Sentences with phrase «even high performing schools»

Even high performing schools should not be afraid to make changes in the interests of better resource allocation.

Not exact matches

«The combination of a high cost of living, shortage of good jobs, lack of affordable housing and poor performing schools makes it hard for middle class families — and their children — to get ahead, or even hold their own,» she said.

«But even if you identify those high - performing schools, you still need to know what they are doing before you can adopt them elsewhere,» says Gamoran.

Tickets for two to see the Dobyns - Bennett High School Band and Orchestra perform an evening of Irish music at Carnegie Hall in honor of St. Patrick's Day.

Sutter, a senior who is the self - proclaimed life of every party, actively performs this nostalgia even as his high school memories are still forming.

But even a local ballot measure to sustain school funding in this, the highest - performing district in the state, failed last year when antitax advocates mobilized to oppose it.

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

Four Corners charter students do well on NAEP, even when compared to public school students in Massachusetts, the highest - performing state.

Within the first year of implementation, even before teachers had worked out all the kinks, Mesquite went from a «performing» school (as labeled by the state of Arizona) in 2002 to an «excelling» school, the highest ranking, in 2003.

He said: «I can think of youngsters, even at the highest - performing schools, who will find it a problem, I can think of youngsters who would have been better suited to do English, Maths and Science and a range of vocational subjects.»

Students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

And what if those high - performing schools were ready, willing, and able to enroll more students, maybe even double or triple in size?

As expected, the students in Word Generation schools learned more of the target words than students in comparison schools, even though the latter group performed at a higher level at the start.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

And it is even more amazing considering that some of the highest performing charter schools, like Roxbury Prep in Boston or KIPP Infinity in New York City, serve very disadvantaged students.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

In short, states with high - stakes and even low - stakes systems for schools performed significantly better on NAEP than states with no stakes at all.

But lower - scoring students in higher - performing schools experienced an even larger decline in later - life earnings.

Even though Massachusetts boasts the nation's highest - performing charter schools, their growth is stalled pending the results of a ballot initiative this November.

Moreover, even the highest - performing schools can not meet the needs of every single child.

Families were choosing low - performing schools over higher - performing schools — even when the high performers had room to spare.

This summer, a high - performing KIPP charter school in Annapolis, Maryland, was forced to close because it couldn't find a permanent facility, even though the school district, according to its own study, had 900 empty seats in a nearby, underutilized school.

An average of three quarters of students feel they belong at school, and in some of the highest performing education systems, including Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Finland, Korea, Estonia and Singapore that share is even higher.

Even in high - performing schools, this problem is an ongoing concern.

There are at least three plausible hypotheses about a closure's potential impact on outcomes for these students: that they would do better, because a closure eliminates their weakest educational option; that their outcomes would be the same, because they would likely transfer to a similarly low - performing school nearby; or that their outcomes would be the same or worse, because even if they transferred to higher - performing schools, the schools may not be well - suited to meet their needs.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Several other schools perform higher, but have the advantage of starting with students in middle school or even elementary school.

Earlier this month, the DOE was patting itself on the back and calling its test prep initiative a success — even though it enrolled 200 fewer students than initially intended, and not a single one of those students has yet to take the Specialized High - School Admissions Test (SHSAT), much less score highly enough to be offered a seat at one of the city's top performing schools.

And we have people like Andre Agassi, who's a high school dropout, creating a charter chain, even though his own Andre Agassi School is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of Nschool dropout, creating a charter chain, even though his own Andre Agassi School is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of NSchool is one of the lowest - performing schools in the state of Nevada.

I would enroll my child in a well - funded, high - performing school, even if that school was outside the boundaries of where I live.

Studies seem to bear this out: Children of high SES parents do well in school, even when they are in an overall «poorly performing» school, and children of low SES parents often do poorly in school, even when they are in an overal «high performing» school.

Parents are still choosing charter schools and demand is high, but we are seeing that in some «high - choice» cities even high - performing charter schools are having a hard time attracting parents away from their default neighborhood school.

For its lowest - performing schools, states should take even stronger action, such as requiring the curriculum to be submitted to the state for review, sending teams to observe instruction and provide coaching (per Regenstein's inspectorate), developing a model curriculum (or placing online the curricula of high - performing schools), and / or offering professional development and courses to increase teachers» knowledge of the domains they should be teaching.

Hillel Aron of L.A. Weekly wrote about the efforts of a former LA Unified board member, Bennett Kayser, to turn down charter school applications at every opportunity or even close down high - performing schools.

It even gave to the Jesuits» Cristo - Rey, a purely private network of high - performing schools for disadvantaged students.

This evaluation explores how high performing teachers become even better, drive school improvement and use evidence to improve their practice.

Even among a host of high - performing programs, the KIPP chain of charter schools stands out.

How can high performing teachers become even better and drive school improvement?

Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of the high performing school systems around the world.

For many years, the School District of Philadelphia, anti-charter groups, and even high performing charter schools, demanded that charters be held accountable for student achievement.

But even a child lucky enough to score a lottery seat in a top elementary gifted, unzoned or charter school still has to navigate a labyrinth of different applications, interviews, portfolio reviews, auditions, tests and Open House visits to score a seat at a Specialized or Screened or Performing Arts or Limited Unscreened or Ed - Opt or P - Tech or Honors Program High - Sschool still has to navigate a labyrinth of different applications, interviews, portfolio reviews, auditions, tests and Open House visits to score a seat at a Specialized or Screened or Performing Arts or Limited Unscreened or Ed - Opt or P - Tech or Honors Program High - SchoolSchool.

«What we've been trying to do in these studies is, firstly, to show that even among very high performing students, sleep restriction to five hours in bed over multiple nights - simulating a school week - can degrade performance.

The Marlboro Township Public Schools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them eSchools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them eschools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them engaged.

Fordham even implicitly shows how its testing approach will eventually impact non-voucher private school students: «[i] f a private school's voucher students perform in the two lowest categories of a state's accountability system for two consecutive years, then that school should be declared ineligible to receive new voucher students until it moves to a higher tier of performance (emphasis added).»

This is particularly true in states such as Indiana and Florida that have implemented A-to-F grading systems that essentially allow schools proclaim they are high - performing even when they have wide achievement gaps.

However, even the highest - performing schools might not be the best fit for every child who happens to be assigned there.

Even in higher performing suburban schools, business leaders see too many students without the necessary skills.