Like most of our peers, we use financial aid to attract the best and most compelling students possible, regardless of financial need.
Mr. Levy has urged the State Legislature to pass a law compelling students to attend summer school, but passage is unlikely, given the potentially enormous cost and the likely resistance from teachers' unions and parents.
There are reported instances of teachers compelling students to come for private tuition (Tarek 2017).
In addition to the inherent human value of doing productive work, the outcomes of vocational education in Central Europe are compelling: students are paid in their apprenticeships and receive ample guidance on meeting the transition to adulthood, productive careers, and a place in civil society.
Its highly competitive two-year undergraduate offer is looking increasingly compelling for students seeking to minimise the impact of higher tuition fees.
But are these sorts of illustrations the most compelling to students?
In addition, instructors can incorporate examples of practical applications of phylogenetic reasoning that are compelling to students and relevant to their lives and basic social issues.
As described above, evolutionary arms races may be both intuitive and compelling to students, and so provide a good introduction to the topic of coevolution.
The most extreme example of mutual adaptation through endosymbiosis is likely to be compelling to students because it shows how they (and, in fact, all eukaryotes) are the result of ancient coevolutionary events.
More generally, DBER and related research provide compelling evidence that student-centered instructional strategies can positively influence students' learning, achievement and knowledge retention, as compared with traditional instructional methods, such as lecture.
