Sentences with phrase «magnet programs in»

Results from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test indicated that students in all three types of magnet programs in all grades had higher passing rates on the reading, mathematics, writing, and science subtests of the assessments than did their respective grade - level counterparts districtwide.

High school magnet programs in the arts, some of which are application - and audition - based, give students intensive studio experiences in the visual and performing arts, extensive credits beyond the high school arts requirements, and an accelerated general education curriculum that promotes college and career readiness at a high level.

Creating thematic magnet programs in every elementary school — mathematics and science, Spanish - language immersion, and visual and performing arts, among them;

High schools with magnet programs in the arts:

The major planks of Mr. Dupree's improvement strategy have been the magnet programs in each elementary school, a redesign of graduation requirements, and increased rigor in all high school classes through the Cambridge International curriculum.

We don't believe that gentrification and displacement are the inevitable destiny for our neighborhoods, or that historical patterns of inequality are overcome by drawing middle - class students into internally segregated magnet programs in our neighborhood schools.

It consists of nearly 60 elementary magnet and magnet cluster schools with a curriculum focus in the visual and performing arts, and two high school magnet programs in the arts.

For example, magnet programs in Houston Independent School District received 71,743 applications for only 18,569 seats in the 2015 - 16 school year.

Under the leadership of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the district has rapidly launched more than 109 new magnet programs in the Miami area.

Many school districts offer magnet programs in health care or performing arts and other special curriculum that allow students to attend outside their zone when a parent decides it's the best choice.

The Broward (Florida) school district has been taking steps to stop students from fleeing, including adding eight new magnet programs in the past five years.

We have magnet programs in middle school here.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

He joined the Chicago Public School system in 1998, as a deputy chief of staff to CEO Paul Vallas, where one of his jobs was supervising the creation of magnet programs in troubled schools.

However, it can be a lonely path, says Jennifer Smith, a computer science teacher at Digital Harbor High School, a public magnet program in Baltimore, Maryland.

Parents of magnet PK students at CREC schools in greater Hartford, Goodwin College's PK magnet program in East Hartford or LEARN's Friendship magnet school in Waterford should call and write their legislators and the Governor's office (since all votes will likely matter this November) to protest this imminent and sizeable tuition within what is supposed to be PUBLIC schools.

About 8,600 children currently attend a magnet program in Baton Rouge.

As the New Haven Public Schools website (2016) excitedly notes, the district is «home to the largest magnet program in Connecticut!»

Aberdeen High School is excellent but the chances of getting into a magnet program in your town is slim if you suffer through the other lower level schools.

Not exact matches

The H - 1B program, which allows US companies to bring in foreign workers in specialized fields like math, science and engineering, has long been a magnet for controversy.

And they offer a safety advantage, in that the programmed magnets won't attract «unprogrammed» metal objects.

The Sound Bites program did just that, it connected the dots of my life experience, education and career in a way that attracts attention like a magnet.

They create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their vast network of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.

So when there are discussions about the best programs in the Section, Vanden is just an afterthought, despite all the success, and in spite of the inherent advantages of private schools and magnet schools.

As we talk about in this month's Technology Bytes, the web traffic - magnet has hired Rena Shapiro away from Pandora to run a new «native» advertising program aimed at...

As we talk about in this month's Technology Bytes, the web traffic - magnet has hired Rena Shapiro away from Pandora to run a new «native» advertising program aimed at political campaigns.

He supports charter schools, school choice within a district, and «money follows the child,» a program in which students who attend magnet or charter schools bring education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

The plan proposes new spending cuts in programs such as Care4Kids, magnet schools, and reducing municipal aid for the Elderly Circuit Breaker program.

GE was awarded $ 2.2 million by DoE's ARPA — E program to develop bulk quantities of such nanocomposite magnets in a bid to cut by 80 percent the rare earth elements used.

Writing started for me in high school when I attended a magnet program for writing.

