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  2. Social promotion - Wikipedia

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    Since middle school students tend to value education more, [citation needed] retention should be used when they are judged not to have adequate skills before entering high school. It is also argued that social promotion, by preventing elementary students from advancing at their own pace, is a key reason why they do not take their education ...

  3. Statistics education - Wikipedia

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    Statistics educators have cognitive and noncognitive goals for students. For example, former American Statistical Association (ASA) President Katherine Wallman defined statistical literacy as including the cognitive abilities of understanding and critically evaluating statistical results as well as appreciating the contributions statistical thinking can make.

  4. Statistical literacy - Wikipedia

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    For example, many official statistical agencies such as Statistics Canada and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have programs to educate students in schools about the nature of statistics. A project [ 6 ] of the International Statistical Institute is the only international organization whose focus is to promote national programs and drives to ...

  5. High School and Beyond - Wikipedia

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    Logo. High School and Beyond (HS&B) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of people who were high school sophomores and seniors in 1980.The study was originally funded by the United States Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as a part of their Secondary Longitudinal Studies Program.

  6. Post Secondary Transition for High School Students with ...

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    One of the consequences, then, is an urgency to help students with disabilities make the most of the time they are in high school, while some funding, at least, is available, to prepare for post high school life. Before leaving high school, parents have to sit down with their child's IEP team and make life decisions that will be supported by ...

  7. Gap year - Wikipedia

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    A gap year is described as “a semester or year of experiential learning, typically taken after high school, and prior to career or post-secondary education, in order to deepen one’s practical, professional, and personal awareness.” [6] During this time, students engage in various educational, work-related, and developmental activities [7] such as internships, work experience, travel ...

  8. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Expository essays are often assigned as a part of SAT and other standardized testing or as homework for high school and college students. Descriptive Determining the purpose, considering the audience, creating a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the description are the rhetorical choices to consider when using a ...

  9. Economic evaluation of time - Wikipedia

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    The idea that time can be evaluated in monetary terms was first introduced by Benjamin Franklin in his 1748 essay Advice to a Young Tradesman. His famous adage 'time is money', that appeared in this essay, was intended to convey that wasting time in frivolous pursuits results in lost money. [10] He believed that wasting time wasted money in two ...