Sentences with phrase «other high school settings»

Like other continuation high schools in Oakland and elsewhere, Ralph Bunche is often viewed as the «last chance» school for its students, the vast majority of whom arrive in Steele's office after unsuccessful experiences in one or more other high school settings.

Not exact matches

What sets the Basic School apart from other training institutions — and in particular, from an M.B.A. program, to which the Basic School in some ways roughly corresponds — is that it unabashedly favors breeding generic, high - speed, chaos - proof leadership over imparting specific skills.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The first Colonial team is set to kick off this fall, playing home games at nearby Moon High School Stadium while marching to the drum of none other than former New York Jet coach Joe Walton.

Experience comes into play not just in terms of what happens on the court, but in being familiar with the other gyms in the league, with how to handle a two - hour bus ride, with the best way to keep up on homework, with how to set the inevitable high school drama aside when it's time to play.

There are a couple of experimental classroom interventions that I think seem particularly promising, including Tools of the Mind, which uses extended make - believe play and other teaching strategies to develop self - regulation in 4 - and 5 - year - olds, and OneGoal, the Chicago - based high school program that teaches juniors and seniors a particular set of non-cognitive skills designed to help them persist in college.

Seth Mandelbaum, of the Westchester Parks Foundation, remarked, «At a young age, seeing what volunteerism can do for our parks system is a really fantastic example that they are setting for all other high schools in Westchester County.»

By setting high standards and pushing ourselves to meet them, our school realized our boundless potential to exceed our own expectations, and those laid out by others.

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.

At this point, realizing that I must have either slept through or forgotten the high school physics class where it was explained how magnets manage that singular feat of interacting with each other at a distance, I set out on what I assumed would be a minutes - long odyssey to understand the phenomenon.

The setting is Bloomington, Indiana, where four lifelong friends have graduated high school and spend their days just hanging out with each other, committed to never break up their friendship or way of life for anything.

His approach is completely straight - faced, giving high school kids similar, somewhat anachronistic, stylized dialogue, speaking to each other in a sophisticated and mannered fashion, and adding a depth and maturity not commonly associated with films set in high school.

• Pop Star Profile • Life's What You Make It • One in a Million • Keeping It Real Other Hannah Montana DVDs: That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana • Wish Gone Amiss Hannah Montana DVD Game Miley Cyrus in Concert: Radio Disney Party Jams: The Concert Hannah Montana CDs: Hannah Montana 2 / Meet Miley Cyrus • Special Edition Soundtrack • Soundtrack CDs featuring Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana: Disney Channel Holiday Disney Channel Fare: Camp Rock • Mickey Mouse Club: The Best of Britney, Justin & Christina • Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School High School Musical • High School Musical 2 • The Cheetah Girls 2 • Lizzie McGuire: Box Set Volume 1 Other Concert Films: High School Musical: The Concert • Disneymania in Concert • Disneymania 3 in Concert • Shine a Light New to DVD: Camp Rock • The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector's Edition • The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

Once the survey was done, Huntington and the other 50 middle and high schools that took part in the initiative were given reports in clear, accessible language that summarized the results, plus a set of resources and customized strategies that teachers and principals could use to make changes based on their results.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serSchool districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school serschool services.

Academia has a set of standards that you move up based on the number of articles that you get published in the highest ranked publications, which cater to an exclusive audience of other academics that doesn't include the general public, community educators, and the people on the ground at local schools.»

Frustrated that so many of its graduates were struggling to finish college, staff members from Match High School decided to set up a new program to coach some of their graduates (and others) all the way to an online degree.

Since improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased learning and could come at the expense of other academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT and ACT performance, and the percentage of students attending college.

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

High - school - level students come to Casa Blanca Alternative Education School because they've struggled academically in other setschool - level students come to Casa Blanca Alternative Education School because they've struggled academically in other setSchool because they've struggled academically in other settings.

