Sentences with phrase «high performing school places»

According to the EPI, virtually all local authorities with consistently low densities of high performing school places are in the North, particularly the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Of the 20 local areas with the biggest increases in high performing school places, 16 of which were in London, the proportion of such places rose significantly from 36 per cent to 60 per cent from 2010 - 2015.

But, in areas with consistently low densities of high performing school places, the proportion of pupils with access to such places fell from just six per cent in 2010 to five per cent in 2015.

Not exact matches

«As soon as it was put into place, a number of other high - performing schools contacted me,» says Schnidman.

Appelbaum's sons attend the high - performing Bell School on the city's North Side, which placed in the top 10 of a 2007 Chicago Sun - Times list of the highest - scoring middle - grade programs in Illinois.

The event takes place in the commons where the American Ballet Theatre JKO School will perform «The Nutcracker,» the Brooklyn Tech High School Choir will sing carols and Luciano's will serve hot chocolate and refreshments.

In Blackpool and Hartlepool local authorities there are no high performing secondary school places.

This means pupils in these neighbourhoods are unlikely to have had any opportunity to access a place at a high performing school.

The report, «Access to high performing schools in England» looks at the density of high - quality secondary school places across England, comparing high - quality places in 2015 with 2010 in order to identify whether geographic access to high performing schools is improving.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

Japan, one of the highest performing nations in PISA, places a great importance upon learning science in primary schools.

States could put in place legislation to identify high - performing schools that currently exist...

Incorporating rich information on students» high school performance, placement test scores, and demographics, we developed statistical models to predict how remediated students would have performed had they been placed directly into college - level courses.

Much of the blame has been placed on education schools, which have come under fire for failing to produce enough high - performing teachers.

Yet this refrain is not heard in high - performing / high - poverty schools, where a premium is placed on relationships.

Because high - performing, high - poverty schools are places of reflection and inquiry, leaders» work in these schools is better characterized in the form of questions than in formulaic lists of strategies.

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.

High - performing Sharnbrook Upper School is celebrating record A level results today — with students achieving outstanding grades and many securing places at some of the world's best universities.

«School leaders also could place lower - performing or inexperienced teachers close to high performers, or place staff with complementary strengths and weaknesses in closer proximity,» they suggest.

A new report by the Education Policy Institute, Access to high performing schools in England, looked at the density of high - quality secondary school places across...

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

A new report by the Education Policy Institute, Access to high performing schools in England, looked at the density of high - quality secondary school places across England, comparing high - quality places in 2015 with 2010 in...

Bernard Gassaway, former Boys and Girls HS principal, tweeted one test of that: «If ATRs are truly qualified top teachers, then place them at the highest performing schools where vacancies exist.

For its lowest - performing schools, states should take even stronger action, such as requiring the curriculum to be submitted to the state for review, sending teams to observe instruction and provide coaching (per Regenstein's inspectorate), developing a model curriculum (or placing online the curricula of high - performing schools), and / or offering professional development and courses to increase teachers» knowledge of the domains they should be teaching.

This may be because having a charter school in the same building places the same amount of pressure on a district school regardless of charter performance, whereas those district schools located near to but not in the same building as a charter feel stronger pressure from high - performing charters.

State housing agencies can also work with state education departments in placing these housing developments in high - performing school districts.

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

We can NOT allow parents to continue to be «arrested and criminalized» for placing their children in out - of - district public schools to ensure the quality, high - performing education that their in - district public schools are continually unable to provide.......

Yet districts across the country are showing it can be met and are turning low - performing schools into places where all of its students learn to high levels.

This extraordinary achievement places Emerald among the top performing high - poverty schools in its state.

DC PCSB uses a tiering system to rate a public charter school's academic performance, and places each public charter school in one of three performance tiers: Tier 1 (High Performing), Tier 2 (Mid Performing), and Tier 3 (Low Performing).

Provides high caliber teachers specifically trained to staff urban charters schools and turnaround schools, augmenting the quality of charter school growth and contributing to the success of the critical turnaround efforts taking place within the persistently lowest performing schools, particularly in Greater Boston;

In Denver, at least 70 % of these teachers were forcibly placed in high poverty, low - performing schools.

River Valley Charter School, the top performing public high school in San Diego County, combines instruction in core subjects with student - selected programs that take place off - campus, proving that a small high school with added individual programs can suSchool, the top performing public high school in San Diego County, combines instruction in core subjects with student - selected programs that take place off - campus, proving that a small high school with added individual programs can suschool in San Diego County, combines instruction in core subjects with student - selected programs that take place off - campus, proving that a small high school with added individual programs can suschool with added individual programs can succeed.

What if the correlation is related to the phenomenon of active and empowered parents pushing the worst teachers out of high - performing schools, who are then placed in low - performing and low - income schools, coupled with a system that can't fire a teacher?

Step 2: House shop by picking a place you can't really afford next to a «high performing school».

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

Chiefs for Change: We strongly support the approach of empowering states to tailor grant programs in a way that best meets our unique state and local needs... We appreciate the effort made to streamline the programs as well as the emphasis placed on replicating high performing schools.

The first intentionally diverse national school network, CWC Schools places importance on teaching emotional well - being as well as academic well - being and includes some of the highest performing schools in CaliSchools places importance on teaching emotional well - being as well as academic well - being and includes some of the highest performing schools in Calischools in California.

The event is set to take place on Saturday, May 19th from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm at Lincoln High School Performing Arts Center.

All of which helps explain how Bethune Elementary — with a population of children who are almost all African American and almost all poor — posts proficiency rates that well exceed state averages, earning it a place on the state's «High Performing High Poverty» school list.

During the academic year, clusters of fellows will be placed in participating high - performing urban schools nationwide, where they will be paired with a teacher and given a lightened workload, a strategy Star said would be beneficial for the teachers - in - training without compromising instruction for the students.

This exceptional achievement placed Emerald among the top performing high - poverty schools in its state.

When teachers worried that their students were incapable of meeting even their current, rather low - level standards — much less more complex demands — Cathy took them to a high - performing school with similar demographics to see what could be accomplished when all elements of success were in place.

However, in areas with «consistently low densities» of high - performing schools, the proportion of pupils with access to these places fell from six per cent in 2010 to per per cent in 2015.

Given the wide geographic variation in the density of high - performing school places, the government's # 72 million opportunity areas initiative «seems a positive step towards addressing this challenge», the EPI said.

In the past, numerous studies of high - performing high - poverty schools have pointed to important building - level factors that must be in place in order for all children to achieve at high levels in reading.

Restarts have led to swift and dramatic improvements in low - performing schools when a high - performing organization leads the new school, and systems are in place to facilitate a smooth transition and strong community support.

Question Why do schools in high performing districts, or schools with few low - income students, decide to implement CSR Models that are commonly in place in low performing schools with a large population of low - income students?

Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership, on student academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99