Sentences with phrase «learning about the charter»

«You can't learn about charter schools by studying 3 percent of kids in charter schools, because charter school students are only one and a half percent of American students,» says Hoxby.

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An estimated 150 teachers, school administrators, parents and others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather than by a school district or state officials.

For more information and learn about charter members who have used this program, contact Erin Tholen.

The more I have learned about the charter school experiment nationally, the more impressed I've become about the success of charter schools to harness market forces and improve student performance.

Interning at INCS, I realized there is so much that people don't know and so much more for me to learn about charter schools.

She hopes more legislators take the time to learn about charter schools first - hand.

They learned about charter organizations with strong and growing net assets, even as public school budgets tighten.

What was more important, he said, was that the district do more to learn about charter school innovations that it could adopt.

Coming from a life and career in a state with the 2nd oldest charter school law, California, (complete with the challenges of being an earlier adopter...), I was intrigued by this chance to start fresh and apply all the lessons we've learned about charter school policy to bring the best of the charter world to a new place.

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The project - style learning gave them a chance to learn about charter school funding issues as well as public presentation skills.

learned about our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and took it upon myself to question police officers about why we were being stopped and searched so often.

Not exact matches

It begins in the morning with a half - day charter fishing trip, the «First Hand», led by a local Key West captain, where participants fish the Gulf and Atlantic for grouper and snapper, among many other species, while learning about which catch methods and techniques work best for each species.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

People are very passionate about this neighborhood school and don't understand my decision but the charter school just lines up better with my daughter and her academic learning style.

When I worked as a nutrition director for a small charter high school in Boston, I learned about a company called City Fresh, which somehow manages to make fresh, healthy meals that comply with US nutritional standards and cost only a little more than the average school lunch.

She spoke with host Gary Axelbank about her abstention in the vote on mayoral control, the concept of mayoral control, charter schools, how the system mgiht be run to maximum effiency, lessons learned from her tenure as president at Hostos CC, and numerous other topics.

Legislator Dixon visited Mercy Nursing Facility to meet with intern Donovan Wallace, a Lackawanna resident and student at Global Concepts Charter School, to learn more about how the Youth CAN program has helped him in his pursuit to becoming a physical therapist.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

However, questions have been raised about the effectiveness of learning outcomes in online charter schools, as well as how they compete for limited educational resources.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

On this week's podcast, Marty West talks with Larry Kearns, a principal at Wheeler Kearns Architects, a Chicago - based design firm, about how he and his team designed two charter schools to support their blended learning models.

Edutopia.org was launched in 1994 as an online venue for spreading the word about innovative approaches to teaching and learning, from charter schools to teacher preparation to...

While we have learned a lot from the new studies, we still remain in a situation with an unresolved key question about what policies, laws, and incentives lead some charters to flourish and others not.

I learned plenty about whether charter schools outperform district schools, and in which conditions, and whether competitive effects from charter schools can improve the traditional public school system.

As a member of the Baha'i faith, Wilson said he was compelled to speak about the film at universities after learning about BIHE and the United Nations charter that defines education as a basic human right.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

Regular readers of my blog know that this is not because I'm convinced they're the answer to the «achievement gap» or to driving up math and reading scores, but because chartering offers an opportunity to rethink how we go about teaching, learning, and schooling.

Based on the findings presented here, the typical student in Michigan charter schools gains more learning in a year than his [traditional public school (TPS)-RSB- counterparts, amounting to about two months of additional gains in reading and math.

In short, an assessment of some charter schools is useful for learning about similar charter schools, but we should not expect it to inform us about all charter schools.

Read more about charters in Arizona and the other Four Corners states in «In Defense of Education's «Wild West»» from our Spring 2018 issue, or learn more about charter schools by visiting our topics page.

For them, support for charter schools jumps by 14 percentage points and by 11 percentage points when they learn about the state and national ranking, respectively.

Donald Trump could learn much about the beautiful culture and rich history of Mexico from the 1st graders in Angela Napoletano's class at Icahn Charter School 3 in the South Bronx.

Before the debate, learn more about the issue, as well as the speakers» stances on charter schools and educational equity.

If you are interested in learning more about the policy implications of charter school deserts, reach out for a connection.

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Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district in 2008.

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Timesha Cohen, a member of our learning community and teacher from Propel McKeesport Public Charter School, has talked about the impact of her participation as positively affecting herself and her students: «My students are able to make connections between what they know and what they need to know, as well as draw conclusions based on patterns they may notice in both math and science.

Learn about the unique relationship and program between Bullis Charter School and the Family Engagement Institute from Foothill College and how they are using patterns of innovation strategies to «stretch» low - income, ELLs to ensure a more successful transition into their first school year.

The answers in the book will enlighten readers who have heard about charter schools on the news but want to learn more.

Yet if I've learned anything over the course of the past year, it's this: Looking at Catholic schools only through the lens of what we have come to expect from traditional or charter school models misses much about what makes them special.

Participate in career development workshops, learn about 13 San Jose charter organizations, and hear a keynote address from Alicia Herald, founder of MyEd Match.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

To learn more about these studies, JOIN US in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, December 13 at 11:30 AM for a presentation of findings by Paul E. Peterson followed by a panel discussion moderated by Martin R. West featuring Nina Rees (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools); Chris Cerf (Superintendent, Newark Public Schools); and Howard Fuller (Marquette University).

We have shared many stories about charters doing great summer work to keep kids engaged and learning before the new school year.

Register for an upcoming webinar to learn about budgetary and financial information that will impact your charter school, including legislative updates with a fiscal impact.

Here are edited excerpts from our Story Suite conversation with two leaders learning about the potential to authorize charter schools in Alabama: Eleanor Dawkins and Melissa Snowden, both members of the Montgomery County... Read More