Sentences with phrase «get higher performing schools»

These districts also tend to get higher performing schools.

Not exact matches

Pope's book is about high school students who «do school,» gaming the system, cheating, getting by, and otherwise performing school without engaging in actual learning.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

Connor Sick of Rocky Point High School wanted to know «why failure is being used as a weapon» to try to get children to perform better in sSchool wanted to know «why failure is being used as a weapon» to try to get children to perform better in schoolschool.

If a child is not getting the education they need to prepare them for college or a career, it's our responsibility to change their trajectory with a high performing school.»

BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM The North Rockland School board meeting began with the North Rockland High School Marching Band performing in honor of the hard work done by district employees to get Thiells Elementary up and running after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene.

«The combination of a high cost of living, shortage of good jobs, lack of affordable housing and poor performing schools makes it hard for middle class families — and their children — to get ahead, or even hold their own,» she said.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

In kindergarten, he got into a high - performing magnet school — an opportunity he didn't waste.

Among the many factors contributing to Shanghai's success is a districtwide program called Empowered Administration, where low - performing schools get long - term mentoring from high - performing schools or groups of retired expert educators.

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

There's nothing like a mid-summer «scandal» to get the education press buzzing, and there's little doubt that the media will continue to have a field day with revelations that Tony Bennett worked to change Indiana's A — F grading system after learning that a high - performing school started by a wealthy donor would receive a mediocre C.

Tom Torkelson, CEO of the high - performing IDEA network agrees: «I don't do turnarounds because a turnaround usually means operating within a school system that couldn't stomach the radical steps we'd take to get the school back on track.

When a school screens applicants for academic talent, it ends up with pupils who perform well on tests, earn high grades, and get into competitive colleges.

My guess: For each instance where school district leaders and unions succeed in stopping a high - performing charter, there will be two instances where expansion gets approved and / or district leaders and charters agree to some form of collaboration.

Dr. Hall: We still have a lot of work to do to get our middle and high school students to perform at high levels and to get more of them graduating prepared for post-secondary options.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

That was back when NCLB was placing pressure on schools to get low - performing students over a modest «proficiency» bar — even while tacitly encouraging them to ignore the educational needs of their high - achievers, who were likely to pass state tests regardless of what their schools did for them.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

«Students routinely achieving their full potential, high performing schools becoming the new normal — Student Voice makes the compelling case that we can't get there from here without fundamentally changing the culture of schools to listen and act on what students say about their schools, their lives, and their aspirations.

Under NCLB, low - performing schools may be closed, while high - performing ones may get bonuses.

Traditional public schools have their own built - in barriers to admission, starting with zip code: You don't have to write an essay to get into a high - performing suburban school, but you do have to belong to a household with the means to buy or rent in that neighborhood.

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

Under the plan, the mayor is to get more or less direct control over three low - performing high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them.

High - performing charters get several benefits, including more flexibility to add students and duplicate schools.

But the next year, his mother helped get him into a program in the city that allowed kids to enroll at high - performing public schools on conditional bases.

It has high - performing schools that probably didn't get the credit they deserved during the NCLB era.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder

A large majority of magnet schools have waitlists full of parents eager to get their students into these high - performing schools.

... The way I see the investment from [Eli] Broad and other philanthropists is there are people who very unselfishly want to give a lot of money to improve schools in LA, and it would be my job as a board member to get them to give money to the district and ensure that we are going to use it, or use it with partnerships to create high - performing schools, and if I am a board member and they just want to give it to charter schools because the district has just become so intractable to outside investors and partners, then that is on me and that is on us.

But the «we need to spend more» mantra has been blown up countless times, most recently by Minnesota reformer / writer Chris Stewart who pointed out that North High, one of the poorest performing schools in Minneapolis, receives budget allocations that amount to $ 17,460 per student, while Southwest High, a school ranked among the best in the nation, gets just $ 7,782 per student.

While clashes between New York City district schools and charters get a lot of attention, a quiet effort is under way to help district teachers and principals learn from high - performing charters.

NSNO will work with the district and partner organizations to ensure students in these schools are supported and get the opportunity to attend a higher performing school.

The Marlboro Township Public Schools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them eSchools are a high - performing suburban district that was facing problems many successful schools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them eschools have dealt with: how to get their high - achieving students to reach even higher, and how to keep them engaged.

The group had recently read a research brief high - lighting the effect of teachers on student achievement as well as the inequitable distribution of teachers within districts, with higher - income, higher - performing schools getting the pick of the litter.

He explained that the higher performing schools fill up and many kids get stuck in lower performing schools.

«We'd like to figure out what it would take to expand the number of kids who could get to such a high - performing schools,» she said.

The best of them are getting eye - popping results and closing achievement gaps as well as the highest - performing suburban schools.

«This report will help Get Smart Schools identify where the need and demand is greatest for new high - performing schools» Amy Slothower, CEO Get Smart Schools identify where the need and demand is greatest for new high - performing schools» Amy Slothower, CEO Get Smart schools» Amy Slothower, CEO Get Smart SchoolsSchools

Parents Allege Massive Enrollment Fraud at Carpenter Community Charter in Studio City Los Angeles Unified will let schools use public records to verify student addresses after a high - performing charter in Studio City complained that scores of parents from outside the neighborhood committed fraud to get their kids admitted, officials said Monday.

Pupils at «outstanding» schools get scores similar to pupils in some of the high - performing countries.

Although it seems incomprehensible, minority students in poor neighborhoods get placed on waiting lists for a chance to attend a high performing school.

High - performing schools are pressured to keep getting better.

Our Families of Schools database has revealed, for example, that in the top performing school of one «family» of similar schools, 90 % of their disadvantaged pupils achieved a Level 4B — the level most likely to lead to getting five good GCSEs later on - or higher in their Key Stage 2 MathSchools database has revealed, for example, that in the top performing school of one «family» of similar schools, 90 % of their disadvantaged pupils achieved a Level 4B — the level most likely to lead to getting five good GCSEs later on - or higher in their Key Stage 2 Mathschools, 90 % of their disadvantaged pupils achieved a Level 4B — the level most likely to lead to getting five good GCSEs later on - or higher in their Key Stage 2 Maths exam.

Parents like Jonas rely on relationships with school leaders and teachers to get information about the enrollment process; they see this as the key for their child to get a chance at attending a school like Audubon, Ben Franklin or Hynes, which are some of the highest performing public schools in the city.

Get real advice and insight on lessons learned from high - performing rural charter schools, the unintended consequences of going digital, and how to provide and receive staff feedback

And you won't easily find the rules to the game as to how to get your child into one of the few high performing district schools in New Haven because, well, it's kind of a secret.

It could possibly end up that the poorer and higher performing schools actually get the awards more often...

Putting aside, for the moment, the evidence that some charter schools get better results because they are «creaming off the highest performing students» and therefore naturally have slightly higher test schools, there is a much more profound and important question.