Sentences with phrase «immersion magnet program»

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

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In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Our eagerness to leave the school was ironic, given that Rock Creek Forest is a «magnet school,» designed to attract students throughout the country to its much - touted Spanish - immersion program.

This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping Latino and other children from immigrant households improve their English fluency.

The seven goals included a 24 percent increase in school pathways such as magnets, dual - language immersion and Linked Learning programs; a 30 percent decrease in chronic absenteeism; and 100 percent access to quality art instruction, a parent computer program and restorative justice practices.

It is a Title I Learning Immersion and Talent Development magnet program.

Creating thematic magnet programs in every elementary school — mathematics and science, Spanish - language immersion, and visual and performing arts, among them;