Sentences with phrase «for comprehensive high schools»

Accordingly, some indicators that are appropriate measures of performance for comprehensive high schools can not accurately measure the quality of educational programs at alternative schools.

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The school district also has been developing a more comprehensive active shooter training program for middle and high school faculty.

The comprehensive schools (and their counterparts in higher education, the comprehensive universities) recognize the necessity for educational differentiation but, by keeping the students together in some classes and in the student activities program, minimize social class divisions.

The AHA recommends obtaining a comprehensive personal and family history from an athlete entering high school or college, with an interim history and blood pressure check each year for the next 3 to 4 years, significant changes or abnormalities triggering another physical exam and further testing.

Knowing there was a need for a high school reading list, Pam created a team with editors Anne Greer and John Wulsin, Jr. to develop a comprehensive reading list which would reflect a multi-disciplined, arts - integrated curriculum and, at the same time, meet the developmental needs of adolescents.

Follow the 2013 example of Jeannette Voss of the Waldorf School of Lexington and order our comprehensive, annotated Waldorf High School reading list, Books for the Journey, for each student.

She is the co-author of the forthcoming book, Fearless Feeding: How To Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School (Jossey - Bass / Wiley), a comprehensive nutrition and feeding resource for parents and professionals slated for publication in 2013.

The comprehensive program, established in 1995, includes free daily breakfast for all students; two representatives from each elementary school class roll a red wagon piled high with nine - grain muffins or breakfast focaccia back to their classrooms.

The unites are aligned with Colorado's comprehensive health standards for high school students.

The «National Autism Indicators Report: Transition into Young Adulthood» is a comprehensive report that presents new findings about a wide range of experiences and outcomes of youth on the autism spectrum between high school and their early 20s, including new safety and risk indicators for young adults with autism.

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While these are challenging times for schools in England, this uncertainty also presents an opportunity to demonstrate the positive effects a refreshed and fully comprehensive budget can have on an entire school and its ability to deliver high quality education.

Re-Imagining the Comprehensive High School: Adrienne Curtis Dickinson launches Sammamish High's blog series about the seven key elements for integrating PBL across disciplines, grades, and courses.

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«Comprehensive schools have demonstrated that it is possible to provide high - quality, inclusive education for all children, with 86 per cent of state - funded schools currently rated good or outstanding.

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At Sammamish High School, we're developing and implementing a comprehensive problem - based learning program for all of our students.

Like other NYC Outward Bound network schools, WHEELS uses the organization's «To and Through College» model to help students prepare for higher education — a comprehensive approach that addresses everything from logistics and deadlines to soft skills development.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk called out comprehensive American high schools for their «smorgasbord» curricula that were «homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose.»

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

Panelists mentioned various important changes that needed to be made such as a juvenile justice system reform, access and support for early childhood education, comprehensive support services for parents that includes job training, a professional teaching structure, high schools that build pathways beyond just a four - year college degree, and educational supports for children living with undocumented immigrant parents.

Antarctic Philately This comprehensive site, best suited for middle - and high school students, provides an awesome combination of stamp collecting and the history of the exploration of the South Pole.

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.

He also points out, correctly, that all that many districts offer these students is a chance to muddle through four years (or more) in a large, comprehensive high school, in hopes of earning a diploma that by no means signals readiness for college or a career.

Connecticut's plan, for example, is that «any school identified for comprehensive support... will be required to implement more rigorous evidence - based interventions with high statistical probability of success» (page 45).

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

Proposals for a $ 320 million fund for comprehensive assessment systems (two proposals to be funded) and a $ 30 million fund for high school end - of - course tests are due today.

For too many students, large comprehensive high schools are a place to get lost rather than to thrive.

Implications of One Comprehensive School Reform Model for Secondary School Students Underrepresented in Higher Education (PDF).

A standard - issue «comprehensive high school,» it had something for everyone, including Friday evening football under the lights.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

Structured as distinct programs embedded within comprehensive high schools, the Career Academies provided students with career - oriented instruction in a particular field along with internships and other activities to prepare students for, and connect them with, the labor market.

This arrangement began to change under Labour governments in the mid-sixties, as they pushed communities to create «comprehensive» secondary schools — akin to what James B. Conant, using the same adjective, urged for the United States, and what Ted Sizer would eventually dub the «shopping mall high school.»

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Tucker then founded the National Center on Education and the Economy and, in that role, created the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, the New Standards Consortium, America's Choice (a comprehensive school reform program), the National Institute for School Leadership and Excellence for All (a high school reform proschool reform program), the National Institute for School Leadership and Excellence for All (a high school reform proSchool Leadership and Excellence for All (a high school reform proschool reform program).

This year's installment of Education Week's annual report features a comprehensive analysis of public high school graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every school district in the country.

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.»

While many teachers see a role for PBL, it isn't always easy to incorporate in a good way as we confront the reality of meeting standardized assessments and maintaining our identity as a comprehensive, public high school.

In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 33 percent of all students with ADHD who didn't have a comprehensive therapeutic / educational plan failed out of high school.

The partnership with Fisher Scientific delivers a comprehensive range of science products, giving secondary schools in the UK the opportunity to purchase high quality, innovative products, which deliver long term value for money.

Grant funds are awarded to help states and local school districts establish high - quality, comprehensive reading instruction for all children in kindergarten through third grade.

Ericka was also President and Chief Operating Officer of the McKenzie Group (now part of American Institutes for Research), a comprehensive education consulting firm with a 20 - year history of providing evaluation and technical assistance services to school districts, institutions of higher education, federal agencies, foundations, and other public and private organizations.

While at ED, she co-authored the 2004 Report to Congress on the Implementation and Impact of the Comprehensive School Reform Program, and contributed to the 2001 Title I report High Standards for All Students.

[5] For much more comprehensive information on the CEP program, see Madeleine Levin and Zoë Neuberger, «Community Eligibility: Making High - Poverty Schools Hunger - Free,» Food Research Action Center and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 1, 2013, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=4026.

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.

Identification of, and comprehensive, evidence - based intervention in, the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools, all public high schools with a graduation rate below 67 percent, and public schools in which one or more subgroups of students are performing at a level similar to the performance of the lowest - performing five percent of title I schools and have not improved after receiving targeted interventions for a State - determined number of years; and

Consequently, the models we think hold the most promise for achieving much larger scale are two that operate within comprehensive high schools: career academies and early - college high schools.

During his tenure in the district, the high school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school refhigh school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school rschool was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school rschool in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school refHigh School for being a model of successful school rSchool for being a model of successful school rschool reform.

The «comprehensive» high school, for example, could grow ever more comprehensive by offering more courses, many of them nonacademic.