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For more information: Jesse Hagopian, Teacher Garfield HS, 206-962-1685, [email protected] SEATTLE — In perhaps the first instance anywhere in the nation, teachers at Seattle's Garfield High School will announce this afternoon their refusal to administer a standardized test that students in other high schools across the district are scheduled to take in the first part of January.

Notably, we found that the schools identified for closure served similar proportions of low - income and special - needs students compared to other high schools across the city (Figure 2).

On average, for each closed high school, displaced students ended up attending 82 other high schools across the city.

His essay, along with only five other high schoolers across the country out of over 300 submitted, was printed in this national publication.

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Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

On March 14, students at Lewis Middle School in Allied Gardens joined hundreds of thousands of other students from across the country in a walkout to protest gun violence in schools following the death of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida one month earlier.

Those who had completed higher levels of education were more opposed to the tariffs, but a majority was opposed across all levels of schooling, when controlled for other factors.

Back and forth across the Carolinas and Virginias, where college basketball rates higher than barbecue, the schools of the Southern Conference torment each other with diabolic defenses, home - court advantages and 6 - foot 11 - inch carpetbaggers.

He remembered my name, and those of hundreds other students, probably across decades of his time at my high school.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

To some, Adderall abuse may sound foreign, but Adderall and abuse of other attention - deficit drugs is growing among high school and college students across the nation.

«THE SMARTEST TEAM» begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six Pillars» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

There are full scale required class productions in Grades 10 and 12, however, drama in the High School is often used to support other subjects across the curriculum.

The Smartest Team begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six PillarsTM» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

Public schools across Long Island and other metro area suburbs already are winning high grades — and they've barely begun opening their doors — according to results of a back - to - school poll by Phi Delta Kappa, a global organization of professional educators.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

This money, which represents the second highest percentage of this year's capital allocations, will go towards technology upgrades and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

Students across the region will join others around the country in a national student walkout Wednesday to mark the one - month anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

The scores of last year's MCAS tests given to Springfield school students rose across the board at a higher rate than the gain recorded by school districts statewide, and the dropout rate has fallen more than any other school system in the state.

College tuition is high and many young women across New York turn to sugar daddies to either pay for their college expenses or the other aspects of their lives so that they don't have to work jobs while they go to school.

Consideration should be first given to collaboration, sharing resources across other schools and how to best deliver other high cost budgetary items like sickness cover and energy costs, where significant savings can be made.

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.

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.

It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to recruit and train new teachers in - house.

StoryCorps, an organization whose mission is to record and archive the stories of Americans from all backgrounds, will work with high school students across the country to preserve voices and stories of grandparents and other elders — in any language.

The suggestion that the school system consider cutting high school sports and other activities to save money «immediately stirred anxiety, frustration and incredulity across the community,» notes Moriah Balingit in the Washington Post.

Those giving local schools one of the two highest grades stands at 49 percent among the uninformed but just 41 percent among those told their own district's ranking relative to other districts across the state (see Figure 1).

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

Teachers regularly observe each other and provide peer feedback, building stronger relationships, unearthing better teaching practices, and increasing their ability to apply consistently high standards across the school.

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School joined others from across the country Friday outside the U.S. Capitol to issue a call for action from lawmakers ahead of Saturday's «March for Our Lives» rallies.

But with roughly 5,500 kids across the state still dropping out of high school every year, Professor Reville and others acknowledge that Massachusetts, widely recognized as having the nation's leading education system, still has a long way to go.

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with students in other elementary grades and middle school — across the country and in the mid-Atlantic region.

Second, student gains were uneven across Teach to One's schools; one school in particular stood out with student - learning gains significantly higher than those posted in other schools, which begs the question of what is causing the performance gains — the Teach to One model or some other factor.

In a briefing paper prepared for the National Academy of Education (NAE) and the American Educational Research Association, Linda Darling - Hammond and three other distinguished authors reached the following conclusion: «With respect to value - added measures of student achievement tied to individual teachers, current research suggests that high - stakes, individual - level decisions, as well as comparisons across highly dissimilar schools or student populations should be avoided.»

Representatives at the NJCSA claim, as do other proponents of charter school expansion, that charters offer superior academic benefits to children: «Across the country and in New Jersey, high - quality charter schools are making a difference.

Furthermore, students are «Selected» to attend Arts High School and other magnet schools across the state.

Only one in 10 elementary classrooms across the country emphasizes the development of cognitive skills; other researchers have advocated for explicit instruction of metacognitive, cognitive, and other strategies to facilitate the process of learning as a way to engage and motivate middle and high school students.

Since then, I, along with two other curriculum developers, have worked with teachers from across the county on how to best develop SEL skills in high school students.

«At the same time we recognize that charter schools — like most other schools across Connecticut — must continue to aim higher and do better.

Schools with high concentrations of struggling learners and low academic growth as compared to other middle schools across the state will be targeted as expansion sSchools with high concentrations of struggling learners and low academic growth as compared to other middle schools across the state will be targeted as expansion sschools across the state will be targeted as expansion schoolsschools.

The Making Caring Common Project surveyed 10,000 students from 33 schools across the country and asked them to rank what was most important to them: achieving at a high level, being a happy person (defined as «feeling good most of the time») or caring for others.

Most of their resources are targeted at middle and high school, and have an environmental focus (though the units are integrated across other content areas).

We think these schools, and likely hundreds of others, will be important to follow since there remains so little true innovation in high schools across the country where most kids are still just herded from one 50 - minute lecture block to the next for four years.

meets Department for Education priorities to ensure schools, higher education institutions and others across the sector are working together to develop and provide training

In turn, other work from Lindsay shows that black students — across elementary, middle, and high school — are less likely to be suspended or expelled by an African - American teacher.

They also appreciated the opportunity to learn alongside teachers from other elementary grades and to make connections with high school teachers that could lead to collaboration across levels in the future.

On the other hand, schools prefer to hire «higher quality» teachers across measures that signal quality.

The report finds that living in the feeder pattern for Wilson High School outweighs all other neighborhood aspects in explaining the differences in boundary participation rates across neighborhoods.

See two examples of effectively integrating literacy education: an elementary school district where integrated literacy programs are having real results across its 44 schools (two - thirds of which are Title 1) and a high school whose literacy coaching program is now a model for other programs nationwide.