Sentences with phrase «into high performing schools»

High needs schools will not transform into high performing schools without effective teachers.

«OneApp is disingenuous because there are alternative pathways,» into the higher performing schools, he said.

Not exact matches

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

With this in mind, it makes me sick sometimes when I walk into weight rooms at some high schools and see how poorly the lift is being performed — mostly because coaches haven't taken the time to study, understand, or perform the lift themselves, and therefore making it impossible to coach correctly.

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.

If fame is as fickle as winning a lottery, then maybe the best ticket to the top is acceptance into the New York City High School of Performing Arts.

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.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

In kindergarten, he got into a high - performing magnet school — an opportunity he didn't waste.

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

On the opposite side of the spectrum are compacts in Denver, the Texas district of Aldine, and Spring Branch, where superintendents are embracing high - performing charters by inviting them into their schools.

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

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LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

Editor's note: This piece was adapted from Turning High - Poverty Schools into High - Performing Schools by William H. Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge.

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When a school screens applicants for academic talent, it ends up with pupils who perform well on tests, earn high grades, and get into competitive colleges.

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.

Whitman's book profiles six high performing urban schools across the country, including University Park Campus School, and offers insight into their success.

Ijtihad, a ninth grader at Jenkins High School, says the confidence he's gained from performing in the play spills over into all areas of his life.

Still, I decided to conduct a more direct test to rule out the possibility that improvements in educational outcomes were due to migration of high - performing students into APIP schools.

As more large high schools nationwide break down into smaller learning communities or schools, many have created «career academies» that organize curricula around themes such as health professions, the law, or the performing arts.

He has co-authored nine books, the most recent being the 2012 award - winning Turning High - Poverty Schools Into High - Performing Schools, written with Kathleen Budge.

We encourage you to share any questions or additional action advice you may have found for turning high - poverty schools into high - performing ones.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

The plans have faced widespread criticism from opposition parties and the education profession, with claims that there is no solid proof that converting a school into an academy will improve results and that the changes could lead to lengthy and expensive conversions for already high performing schools.

A video examining a study of whether it's possible to identify high - performing teachers and offer them a bonus to transfer into struggling schools

Leading the Change provides data - driven decision - making tools to school boards to help transform chronically low - performing schools into high - quality institutions.

The Harvard study mostly attributed the growth in student achievement in English to reforms that moved students into higher - performing schools, such as closing low - performing schools and expanding charter schools.

Traditional public schools have their own built - in barriers to admission, starting with zip code: You don't have to write an essay to get into a high - performing suburban school, but you do have to belong to a household with the means to buy or rent in that neighborhood.

Add specific schools or districts into the comparison (e.g., add a high - performing district or a neighboring district or school regardless of the other selection criteria used)

Under the plan, the mayor is to get more or less direct control over three low - performing high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them.

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

But the next year, his mother helped get him into a program in the city that allowed kids to enroll at high - performing public schools on conditional bases.

An evaluation of the Apollo 20 program found that infusing these high - performing charter school best practices into HISD schools had a statistically significant effect on math achievement that rivals student - achievement gains in math of high - performing charter schools.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

I watch higher - income parents, mostly white, buy their way into high - performing suburban districts while demanding a «moratorium» on public charters in order to deny the school choice they exercise to low - income families, primarily of color.

The original Brooke school located in Roslindale was founded in 2002 and has quietly grown into one of the highest performing schools in the city and the state.

In a year of transition at St. Rafael, Amy has dedicated herself to transforming the school into a high performing choice for the school community.

The Department of Education should encourage the transformation of low - performing, segregated schools into high - performing, diverse schools.

A successful teacher, principal and University administrator, Steven has worked with passionate educators to create nationally recognized schools and works with struggling schools to reinvent themselves into high performing, dynamic learning environments.

Before moving into teacher development, Anne served as principal at two high - performing college preparatory schools in Chicago, CICS Northtown Academy and St. Scholastica Academy.

Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of the high performing school systems around the world.

These high performing schools would argue that there would be a «positive benefit to the Denver portfolio system» from entering into a deeper partnership with the school.

Parrett, a regular NSBA speaker for two decades, offered insights into his studies of dozens of U.S. high - poverty / high - performing schools during a Friday preconference workshop at NSBA's Annual Conference in Boston.

Since ESSA requires states to adopt evidence - based interventions for the lowest performing bottom 5 percent of schools, and school diversity is a research - supported strategy linked to improved student outcomes, (when appropriate) states could use this mandate as an opportunity to invest in these schools by turning them into high - quality racially and socioeconomically diverse magnets.

When I've conducted observations to dig into these differences, the explanations for the higher performing schools are not very mysterious.

NSBA and CPE are making the toolkit publicly available to guide school boards through the often complex process of transforming low - performing schools into high - performing institutions.