Sentences with phrase «classes at the alternative school»

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The alternative to the Chinatown schools would be to open a fourth kindergarten class at the Spruce Street School, Rose said.

«When we have tried every strategy we know and a child is still routinely failing classes or regularly showing up in the alternative classroom, it really gets me down,» said Newlin, principal at Rock Hall (Maryland) Middle School.

Produced by the National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC), 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School tells the story of the first graduating class at Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk School (DC Met), an alternative school for at - risk school for at - risk youth.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

As part of their study of genetics, students in Shannon Dziwanowskis seventh - grade science class at Csar Chvez Academy Middle School in Detroit, Michigan, spend the first minutes of class reviewing a worksheet on dominant and recessive alleles, which are alternative forms of genes.

Working with students and their parents, these diploma project advisers (DPAs) develop individual graduation plans that can include online courses, community college classes, and studies at alternative high schools.

As well as taster sessions, classes or even whole schools may also be offered alternative snow activities such as tobogganing and tubing and even racing or freestyle taster sessions at some slopes.

Approximately one - fifth of all New Jersey school districts have responded by assuring parents who refuse the test that their children will be provided with an alternative location, or at least the ability to read in class, while their classmates take the test.

As our students excel in Advanced Placement courses, thrive in dual - enrollment classes at local community colleges, and consistently reach an increasingly higher academic bar, they prove that there is no reason for alternative schools to expect anything less from their students than academic excellence.

As an alternative, competency - based systems support student advancement by awarding credit according to students» mastery of skills.1 At ROADS Charter School in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeSchool in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeschool dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competencies.

Dropouts and at - risk kids, especially those in the city's alternative schools, are coaxed into showing up in class, not challenged to actually graduate, and almost no adults are held accountable for results.

At both alternative schools, free day care services and parenting classes are provided to teen moms.

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