Sentences with phrase «top tier students»

The lottery system for admission makes the school an option for any Irving ISD student who applies and not just top tier students.

This is a 3 - year training program for top tier students to get acclimated and be company ready when they graduate.

However, the rigor and presentation of the new assessments will even challenge your top tier students.

Managed all pitching staff and utilized key negotiations to successfully recruit top tier student athletes.

Not exact matches

«Turkey's strong STEM universities are churning out high - quality technical talent, and Turkish students from top - tier global schools are keen to return to their bustling hometowns,» says Cem Sertoglu, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital who invested in Yemek Sepeti and GittiGidiyor.

And students who may not have the resources to attend a top - tier school can access its courses without having to travel to its campus.

For decades, top - tier business schools like Wharton and Babson have offered courses in which students tackle the problems of local firms.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

The Rotman Finance Area focuses on research & education: publishing in top - tier journals and educating students and executives in the latest financial thinking.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

The top schools have excellent advising, he says, but at second - tier schools, the Ph.D. mentors may not always be qualified to supervise students, and only 20 to 30 percent have a Ph.D. themselves.

I often talk to graduate students who are interested in learning more about my job as a professor of chemistry at a top - tier liberal arts college and about the best way to prepare for a job like mine.

The program sends teams of 10 to 12 students, tuition - free, from five metropolitan areas to 19 participating, top - tier schools.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

The difficulties facing low - income students help explain why so few attend top - tier schools.

He pursued and eventually secured, despite two rejections, a National Institutes of Health grant to fund a university program targeted at helping minority postbaccalaureate students remain competitive for admission to top - tier research institutions.

Snow, with the University's College of Liberal Arts, and her graduate students, Michael Gomez and Rafal Skiba, recently submitted a paper on the findings of their research study, «Graspable objects grab attention more than images do» which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a top - tier psychology journal.

«We wanted to explore how student - athletes at top - tier universities cope with the dual challenges of meeting the expectations of their teams while simultaneously complying with their responsibilities as university students,» says Dr. Lynsey Romo, an assistant professor of communication at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

One of the nation's leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a top - tier research university that prepares students to become leaders in the technology - dependent economy of the 21st century.

Enter the world of the U.S. Naval Academy, where student - athletes must not only balance the rigorous demands of an elite academic institution with top - tier collegiate football, but must also prepare themselves for naval service.

(Harvard is among many top - tier institutions that encourage students to defer admission but don't offer or fund gap programming.)

The school also received funding for support classes tied to the curriculum to help lowerperforming students pull off top - tier work.

As might be expected, online learning is part of the package, but course choice goes further: it allows K — 12 students to learn from unconventional providers that might range from top - tier universities or innovative community colleges to local employers, labs, or hospitals.

Top - tier colleges provide low - income students with life - changing opportunities, including robust financial aid, strong support systems, and significantly higher graduation rates.

RC: Our students are not just getting admitted to and enrolling in top - tier colleges, they are thriving once there.

Less than 3 percent of American students in the bottom ESCS quartile reach PISA's top tiers in math, yet 21 percent of disadvantaged Singaporeans achieve this.

One notable exception is Washington: The District of Columbia's school voucher program did lead to more low - income students gaining admittance to top tier private schools such as Sidwell Friends.

All students are more likely to enroll in top - tier colleges when they come from wealthier districts.

Even though 42 % of students in Colorado qualify as low - income, a non-low income student is more than 12 times as likely to go to a top - tier college — a list that includes several Colorado colleges.

The Neuroscience Program at Stonehill College combines faculty expertise and extensive internships to consistently place students in top - tier graduate programs and professional positions.

Entrepreneurial educators and leaders who have the talent, energy, and capacity to found a new high - performing charter school — ideally, fellows have a proven track record of generating top - tier academic achievement for low - income students.

Colorado education groups call on K - 12 system to prepare more low - income students for nation's top colleges Report reveals dearth of low - income students matriculating to top - tier colleges Denver — Education groups released a report, Missing the Bus: Colorado's Elite College Access Gap, today showing that low - income Colorado students are largely left behind when it comes to...

Moreover, students of color are markedly underrepresented in enrichment programs and, therefore, in the top tier of student achievement.

In math, 19 percent of Massachusetts students who took the exam placed in the top two levels of proficiency, while 55 percent of students in Shanghai reached those tiers.

We continuously study priority issues, inform the public and policymakers and engage citizens, business leaders, families, students, and others in a shared mission to move Kentucky to the top tier of all states for education success.

Yet the truly disadvantaged students in these nations are more likely to score in the top tier on the PISA math test.

Students at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in deStudents at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in destudents, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in decline.46

And from NJ Spotlight: «The state showed growth in virtually every grade, with more students finishing in the top two levels of the five - tier scale.»

While many high schools push poor students toward less competitive college, this New York nonprofit helps to graduate kids from top - tier schools at remarkable rates

But the Common Core sequence is out of sync with the progression that leads to college - bound students taking calculus in 12th grade, as expected by top - tier universities.

Schools that admit a lot of students from low - income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren't leafy private schools, but mostly urban...

National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education: The National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education is a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop, leverage, and retain our nation's top - tier educators for improved student and school performance through an intense, advanced program of study that balances instructional mastery and leadership.

Thousands of students who would never have considered taking an online course from the University of Phoenix or another for - profit institution began taking one for the first time from top - tier universities.

Students draw a picture in the top tier of the birthday cake and write their names and date on the plate.

Readied for a top - tier high school and beyond, Lippman School students demonstrate learning outcomes with character, competency and purpose.

The Louisiana College Access Coalition (NSNO is part of this growing coalition) has proposed a tiered award structure that prioritizes full funding for the lowest income students if full TOPS funding can not be restored.

The funding, the study says, has rapidly improved the quality of learning for the students while simultaneously enrolling a significant number of new students in top - tier programs.

Unlike many traditional scholarships that are awarded only to top - tier students, Broad Prize scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors who have a demonstrated record of improving their grades over the course of their high school career and have a financial need.

To earn a top - tier FICO score, you'll need to demonstrate that you can successfully manage a mix of credit products, such as a car or student loan, a mortgage and at least one card.

In addition to networking with other students, Business Schools (especially top tier business schools like Harvard, MIT or Cornell) have engaged alumni networks that might help you land your first high paying job out of business school.