Sentences with phrase «century comprehensive high schools»

Its aim is to provide guidance to school staff and stakeholders in the demanding work of transforming 20th - century comprehensive high schools into 21st - century learning organizations.»

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In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The high schools that we created in the 20th century — big, sprawling, «comprehensive» — are not like elementary and preschools.

There are tips and downloadable guides, practical advice, and videos that show how to get started on a high school transformation that some are calling the first comprehensive high school reform in more than century.

High School Graduation Rate Moves Up The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2013 «America's high school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane.&raHigh School Graduation Rate Moves Up The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2013 «America's high school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane.&School Graduation Rate Moves Up The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2013 «America's high school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane.&rahigh school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane.&school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist [Professor] Richard Murnane.»

America's high school graduation rate, which stagnated for the last three decades of the 20th century, is now climbing, according to a new, comprehensive look at the key education gauge by Harvard University economist Richard Murnane.

It isn't new at all: The Poor - Kids - Can't - Learn argument dates as far back as the Progressive Era of the last century, when another generation of educators declared that blacks and immigrants were also incapable of learning; it gave us the ability tracking and the comprehensive high school model that has helped foster the nation's education crisis.

A century after America invented the large comprehensive high school, we stand on the brink of major change.