Sentences with phrase «about high performing schools»

Set aside the ugly and inaccurate caricature that Kohn paints about high performing schools.

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Pope's book is about high school students who «do school,» gaming the system, cheating, getting by, and otherwise performing school without engaging in actual learning.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

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NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of EduSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Eduschools amid a diversification effort by the Department of Education.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efSchools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Tuesday offered only vague assurances to Upper West Side parents concerned about their high - performing kids being sent to failing middle schools amid a diversification efschools amid a diversification effort...

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz responds to questions about the Chancellor's Regulation C - 30 process («C - 30 process»)-- the Chancellor's official principal hiring process — underway at the prestigious Townsend Harris High School (Townsend Harris): «Townsend Harris is one of the city's top - ranking, high - performing schools and a source of tremendous pride here in Queens,» -LSB-High School (Townsend Harris): «Townsend Harris is one of the city's top - ranking, high - performing schools and a source of tremendous pride here in Queens,» -LSB-high - performing schools and a source of tremendous pride here in Queens,» -LSB-...]

SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

Following his dramas about competitive robot - building, competitive one - armed surfing, and semi-competitive high school performing arts, McNamara's The Miracle Season is a drama about competitive girls» volleyball, and how a championship high school team from Iowa worked to rebuild following the loss of their star player.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

What is different about educational leadership in higher performing schools outside of the US?

Contact: Adam Rabinowitz: 202-266-4724, [email protected] Jackie Kerstetter: 814-440-2299, [email protected], Education Next D.C.'s high - stakes teacher evaluations raise teacher quality, student achievement 90 % of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools July 27, 2017 — Though the Every Student Succeeds Act excludes any requirements for states about teacher evaluation policies, the results from a once - controversial high - stakes system -LSB-...]

Lulu Rivera, a junior at the Harvey Milk High School, performs a spoken - word piece about Hamilton's best friend, John Laurens, that he wrote based on the long, intimate letters the two wrote to each other.

On August 30, The 74 will release a new book by Richard Whitmire about America's high - performing public charter schools called The Founders.

Second, before coming to D.C., I had spent much of my career working with high - performing school systems serving disadvantaged populations; so I thought a lot about enabling excellence.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

The limited research on efforts to improve school choice systems also demonstrates that simplifying the information parents receive about their school choices increases the likelihood that parents will select a higher - performing school.

In the Winter 2011 issue of Ed Next, Mike Petrilli wrote about how one Montgomery County school is attempting to teach high - performing and low - performing students using the old curriculum.

There is significant disagreement about how to balance the goal of keeping (or weeding) out low - performing schools with the possibility that regulations will discourage high - performing schools from participating.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

The overarching emphasis on charter schools worried the faculty, especially Merseth, who recently wrote a book about high performing charter schools.

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.

NHRP scholars and their high schools are notified of their achievement, encouraged to use this recognition on college and job applications, and are included in a list of recipients that the College Board shares with about 200 competitive, four - year postsecondary institutions looking to actively recruit high - performing Hispanic students with targeted outreach and financial incentives.

Meanwhile a new report from the Manhattan Institute's Max Eden indicates that school climate, order, and student discipline has «deteriorated substantially» during de Blasio's term, almost certainly a result of shifting philosophies about school discipline, and a reluctance to suspend students — itself a response to the «no excuses» brand of schooling closely associated with high - performing charter schools.

Like high - poverty, high - performing schools, any school that enrolls students who live in poverty should seek to acquire as much understanding as possible about the life circumstances of their students.

Furthermore, our research shows that board members of higher - performing D.C. charter schools, when compared to those at lower - performing ones, are more knowledgeable about their schools (particularly relative to its performance rating, demographics, and financial outlook), and more apt to evaluate their leaders using staff satisfaction as a factor in doing so.

A characteristic of high performing schools is strong and effective leadership; but, what is it about leadership (at all levels in a school) that can move a school towards improvement and transformation?

Distributed leadership is about collective influence - it is not just some accidental by - product of high performing organisations but, as highlighted earlier, is a contributor to school success and improved performance (Hargreaves & Harris, 2010; Hargreaves, Boyle & Harris, 2014).

Learn what data from high - performing school systems around the world tells about best practices in education.

«Students routinely achieving their full potential, high performing schools becoming the new normal — Student Voice makes the compelling case that we can't get there from here without fundamentally changing the culture of schools to listen and act on what students say about their schools, their lives, and their aspirations.

Trent Sharp talks about his work with the Texas Comprehensive Center to examine the geographic and social factors that affect low performing schools and high performing Title one schools, which serve a large percentage of low - income students, throughout the state.

Texting parents about students» missing assignments produces similar achievement gains on test scores as those produced by high - performing charter schools.

But what I kept thinking about while reading wasn't rowing, but the high - performing schools that serve disadvantaged students that I've studied over the years.

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.

Richard Whitmire is the author of «The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District» and the forthcoming «On the Rocketship,» about high - performing charter schools.

Many state leaders are anxious about how their schools will perform against the new, higher Common Core standards.

That is, rather than relying exclusively on test scores to judge schools, BBA calls for the creation of an inspectorate, similar to that used in other countries with high - performing education systems, that is comprised of experienced educators, policymakers and scholars, to evaluate schools and make recommendations about how they might be improved.

While most central office administrators spoke about unevenness in the leadership strengths of their principals, leaders in higher - performing districts expressed greater confidence in their ability to improve the quality of school leadership through hiring practices, leadershipdevelopment programs, school placement, and supervision (see also Section 2.2 of this report on district contributions to principals «efficacy).

They spoke about the difficulty they face, however, in specifying and generating consensus for clear goals and plans for improvement in the learning of average and high - performing students and schools.

Over the last five years, our measures show the already high percentage of California charter schools that are high performing has increased modestly while the percentage of low - performing charter schools has dropped by about one - third.

We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one of our large, high - poverty, low - performing urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the problem.

What is disturbing about the PROSE expansion is that the schools selected are mostly high performing public schools.

On Twitter this week, we asked people to comment about what should be pursued through this application and former Colorado Senate President Peter Groff suggested, «continued integration of innovation and increasing access to high - performing schools.»

Rather, school leaders would do better to look to the high - performing programs and schools in their districts for lessons about what can work elsewhere.

LH: Let's talk about some of the features that distinguish high - performing schools from low - performing schools.

Match Workshops are designed for teachers, experienced or aspiring instructional coaches or school leaders who are looking to build new skills, acquire helpful tools and resources, and learn about key practices we have refined through our work running high - performing schools and training effective teachers.

Some charter advocates say the decreased funding could threaten the viability of these schools, which are among some of the highest performing in the city and enroll about 20 percent of city students.

The report found a significant gap between the highest and lowest performing students and recommended funding be increased by about $ 5 billion per year across all schooling sectors.

The finding, for instance, that grades and attendance were the two best predictors of how middle school students would perform in high school was based on the cohort of incoming high school freshmen in the fall of 2009 — about 20,000 students.

The Mind Trust today announced that it will award $ 50,000 grants to support leaders of high - performing schools within the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in developing plans to convert their schools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fschools within the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) in developing plans to convert their schools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fSchools (IPS) in developing plans to convert their schools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fschools into Innovation Network Schools, which empowers building - level educators to make key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fSchools, which empowers building - level educators to make key decisions about their schools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fschools and ensure schools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going fschools retain this autonomy that is critical to success going forward.