Sentences with phrase «large high schools create»

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Additionally, high school rugby teams have been formed at more local high schools to allow for more diverse schedules and a larger pool of teams to create a legitimate high school playoff tournament.

Commenting on the proposed National Funding Formula for Schools and High Needs, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The delay in publishing the consultation on the national funding formula for schools indicates that even the Government recognises the scale of the challenge involved in creating a funding formula which enables schools to secure the educational entitlements of all children and young Schools and High Needs, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The delay in publishing the consultation on the national funding formula for schools indicates that even the Government recognises the scale of the challenge involved in creating a funding formula which enables schools to secure the educational entitlements of all children and young schools indicates that even the Government recognises the scale of the challenge involved in creating a funding formula which enables schools to secure the educational entitlements of all children and young schools to secure the educational entitlements of all children and young people.

A biochemistry major, Gazzaley had planned to put a chunk of sodium metal into a lake behind campus to make it fizz — a large - scale version of the classic junior high school lab experiment in which adding a pinch of potassium to water creates a spark as the chemical reaction releases energy.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

This resulted from closing 30 large schools, shrinking others (such as Kennedy), and creating dozens of small, themed high schools, with 100 students per grade instead of 1,000.

School districts consolidated, creating enrollment areas large enough to support a high sSchool districts consolidated, creating enrollment areas large enough to support a high schoolschool.

If you're a larger school, instead of having one schoolwide team, you can create multiple teams — a middle school and high school team or grade - level teams, suggests St. Louis.

That was the idea behind the newly created Academic Competitiveness Grants, which provide larger Pell grants for eligible college students who have completed a rigorous program in high school.

Although much of the attention focuses on breaking up large schools and creating small ones, the efforts are as much about changing the sum and substance of high school as they are about shrinking a school's size.

Each with approximately 100 students per grade in grades 9 through 12, these schools were created to serve some of the district's most disadvantaged students and are located mainly in neighborhoods where large failing high schools had been closed.

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.

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.

; 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.

In 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation created the Project Mastery grant program to support competency - based education initiatives in large school systems that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged youth.

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 dropouSchools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropouschools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

This educational, fact - finding opportunity focused on how a large, urban school district developed career pathways that create opportunities for all students to be successful in high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce.

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In Amherst, New Hampshire, for example, the large, progressive, and relatively affluent Souhegan High School has created a tradition called the «Viking funeral.»

Any school plan that does not put high - success texts in struggling readers» hands all day long is not only ignoring the research but also creating and perpetuating large numbers of struggling readers.

The Mind Trust created the fellowship in 2014, in partnership with the Indianapolis Pubic Schools (IPS) and the City of Indianapolis, to help launch high - quality and autonomous Innovation Network Schools within IPS, the city's largest school district.

In fact, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has proposed merging some struggling schools with more successful ones, to create larger high schools.

Creating small schools to replace large, impersonal high schools and transform them into smaller, more personalized environments.

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

Green Dot had a vision of creating small, successful charter schools and in doing so, demonstrating to the school district and the public - at - large that there was a more effective way to provide public education to low - income, high - risk youth.

The study appeared to validate the Bloomberg administration's decade - long push to create small schools to replace larger, failing high schools.

Many high performing charter schools accept a large number of students in the early grades, but as students leave a charter school for one reason or another, charter schools are allowed to leave those seats open; clearly this can produce exceptionally low teacher - student ratios creating an uneven playing field for those in traditional public schools that are held to a higher standard.

We have created the largest network of IB schools in the country, and become the first city in the country to offer free tuition to community college for all high school graduates with a B average or better through the Chicago STAR scholarship.

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.

Taking inspiration from his immediate surroundings in the domestic sphere, at work in alternative education high schools and Juvenile Detention Centers, and the city at large, Michael Alvarez creates

I learnt in high school geography classes during the mid 1950s that large urban conurbations create their own warmer and wetter climate; has anything changed, apart from an increase in gullibility?

In communities with a number of distressed families, high - risk children may attend schools with a large number of other high - risk children, which creates a difficult learning climate and elicits further conduct problems.