Sentences with phrase «other high performing school»

DeVos responded, «the Department is still formulating its budget, but she supports magnet schools and other high performing school models.»

MFA in Austin, TX, is working to deepen and codify their innovative model, which fuses Montessori with other high performing school practices, to ensure success with an intentionally diverse learner community.

It is a program designed to increase access to the UC system for students from lower performing schools and that has to happen at the expense of higher performing students such as those from Lowell or any other high performing school.

Not exact matches

«As soon as it was put into place, a number of other high - performing schools contacted me,» says Schnidman.

Some parents come specifically for the religious instruction, but others seek an alternative to the utility - focused aims that typify many high - and low - performing schools in the United States.

Whether you are a middle school, high school, college / elite, or a recreational athlete, you can learn, just like any other skill, the mastery of yourself in order to perform your very best.

A number of the top - performing school districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseschool districts — Los Angeles Unified School District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District and San Antonio Independent School District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income houseSchool District, among others — serve a particularly high proportion of students from low - income households.

Local high school girls are invited to attend the shopping event to find a free gown for prom or other special event at from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5 or noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at Performing Arts Dance Academy, 206 Lake St., Hamburg, NY.

SUNY — which licenses charter schools — plans to demand more information from the high - performing Success Academy and other charter - school operators about their disciplinary and suspension policies before signing off on new charter applications or renewals.

In the final hours of the session, legislators agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill deBlasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the city.

In the final hours of the session, legislators also agreed to extend mayoral control over New York City schools another year, after Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, among other things, to allow some high performing charter schools to be regulated by the state, not the city.

NAATs are too complex, however, to perform in point - of - care settings such as physicians» offices, health fairs, school clinics, or other sexual health outreach venues, and they also have a high per - test cost.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

«In other school districts, we usually observe negative effects when high - performing teachers leave,» Dee said.

When the group broke up, his singing partner's career soared into other avenues while his floundered, leaving him today just a nostalgic memory for those old enough to remember their songs, which he performs at amusement parks, state fairs, and high school reunions.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

However, the NFER state that this would depend on schools being willing to collaborate and the capacity within high - performing schools who may already be helping out other establishments.

Perhaps some states would empower high - performing schools first, while others might put failing schools into governors» districts like the one currently proposed in New Jersey.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Richard Whitmire is author of On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cSchools Are Pushing the Envelope, which chronicles the rise of leading charter school network Rocketship and the impact of high - performing charter schools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the cschools in Denver, Spring Branch, and other cities across the country.

Schools that participate say they are curious to see how their students compare to students from other countries, especially if the school is considered high performing; a few participated to demonstrate that low - income minority students could perform as well or better than students nationally or internationally.

Lulu Rivera, a junior at the Harvey Milk High School, performs a spoken - word piece about Hamilton's best friend, John Laurens, that he wrote based on the long, intimate letters the two wrote to each other.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The high - performing charter schools, like KIPP and others, have figured out the system that works for kids in even the toughest neighborhoods.»

BVP is among a growing number of high - performing charter - school networks (including Summit Public Schools, Citizens of the World Charter Schools, Denver School of Science and Technology, and others) that are intentionally socioeconomically dischool networks (including Summit Public Schools, Citizens of the World Charter Schools, Denver School of Science and Technology, and others) that are intentionally socioeconomically diSchool of Science and Technology, and others) that are intentionally socioeconomically diverse.

The world's top - performing school systems and those coming up fast have a lesson to teach the others: Put high - quality teaching for every child at the heart of school improvement.

Major funders like the Charter School Growth Fund and NewSchools Venture Fund are helping other high - performing charters expand as well.

Being able to draw in parents, the public, policymakers, and others who are interested in education, we need something to be able to say, «This particular school is high - performing or not a high - performing school,» and then provide additional information that supports that letter grade.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

By contrast, the successful schools approach uses observed spending levels in the highest - performing schools as models from which to calculate necessary spending in other, lower - performing schools.

But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have shown stronger recent gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better job of closing the achievement gap.

Controlling for other factors, houses in districts with higher - performing government schools are more expensive than those in areas with lower - performing schools.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

In his work, he saw plenty of kids who were struggling academically, but he also saw high - performing high school students who wanted to help others.

The Charter School Growth Fund, seeded by the Pisces and Walton foundations, among others, aims to create 100,000 seats in high - performing charter schools by 2015.

The fact that students at APIP schools were no more likely to graduate from high school or take the SAT or ACT makes it improbable that an influx of high - performing students is responsible for the improvements observed for other outcomes.

Several other high - performing charter networks, including Achievement First, Uncommon Schools, and Success Academy, are also discovering the need for a new approach to teaching reading.

When we performed this analysis, we found, as other economists before us, that when the average number of years of schooling in a country was higher, the economy grew at a higher annual rate over subsequent decades.

Three Wisconsin districts have started modest merit - pay programs in an effort to recognize their high - performing educators and potentially lure other strong teachers to their schools.

This mirrors the already successful approach with maths Hubs — high performing schools which share their knowledge with other schools locally.

Ideally, system leaders use this information — along with other data on school quality — to increase the number of high - quality seats (e.g., by adding seats to desirable schools or opening more schools like them) and reduce the number of low - quality seats (e.g., by closing low - performing, undesirable schools).

Several other schools perform higher, but have the advantage of starting with students in middle school or even elementary school.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

But while the ability to move these scores may be 90 % of the job for an elementary - school teacher in Philadelphia or Detroit, it doesn't necessarily make sense to use these metrics to evaluate teachers in higher - performing schools — where most children easily clear the literacy and numeracy bar, and where parents are more concerned with how well teachers develop their children's other skills and talents.

Add specific schools or districts into the comparison (e.g., add a high - performing district or a neighboring district or school regardless of the other selection criteria used)

Scores at some other high schools might have been depressed because their highest - performing math students took Algebra I and Algebra II in middle school.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.