On campus, I watched the well-fed, sane, secure, shiny-haired, and leather-belted students pass me by.
So, anyone up for making high school students pass a civic literacy test before being allowed to graduate?
When any of my students pass by a computer they jump on it.
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Many millions of students pass through American public education and are perfectly well served, ready to go compete in that global marketplace I keep reading about.
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It doesn't advertise, and admits only students who pass an audition in front of a panel of accomplished magicians.
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In Rio de Janeiro's state universities, 20% of places are set aside for black students who pass the entrance exam.
Alternately, we could encourage the university system to be more responsive to market forces by creating a no-frills, federal degree-granting body that awards certificates to students who pass exams in a given subject.
The universities, including Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Arkansas system, are hoping that students who pass the free MOOCs will then enroll in the schools and pay tuition to earn a degree.
According to my confidential source, the reason is that New York state has steadily lowered the difficulty of its signature Regents Exams, a battery of standardized tests that most non-disabled New York students must pass before accruing a state-certified high school diploma.
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Mr Prabhakaran himself is said to set demanding standards for the number of students who must pass state exams.
States must set annual targets for the share of students who must pass the state exams until 100% are passing in 2014.
The crash occurred minutes before students and parents typically pass through on their way to a nearby elementary school.
At Maria's school, half the students don't pass Arizona's proficiency exams, which means they don't meet the bar for basic knowledge in math, reading and science.
In the blueprint for secondary education in England, published on Monday, students will have to pass tests in three "core" skills needed for the workplace - literacy, maths and information and communications technology.
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It also suggested that some students were being drilled to pass exams rather than understand mathematical concepts.
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commemorates events on 21 March 1960, in Sharpeville, South Africa, when police opened fire and killed young students peacefully demonstrating against the apartheid "pass laws".
Recent budget issues have raised the spectre of fare hikes, but Trimet provides free transit to all high school students in the Portland Public School District, while other students receive a reduced-fare Youth Pass.
Fortunately, in a development that Keeping Pace reports on but is not highlighted in the eSchool News article, Idaho did pass a measure that allows students to earn credit by demonstrating subject mastery instead of only being allowed to earn credit through seat time.
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Teachers can sign up for individual Schoology subscriptions, and pass along access codes to their students, for free.
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Two years ago, Yesh founded the JGI Ideas program in Bangalore to help pass that lesson on to other students.
Then Bendersky and Shah waited for the ten-week academic quarter to pass and went back to the students to ask them how their team members had done.
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School officials in Los Angeles, for example, relaxed a policy that would have required students to repeat certain grades if they failed to pass end-of-year tests.
Students must complete five years of a foreign language, pass six sets of exams and write a 4, 000-word essay.
And before students will be awarded credit, they will have to pass a test to prove they have mastered the material.
Their problem is not education: they make up a majority of those who pass the Abitur as well as of university students.
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They even want to impose a tax penalty on the parents of students who register to vote at their North Carolina college addresses, and pass the most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law in the country.
Although we would like to believe that all undergraduate students are rigorous seekers of knowledge, the job that many college students are really trying to get done, from our observation, is to pass their courses without having to read the textbook at all.
Enrolled Penn students who complete the online option can take a departmental exam to prove their knowledge and pass into higher-level math classes, just as they can after finishing an AP class.
It is better to punish actual offenders than to pass an overly presumptuous law that restricts and discredits the valuable influence that teachers have on students.
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