In that case it should select high-ability workers with an absolute advantage over low-ability ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Eugenics Goes Wrong: The Implications of Comparative Advantage, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

"I will perceive the Danish and Swedish systems to be extremely oppressive of high-ability and materialistic people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Denmark and Sweden: What I'm Expecting, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Low-ability students scored the same or lower following the reforms; high-ability students showed mixed gains at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Students in the middle of the distribution in both groups made greater gains in reading and math than did either low- or high-ability students.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

In the signalling model of education, first proposed my Michael Spence, high-ability individuals get an education because it's less costly for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too many smart people?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

According to the college, the plan is designed for high-ability, highly motivated students who wish to save money or to move along more rapidly toward advanced degrees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three-Year Solution] Reference

DeLisi, “Gender differences in Scholastic Aptitude Test–Mathematics problem solving among high-ability students,” Journal of Educational Psychology, 86 1994, 204–11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choke] Reference

Immigration should be expanded to draw in more foreign workers with various skills, especially high-ability professionals who would stay in Japan longer and contribute to growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blueprint for Reforming Japan] Reference

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the University of South Carolina in Columbia are among a growing number of schools offering scholarships to high-ability out-of-state students.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Are out-of-state students crowding out in-staters?] Reference

Failure to do so, once backed up with "fact", becomes a case of outright favoritism towards a very small number of students (as opposed to current high-ability programs which are for a small, but educationally significant number of students) in the face of irrefutable logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Space is still available for high-ability students.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"It (the current facility) hurt our ability to recruit that high-ability athlete," Drass said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles] Reference

With huge high school pools to choose among, most have more than enough high-ability applicants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cincinnati.Com - All Local News] Reference

Similiarly, they said, scores rose for high-ability students tracked into single-period classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education Week American Education News Site of Record] Reference

She's a class leader at Clinton Elementary, tutors peers, breezes through her high-ability classes.    From Wordnik.com.  [JournalStar.com - News Articles] Reference

Our district faces debilitating funding cuts, but grouping high-ability students together requires no additional funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madison.com - top] Reference

They include the expansion of high-ability programs, the creation of magnet schools or the closure or redistricting of an underutilized school.    From Wordnik.com.  [pal-item.com - Local News] Reference

Other ideas include the creation of magnet schools, or specialized schools of instruction, along with expanding programs for high-ability students.    From Wordnik.com.  [pal-item.com - Local News] Reference

The Raikes School has for seven years provided provided a unique blended curriculum of computer science and business management for high-ability students.    From Wordnik.com.  [JournalStar.com - News Articles] Reference

When high-ability students are given the same material as their struggling peers, their primary function becomes helping other students rather than pushing their own limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicle] Reference

If the board votes yes on Bourff's proposal, more students will be able to take advantage of Test Middle School's LOGOS lab, a high-ability program that currently serves a limited number of students.    From Wordnik.com.  [pal-item.com - Local News] Reference

School officials seek a thumbs up to expand RCS 'high-ability programming, develop an early-college program, add preschools, redistrict Starr Elementary School and reduce the scope of Discovery School.    From Wordnik.com.  [pal-item.com - Local News] Reference

Furthermore, if the high average scores attract more high-ability applicants, this will push the scores higher still in a self-fuelling cycle, which has nothing to do with the quality of teaching in that school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Club Troppo] Reference

4. I will perceive the Danish and Swedish systems to be extremely oppressive of high-ability and materialistic people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denmark and Sweden: What I'm Expecting, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

"Real Education" forcefully argues that we are not merely wasting large amounts of money, we are not merely ignoring the reality of what social science has to teach us about education, we are not merely doing poorly at preparing our children for the future, but we are also making both low-ability and high-ability children unhappy (miserable, inconsolate) by pretending that the former can be force fed intelligence while ignoring the latter's insatiable need for guided knowledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL] Reference

Large group Instruction Disadvantages Teachers must provide more instruction Instructional pace fast for low-ability students Questions may go unanswered Instructional pace slow for high-ability students Students may not receive intensive instruction Distractible students may remain off-task Hard to deal with diverse abilities and skills Behavioral problems may arise from frustration Students are required to do more seatwork Teachers must do more planning large group instruction Guidelines for Use signals to avoid surprise call-ons Use Ask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

He's a high-ability guy. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnipeg Sun] Reference