Sentences with phrase «at traditional high schools did»

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Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

We didn't think we could get the attention of (much less have an impact on) traditional schools without proving that low - income kids could be served at a scale akin to a district and achieve at high levels.

Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

Staff at the college started with the idea of a traditional school garden typically aimed at a lower year level and imagined a redesign more like a laboratory for a senior cohort; a higher standard facility where students can do research, capture data and make use of technology.

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

Our work isn't done until every parent in Mississippi has a range of high - quality education options and the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

Both charter schools and traditional schools gained students.The school system, as Ms. Henderson acknowledged last week, still has a long way to go: Unacceptably high numbers of students remain unable to read or do math at grade level.

The following year, however, the city's Independent Budget Office released another report that overturned the previous report's findings, indicating that children with disabilities stayed at charter schools at a slightly higher rate than they did at traditional public schools.

Their report found that, on average, charter school students in New York City tend to stay at their schools at a higher rate than do students at nearby traditional district schools.

Their students may be doing better than traditional public school students, but they're still dropping out of college at alarmingly high rates, and earning low wages.

Just really looking at a very different model that's far more transitional to adulthood than walking out of a traditional high school and then being expected to go to college or into the workforce or gap years or whatever kids do, and be ready to do that.

The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.

I want charters to perform at way higher standards than traditional public schools... and thankfully most do.

Critics, including leaders at Education Minnesota and some of the state's traditional teacher colleges, argue the opposite, insisting that schools staffed by alternative license holders do not post higher test scores.

Some have criticized the charter sector for not doing enough to serve children who are at - risk, pointing to the fact that, as compared to the traditional public school sector, fewer charter schools have high concentrations of at - risk students.

Students didn't like the traditional textbook - and - worksheet - centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada's Ottawa Catholic School Board's (OCSB) high schools.

The majority of my students have come from traditional high school settings that did not work best for them for some reason, but here, at Catapult Learning, I am able to teach in an alternative learning environment specific to each student.

Since we were trying to amass money to do something significant, the traditional school of thinking would have been to talk about product quality; you know, talk about the fact that all the beans are grown at a high elevation on the flanks of volcanoes usually 10 degrees north or south of the equator, and so on.