Sentences with phrase «high school curriculum choice»

This working paper presents a framework for high school curriculum choice and evaluates how these decisions impact college attendance, completion and subsequent earnings.

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«Integrated» Math: A Transitional Approach to the Common Core In this chat, educators from an Illinois district will discuss their choice to transition their high school math curriculum to an integrated course sequence and share what they've learned.

«In February 2010, for the first time, a state judge overturned a school district's choice of a high - school math curriculum,» Josh Dunn writes in a new «legal beat» article posted on the Ed Next website.

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

team endorsed a new institution, the «comprehensive high school,» which would offer students a wide array of curriculum choices.

Low - and high - poverty schools differ along many dimensions that likely influence what constitutes effective educational practice, including curriculum choice and implementation, instructional methods, personnel policies, and all the other day - to - day decisions that combine to create the educational environment.

In February 2010, for the first time, a state judge overturned a school district's choice of a high - school math curriculum.

In higher - performing districts, leaders did not expect improvement in lowperforming schools to occur merely by means of inputs required under federal and state policies (e.g., school choice, tutoring, prescribed needs assessments and schoolimprovement planning, curriculum audits, advice from external consultants).

[The politics of rationing education is a reason why districts and other traditionalists also oppose the expansion of public charter schools and other forms of school choice that are helping Black and Latino children attain high quality education; charters fall outside of the control of districts and therefore, open the doors of opportunity for those historically denied great teachers and college - preparatory curricula.]

The top public district high schools are not comprehensive high schools, but «choice» schools which focus on high - achieving students and offer an AP - oriented curriculum.

In this Best of Dropout Nation, Editor RiShawn Biddle points to the economic reasons why we must commit to providing all children with strong, comprehensive, college prep curricula and nurturing kids through high expectations (along with improving teacher and school leader quality, and expanding school choice and Parent Power).

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The Foundation for Excellence also embraces nearly every portion of the Core Curriculum State Standards initiative (including the onerous and very 1984 idea of collecting lots and lots of data on school children all in the name of getting them to graduate high school) excepting that of school choice.

Reviewed strategies for enhancing students» high school and college outcomes include: 1) participation in rigorous curriculum; 2) small learning communities / small schools of choice; 3) career academies; 4) dual enrollment; 5) early college high schools; and 6) college and career counseling.

Our schools need to offer each student a choice among six or more challenging and rigorous high school curricula, as do other, higher - performing countries.

Students» curriculum choices in mathematics at the high school level are driven by universities.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

And if parents aren't well - informed about what high - quality curricula and schools should look like, and not given the ability to make smart choices, then there is limited ability to ensure that such curricula is the norm and not the exception.

Last year, the New York Daily News illuminated the murky language of the pre-K debate by explaining that «high quality» typically denotes public school system - connected programs involving certified teachers who hold Bachelor's degrees, and operate under a state - approved curriculum, as opposed to the Obama administration's pre-K system of choice, Head Start.

They include praise and encouragement from arts professionals; purposeful content relevancy to curriculum and life outside of school; active student participation in program design, planning, and art - making; group work with community and parent involvement; opportunities for students to make choices; and hands - on, high quality, and process - based learning.

The 2013 - 16 Strategic Plan for Catholic Schools and School Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more affoSchools and School Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more afforSchool Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more affoschools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more afforschool system both higher quality and more affordable.

Students attending public online high schools may not have access to many of the extracurricular activities and curriculum choices available through other alternatives.

McIntosh's charges come amid growing claims from school choice critics that charters — publicly - funded schools with broad flexibility in their curriculum and staffing — may «cherrypick» or intentionally exclude some high - needs students, serving decidedly fewer low - income children and children with disabilities, populations that also tend to trail their peers academically.

YA / Curriculum Support: This richly illustrated atlas is a great choice for middle - school and high - school libraries.

YA / Curriculum Support: The lively format, broad cultural coverage, and wealth of context make this an attractive choice for high - school researchers.