Sentences with phrase «to compete for students»

Let the public schools compete for students; public universities in my state certainly compete against one another successfully.

They must learn to compete for students in the open market.

Now the schools and systems see each other as competing for student enrollment — not as colleagues.

And won't that ultimately produce better schools than a government - engineered plan designed specifically to ensure that schools aren't competing for students?

Imagine the rapid spread of independent charter schools, run privately and competing for students from all across town.

Schools that already compete for students appear more open to including merit pay in their personnel policies.

But letting a few government schools be a little different from the others won't produce meaningful, constant, powerful innovation, especially if charters are kept from truly competing for students.

And those systems don't want charter schools competing for students and dollars.

It's long been an elite school, competing for students with bigger sciences powerhouses such as Cal - Tech and MIT.

Choices for parents who think their kids might benefit from a special program at a school in a nearby school district: In California, some school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.

The practice is on the upswing as colleges and universities compete for students at a time when the number of high school graduates is declining.

I learned that another course on the Virgin was being offered in a different department at Wheaton the same semester; rather than competing for student attention, both classes quickly filled.

The study, funded by the National Science Foundation, speaks to typical lecture - hall culture in which professors compete for students» attention with laptops and smartphones.

This change would introduce some much - needed market pressure in this area, as schools would be forced to compete for students based on the usefulness of their course offerings.

In January 2012, Washington Post education reporter Michael Alison Chandler said school choice has become «a mantra of 21st - century education reform,» citing policies across the country that have traditional public schools competing for students alongside charter schools and private schools.

Such improvements are to be expected among the many colleges and universities now competing for students» distance - learning dollars.

Increasingly, magnet schools are competing for students against new charter schools that are opening in the district.

The goal of public education in Wisconsin today and in the years to come should be to allow all parents to choose which schools their children attend, require every school to compete for every student who walks through its doors, and make sure every child has the opportunity to attend a quality school.

The district's leadership could also accelerate the adoption of programs already pioneered by neighboring school districts that have successfully competed for student enrollment — both in private and charter schools — by increasing options and quality.

Cross-district choice is less about learning than about competing for students and money.»

Her efforts were largely focused in her home state of Michigan, where 80 percent of state charter schools are run by for - profit entities with little transparency around how those schools spend public money, and charter and traditional schools are wasting scarce resources competing for students.

Charter school advocates assert they provide more choices to students with special needs, give families the right to choose a school instead of relying on geography and that they force traditional schools to improve while competing for students.

«Schools are always competing for students, but I believe that vet schools truly have the best interests of their students at heart,» said DeMeerleer.

Instead, to drive improvement, Mr. Romney would have schools compete for students in a more market - based approach to quality.

Imagine with me a Mississippi where schools compete for students.

If they make the commitment to land top students — if they attend every «meet the faculty» session, shake a lot of hands, and talk enthusiastically about their own research — junior faculty members can compete for students with anyone, Mr. Meyer says.

The District of Choice law was meant to encourage districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and this - school - fits - my - child options that parents want.

Providers will compete for student enrollments by showing they have the most exciting, most adaptive, most appropriate curricular offerings.

If schools had to compete for students the same way businesses compete for customers, schools would need to strive toward increasing test scores and better preparing students for the workforce.

The playing field to compete for students is not level, and nobody in the mayor's office or DOE is taking responsibility for it, preferring to leverage dwindling enrollments by school mergers, closures, and truncations without looking at key underlying problems.

But in order for this to happen, districts must first recognize the need to compete for students and then make efforts to attract those students, who now have the chance to go elsewhere.

Across all four regions, districts have increased marketing efforts to recruit and compete for students.

Specifically, we probe whether district officials in urban settings across the country believe they need to compete for students.

Our first task was to find evidence that district officials recognize incentives associated with competing for students and meeting parental demand.

Breaking the ironclad link between residence and school attended will, proponents argue, force schools to compete for students and resources in ways that increase the quality of education provided.

In particular, if high schools have to compete for their students and revenues because of vouchers or charter schools, they will figure out how best to motivate their staff to improve quality and attract students.

Teachers would be forced to compete for students.

Across countries and economies, educational performance is unrelated to whether or not schools have to compete for students.

And Sweden, the one economically advanced Western country with sharp achievement gains, has a national voucher system, which forces schools, including a growing number of educationally and financially successful for - profit schools, to compete for students.

He ignores the wide body of research suggesting that school - choice policies improve public schools by forcing them to compete for students that they used to take for granted.

In our proposal, funding must follow students and be weighted to compensate for the extra costs associated with high - need students if schools are to compete for students and if parents are to have real choice.

The 507 sometimes - D schools do not face the imminent prospect of having to compete for students.

Administrative staff also realise the need to compete for students, staff and resources.

Further, proponents argue, by giving parents such choices, traditional public schools will be forced to compete for students and the funding tied to them.

Increasingly, the foundation became intrigued by different ways to organize schools, including the so - called «portfolio model,» in which different types of independent schools compete for students and must demonstrate results.

This voucher system would allow market pressures to work their magic, as schools would be forced to improve their quality in order to compete for students and their voucher dollars.

When schools must compete for students, they will respond by improving and evolving to meet the demands of «customers» or risk going out of business.

Schools competing for students will communicate with parents more often.