Students can investigate possible internships in diverse educational contexts (e.g., in schools and alternative educational settings, higher education, NGOs, research organizations and labs, public agencies and non-profits, museums, private corporations, technology, as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

School leaders should, among other things, be able to set clear direction, establish high expectations, and develop talent in their schools to fully support teaching and learning.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

In such matters, Vander Ark explains, the donors set basic strategy (focus on high schools, create many small ones, find and replicate promising models) but left the execution to others.

Because NCLB allows each state to set its own standards for proficiency, schools in different states with the same percentage of students achieving proficiency may be of markedly different quality if one state has high standards and the other low.

Prekindergarten teachers who work in schools and other publicly operated settings are better - qualified, get higher pay, and stay in their jobs longer than those who work in classrooms operated by private organizations, a study concludes.

However, no other data set combines measures of early exposure to bilingual education programs with measures of students» outcomes 10 years after high school.

During the more than two - hour meeting, the Mayor, Schools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate settSchools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate settschools and should be removed to an alternate setting,...

... instances where students of a particular race, as compared to students of other races, are disproportionately: sanctioned at higher rates; disciplined for specific offenses; subjected to longer sanctions or more severe penalties; removed from the regular school setting to an alternative school setting; or excluded from one or more educational programs or activities.

The first is the quality of teachers: Research shows that the country's best and most experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with low levels of poverty.49 On the other hand, new and inexperienced teachers disproportionately work in high - poverty school settings.

The bar is set much higher overseas because no other country expects all students to complete an academic high school or prepare for authentic college coursework.

Several other characteristics of more effective schools include features that are also linked to the culture of the school and leadership: maintaining focus on learning, producing a positive school climate, setting high expectations for all, developing staff skills and involving parents.

on what others are doing in elementary or high schools, urban or rural settings, with a science or a more cultural focus.

This means that, even setting aside other issues with the measures, current standard value - added measures for teachers who concentrate their work in particular tracks in middle and high schools will suffer from validity concerns.

In order to be a proof point for what public schooling can and should, Democracy Prep does three things that set it apart from other high - performing charter networks.

The other interim charges considered by the committee at the hearing included examining current school board governance policies and practices and making recommendations that could improve the focus, attitudes and outcomes of Texas school boards, districts and students; studying existing board training requirements and making suggestions to educate school board trustees on policies that could achieve better student outcomes, particularly within the framework set for low - performing schools in House Bill 1842; and monitoring initiatives to build a high - quality pre-kindergarten grant program (HB 4).

By contrast, many state school finance systems barely achieve «flat» funding between high and low need settings and still others remain regressive.»

«The bar has been set very high for magnet schools and other choice programs.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, A + Colorado, and 111 other organizations signed a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, requesting that the U.S. Department of Education stay on track to implement new data tracking rules that would standardize how states identify school districts with «significant disproportionality,» or high rates of students from particular racial or ethnic groups that are placed in restrictive settings or are subject to discipline.

The comprehensive high school, on the other hand, had a curriculum designed to provide students with «end of formal education» sets of skills.

On Track to Graduate: Includes two components, graduation rates for high schools or attendance rate for other schools, and a set of measures including third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and ACT participation and performance, as applicable to the school.

One of the most dysfunctional big schools, Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, became infamous in 1992 when a 15 - year - old student there shot two other students dead in the hallway an hour before then - Mayor David Dinkins was set to tour the Brooklyn sSchool in East New York, became infamous in 1992 when a 15 - year - old student there shot two other students dead in the hallway an hour before then - Mayor David Dinkins was set to tour the Brooklyn schoolschool.

The Bridge to Completion research centers on the analysis of multiple data sets, including comparing similar schools and other large, urban districts as well as national data, and interviewing 50 - plus professionals representing the school district, community - based organizations, higher education and nationally recognized college access.

New Jersey teacher, Rutgers graduate student, and blogger Jersey Jazzman deftly explains that even when New York set its cut scores to a very high level, the distribution of scale scores on the state exam barely moved, and that is because the decision to place cut scores is independent of how students do on the test itself and of how schools and districts and states compare to each other.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

Charter school leaders, however, say they are aggressively recruiting students with the lowest skill sets and note they have had success in other areas, such as enrolling high numbers of black and Latino students.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.