Under No Child Left Behind, accountability has hinged entirely on standardized test scores, a single number that has been used to determine
whether students graduate or teachers keep their jobs.
Using a difference - in - differences specification, we estimate the effects of Washington State's College Bound Scholarship Program on high school grades,
whether students graduate from high school, and incarceration in state prison during high school or during early adulthood.
Research shows that
whether students graduate from high school is largely determined during their freshman year.
Richard A. Boyd, Mississippi's superintendent of education, is expected to recommend to the state Board of Education at its meeting this week that the use of a competency test to determine
whether students graduate from high school be delayed for three years.
The article continued, «Rigorous testing that decides
whether students graduate, teachers win bonuses, and schools are shuttered... does little to improve achievement and may actually worsen academic performance and dropout rates, according to the largest study ever on the issue.»
It also urges that the Carnegie unit, the long - standing gauge of
whether students graduate and one of the factors that shape the way the school day is planned, be redesigned or abolished.
Put another way, all students in facilities must be counted in a school's graduation rate denominator, meaning that
whether a student graduates or not, he or she will affect a facility's or a home school's graduation rate.
But it will take decades to know
whether the students graduating from high school today will reap the same kind of lifetime benefits that their predecessors did from those diplomas.
But regardless of
whether a student graduates or drops out, the school's revenue from federal aid programs does not vary.
Not exact matches
It touches on a larger debate as to
whether a college degree is worth the investment when
student loan balances are soaring and new
graduates often struggle to find jobs.
You can think of the obvious problem with that: Imagine if you're a marginal high school
student and you know that when you turn 18 or a certain age you're going to get an income
whether you
graduate or not.
About 95 % of Stanford's
Graduate School of Business's 809
students opt to take at least one entrepreneurship class —
whether it's Startup Garage, Product Launch, or Formation of New Ventures.
Reported by the school the
student attended, indicates
whether the
student is (or was) full - time, three - quarter time, half - time, less than half - time, withdrawn,
graduated, etc..
If you have federal
student loans, you will usually enter a standard 10 - year repayment once you leave school —
whether you
graduated or dropped out early.
Congress sets rates depending on the type of loan, taking into consideration
whether the loan is for
graduate or undergraduate
students and
whether the loan is subsidized or not.
Neither are
graduating students —
whether in the mining technician, diamond drilling or mineral processing streams — worried about the job market that awaits them.
Whether you're a
student or a recent college
graduate, our outcome driven process helps you get the job or internship you need to successfully launch your career.
At Reformation 21, Carl Trueman enters a debate over the purpose of Protestant seminaries — specifically,
whether they ought to make a point of actively sculpting the spiritual lives of their
students or
whether they should tend to the more mundane goals of imparting knowledge and certifying
graduates.
I was a
graduate student at Yale when I first heard words like these, and it made me want to delve deeper into the nexus of Harry and Christianity, to see
whether the books really were heretical.
While few of us who were seminarians and
graduate students in the late «50s and early 60s are still Barthians, many of us, were then, and
whether we stayed with Barth or, more commonly, departed from him, the in - depth exposure to his Church Dogmatics left its mark.
For teachers and
students, and for the
graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was
whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.
I remember after I published my first collection of essays, Vision and Virtue (1974), Richard Bondi, one of my first
graduate students, asked me
whether I was going to spend the rest of my life defending the position I had developed in that book.
She's fought on behalf of
students and recent
graduates suffering from crippling
student loan debt, and to change the debate in D.C. from a discussion over
whether to cut Social Security into one about how we can grow it.»
It retains the historic tax credit, which was used to restore the Hotel Syracuse, it no longer taxes the tuition waivers that some
graduate students use to pay for school and it allows taxpayers some flexibility on
whether they want to deduct their state income, sales or property taxes - capped at $ 10,000.
Most of the information was obtained because Rochester City School District joined a national registry tracking where
students go to college and
whether they
graduate.
Inquire as to
whether they will be accepting
graduate students in the coming year.
The
graduate students were asked
whether they agree with the statement, «I have a good work - life balance.»
The obvious conclusion of the study is that most
graduate students are open to a range of possible employment outcomes,
whether they're just beginning or further along in their training.
Whether it is at a
graduate student party, a job interview, or a holiday event at your child?s day care, we often describe ourselves to others by the type of work we do.
At the very least,
students could find out «
whether each department is meeting minimum standards as set forth by the Association of American Universities (and others) and
whether each
graduate student feels comfortable enough at the department to stick with the
graduate program and finish with a degree,» says
graduate student Susan Mahan - Nieber of Washington University in St. Louis.
In research published last year with one of her
graduate students, Katherine Motyl, she tested
whether leptin could help mice avert the bone loss that can accompany type 1 diabetes.
T o test
whether BA can protect fruit from D. suzukii, Ray and his
graduate student Christine Krause Pham conducted a series of experiments using two bowls of fresh, ripe blueberries — a preferred fruit of D. suzukii.
So this fall —
whether you're a new
graduate student, tackling the distinctive challenges that start in your second or third year, or even further along — take a few minutes to consider
whether a few seemingly trivial matters are quietly chipping away at your motivation.
Next he asked
whether, «based on their experience in teaching and supervising
graduate students, the collective bargaining agreement interfered with [their] ability to advise, teach, and so on.»
The show got its start in 1999 when Smith, then a
graduate student, was invited on a local radio show to explain how people could use materials from around the house to extract DNA from vegetables and test
whether they were genetically modified.
The competition calls for
graduate students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to submit proposals describing how they would improve
graduate education,
whether by overhauling
student and faculty training policies, modifying funding structure, bridging connections to professional societies, or changing the culture of
graduate school.
A newly published research study conducted by
graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined
whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.
GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict
students» future
graduate school productivity, but reference letters from previous research advisers may provide clues about
whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.
Allen and
graduate student Matthew Boisvert wondered
whether the changes to synapses and neuronal communication during aging might be related to changes in astrocytes.
To see
whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and
whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and
graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.
From a
student perspective, undergraduate research opportunities provide a safe, short - term way to gauge
whether the investment in
graduate school makes sense.
By that, he means that
graduate students should be given the opportunity to explore the values and expectations inherent to their specific fields and to consider
whether these are consistent or in conflict with broader social values.
Likewise, your proposal should highlight information indicating
whether your institution serves a
student body that would otherwise be unlikely to receive significant scientific training or
whether the
graduates of your institution frequently go on to study science at 4 - year colleges, or to scientific or technical careers.
«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and
whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a
graduate student working with Milliken.
Outcomes of training for all
graduate students and postdoctorates in relevant programs,
whether or not they are supported by the training grant.
Most of these reports have focused on undergraduates; it isn't known
whether these same trends are affecting
graduate students, but it probably is.
For the current study, Jessica Childs, a
graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine
whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.
«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about
whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D.
student in the biology department of Tufts University's
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.
In this online resource,
graduate students will find a checklist of questions that they can ask potential advisors,
whether they embark on careers in academia or industry.
One more skeptical voice came from
graduate student Juan Pablo Ruiz of Bethesda, who asked
whether NIH's abandonment of the GSI — which many young scientists supported — was a response to complaints from senior scientists.