Sentences with phrase «challenging graduation requirements»

In a February 2009 position statement on preparing all students for postsecondary success, NASSP expressed support for challenging graduation requirements and provided recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers to help schools ensure that all students meet those high standards.

To express support for challenging graduation requirements and provide recommendations for federal, state, and local policymakers to help schools ensure that all students meet those high standards.

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«With XQ, Emerson took on a big, tough challenge, laden with a Gordian knot of tradition, state graduation requirements, college entrance requirements (and the tests that go with them), and the traditions of prom, football, and everything else,» observed Mary Ryerse, strategic director at Getting Smart, a Minneapolis — St. Paul nonprofit, who was among the judges for the competition.

The authors conclude that these increased math skills «may have reduced the learning challenges [for vulnerable students] of completing high school graduation requirements.»

These challenges stem from individual responses: some students need to work at an individualized pace, some need a hybrid arrangement where they can attend in - person electives combined with lab - based core requirement work and others require credit recovery to fulfill their graduation requirements.

MyGraduationPlan ® tackles the special education challenges of increasing student participation in the IEP process, increasing graduation rates, reducing drop - out rates, and providing district monitoring for compliance requirements - all while helping students reach their potential.

Milwaukee Public Schools partners with the Wisconsin Challenge Academy to provide opportunities for graduation for students who meet the requirements of the GEDO # 2 program.

Some wish to take on the challenge of accelerated programs for high school students in New York City, while others are looking to coordinate graduation requirements with busy schedules.

Green Ambassadors: a required class in which students learn to take action to solve an environmental challenge, and Senior Thesis: a graduation requirement and the last course in the college prep course sequence, in which students research a social or environmental injustice and then take action to solve it!

The report identifies state and local levers, such as transcript analysis, credit policies and graduation requirements, to mitigate the challenge.

According to the survey report, Closing the Expectations Gap 2007, 16 additional states are taking steps to implement similar graduation requirements, which include four years of challenging mathematics at least through Algebra II and four years of rigorous English.

In addition, we all have to rise to the challenge of our new graduation requirements which are currently in place for freshmen and those students that will graduate in or after 2021.