Sentences with phrase «high performing schools which»

ARISE Schools is a New Orleans based network of high performing schools which includes ARISE Academy, founded in 2008 located in the Upper Ninth Ward, and Mildred Osborne Charter School, founded in 2013 located in the Kenilworth area.

This mirrors the already successful approach with maths Hubs — high performing schools which share their knowledge with other schools locally.

As a result of a robust accountability system, more students are attending higher performing schools which has translated to overall increases in program - wide scholarship student achievement,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Children.

Not exact matches

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.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Roll back Malloy education reform policies by not interfering in high - performing schools, which would be subjected to different standards than lower - performing schools.

After touring the under - performing Automotive High School in Brooklyn, de Blasio and his education team once again touted their ongoing effort to improve 94 of the city's struggling schools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mschools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mSchools,» with $ 150 million.

SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

Cuomo proposed $ 25 million for competitive grant programs, which includes $ 20 million to establish a fund to supplement high - performing teachers» salaries and $ 5 million to expand early college high schools throughout the state.

Seven years later, Malkin launched Global Public Service Academies, which trains high school students to perform 117 simple tasks such as changing batteries, replacing blown fuses, and swapping out faulty plugs.

Weiss, her colleagues and some high school students then performed tests in which fungus was applied directly to eggs.

Last year, both schools launched their own versions of the Meyerhoff program, which seeks out high - performing students who intend to pursue a Ph.D. in science or engineering.

Members of the public in counties with higher median household incomes are more likely to step into action to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when they witness someone have a cardiac arrest, according to a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the American Heart Association's Resuscitation Science Symposium 2014.

Compared with the control group, all school classes which worked with oral history accounts in whatever form performed better: They exhibited a higher historical competence and had more factual knowledge.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

Best of all is the supporting performance of The Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band, a real group of high - school musicians in which the three girls all perform.

When the group broke up, his singing partner's career soared into other avenues while his floundered, leaving him today just a nostalgic memory for those old enough to remember their songs, which he performs at amusement parks, state fairs, and high school reunions.

A skateboarding road - trip flick that will bore real skateboarders silly (and I should know — I've been one since the late»70s), it includes barely 10 minutes of badly - edited actual boarding, less than half of which features the main characters (no - name actors using obvious stunt doubles), who in the course of the movie perform only one trick (at the very end) that's beyond the abilities of any dedicated junior high school punk with a modicum of talent.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

The report also shows that there are large areas of the country which currently have no access to a high performing school.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Cleveland has embraced the nascent Breakthrough Schools coalition, which united several high - performing charters within a common organizational structure.

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.

Of particular note is the North East, which as a region has virtually no high performing schools.

A local group of musicians from our high school were supposed to perform, but had to back out at the last minute, so we went to Plan B and had our teachers form groups and perform for our students — which they loved!

Importantly, more than 90 percent of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools, which constitute 75 percent of all schools.

The first casualty of the 18 percent cap was Edward Brooke Charter Schools, one of the highest - performing elementary - school operators in Massachusetts, which was denied a charter to open a fourth school in Boston.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Richard Whitmire is author of On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cSchools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cschools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the country.

Researchers found that high - performing schools which employed skilled teachers who used data to assess teaching and learning, had the most success.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

Unlike countries like Australia, which randomly supplies sample schools» results across all SES and communities, if one digs a little deeper you will find Shanghai supply generally their higher performing schools for comparison.

One case in point is Cincinnati's W. E. B. Du Bois school, which was among the highest - performing urban schools in the state — before its founder and leader, Wilson Willard III, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft and records tampering, and was sent to prison for four years.

For those schools blessed with high - performing students (as a result of learning either at home or in earlier grades), the proficiency standard to which they are held accountable is often much too low.

In England, we have something called Teach First, which is a straight rip off of Teach For America, but I also think the fact that we will have an educational official energetically teaming high - performing schools with underperforming schools in order to create new equivalents of CMOs (Charter Management Organizations), in essence chains.

One thing led to another and we found ourselves spending the rest of the afternoon, unplanned and unexpectedly, at Chalmette High School, which has a popular and successful theatre and performing arts program that touches six hundred students a year, one - third of the entire student body.

In poorly performing schools, there are usually more challenges to contend with, such as demoralized staff (which often leads to high turnover), increasing pressures from district staff to meet adequate yearly progress targets on standardized tests, and physical environments that are poorly maintained and often unsafe.

Chelsea Dale is the founder and president of On Giants» Shoulders, a not - for - profit organization which advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating under - performing elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.

By contrast, the successful schools approach uses observed spending levels in the highest - performing schools as models from which to calculate necessary spending in other, lower - performing schools.

But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.

(New York's second - highest performing charter network, the seven Icahn schools in the Bronx, uses the content - rich Core Knowledge ELA curriculum, which is well aligned with the Common Core — further evidence that curriculum counts.)

Many look at Missouri's interdistrict transfer program, which has allowed more than 2,000 students from the Normandy and Riverview Gardens school districts to transfer to higher performing suburban districts, as if it were a Pinto.

Of course, that's only a «win» for kids if the new charter schools themselves are high - performing — which is by no means a given, especially in states like Ohio.

We found a unique opportunity to study performance - based high - school closures in New York City, which closed 44 low - performing high schools from 2000 to 2014.

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

The absence of a statewide student achievement test limited the means by which the cost to Wyoming of such a high - performing school system could be determined.

Our survey response rate was strong (over 50 percent), and although this work is not causal, it reveals some tantalizing differences between board members of higher - and lower - performing schools, as well as a number of notable similarities — all of which raise questions and hypotheses worth exploring elsewhere.

The results in all three schools run by the high - performing Bedfordshire - based Trust which have Year 6 pupils are well above the national average in writing (grammar, punctuation and spelling), in reading and in maths.