Sentences with phrase «large high schools»

The others, even though they are among the largest, have populations comparable to some very large high schools in the continental states.

Do we have proof from other cities that you can really break large high schools into small schools without causing new troubles?

This research adds to evidence that the strategy to replace large high schools with smaller ones increased student achievement significantly and at great scale.

The school schedule has longer blocks of time to support project - based learning and has more limited but focused curriculum compared to other larger high schools.

It's the world's largest high school science competition.

But as large high schools shrink, they lose the benefits that a comprehensive high school provides.

It posed two questions: (1) are larger high schools less costly to build than smaller schools and (2) what contextual variables predict cost?

Under that strategy they tried to achieve reform by paying school districts to break - up larger high schools into smaller ones.

Jointly conducted by two prominent research organizations, the study charts the progress of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's effort to support the launch of hundreds of new, small high schools and convert hundreds of large high schools into smaller units.

In addition, when looking at large high schools county - wide, Sac High has the 14th highest API and is the only school in the top 15 with a socio - economically disadvantaged population of more that 50 %.

In northwest suburban Township High School District 211, the state's largest high school district with about 12,500 students, more than 27,000 cartons of milk are consumed in a typical school week.

Linked Learning is an approach to transforming the high school experience by creating academically rigorous, career - themed pathways in either stand - alone small schools or academies within large high schools.

Here is some background about the public high school, which is the second largest high school in a Broward County public school system that has 35 high schools.

The only way to materially change the high school experience, she and others argue, is to do the long and difficult work of converting large high schools into small schools or smaller learning communities.

In Enumclaw, Washington and Bronx, New York, students share the struggles that come with breaking large high schools into smaller schools.

About 10 years ago, many large high schools were separated into small learning communities, which are considered separate schools and 2.)

Students recognized by NHRP are more likely to live in cities and attend large high schools with significantly more low - income and Hispanic students, compared to white students with similarly strong PSAT / NMSQT scores.

The Smaller Learning Communities Program is a $ 142 million, competitive federal grant program that helps large high schools create smaller, more personalized learning communities.

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.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

Sac Joaquin is the second largest high school section in the state and one of the most competitive.

I am a cafe manager for a very large high school in Georgia and everyone in North Gerogia can rest assured the «slime» has NEVER entered our system nor will it ever.

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.

The New York Times reports on the the current state of things in this 70 year - old school, one of the last large high schools left in the Bronx.

On the other hand, it's true that right now we have a total fragmentation and even within the same large high school, within the same grade, you might have teachers teaching at a very different content level and [different] content itself.

Technically, the program, which is designed to help districts restructure large high schools into smaller learning communities, was already on the books, buried in Title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Young eventually rose to become principal of the system's largest high school before being named assistant superintendent in 1887.

This may be the legacy of the most popular high - school reform of the day: subdividing large high schools into small units serving about 500 students.

In this publication — a joint effort of WKCD, the Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high schools.

This puts Sac High as the highest performing open enrollment large high school (800 or more students) within SCUSD.

High School Conversions: Essential Restructuring: Examines the issues and opportunities that arise when large high schools convert to small, autonomous schools.

A first - time visitor might also be struck by what appears to be less structure than larger high schools employ: students and adults may mix more freely; no bells may mark the start and end of classes; courses may break from curricular conventions or may not even exist at all.

I am a student attending a rather large high school in South Carolina.

The article discusses the reorganization of large high schools into small learning communities (SLCs) under the U.S. federal Smaller Learning Community Program and provides five lessons from schools» transitions.

Illinois» largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls» locker room, authorities concluded Monday.

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.

(Regeneron, by the way, just announced it'll spend $ 100 million over the next decade to sponsor the nation's largest high school science competition.)

They paid the Parthenon Group to conduct a study that revealed a cause of increased dropout rates was kids attending large high schools, and they concluded that if those large schools were broken into smaller schools then dropout rates would decrease.

Many of these students have been cast aside as they struggled with homelessness, teen parenthood, adjudication, working to support their families or just not being able to adjust to a traditional large high school.

Here is some background about the public high school, which is the second largest high school in a Broward County public school system...

Earlier this year, Peter Meyer described the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fix high schools in New York City by converting large high schools into smaller schools.

Under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City's Department of Education moved to replace large high schools with troublingly low graduation rates with small, themed high schools.

One reason for the improvement, the study's authors believe, is the closure many «drop - out factories,» large high schools with high concentrations of poverty where less than half of the students graduated.

That execution, in those early years, meant large grants to school districts — $ 25 million to Seattle alone — that said they would break large high schools into many small ones.