Sentences with phrase «curriculum than traditional schools»

Supporters say the schools, which are granted greater flexibility in curriculum than traditional schools, are a means to boosting performance in areas with chronically struggling public schools.

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The school's curriculum is traditional, ordered toward the end of nurturing faith and reason rather than preparing young people to climb the greasy pole of meritocratic status.

Of course, the protest against inert ideas and a curriculum of disconnected subjects would be even more telling against an electronic image medium than against traditional school curricula, for the reasons Postman gives.

Third, there are important descriptive questions to understand what goes on in themed magnets — are curricula and instruction different than in traditional public schools, for instance?

Rather than bouncing around from one education fad to another, our schools had no choice but to remain steadfast in their dedication to «back - to - basics» curricula and a traditional «no - excuses» culture.

Charter schools have greater autonomy than traditional public schools when it comes to programming, and they can appeal to families of different income levels through innovation in curriculum, teaching, and learning methods.

Most, however, offer a fairly traditional curriculum — more traditional, in many ways, than regular public schools.

Focus on Education - CCSP delivers a rigorous curriculum that is aligned with New Jersey Student Learning Standards and includes a longer school day and school year than traditional schools.

As teachers are pressed to extend their craft to prepare more diverse students for the challenge of work and life beyond school, they are challenged to provide more authentic instructional contexts and activities than traditional knowledge - based curricula.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

For most of the past three decades, districts such as Carmel - Clay, Hamilton Southeastern, and Westfield - Washington have only had to provide teaching and curricula to the children of executives and middle managers of such Fortune 500 outfits such as drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co., and healthcare giant WellPoint, who fled from the Circle City for traditional district schools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disschools perceived to be better than the failure mills of woeful Indianapolis Public Schools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister disSchools and even the relative mediocrity of its 10 sister districts.

A customer was scaling a private school model, taking the best curriculums and teaching methodologies from around the world, to a nationally branded concept, which was 50 % more affordable than traditional private schools.

If the focus and curriculum are appealing to you, or you like the idea of a school that has more autonomy than a traditional school in the system, you might prefer a charter.