In interviewing parents who had experience with enrolling a special education student in a charter school and faced exclusionary practices in the early years of the RSD, Marcell found that parents perceive certain charter schools with
an emphasis on college preparation or STEM as not «disability friendly» and do not attempt to enroll their students (2010).
The schools differed in
their emphases on college preparation, but, for the most part, they provided a substantial amount of college preparation.
Not exact matches
March 2, 2017 — A new report Destination Known: Valuing
College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems, urges state K - 12 systems to place a greater
emphasis on student
preparation for and success in postsecondary...
March 2, 2017 — A new report Destination Known: Valuing
College and Career Readiness in State Accountability Systems, urges state K - 12 systems to place a greater
emphasis on student
preparation for and success in postsecondary education when establishing performance goals for high schools.
We focus
on conveying Country Day's high academic standards and rigorous program offerings, including Harkness Learning, public speaking, and the
emphasis on writing and self - advocacy skills, which give our students the best possible
preparation for secondary school and
college.
Create a separate secondary school funding stream to improve student achievement at the middle and high school levels with an
emphasis on rigorous courses and
college preparation.
The Secretary's report is especially critical of the present system of teacher certification and the degree to which it is overly beholden to the traditional route to
preparation through the
colleges of education with their
emphasis on pedagogical instruction versus academic content.