The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.
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The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.
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The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.
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The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
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Students apply to the program directly through their schools.
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Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.
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Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.
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Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
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One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.
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Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.
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Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.
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Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.
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Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.
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Many schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.
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Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.
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Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.
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In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.
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In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.
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Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.
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Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.
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Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.
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Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.
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Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
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Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.
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71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.
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When I was in high school, dozens in my class alone would have answered differently.
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The gold standard study by Harvard and Columbia University scholars found that even in high-poverty schools, teachers consistently had a huge positive or negative impact.
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The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350,000 children.
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That's why school reform is so critical.
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Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.
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Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.
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Many inner-city school teachers are not equal to their jobs.
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It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.
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Give constructive advice to inner-city schools.
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Get a teacher from the top 20%, and it's as if a child has gone to school for an extra month or two.
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Get a bottom 1% teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40% of the school year.
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Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).
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Assist the city government in reforming schools.
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This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.
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Their risky behaviors—drinking too much alcohol, using illegal drugs, smoking cigarettes and skipping school—can alert parents and teachers that serious problems are brewing.
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Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.
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What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.
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To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students— young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.
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They typically carry financial burdens that outweigh those of their peers, are more likely to work while attending school, and often require significant academic remediation ( ' , 补习 ).
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There wasn't really a college-bound culture at my high school,she said.
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There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support, he said, half-joking about the countless resources available at the school.
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That helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubinoff indicated, the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them.
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So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
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School education.
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Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.
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Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.
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Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.
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Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Jones became involved with a college-access program through Princeton University in high school.
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It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.
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It is actually quite difficult to find reliable statistics on the issue for many schools.
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Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.
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Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools.
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Imagine how intimidating it be for prospective students unfamiliar with the complexities of higher education to navigate this kind of information and then identify which schools are the best fit.
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If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.
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I'm First distributes information to help first-generation college-goers find schools that are most suitable for them.
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Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
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From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
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Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.
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College graduates will still fare better than those with only s high school education, of course.
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Birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together.
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As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar, cheaper options year after year.
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And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.
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A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.
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0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.
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While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.
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Some U.S. schoolsacknowledge the rigor of European secondary training, and will give up a year’s credit to foreigners who have passed their high school exams.
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\middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives,\ said Loh.
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\There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support,\ he said, half-joking about the countless resources available at the school.
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\There wasn't really a college-bound culture at my high school,\ she said.
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\You hear that you shouldn't take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it's bad for you, and we're not living in the present moment,\ says Kristin Dehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall Schoo
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A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn't mean elementary education isn't important.
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According to a report from the Harvard School of Public Health, many everyday products, including some bug sprays and cleaning fluids, could lead to an increased risk of brain and behavioral disorders in children.
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and some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.
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As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar,cheaper options year after year.
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As a high school junior, everything in my life revolved around getting into the right college.
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At the end of his first year, Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $5,000 after narrowly missing the 2.0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school.
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birds flock together, fish school together, cattle herd together...just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.
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But the good news is that, Moffitt says, self-control can be taught by parents, and through school curricula that have been proved to be effective.
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But you needn't attend an Ivy League school to reap those rewards.
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Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.
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College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course.
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Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish (拉帮结派的) environment of high school.
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For my senior collection at fashion design school, I decided to try and 3D print an entire fashion collection from my home.
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given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
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Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always \on,\they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.
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I know it's the end of high school, but many of my classmates are going on to the same university and we are still required to study hard, so what's the difference?
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In 2012, Kaggle challenged its community to build a program that could grade high school essays.
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In fact, almost every interview I've ever had was due to a connection—one that I've gained through pure determination, not a school brand.
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In fact, lower-tier school alumni networks are arguably stronger, because fellow alumni recognize that you didn't necessarily have an easy path to follow.
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In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.
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It didn't have to be the Ivy League, but it needed to be a \top school\.
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It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.
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like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Lower reading achievement scores and grades in fifth grade contributed to reduced grades in middle school and thereby contributed to a 40% lower high school graduation rate.
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