Sentences with phrase «large public high schools»

The Smaller Learning Communities (SLC) program awards discretionary grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to support the implementation of SLCs and activities to improve student academic achievement in large public high schools with enrollments of 1,000 or more students.

Grants are awarded for up to 60 months to LEAs that apply on behalf of large public high schools.

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

In addition, reservation schools often are small, and native students can feel intimidated when they move on to large public high schools.

Kupchik and his two graduate research assistants conduct their research in four large public high schools, two in a Southwestern state and two in the East.

I was valedictorian of a large public high school in Florida, attended a top liberal arts college — Swarthmore — and majored in physics.

This large public high school will transform its culture with restorative justice, connect the dots between students and community, and combine Socratic seminars, university and business partnerships, and wrap - around services.

Browne attended a reservation school through grade eight and then attended a large public high school.

All I can say is that as I write this in December 2009, my cancer, while not curable, is treatable, and I am again teaching a full course load in a large public high school — my 40th year in teaching.

Katie has been teaching English to ninth graders at a large public high school since her graduation from college six years ago.

The report notes that while larger public high schools offer more program choices than smaller ones, even small public schools do better compared to private high schools in programs for which data is available: Gifted or Honors classes, Advanced Placement, and distance learning.

As Kevin Greer, a veteran teacher of honors English at a large public high school in the Bronx, describes, «Kids here have no idea what the f — k I'm talking about.»

Not exact matches

He figured out which private and public high schools were the largest by enrollment in 2016.

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.

Over 2,000 NYC Students Visit Computer Science Fair at The Armory The NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair is New York City's largest annual college and career inspiration event for public high school students studying computer science.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athSchool of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athschool athletes.

«The need to educate customers about the nutritional content of restaurant foods is acute because consumers increasingly eat away from home, restaurants serve large portions of energy - dense and high - sodium foods, and obesity and the prevalence of other diet - related diseases are high,» according to lead researcher Amy Auchincloss, PhD, MPH, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.

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.

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

In other words, the geographic placement of charter schools practically ensures that they will enroll higher percentages of minorities than will the average public school in the nation, in states, and in large metropolitan areas.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

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).

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.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

Of the public schools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools in California serving large numbers of students in poverty, 12 of the 15 highest - performing ones are charter schools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools Assocschools, says a new analysis by the California Charter Schools AssocSchools Association.

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.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

After a very public courting by several large school systems, Rudolph F. Crew signed a contract last week to head the Miami - Dade County schools, a deal that will make him one of the highest - paid superintendents in the country.

I teach science (AP Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) at a large, comprehensive, urban public high school in Los Angeles Unified School Disschool in Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

Public high school students in large U.S. cities are more likely to drop out than ever before.

Avoiding the vast course miscellany and multiple specializations within large traditional public high schools, choice school students share a common academic and psychological experience.

We also document that although public - interest lawyers were initially motivated to expand student legal rights as part of a larger strategy to reduce social inequality, legal challenges to school disciplinary actions are disproportionately the province of white and higher - income students and their families.

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.

A recent study of Milwaukee's older and larger voucher program found that 94 % of students who stayed in the program throughout high school graduated, versus just 75 % of students in Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

The Greenway Arts Alliance runs a theater on the grounds of Fairfax High School, a large public school in the middle of West HollSchool, a large public school in the middle of West Hollschool in the middle of West Hollywood.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

However, as we have all become more aware since the recent high - profile security issues faced by public organisations and large companies, e-safety isn't just about having anti-virus software in place; it is vital to ensure a school's complete internet infrastructure is appropriate and secure.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

It is relatively large — enrolling nearly half of the city's public school students — and high performing.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

The PZ Reach Scholarship aims to support educators working in underserved settings — for example, Title I public schools, areas with high rates of identity - based violence, or communities with large numbers of families impacted by immigration and / or displacement — to attend Project Zero Classroom.

YPO, the UK's largest public sector buying organisation, has signed a partnership agreement with Fisher Scientific, a leading supplier of laboratory products and laboratory equipment, to supply a range of high quality science equipment and resources to secondary schools across the country.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

We present results from a randomized experiment of a summer mathematics program conducted in a large, high - poverty urban public school district.

This is the case in Boston, where researchers» careful tracking of six charter high schools over the last decade has shown that those charters have a large and positive impacts on MCAS scores as compared to the city's conventional public high schools.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

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A large sample of high school seniors nationwide, in both public and private schools, took the tests last year — 18,700 students in reading and 13,200 in mathematics.