Sentences with phrase «over traditional high school»

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Set in 1976 Texas, Dazed and Confused flows from one group of high - school and middle - school students over the course of one night — the traditional cinematic one - night - that - changes - everything.

Other innovations like peer - to - peer learning or early college high school models likewise may tug at the foundation of the traditional, centralized, factory - and time - based models that have dominated our education system for over a century.

Green Dot is best known for taking over Locke High School, the first time a charter organization had taken over a traditional, low - performing school in the L.A. Unified School DisSchool, the first time a charter organization had taken over a traditional, low - performing school in the L.A. Unified School Disschool in the L.A. Unified School DisSchool District.

The purpose of this study is to help assess to what extent charter schools have the potential to provide a higher quality, more cost - effective educational solution for California K - 12 students over traditional schools, particularly those in low income communities.

Juniors switching over to online high school courses, or using the online program as a supplement to traditional education, must have excellent self - discipline and time management skills.

The Los Angeles - based nonprofit operates 10 local charters as well as Locke High, the district's first traditional high school to be taken over by a private operaHigh, the district's first traditional high school to be taken over by a private operahigh school to be taken over by a private operator.

Charter school students in Illinois scored on average 0.5 higher in their ACT composite score and there was an 11 percent higher chance for a charter school student to attend college over traditional school students.

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

Two charter organizations are vying to take over New Orleans» last two traditional public high schools.

(Calif.) Students enrolled in linked learning programs over the past four years outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms when it came to earning high school credits and completing advanced college readiness courses, according to a new study released Tuesday.

We have heard the call from communities to better align our high school and elementary curricula; to strengthen our traditional neighborhood schools through programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes and STEM; and create opportunities for more students to attend Selective Enrollment schools, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and service leadership schools These investments respond to those calls and build on several years of progress in which CPS has provided over $ 33 million for CTE, IB, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs.

Over the past decade, thousands of U.S. public schools — traditional and charter, from elementary through high school — are trying something different.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality reSchool District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rSchools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality reschool facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

Since you are able to complete courses at your own pace, including optional work on the weekends and over the summer, students are able to accelerate and complete high school in less than the traditional four years.

Unlike many traditional scholarships that are awarded only to top - tier students, Broad Prize scholarships are awarded to graduating seniors who have a demonstrated record of improving their grades over the course of their high school career and have a financial need.

Over the past three years, Patricia L. Scriffiny has transformed the grading system in her high school mathematics classroom by replacing the traditional points - based system with a standards - based system.

Charter schools in Washington, D.C., which are held to higher accountability standards, give their students the equivalent of more than half a year of extra learning in math and 11 weeks in reading over traditional schools, the study found.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

Despite the high interest in urban education and educational equality among Yale students, most «Yalies» (i.e. Yale students) who enter the classroom end up doing so through alternative teaching programs, favoring these programs over employment options in district schools with traditional recruitment tactics and teacher preparation programs.

For example, when a finance professor at Spain's IESE Business School examined how a 90 % stocks - 10 % bonds portfolio would have performed over 86 rolling 30 - year periods between 1900 and 2014 following the 4 % rule — i.e., withdrawing 4 % initially and then subsequently boosting withdrawals by the inflation rate — he found not only that the Buffett portfolio survived almost 98 % of the time, but that it had a significantly higher balance after 30 years than more traditional retirement portfolios with say, 50 % or 60 % invested in stocks.

When you eliminate the air of hostility that the traditional high school «chaste» system so to speak (i.e cheerleaders and jocks over the quote on quote «nerds») then you foster an environment in which learning and working together are the common goals.

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