Sentences with phrase «including large high schools»

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

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During the last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these schools will be host sites to the largest high school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th year will include more than 160 teams.

Capability to host more events than any other large stadium in the world, including NFL football and a Super Bowl, MLS soccer, NCAA basketball and baseball, high school sporting events, motocross, concerts, conventions, marching band competitions.

A large group of Gray High School products — including a five - star and several four - stars in the 2019 class — is expected to be in Ann Arbor in February.

Neal Hoffman, M.D., is the Medical Director of the Montefiore School Health Program, the largest hospital - sponsored program in the country providing comprehensive care including medical, dental, mental and community - based services to students from elementary to high sSchool Health Program, the largest hospital - sponsored program in the country providing comprehensive care including medical, dental, mental and community - based services to students from elementary to high schoolschool.

Several other large high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.

«Year after year we have seen cuts or small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city schools including large class sizes, schools closing, the high drop out rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.

If the latest push for tighter gun restrictions has any better chance of success than the ones that came before, it is in large part a result of the fierce lobbying effort by the student advocates, including those from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of this month's mass shooting.

Such a proposal is part of a larger college affordability plan that similarly includes expanding early college high school programs.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Results demonstrate important changes in students» drinking during the calendar year, including expected large increases during the month of a one - day festival, large decreases over the summer, and resumption of relatively high quantities upon return to school.

The OECD said that there was «much to be positive about», including: levels of reading and science above international averages; a high level of social inclusion; a drop in teenage smoking and alcohol consumption; and a large majority (nine in ten) of students who feel positive about their school and teachers.

Over the past several years Florida has attempted substantial reforms of its struggling public school system, the fourth - largest in the country and one that consistently ranks close to the bottom on academic indicators, including high - school graduation rates and scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

All the high schools in the top 10 are private, but a larger list of 40 includes six U.S. public schools — and two private ones from South Korea.

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

The board — which oversees the country's largest standardized - testing programs, including the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associations.

That isn't unusual either: in some of the country's larger school districts — including Maryland's Baltimore County, Florida's Hillsborough County, Georgia's Cobb County, and Colorado's Jefferson County — substitutes need only a high - school GED.

School and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sSchool and district administrators can apply these suggestions to their own goals, including reminding parents and the community at large that the world is more technologically complex than it was when they studied math in high school and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving sschool and that the typical career is much more likely to require not only competency in statistics and analytics but also problem - solving skills.

As two school - based teachers of Music at Craigslea State High School, a large suburban secondary school in Queensland, Genevieve and Teresa were concerned about the quality of the students» home practice of chosen instruments, including school - based teachers of Music at Craigslea State High School, a large suburban secondary school in Queensland, Genevieve and Teresa were concerned about the quality of the students» home practice of chosen instruments, including School, a large suburban secondary school in Queensland, Genevieve and Teresa were concerned about the quality of the students» home practice of chosen instruments, including school in Queensland, Genevieve and Teresa were concerned about the quality of the students» home practice of chosen instruments, including voice.

Extracts taken from the following texts: - Jane Eyre - Mill on the floss - Nicholas Nickleby - Wuthering Heights Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore Victorian context including schools and social classes - analyse structure - analyse language - explore Victorian school experiences - write imaginatively - explore connotations of language With a large focus on 19th century texts in the new 9 - 1 specifications for both language and literature - exploration in KS3 is vital and these resources enable students to access appropriate extracts taken from complex literature on themes that they will be able to relate to.

New York City's open choice system provided them with access to schools throughout the city, which often included one or more new small, themed high schools, including those that opened in the same building as the larger school that had been closed.

The program seeks to address the many disparities in outcomes for black men, including large gaps with white men regarding high - school graduation rates, college enrollment and completion rates, lifetime earnings, longevity, and the likelihood of incarceration.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The largest cluster includes six high schools — one OPSB school and five RSD charter network schools run by four different CMOs.

But it also includes several of D.C.'s large comprehensive high schools: Cardozo (64 percent male), Roosevelt at McFarland (61 percent), and Coolidge (56 percent), as well as Phelps, D.C.'s only selective career technical education school (62 percent).

