Sentences with phrase «high school curriculum still»

Both national longitudinal studies reach similar conclusions: «The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree» (p. xviii).

The academic intensity of the student's high school curriculum still counts more than anything else in precollegiate history in providing momentum toward completing a bachelor's degree.

Not exact matches

Consider another example: the Progressive Education Association officially expired in 1955, yet 20 years later many schools were still providing the curriculum recommended by its Life Adjustment subsidiary - that 20 percent of high - school students should receive vocational training, 60 percent a «general» curriculum, including such courses as «marriage and the family,» and the remaining 20 percent academic instruction.

The high school curriculum is much more discipline bound, largely because of state requirements, but we still infuse global and international studies into almost everything we do.

A still earlier example, with which I was involved and then - Education Secretary Bill Bennett was deeply involved, was the promulgation of recommended K - 8 and high school curricula by Bennett and the Education Department in the late 1980s.

Although schools, especially high schools, are still struggling to breakdown the silos, the curriculum supports and encourages them to make learning authentic, social and interdisciplinary.

The good news is that most high schools on Cape Cod still have civics classes, however overall schools need to improve their civics curriculum.

Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to start seeing a bump soon, at least at the fourth grade level.

Which gets to this reality: Even if you provide teachers with all that they need — including high - quality curricula, strong school leaders and data — teachers will still have to figure out some things on their own.

We're still struggling to make reading across the curriculum a reality, particularly at the middle and high school levels.

And there's still yet another way that tiny houses can be used, as illustrated by this new tiny house project, which aims to develop a multidisciplinary curriculum and tutorial series for use in middle schools and high schools.