Sentences with phrase «larger than high schools»

However, this data revealed something even more surprising — middle schools, which have only 3 grades, are typically larger than high schools, which have 4 grades.

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Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

I grew up with over 30 % of my high school being muslim, with the largest Mosque in the States being just a few miles away, and with students learning more Arabic in high school than spanish.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

During the last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these schools will be host sites to the largest high school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th year will include more than 160 teams.

Capability to host more events than any other large stadium in the world, including NFL football and a Super Bowl, MLS soccer, NCAA basketball and baseball, high school sporting events, motocross, concerts, conventions, marching band competitions.

[21] Similarly, the School Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schSchool Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schools).

The last thing they want is too high a funding level that would enable schools to have working kitchens (rather than large ovens to heat up trays prepared in a central kitchen) and a skilled staff capable of serving healthy homemade meals.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

The Ed SPLOST renewal will fund the purchase of more than 150 school buses between 2018 - 22, as well as land acquisition in central Cherokee large enough for a high school campus in the area between Cherokee and Woodstock High Schohigh school campus in the area between Cherokee and Woodstock High SchoHigh Schools.

LINCOLN — Last Saturday's Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference at Worcester Technical High School drew more than 540 environmental advocates, the largest turnout in the Conference's 24 - year history.

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

More than 150 students and teachers from Darland High School in Rossett, north Wales, tried their hand at clay shooting with coaches from the UK's largest shooting organisation, BASC

When Mr. King first walked onto the stage in the Eastport - South Manor High School auditorium, he was greeted with a large portion of the 1,000 - person crowd, mostly teachers, quietly holding up green and white signs that read, «We are all more than a score.»

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

If the latest push for tighter gun restrictions has any better chance of success than the ones that came before, it is in large part a result of the fierce lobbying effort by the student advocates, including those from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of this month's mass shooting.

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.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

«Our study, which is the largest study to date examining the topic of single sports specialization, provides a foundation for understanding current trends in specialization in youth sports,» said researcher, Patrick S. Buckley, MD of the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. «Our results noted that current high school athletes specialized, on average, two years earlier than current collegiate and professional athletes.

The report suggests that government efforts should be geared not only towards academically - minded young people, but also towards the large number of high school graduates who want to start working rather than go on studying.

Without correction, the simulation showed that STEM majors could expect an even larger lifetime earnings premium: $ 2.2 million more than high school graduates with no college attendance, instead of $ 1.5 million.

Titled «Prevalence of Sport Specialization in High School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schHigh School Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sSchool Athletics,» this one - year observational study found that high school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schhigh school athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool athletes from a smaller school were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large sschool were less likely to specialize in a sport than those attending a large schoolschool.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

In some instances, at age 18, the effect of long - term exposure to higher air pollution was larger than the effect of gaining 5 percent body weight, meaning air pollution is definitely a risk factor for diabetes, said Tanya Alderete, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Keck School of Medicine.

This may help explain the larger trend, because today's seniors are more likely to have at least a high school diploma than those in the same age range a decade ago.

It's the story of a larger - than - life character, a tall, blond Jewish high school star athlete from Newark known as the Swede because of his Aryan looks.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

Students from rural areas and high - poverty schools, as well as minority students, typically show gains that are two to three times larger than those of the total sample.

Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned Schools that received F grades in 1999 experienced increases in test scores that were more than twice as large as those experienced by schools with higher state - assigned schools with higher state - assigned grades.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

Nevertheless, high - scoring F schools did experience gains larger than their low - scoring D counterparts.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

Schools regularly use large amounts of data from media rich applications and web ‑ based services, requiring higher levels of security and network performance than most homes and many businesses.

Predicted spending increases are also associated with greater probabilities of high school graduation, with larger effects for low - income students than for their nonpoor peers.

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.

Students who blow off high school pay a very high price, much larger than they imagine when they are in school.

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.

We removed the state's four largest urban districts from the sample and found between - school inequities were still much higher than inequities between districts.

Higher - performing middle schools share many of the same practices and attributes, concludes a study of 15 New York state middle schools that serve larger - than - average percentages of poor students.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

Early - 20th - century advocates of large and consolidated schools, such as James Conant and Ellwood Cubberley, never dreamed that someday three out of five high - school students would attend schools comprising more than 1,000 students, with some schools having over 4,000 students.

But the truth is, a shockingly large share of graduating high - school seniors are not prepared to go to college — more than half, by some estimates.

This result is similar to those found in some studies of Catholic high schools, which suggest larger benefits for attainment than for test scores.

One superintendent of a large, urban school district said that low - income high - school students in his district were beginning to take MOOCs in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.

The board — which oversees the country's largest standardized - testing programs, including the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, the Achievement Tests, and the Advanced Placement tests for high - school students — is a membership organization of more than 2,500 colleges, schools, school systems, and education associations.

For too many students, large comprehensive high schools are a place to get lost rather than to thrive.