The errors affected 4, 735 children, or 13.2% of test takers, who are now eligible for gifted programs, including 2, 037 students who are newly eligible for elite schools that accept students from across the city who scored in the 97th percentile or above.
The third consequence of increased competition for places in elite schools has been the displacement of local pupils by foreign ones.
Higher pay for teachers at elite pre-schools filter down to upward wage pressure for teachers elsewhere.
Initially, the city said fewer students qualified for the elite, citywide schools.
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After The Economist had gone to press, Business Week unveiled its biennial rankings in an online countdown, prolonging the agony for 30 American and ten non-American elite schools.
The news comes as league tables reveal hundreds of schools failed to produce pupils suitable for elite universities.
Online education is getting a lot of attention as many elite schools are opening up their classrooms for the world to access what, for a long time, had been reserved for a fortunate few.
Many business schools, including elite schools, have been offering courses online for several years.
As competition has intensified for slots at the city's elite public and private schools, a growing number of parents are pursuing both options, anxious to secure a top education for their children.
For-profit schools portray themselves as being sophisticated with an elite team to help you gain that college degree you have always wanted in a little over a year.
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Many elite schools admitted a record-low percentage of students for the coming fall.
A., some have degrees from weaker schools and want to attend an elite management program for the "brand-name experience, " says Stanford's Mr. Bandarkar.
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Is it better to create more charter schools, or vouchers for private schools, or special programs to push along the more elite students, and their more involved parents?
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Although communications technology may have made a dent in the productivity edge of elite schools, productivity is hardly the only measure of success for a university.
Now, if your super brilliant, earth-shattering kid prefers having daily opportunities for access to, attention by and interactions with professors, elite liberal arts schools and a unique elite university like Princeton are hard to beat.
Where schools can succeed is worrying less about wins and losses, and about competing with club teams for elite athletes, and promoting sports as what they should be: a chance for students to proudly represent their school.
Taking full advantage of the exemption (found in Section 568 of a 1994 law), Yale, MIT and other elite schools now gather as the 568 Presidents' Working Group to agree on a "consensus" method for calculating need.
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