A related study found this is better achieved in small high schools — including charter and site - run pilot schools in L.A. — compared with the more fragmented social organization of large and traditional high schools.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

As Angirst, et al, Dobbie and Fryer, and Tuttle, et al show, a bunch of charter schools with large achievement test gains, including Boston «no - excuses» schools, Harlem Promise Academy, and KIPP, have produced little or nothing in terms of high school graduation and college - attendance rates.

In one of the nation's largest school districts, Clark County, Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, far too many students — especially particularly poor and minority students — lack access to a high - quality school.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

This relationship — which includes such factors as setting clear expectations, providing support and encouragement, and recognizing staff for a job well done — is much larger in high - need schools, and, for the most effective principals, can even close the teacher turnover gap with schools serving more advantaged students.Grissom, J. A. (2011).

Here, efforts to increase high school completion will require considerable additional resources, including the help of the larger community.

The trip enabled participants to see a range of secondary learning options for students, including a comprehensive high school with small learning communities, a small school within a larger educational complex, an alternative high school, and a public charter school.

Under ESSA, Minnesota will identify and support between 300 and 400 schools, including high schools - a far larger number than under No Child Left Behind or the state's waiver.

They then assemble a large committee of interested stakeholders that includes members of the business community, various industries, higher education professionals, teachers, administrators and content area experts to review school - level feedback and propose their own recommendations.

Schools receive the largest amount of their state funding through a general fund that distributes money through a formula that gives more to districts with more students with challenges, including those who live in poverty, and less state money to districts with high property values.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

The charters that are threatening to leave LA Unified's SELPA include some of the district's largest and highest - performing charter management organizations, including Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, KIPP Public Charter Schools, Magnolia Public Schools and PUC Schools.

She and others also talked about the larger cultural change in testing that's coming at the same time as other shifts in school funding and accountability, including a new high - stakes teacher evaluation system that will be in place next year.

The 2017 High School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates covers public and private high schools from all 50 states and 71 percent of the 100 largest districts in the United States, including about 40 percent of all public high school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in toHigh School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates covers public and private high schools from all 50 states and 71 percent of the 100 largest districts in the United States, including about 40 percent of all public high school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates covers public and private high schools from all 50 states and 71 percent of the 100 largest districts in the United States, including about 40 percent of all public high school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in tohigh schools from all 50 states and 71 percent of the 100 largest districts in the United States, including about 40 percent of all public high school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in tohigh school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in total.

The Bridge to Completion research centers on the analysis of multiple data sets, including comparing similar schools and other large, urban districts as well as national data, and interviewing 50 - plus professionals representing the school district, community - based organizations, higher education and nationally recognized college access.

These schools will be led by high - performing institutions, including a grammar - school - led multi-academy trust (MAT) and the largest state boarding school in the country, demonstrating how existing high - performing schools can help raise attainment more widely, as set out in the government's education proposals.

A 2007 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high scSchools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high schoolsschools).

These data include teachers from a large urban district and an entire state in the Western United States, allowing for an investigation of the dynamics of turnover in both high cost - of - living urban areas and rural school districts over the past fifteen years.

But Texas already has in place a high school curriculum that provides plenty of flexibility for multiple pathways to graduation, including a large number of industry certifications, with more on the way.

• Large numbers of students with high school diplomas admitted to county and community colleges require remediation to pursue college - level courses, especially those requiring academic rigor, including math and science.

In Singapore, for example, teachers have 20 hours per week scheduled to work with colleagues, including time for «action research,» through which teachers identify and solve shared problems through discussion and classroom experimentation.20 Research suggests that professional learning in many high - performing countries tends to yield positive results when it is part of a larger school effort, rather than a patchwork of isolated activities not connected to school - level goals.21

Title I schools face particular challenges that affect academic performance, including high rates of student mobility and large proportions of English language learners.

Recommendations include the need to: 1) consider school closure in the context of a larger reform effort; 2) develop a supply of higher - performing school options; 3) clearly explain to the public how current students will benefit; 4) provide support to families and students during the transition; and 5) provide staff members with clear information about next steps.