Sentences with phrase «nonselective schools»

And though Humes is nuanced in his handling of the tensions internal to Whitney, his attempt to use the school as a model for nonselective schools is fanciful.

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

«Everyone really struggled with the model,» she said, noting that as a nonselective school, she has some ninth - graders coming in at a kindergarten reading level.

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• Despite our national struggle to create high - performing nonselective - admissions urban high schools, six D.C. charter high schools made Tier - 1 status.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public SchoolsSchools.

Likewise, most of the teachers in the SASS sample came from schools rated between 4 («competitive plus») and 1 (nonselective).

I assigned the teachers from each school a number that corresponds to that school's Barron's rating, from 9 for Barron's top rating, «most competitive,» to 1 for its lowest, «nonselective,» which is reserved for schools that will accept nearly anyone with a high school diploma or GED.

The schools vary in structure, focus, and admissions process, but 123 of the schools are nonselective and serve a largely disadvantaged population.

At the heart of these reforms lie 123 new «small schools of choice» (SSCs)-- small, academically nonselective, four - year public high schools for students in grades 9 through 12.

MDRC has previously released two reports on these «small schools of choice,» or SSCs (so called because they are small, are academically nonselective, and were created to provide a realistic choice for students with widely varying academic backgrounds).

A little more checking, and I found that the study was paid for by a small endowment at Rutgers called the Daniel Tanner Foundation which describes itself as «advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

Among the most popular selections were «small schools of choice,» which are small, nonselective public high schools that emphasize academic rigor, strong relationships between students and teachers and community partnerships.

Lehmann acknowledges the inherent advantages at a school that's able to choose its students — applicants must meet minimum grade requirements and sit for an interview — but, like his counterparts at Philadelphia's nonselective project - based learning schools, he argues that we need to be taking a more holistic view of school performance.

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.

The Tanner Foundation is an endowment at Rutgers that describes itself as dedicated to «advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.»

I taught at a nonselective New York City school.

The Daniel Tanner Foundation was established in 2010 with the mission of advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

It clearly sets out that the gap between children on free school meals and all other children is actually wider in wholly - selective areas than in nonselective.