Sentences with phrase «with graduation requirements»

Provided guidance in planning current and future class schedules along with graduation requirements.

Later, Tracy informs new principal of recent issues with graduation requirements and asks the new principal to look into the issue.

Thus, students from both of those states, arriving as high school seniors in a state with graduation requirements, posed problems for local administrators.

The new Regulatory Task Force on Academic Policy, which is being led by Phil Weinberg, the deputy chancellor for teaching and learning, will report twice a year on how closely schools are complying with graduation requirements.

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Be able to meet the graduation requirements of the program, which include meeting with your mentor five to seven times, attending five events, and committing to the volunteer committee you were selected for

It took very careful planning along with some pleading to professors and luck to end up with the classes she needed to meet her graduation requirements — and she needs to do the same in spring to complete her major.

The individual graduation plan determines the credits previously earned and the New Legacy graduation requirements and aligns them with two - or four - year college entrance requirements.

«With the approval of these assessments, New York State is leading the way in new, innovative pathways that not only preserve our robust graduation requirements but also offer students rigorous alternatives that will keep them engaged in learning and result in more career prospects,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

«The rules adopted today by the Board of Regents maintain the rigor of our graduation requirements, while providing a new mechanism for students with disabilities to demonstrate they've met the State's graduation standards.»

With the state making graduation requirements more rigorous, this is not the time to cut.»

In addition, as the first class with a capstone project graduation requirement, they will receive enhanced training in leadership and have the opportunity to demonstrate their impact in medicine through one of eight scholarly concentrations, called Paths of Excellence.

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«With XQ, Emerson took on a big, tough challenge, laden with a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competitWith XQ, Emerson took on a big, tough challenge, laden with a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competitwith a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competitwith them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competition.

Those efforts generally fall into three categories: forming commissions, improving the collection of data, and the hands - down favorite, changing high school core curricula and / or graduation requirements to more closely align with four - year public colleges» entrance requirements.

Through these projects, the students helped younger students with their schoolwork, enabled workers in their community to claim tax refunds, and taught fellow students about the SAT, graduation requirements, and community - service opportunities.

I'm convinced that much of the modest success we've enjoyed has been tied to the adoption of a statewide graduation requirement based on our 10th - grade MCAS test (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), beginning with the class of 2003, not the result of a national standard or ethic.

An internal email obtained by WAMU and NPR from April shows two months before graduation, only 57 students were on track to graduate, with dozens of students missing graduation or service requirements or failing classes needed to graduate.

Chemistry seems to inspire a D mentality: A significant number of students just want to pass the class to meet their graduation requirement, and do it with as little effort as possible.

Those factors are missing with many community - service graduation requirements.»

As a remedy, it provides «college and workplace readiness benchmarks» designed to help states align their high - school assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of credit - bearing college courses and quality jobs.

While 75 percent of the principals from 1,960 randomly selected high schools reported last summer that they were familiar with the new ncaa requirements, only 12.6 percent said they had attempted to inform parents of the requirements, and only 11.5 percent said they had changed graduation requirements or made other moves to make sure their...

That decision by the state board of education, made Jan. 12, comes as a growing number of states are grappling with whether to hold firm on high school graduation requirements even as many students fail to pass graduation exams.

Similarly, in Revolution at the Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated with contempt.

The bill required teacher preparation programs to report data on their candidates (and share this information with their university), use higher cut scores on standardized tests for entry, and add portfolio - based assessments as graduation requirements, among other reforms.

However, a key assumption here is that, after controlling for observable student and school characteristics, the students attending high schools with fewer graduation requirements are identical to those attending high schools with more graduation requirements.

As with high - stakes tests for 3rd graders, Americans come out strongly in favor of graduation requirements.

This step will involve codevelopment of courses with our other educational partner, South Seattle Community College; creation of an internship program in which students learn workplace skills in aviation and aerospace industries; and development of a senior project and a portfolio graduation requirement.

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob, for example, report that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects in states with more difficult examinations, and with effects concentrated among black students and among students in districts with large percentages of students of color.

Along with the new standards was a graduation requirement for students, starting with the Class of 2017, to pass subject - specific state tests in Algebra I, biology and literature called Keystone Exams to earn a diploma.

Mobilizing employers and business leaders to insist that states align high school standards, assessments and graduation requirements with the demands of postsecondary education and work and show graduates that achievement matters by using high school transcripts and exit test results in making hiring decisions.

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

Washington and Maryland require high schools, at the beginning of each school year, to provide students and parents with a copy of the graduation requirements.

Urban school districts must focus on how to enable all students to meet graduation requirements and make them ready for postsecondary education, which is essential to qualify for employment with decent wages.

One reason is that a large percentage of the economically disadvantaged students most affected by the more stringent graduation requirements enter school with weak cognitive and socioemotional skills, which tend to trail them throughout their school careers.

One study found that exit exam requirements reduced high school graduation rates by about 2 percentage points, with larger effects concentrated among black students.

For example, states with high - stakes high - school graduation requirements must find effective ways to intervene in high schools with high failure and / or dropout rates, even if the percentage of students passing the test increases significantly each year.

Michigan jumped in first with an online - learning requirement for graduation 5 years ago, and Alabama quickly followed suit.

The New York board of regents last week swept out the state competency tests as a graduation requirement and replaced them with the tougher regents» exams traditionally geared to the state's college - bound students.

The article looks at alternatives to standardized tests as high school graduation requirements, profiling the East Side Community High School in New York City which has replaced standardized tests with a combination of projects and oral presentations which it considers more authentic as assessments.

Dr. Tammy Guzzetta, principal of Moreno Valley Online Academy, works closely with a team of five instructors and students» parents to ensure students meet necessary requirements to stay on track for graduation.

Passing the new PARCC state tests in language arts and math will be one of three options high school students can use to meet the state requirement for graduation during the three - year transition period starting with the Class of 2016.

These challenges stem from individual responses: some students need to work at an individualized pace, some need a hybrid arrangement where they can attend in - person electives combined with lab - based core requirement work and others require credit recovery to fulfill their graduation requirements.

Education reform in the trenches: Increased academic course taking in high schools with lower achieving students in states with higher graduation requirements.

The Kentucky Board of Education kicked off its examination of the state's graduation requirements at its regular meeting April 11 with a national overview of what other states are doing to ensure their high school graduates can successfully transition to careers and college.

The article begins with a discussion of national reform movements that have influenced math instruction (i.e., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards, minimum competency testing, graduation requirements, inclusion).

Finally, the Committee supports high school graduation requirements that ensure all students graduate with exposure to the full range of Kentucky's higher academic standards and with experiences that put them on a strong path toward success in college and careers.

Noting that the previous change to loosen requirements for students with disabilities was made last year, Mr. Sigmund continued, «Removing another graduation requirement, demonstrating a minimum score on ELA and Math Regents exams, so soon after the last change is the wrong direction.»

Here are Zimmer's comments on the district's online credit recovery program, administered by companies including Edgenuity, which has been scrutinized for its rigor amid the district's recent announcement that its graduation has reached a record 75 percent even as the bar has been raised with the requirement that students pass the A through G, the course criteria established by UC faculty.