Sentences with phrase «dcps traditional high schools»

Director Zack Conkle begins the documentary in the classroom of Jeffrey Wright, his former physics teacher at Louisville's Male Traditional High School (now co-ed).

The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.

It serves 12 to 25 students who were not succeeding in the traditional high school setting, said Diane Walery, the lead teacher.

If a traditional high school is not an option for some reason, consider online courses or home schooling.

«Athletic Trainers no longer work in only the traditional high school, college and professional settings.

The councilman announced his plans to increase traffic safety, remove trash, lessen pollution and fight against plans to close traditional high schools like Long Island City HS.

Explosiveness is very noticeable, but extremely difficult to train and incorporate into a traditional high school strength program.

This certainly looks like a more female take on the traditional high school gun tragedy — compared to, say, Gus van Sant's Elephant.

In the community, you'll sometimes hear that this is the school for the bad kids, because they're the kids who were not successful at the traditional high school.

At Black Rock, despite the long odds, this appears to be working: Last year, 55 students who hadn't succeeded at traditional high schools graduated, with 43 enrolling in community college and 12 joining the military.

Viland: At a traditional high school, you're stuck there from September to January and January to June for the typical quarter or semester program.

These qualities, he says, can also be fostered at traditional high schools and colleges though this will require deep changes to the ways that many institutions approach their missions.

Graduates of career - themed high schools that emphasized the connection between school and getting a good job earned 11 percent more per year, on average, than graduates of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et al., 2010).

(p. 22) On later earnings they find: «Charter high school attendance is associated with an increase in maximum annual earnings for students between ages 23 and 25 of $ 2,347 — or about 12.7 percent higher earnings than for comparable students who attended a charter middle school but matriculated to a traditional high school.»

As principal of a traditional high school, he dealt with fights every day; at Innovations, there have been none.

Schools with a STEM focus or university affiliations, for example, offer courses that few traditional high schools provide — such as Human Infectious Diseases, Chemical Pharmacology, and Vector Calculus.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

They know which courses they need to complete in order to either graduate or transition back to the traditional high school, and they know the deadlines they need to meet in order to reach those goals.

With roughly 30 percent of American students dropping out before receiving a diploma — a rate that has been stable for several decades — assessing existing alternatives to the traditional high school is an urgent task.

Accustomed to dealing with hundreds of kids in a traditional high school setting, Boston - area refugee Brennan admits she was nervous in 2005 when she began instructing at Build SF.

«It had to end,» she says, adding that her daughter was beaten down by a traditional high school that had no tools for accommodating Yuki's learning style, which tends toward hands - on learning rather than memorization.

Equity is a big driver for Resnick, who says he wants Powderhouse to reflect the current socioeconomic diversity of Somerville's traditional high school.

We're generally averse to «tracking» (deciding early in secondary education who's right for college and who's right for work), so our state policies generally view CTE as an «add on» to, not a replacement for, a traditional high school education.

This is especially true with adolescent English - language learners, who often can not attain academic proficiency in English by the age of a traditional high school graduate.

«Americans have a love affair with the traditional high school,» says Housman.

On Top of the News Virginia Governor Moves to Upend Traditional High School The Washington Post 5/12/16

«The traditional high school was set up to meet diverse needs by sorting students into different curricular paths — many of which did not lead to college prep.

«The expectation that everyone should be aiming for a postsecondary credential of some sort is not hardwired into the traditional high school,» he says.

«What is tricky to do is to figure out how to change the typically traditional high school model of educating students into the proposed model that incorporates academics and a new skill set,» he says.

Time: From rethinking how we structure the school day to the notion that high school should be completed within four years, most small - school pioneers are finding that traditional high school schedules don't provide the time or space for creative teaching and learning.

We wouldn't necessarily expect CTE students to show as much academic progress as their peers in traditional high schools because they are spending less of their time on academics!

Traditional high schools did not lose funds when students opted to take classes with FLVS.

Rather than become a diploma - granting institution and directly compete with traditional high schools, FLVS chose to supplement the brick - and - mortar high school.

Because I had recently lived through traditional high school and college instruction, I knew there had to be a different way — a better way.

«The premise is on working to transform traditional high schools to globally recognized models for innovative practices while also increasing achievement,» Sheninger told the audience.

The students in Kettle Moraine's traditional high school performed as well as students in Canada, Finland, and European countries that are highly regarded, and charter school students» performance has been in the same league as Singapore, which came in as the second highest - scoring among the countries taking the test, but «with a learning engagement that's off the charts,» she says.

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Consultants like Colby have been hired to lead wholesale change at some larger traditional high schools — among them Kingston's Sanborn Regional High School and Rochester's Spaulding High School — that may find coordinating change more unwieldy.

As long as the online high school is accredited, the credits should be able to transfer to a traditional high school.

A related study found this is better achieved in small high schools — including charter and site - run pilot schools in L.A. — compared with the more fragmented social organization of large and traditional high schools.

And even though half the early college high schools claimed to have a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) focus, the high school math scores of the early college students were no different than the math scores of the traditional high school students.

Women were also more likely to enroll in college afterward, but the difference between their counterparts at traditional high schools was only 6 percentage points.

Yes, upon graduation, DREAM graduates receive a traditional high school diploma before continuing on their life's journey.

Eighteen percent of the early college high school graduates who enrolled in college needed to take remedial classes (versus 22 % of the students who went to traditional high schools).

Sometimes students study online for a semester or two to get back on track before re-enrolling in a traditional high school.

With special permission, many traditional high schools will allow local students to participate in specific activities while continuing their studies elsewhere.

There, about 73 % of charter school seniors graduated in 2008, compared with 68 % of seniors in traditional high schools.

So one - fifth of the data for the Early College students comes from students who went to traditional high schools and I can't help but wonder how that muddies the results.)

Falls Career High School, instituted 14 years ago, serves grade nine - through - twelve students who don't fit the traditional high school mold.

Sometimes credits don't transfer because the traditional high school has different graduation requirements than the online school.