Sentences with phrase «breaking large high schools»

In Enumclaw, Washington and Bronx, New York, students share the struggles that come with breaking large high schools into smaller schools.

That execution, in those early years, meant large grants to school districts — $ 25 million to Seattle alone — that said they would break large high schools into many small ones.

Do we have proof from other cities that you can really break large high schools into small schools without causing new troubles?

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The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buiSchool District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buischool with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

Although much of the attention focuses on breaking up large schools and creating small ones, the efforts are as much about changing the sum and substance of high school as they are about shrinking a school's size.

As more large high schools nationwide break down into smaller learning communities or schools, many have created «career academies» that organize curricula around themes such as health professions, the law, or the performing arts.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouSchools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouschools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

Under that strategy they tried to achieve reform by paying school districts to break - up larger high schools into smaller ones.

For example, a study of New York City's experiment to break up large high public schools into small ones found that the students were enrolling and staying in college longer.

In this publication — a joint effort of WKCD, the Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high schoHigh Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high sSchools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high sschools and breaking down large high schohigh schoolsschools.

Excerpt from the Abstract: Large high schools have frequently been broken up into schools within a school (SWAS) serving 200 - 500 students.

In addition to the small learning communities, San Diego is also using other reform models, all with the intent of breaking down the larger comprehensive high school and ultimately offering students a choice among many different kinds of schools that would suit their needs.

Much of the money from the Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and groups such as the Carnegie Foundation is geared toward breaking down large high schools or starting new smaller schools.

The $ 10,000 maximum deduction, for high school students, is the largest among the handful of states that offer private school tax breaks.

Our ninth grade cluster program provides entering freshmen an opportunity for easier transition into the large high school setting by breaking their class into teams that remain together for the four academic core classes (English, Social Studies, Math and Science).

They paid the Parthenon Group to conduct a study that revealed a cause of increased dropout rates was kids attending large high schools, and they concluded that if those large schools were broken into smaller schools then dropout rates would decrease.

The initiative to break up large high schools was not one that could be easily replicated elsewhere, he acknowledged.

A first - time visitor might also be struck by what appears to be less structure than larger high schools employ: students and adults may mix more freely; no bells may mark the start and end of classes; courses may break from curricular conventions or may not even exist at all.

Just before winning the Goldman Environmental Prize in April, we spoke to student activist Destiny Watford to learn how — together with student group Free Your Voice — she united her community to stop the nation's largest incinerator from breaking ground near her high school in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.