Sentences with phrase «of new small high schools»

New Small Schools and Small Learning Communities: BPS has launched a number of new small high schools.

The same Bill Gates whose company was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein has given Chancellor Klein at least $ 70 million for creating hundreds of new small high schools and charter schools.

Not exact matches

Pro and major - college sports, with their cheering throngs in big - time stadiums, were not to be played anywhere in the U.S. Away from the New York metropolitan area, it was deemed acceptable to play most small - college and high school sports, which went on as scheduled, accompanied usually by a pregame prayer, moment of silence and patriotic salute by the school band.

However, in the tristate area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, most Friday - night high school football games were called off, most Saturday small - college soccer games were scrapped.

According to her Assembly biography, Clark was a forerunner of the small school initiative in New York City, and was instrumental in shifting Andrew Jackson High School into four small magnet high scschool initiative in New York City, and was instrumental in shifting Andrew Jackson High School into four small magnet high schoHigh School into four small magnet high scSchool into four small magnet high schohigh schools.

This winter, the halls of the Bronx Aerospace Academy, a small military - themed high school on Gun Hill Road, look fresh and new thanks to a nonprofit group that is making its mission to spruce up the city's drab and dilapidated public school buildings.

For most schools, it adds, the likelihood of «raising significant revenue» from patents is small, the probability of disappointment is high, and the risk of «distorting and narrowing» the use of new knowledge is great.

He also predicts that the outbreak in western Japan will follow the course of the one among high schools in New York City, with mild cases predominating but with smaller numbers of severe cases among those with other health problems.

It's the start of a new year at a small suburban high school.

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Based on the book by H.G. Bissinger, the film stars Billy Bob Thorton as Gary Gaines, the new coach of the 1988 Permian Panthers, who's been brought in to lead the small - town high school to their first state title in years.

Speaking of which, The Faculty boasts nothing new in its parisitical alien takeover (Body Snatchers) of a small town high school, beginning with the teachers themselves.

Welles, played by McKay, is introduced through the eyes of Richard, a stage - struck New York high school kid who, through a combination of chance and chutzpah lands a small role in the production.

A coming - of - age film about a California high school student who seeks to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

So, on a mild spring evening, I make my way to Hayward, California, to stand on the darkened field of the Impact Academy of Arts and Technology, a small, brand - new charter high school where Medina's students are ready to exhibit their creations.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategHigh Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strateghigh school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategHigh Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

In fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty lHigh School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertySchool, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty lhigh school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertyschool in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty line.

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.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

Robert Hughes recalls his first meeting with Joel Klein, in 2002, at an opening - day ceremony at South Bronx High School, the newest of New Century's small high schoHigh School, the newest of New Century's small high schohigh schools.

Then came a fresh start as a freshman in one of this city's new generation of small public high schools.

New York has proved that high school reform is possible; that boosting graduation rates of the poor and unprepared, even if the effort is begun in high school, is possible; that small alone is not enough; that choice alone is not enough.

These lessons add to MDRC's evidence on the implementation of small high schools of choice in New York City.

Jointly conducted by two prominent research organizations, the study charts the progress of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's effort to support the launch of hundreds of new, small high schools and convert hundreds of large high schools into smaller units.

A new evaluation of a national grant program to create smaller, more personalized high schools concludes that the initiative is yielding some promising early results.

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.

Earlier this year, Peter Meyer described the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fix high schools in New York City by converting large high schools into smaller schools.

In her sixth State of the State address, delivered on Jan. 29, Ms. Granholm called for as many as 100 new small high schools to help stem the dropout rate, starting as early as 2009.

Small schools can also help boost graduation rates among these underserved students by providing them with a new version of the three Rs - rigorous academic coursework, meaningful relationships with instructors who can help them meet high standards, and relevant learning opportunities through internships, community partnerships, and real - world tasks.

[10] To these two we can add MDRC's study of small high schools in New York City, which also showed positive effects and could be used by districts for struggling high schools.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

English - language learners have limited access to some of the 186 small high schools that are part of a small - schools initiative launched by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the New York City school system, says a report by two immigrant - advocacy groups.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

For example, as Michele Cahill of the Carnegie Foundation explains, when it comes to reversing Bloomberg's small high schools initiative, «There are several hundred high schools now that are functioning in New York and they have students and teachers and parents who affiliate with them, and are showing tremendous results.»

Underlining the interrelated nature of New York City's secondary - school reforms, 57 percent of students enrolled in a small high school serving fewer than 110 students, and 28 percent enrolled in a school that had opened the year they enrolled.

New York City became a poster child of the initiative when New York school chancellor, Joel Klein, accepted Gates dollars and began, in 2002, to create 123 «small high schools of choice.»

For all the activity and buzz in and around new small schools, only 10 percent of all high school students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School Alliahigh school students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School Allschool students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School AlliaHigh School AllSchool Alliance.

Back in the United States, we find a dizzying assortment of gifted and talented programs in many districts, a handful of states that require «gifted» students to be «identified» (though not necessarily «served»), and a small but distinguished array of super high schools such as New York's Stuyvesant High School and Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technolhigh schools such as New York's Stuyvesant High School and Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnolHigh School and Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnolHigh School for Science and Technology.

At the MET / Big Picture Company network of small high schools, for example (see «High School's New Face,» the main component of every student's education is the Learn Through Internships program, in which students complete authentic projects with the guidance of expert mentors a minimum of two days a whigh schools, for example (see «High School's New Face,» the main component of every student's education is the Learn Through Internships program, in which students complete authentic projects with the guidance of expert mentors a minimum of two days a wHigh School's New Face,» the main component of every student's education is the Learn Through Internships program, in which students complete authentic projects with the guidance of expert mentors a minimum of two days a week.

Instead, she and her family chose a small new school called Met West, one of thousands of high schools throughout the United States that typically serve between 200 and 600 students, rather than the 2,000 or more many high schools cram in.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

, 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 Jschool 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 JSchool, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jschool in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

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One study, conducted by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new principaNew York City Schools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinSchools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new principaNew York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools led by new principanew principals.

At the same time, New York opened a group of small high schools offering open enrollment and personalized attention for students, and it instituted a citywide choice policy.

At the heart of its high school reforms were three interrelated changes: the institution of a districtwide high school choice process for all rising ninth - graders, the closure of 31 large, failing high schools with an average graduation rate of 40 percent, and the opening of more than 200 new small high schools.

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.

New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparaSmall High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparatiNew York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparatinew small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparasmall schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaschools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.