«Bringing a very high - field superconducting magnet to UCSB to create the MRX facility would provide a unique opportunity to fulfill a national need and enable many experiments that can not be done at the NHMFL,» said chemistry professor Songi Han, a member of the «Big Mag @ UCSB» program committee who has been working with Sherwin for more than a decade on filming proteins in action.

A «blueprint» he proposed in year two, as achievement lagged, increased the hours of literacy training, with additional time and summer school for those falling behind, and added more programs for the same purpose, to be paid for by centralizing control of Title I funds and eliminating other programs (such as some magnet schools).

In subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school settinIn subsequent years, two of these schools were restructured as magnet schools offering specialized programs in a small school settinin a small school setting.

Our analysis occurs in a district with a large number of relatively high - quality magnet programs, and thus the alternatives to the G&T programs may be strong.

Because the lottery is random, any differences in outcomes between lottery winners and losers can be attributed to the effect of enrolling in the G&T magnet program rather than one of these alternatives.

And in contrast to the G&T program as a whole, students admitted by lottery to G&T magnet program were assigned to more effective teachers.

Georgia stretched the interpretation of a state law too far when it concluded in 1978 that it did not need to count students in the DeKalb County district's magnet school program and those in a voluntary - integration program when it calculated transportation costs to be paid to the district, Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane of Fulton County Superior Court said in a Sept....

Mason attends Richmond Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, a school that, along with Mt. Tabor Middle School and Grant High School, houses a fifteen - year - old Japanese language partial - immersion magnet program that researchers from the Center for Applied Linguistics have called a model for language learning.

Our lottery analysis is based on the sample of LUSD 5th - grade students determined to be eligible for G&T programs in 2007 — 08 who applied for admission to one of the two middle schools with an oversubscribed G&T magnet program.

Some magnet schools have multiple programs in a single school, each with different themes.

Our analysis compares the performance of students who win the lottery and attend one of the G&T magnet programs to those who lose the lottery and either attend a neighborhood G&T program in the district, a magnet school based on a different specialty, or a charter school.

Turning to student outcomes, however, our results provide little evidence that attending a G&T magnet program leads to improvements in student achievement (see Figure 3).

We evaluate the impact of G&T program enrollment in the regression discontinuity study and of attending a G&T magnet in the lottery analysis.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

Neighborhood schools in these zones that are disproportionately low - income would be reformed as magnet schools with attractive educational programs and themes to appeal to more middle - income families.

Finally, the Supreme Court, responding to one of many state appeals, decreed in 1995 by a 5 — 4 vote that Judge Clark could not impose a program of magnet schools to attract white students from the suburbs.

In practice, these methods have generally proved unconvincing because there are unobservable variables that are correlated with peer selection, with moving, with participating in a magnet or other school program, or with the excluded variables that identify the selection modeIn practice, these methods have generally proved unconvincing because there are unobservable variables that are correlated with peer selection, with moving, with participating in a magnet or other school program, or with the excluded variables that identify the selection modein a magnet or other school program, or with the excluded variables that identify the selection model.

It's true that many communities have various «talent search» initiatives, scholarship programs for poor kids to attend elite private schools and top colleges, science fairs, spelling bees, selective magnet schools, and other approaches for ferreting out these diamonds in the rough.

In 1999 Cleveland had 23 magnet schools with 13,000 students in attendance and eight charter schools with 1,600 students in attendance, compared with the 3,800 in the voucher prograIn 1999 Cleveland had 23 magnet schools with 13,000 students in attendance and eight charter schools with 1,600 students in attendance, compared with the 3,800 in the voucher prograin attendance and eight charter schools with 1,600 students in attendance, compared with the 3,800 in the voucher prograin attendance, compared with the 3,800 in the voucher prograin the voucher program.

We've tried a number of solutions over the years to deal with diversity in schools, from mandated busing to desegregate schools to magnet programs to minority recruitment campaigns at colleges and universities.