Sentences with phrase «of public high schools»

See them teaching in classrooms of public high schools in our cities.

Just as I predicted when I retired from 10 years of public high school teaching in CT 4 years ago — things would continue to spiral downward.....

The vast majority of public high schools offer access to hands - on college experience with almost all (98 percent) offering career preparation.

To register for one of our public high school classes click here.

This is after he almost dropped out of his public high school.

Nearly 15 percent of the public high school graduates in the class of 2006 scored a 3 or better on an Advanced Placement exam, up from 10 percent in 2000, the College Board reported last week.

A Welcoming Environment: Between 1996 and 2008, the number of public high schools with full - time security guards tripled.

The 2017 High School Benchmarks Report: National College Progression Rates covers public and private high schools from all 50 states and 71 percent of the 100 largest districts in the United States, including about 40 percent of all public high school graduates or nearly 6 million graduates in total.

According to the Vera Institute of Justice, a research and policy nonprofit, between the 1996 — 1997 and 2007 — 2008 school years, the number of public high schools with full - time law enforcement and security guards tripled.

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

This year's installment of Education Week's annual report features a comprehensive analysis of public high school graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every school district in the country.

The demographic makeup of charter schools is much less poor, less special needs, and less LEP compared to the demographics of the public high schools located in communities in which charter high schools operate.

An Urban Teacher's Education James Boutin shares thoughts on education and experiences of a public high school teacher in the Bronx.

Connecticut Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and other elected officials joined East Hartford students, parents and teachers on Tuesday to rally in support of their public high school.

The effrontery outrages Marion; she and her husband, Larry (Tracy Letts), soon to be sacked from his computer - programming job, are already making enormous sacrifices to send their daughter to that private Catholic institution (not so much for religious reasons but owing to Mom's abject terror of public high school).

A suave and sophisticated noir film moved from the shadowy backstreets to the broad daylight of a public high school, Brick is as spellbinding as it is original.

: A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001,»...

That two - pronged message — unfaltering belief in students, and in water as a powerful learning environment — permeates every aspect of this public high school located in Brooklyn's working - class neighborhood of Bushwick.

The Alliance for Excellent Education — a Washington - based policy and research organization — surveyed 1,200 adults this month and found that 32 percent said they believed the quality of public high school education had declined nationwide.

For example, they have pushed to reduce the size of public high schools, in the belief that small high schools, like families, can succeed by developing a strong, shared sense of mission among faculty and students.

Kristin Kearns - Jordan is the CEO of Urban Assembly, a nonprofit that serves a family of public high schools in New York City.

I'm a 12 year veteran of public high schools in Houston, Seattle, and Cambridge, and many of the best lessons & techniques I use were provided to me by more experienced teachers, who were / are union members.

Principals of public high schools want more authority in exchange for greater accountability for the success of their students, according to a survey released by the U.S. Education Department.

According to a report issued by Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc., a research and marketing firm based in New York City, 41 percent of public high schools subscribe to some form of online curriculum.

In fact, low - income examinees remain few and far between, even though two - thirds of public high schools, including many in large cities, now offer at least one AP course.

More than half of public high school teachers in a nationally representative school sample reported seeing more students than ever with «high levels of stress and anxiety» between last January, when Trump took office, and May.

Achievement and demographic characteristics of public high schools and charter high schools in selected DFG ’s

The percentage of students with special needs served by charter high schools is also more representative of the public high schools serving the wealthiest towns.

Yet charter high schools underperform on the SAT Math & Verbal sections, on average, the mean SAT achievement of high schools in «B» communities and many of the public high schools, located in «A» communities

For example, in SAT Math, charter high schools that serve student populations with 60 % or less of the students eligible for Free lunch -LRB-.60 FRpct), underperform the majority of public high schools with similar percentages of students eligible for Free lunch located in New Jersey's poorest communities — the «A» and «B» DFGs (Blue & Red circles).

However, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics showed that the percentage of public high schools that reported difficult - to - staff teaching positions (i.e., positions principals reported were very difficult to fill or could not be filled in a specific subject area) were lower in every subject area over a 10 - year period.

Some 300 miles away, in the town of Rathdrum, North Idaho STEM Charter Academy posted the highest SAT scores of all public high schools in the state last year.

Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work - based learning during the 2007 - 08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics.

In addition, a recent review of the public high schools in New Haven versus the two New Haven based charter high schools, both run by Achievement First, revealed that Achievement First HAS AN EVEN WORSE RECORD than the public schools when it came to keeping high school students enrolled.

«Low - Income Students and the Socioeconomic Composition of Public High Schools.»

The Calgary Board of Education Chief Superintendent's Student Advisory Council was a group of public high school students with representation from each of Calgary's public high school programs.

Here he tells the story of his union's successful campaign to stop the charter takeover of a public high school (for more background on charter schools, see the suggested readings at the end of the article).

Green Dot Public Schools was founded in 1999 in direct response to the poor state of public high schools in the Los Angeles area.

«Noble is a leading example of a public high school that empowers students and prepares them for a solid college career.

The common school, the Merrill Land - Grant Act that provided every state with the resources to build colleges for agriculture and manufacturing, the creation of public high schools, and the G.I. Bill which established that military veterans should have access to higher education are key elements of the expansion of educational opportunity.

In 2013, 23 % of public elementary schools and 15 % of public high schools required students to wear uniforms — up from 3 % of all schools in 1996 (NCES, 2016).

The scholarship was established by friends and family in memory of Mr. Minter to benefit graduating seniors of public high schools in Oklahoma County.

Remember how we trained a generation for a new, industrial economy by building a nationwide system of public high schools; how we laid down railroad tracks and highways across an entire continent; how we pushed the boundaries of science and technology to unlock the very building blocks of human life.

L2B is intended to facilitate the development of attention and emotion regulation skills within the context of public high school health classes.

While low nationally, the number of public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of E...