This study examined the effects of a computer game, DimensionM,
on public high school students» mathematics achievement and motivation.
Not exact matches
Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson worked with the city of Philadelphia
on a grant for
public high school students interested in entrepreneurship.
He has a position
on the board of the
student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller
high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed
on the
public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.
A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of
students in Catholic
high schools was less dependent
on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the
public schools.»
The
school was famous in 1995 when a movie called «Dangerous Minds» featuring actress Michelle Pfeiffer was based
on a true story about Carlmont HS during a time when East Palo Alto was the murder capital city in the nation and there were 4 regions that segregated each
students to attend (4)
public high schools in the Sequoia District: Menlo - Atherton, Woodside, Sequoia and Carlmont.
But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of
high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the f
high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the
school students who plan to speak out
on Chicago
Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those
students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice
High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the f
High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the
School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.
Homeschooled
students have been shown to have
higher average scores
on the ACT test (26.5) than their
public school peers (25).
These
students, and others from 14 local
public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious
school lunches
on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.
Varying surveys of both private and
public high school students showed from 80 to 90 percent admitting to some form of cheating during the
school year, from copying another
student's work to cheating
on a test.
According to the UIL, which oversees
public high school athletics, wrestlers can only compete against their own gender, which is «determined based
on a
student's birth certificate.»
If you come from a low - income home — that's 2/3 of the District of Columbia
Public School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store on the way to school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutr
School students — where breakfast is Doritos and some colored water and
high fructose corn syrup called «juice» purchased at the convenience store
on the way to
school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutr
school, with dinner not being much better, where do you learn about food and nutrition?
Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the
public schools, or those who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based
on the idea of social justice, that low income
students deserve the same respect and services as
higher income
students.
Cuomo participated in an anti-gun violence «die in» demonstration with
students from Leadership and
Public Service
High School in Lower Manhattan by laying
on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to
students, parents and employers who all depend
on high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
Gov. Cuomo also participated in the demonstration with
students from Leadership and
Public Service
High School in Lower Manhattan by laying
on the ground in Zuccotti Park among the protestors.
The president and Congress have been struggling to respond to
public demands to stop mass shootings at
schools since a former
student armed with an AR -15-style rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida,
on Feb. 14.
Hawkins will speak
on the need to fully fund and desegregate
public schools, while ending
high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all
students in New York.
And New York Governor Andrew Cuomo participated in a demonstration with
students from Leadership and
Public Service
High School in Lower Manhattan by laying
on the ground in Zuccotti Park with the group.
«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining
on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with
students and teachers from nearby Leadership &
Public Service
High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland sho
School who joined in nationwide
school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland sho
school walkouts
on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.
They say the test results show that charter
school students scored
higher on the exams than did
public school students.
BY MICHAEL CAHILL No
public comments
on budget at this week's NRCSD Meeting The North Rockland Central
School district met
on Tuesday evening at North Rockland
High School to honor several
students who had won essay contests, and hold a
public hearing
on the 2012 — 2013 budget.
Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting
high school student appointed by the superintendent) who serve as volunteers and provide hands -
on leadership and support for their district's
public schools.
An Osun State
High Court
on Friday ruled that Muslim female
students in
public primary and secondary
schools in the state are now free to wear...
An Osun State
High Court
on Friday granted female Muslim
students in the state, the right to wear hijab in
public schools.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to
students, parents and employers who all depend
on high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.
On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and
public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all
public school students have access to
high - quality teachers.
The region boasts a superior
public education system — low
student / teacher ratios of 12:1,
high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go
on to college.
BY SAM SPOKONY The New York Harbor
School, a public high school on Governors Island that trains students in marine science and technology, will start this school year with a new interim prin
School, a
public high school on Governors Island that trains students in marine science and technology, will start this school year with a new interim prin
school on Governors Island that trains
students in marine science and technology, will start this
school year with a new interim prin
school year with a new interim principal.
The journey to instill fear in
high school students both in the private and
public sector begins
on November 9 to 13.
Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council
on Great City
Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo
Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these
students graduate from
high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.
There are three ballot propositions
on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for
school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for
public and nonpublic
school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding
school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «
high - tech security features.»
Fariña recently told Capital she believes some charter
schools can have a positive effect
on the
public system, while knocking others (without naming specific
schools) for touting
high test scores, but not accepting special education or English Language Learner
students.
More than 700,000
students in more than 1,200 New York City
schools — including large
high schools in all five boroughs — would face
higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after -
school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good
on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from
public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.
In response to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» ina
School in Parkland, Florida, young people nationwide, including many New York City
public school students, are planning to walk out of school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» ina
school students, are planning to walk out of
school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» ina
school for 17 minutes — one for every person killed — at 10 a.m.
on Wednesday, March 14 to protest the U.S. Congress» inaction.
The UFT is calling
on the state Legislature to enact legislation that will require taxpayer - funded charters and charter chains to accept and keep comparable numbers of
high - needs
students as traditional
public schools.
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.
«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects,
students in online charter
schools perform worse
on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for
high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional
public schools,» said McEachin.
In addition to conducting her own research
on brain - computer interfaces, Kaitlyn Casimo is helping to make neural engineering easier to understand for
high school students and the general
public.
He also helped develop pediatric genetic screening programs for
high school students, which were shown to have lasting effects
on personal and
public health in Quebec.
Dr. Scriver also helped develop pediatric genetic screening programs, including one for thalassemia and another for Tay - Sachs disease, both targeted at
high school students, which were shown to have lasting effects
on personal and
public health in Quebec.
A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans
on smoking in
public places, 48 percent of middle - and
high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.
A
high school student (Amber Tamblyn) is charged with murder after the corpse of a newborn is found in a
public restroom near where the girl had been
on a class trip.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused
on a
high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter
Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit
students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a
student - centric system for
students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates
high - performing
schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
schools in Boston and will now focus
on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one -
on - one tutoring;
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve
students significantly below grade level; Summit
Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial lead
Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based
school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus
on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
The absence of
high - performing
public schools, and the lack of emphasis
on American civics or expectations for good citizenship, will hurt our nation's youth and will certainly handicap our Hispanic immigrant
students and their families most by impeding the assimilation process.
Students who attend five charter
schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently
higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable
public schools, an independent evaluation of the
schools concludes.
The result is that African - American
students who switched from
public to private
schools scored,
on average, 6.3 points
higher than their
public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.
Some key reforms live
on, including the federal requirement that states test their
students in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in
high school, disaggregate the results, and report the information to the
public; and the requirement that states intervene in the bottom five percent of their
schools.
MC2 (Metropolitan Cleveland Consortium) STEM
High School is a year - round public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experi
School is a year - round
public school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is on providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experi
school in Cleveland, Ohio, where instruction is through interdisciplinary project - based learning, and the focus is
on providing
students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.
Four Corners charter
students do well
on NAEP, even when compared to
public school students in Massachusetts, the
highest - performing state.
Though she was considered a top
student on another nearby reservation when she was a pupil, she struggled after transferring to a
public high school.