Sentences with phrase «large high schools into»

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

New York City transformed some of its large high schools into 100 small, nonselective ones and realized dramatic improvements in graduation and college - going rates.

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

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.

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.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

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.

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.

The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

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

Not exact matches

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate questions like «when does life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»

What started back in 1983 as a humble preseason scrimmage between seven fledgling Sacramento Valley high school rugby clubs, has developed into the largest youth and high school rugby tournament in the Western Hemisphere (at least as far as we can tell).

What started from humble beginnings, as an opportunity to get pre-season playing time for lots of young high school rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemispherhigh school rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemisphschool rugby squads, has blossomed into the largest Youth and High School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western HemispherHigh School Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western HemisphSchool Rugby Tournament in the United States (and likely the entire Western Hemisphere!).

Once kids get into middle school and high school, the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because it's the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.

He added: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

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.

Upper - level high school students, the report says, should take far more science and math classes, and a larger proportion of college graduates should go into teaching.

Her own research interest is immigration and domestic violence; Kupchik's project, at a high school with a large population of Mexican immigrants, offered her an opportunity «to go into the high school and look at a population I had not really focused on before,» she says.

Like any B - movie worth its salt, the film is blissfully short and to the point: just - fired mechanic Craig (Pat Healy) and his old high - school buddy and current debt collector Vince (Ethan Embry) get drawn into a sick birthday game by rich couple Colin (David Koechner) and Violet (Sara Paxton), who pay the two to complete a series of increasingly harrowing dares for ever - larger payouts.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buiSchool District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the buischool with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

He said: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

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.

If it can not be proved that those gains are due to improved school accountability, it is heartening to know that Margaret Raymond and Eric Hanushek found, in more precise estimates of accountability impacts, somewhat larger gains on the NAEP in those states that were the first to put accountability systems into place (see «High - Stakes Research,» features, Summer 2003).

I thought about how very difficult it must be for these middle - school children to be thrown into a very large, anonymous high school where nobody knows their names — nor will ever know their names.

NPR looks into the «summer melt» phenomenon — the large number of poor high school students who say they are continuing on to college but fail to show up in the fall.

My high school was reduced to a middle school in the 1970s, as black and white students merged into one large high school.

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.

The figures show a large drop from the 71 per cent of state school pupils who entered into higher education in 2009 - 10.

As he sees it, urban Catholic - school closures dump students back into a system that is ill - prepared to educate them, a system that in many large U.S. cities awards diplomas to only half its high school students.

Dystopian Shark Tank PBL Exponential Educators A nice blog from two high school English teachers, with a podcast in which they describe their «first foray» into a large scale PBL experience and discuss «risk taking, deliberate messiness and ambiguity, and letting students take control in their learning.»

Our results confirm that transitions into both middle schools and high schools cause drops in student achievement but that these effects are far larger for students entering middle schools.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

A large majority of magnet schools have waitlists full of parents eager to get their students into these high - performing schools.

Tools and processes that pass the tests of reliability and validity, and that are flexible enough to take different school contexts into account (leading a large suburban high school, for example, is different from leading a small rural elementary school).

Students from high schools with a larger number of low income students (more than 50 % eligible for free or reduced price lunch) had lower college enrollment rates than schools with mostly higher income students, regardless of the minority or geographic category that the school fell into.

For example, a study of New York City's experiment to break up large high public schools into small ones found that the students were enrolling and staying in college longer.

«Abstract: This study examines 4 years of small school reform in Chicago, focusing on schools formed by converting large traditional high schools into small autonomous ones.

Excerpt from the Abstract: Large high schools have frequently been broken up into schools within a school (SWAS) serving 200 - 500 students.

Much research can be found about splitting large public high schools into smaller entities (school within a school — swas).

But because my school's teachers worked as a team to develop a community - building Circle of Power and Respect (CPR)-- a daily meeting with greetings, interesting sharing conversations, and high - energy activities — students have gelled into a cohesive and supportive community, leaving the divisions that characterize the community at large far behind.

With Teach for America, which places high - achieving college graduates into low - income schools for two years, as one of the featured partners in the recruiting coalition, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union, emphasized the importance of a career - long commitment.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

This fall, San Diego Unified is following the lead of High Tech High and the Preuss charter schools by boldly converting three of its larger public schools into more than a dozen «charter - like» academies.

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

School Mergers - The Mayor's policy would consolidate up to a dozen small schools into larger schools before the 2015 - 16 school year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrolSchool Mergers - The Mayor's policy would consolidate up to a dozen small schools into larger schools before the 2015 - 16 school year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrolschool year, but evidence shows that small schools have higher graduation rates and college enrollment.

The nearly 70 - year - old program once seemed a relic of the «vocational education» era — a time when a much larger percentage of high school graduates went right into the workforce.