participating schools that receive a grade D or F in two consecutive years must suspend admitting new scholarship students until test scores students until test scores improve.

So - called accountability measures in Louisiana, including the statewide testing mandate, ironically enough may have discouraged high - quality providers from entering the market, thereby narrowing the options available to parents of students using the scholarships.

The means test for Milwaukee and Racine students is also on a sliding scale, similar to Indiana's Choice Scholarships.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.

Elsewhere, Stewart and Wolf have estimated the impacts of the D.C. scholarships on student test scores and high - school graduation rates.

Private schools that decide to accept Opportunity Scholarship students face regulations as well, including a requirement to report nationally standardized test performance to the government if they enroll 25 or more scholarshiScholarship students face regulations as well, including a requirement to report nationally standardized test performance to the government if they enroll 25 or more scholarshipscholarship students.

complies with nonpublic school accreditation requirements as set forth in Section 22.1 - 19 of the Code of Virginia, and administered by the Virginia Council for Private Education (VCPE) or is a nonpublic school that maintains an assessment system that annually measures scholarship students» progress in reading and math using a national norm - referenced achievement test including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic Skitest including, but not limited to, the Stanford Achievement Test, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic SkiTest, California Achievement Test, and Iowa Test of Basic SkiTest, and Iowa Test of Basic SkiTest of Basic Skills.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program may be flawed in many respects but it isn't bureaucratic burden or testing that deters the best private schools from participating in the program — it is the obligation to accept and serve all students through an open - enrollment lottery.

When students become National Merit Scholars due to their results on this test, they are offered scholarships.

The Florida Speaker of the House and Senate President battled over whether to mandate that private schools administer the state test (i.e. — Common Core) as a condition of receiving scholarship students.

Standardized test scores released by the Louisiana Department of Education show scholarship students» scores have improved by 13 percentage points between 2010 and 2014, while public school students» scores remained flat.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program, designed for low - income students to attend participating private schools, experienced some issues with LEAP test scores being low after the first year.

Teachers and principals at Success said that they prepare their students so intensely for the tests because of the opportunities that high scores can present, such as invitations to top public middle or high schools, or scholarships for private schools.

PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHERS: While some improvement is included to exclude people with criminal records from staffing private schools, a new scholarship program is proposed for students who score below a «3» on the FSA reading test.

But in Florida, which has a standardized test requirement, only 64 percent of private schools participate in the state's tax credit scholarship program, and only 53 percent of private schools in Rhode Island enrolled students with scholarships from its corporate tax credit program.