Sentences with phrase «own grade configuration»

In New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade configuration — elementary, middle or high school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time of opening.

To begin with, attracting sufficient enrollment is vital for EMOs; the need to fill seats is bound to drive companies to appeal to the «median» consumer, who might balk at strange new grade configurations or pedagogical approaches.

«Today there are 186 elementary schools, 58 middle schools, 55 high schools, and another 30 schools with different grade configurations.

In Florida, grade configuration is not a primary driver of the estimated positive effects of charter high schools on attainment.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school grade configuration (generally, 6 — 8) is probably not the way to go was done in his city.

In Chicago, however, we could not run similar analyses because grade configuration is too strongly correlated with charter status; we therefore can not rule out the possibility that positive results in Chicago could be partly attributable to eliminating the transition from middle school to high school.

In last year's fall issue of Education Next Columbia Business School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominously:

Could something as simple as changing the grade configuration of schools improve academic outcomes?

The researchers also conducted a test - score analysis separately for schools in Miami - Dade County, which is Florida's largest district (345,000 students) and offers a wide range of grade configurations up through grade 8.

Her school recently changed from a K - 6 grade configuration to K - 8.

The study's findings support these school conversions and «are also relevant to the expanding charter school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations» when schools are established.

We use a school - level measure that has been standardized across the sample of schools included in our analysis, taking into account the various grade configurations in different schools.

National Center for Education Statistics 2005 data reveal that 6th, 7th, and / or 8th graders are found in schools with at least 60 different grade configurations.

It's also worth noting that the EdSource study («Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» 2010) cited in «The Middle School Mess,» did not find grade configuration to be a factor in student performance.

That statistic alone challenges the use of grade configuration as the defining factor for the straw man middle school.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

This suggests that it may be harder to create an effective middle school than an effective K — 8 school, and that part of the challenge is simply that middle school grade configurations require an additional school transition.»

«If you look at international comparisons, kids in the United States perform better at elementary school than the later grades... so it made sense to look at whether grade configuration influenced this.»

Among student subgroups, the study also finds that «grade configuration has a larger effect on the math scores of traditionally disadvantaged subgroups than on other students.

Rogers says it's also important to take into consideration other factors — not just grade configuration — when it comes to achievement and determining «cause and effect» in education.

«I'm generally sympathetic with this argument, especially to the extent that it points to a set of practices that middle schools could adopt to address their performance problems given that wholesale changes to grade configuration are unlikely to occur overnight,» he says.

«I think one of the most compelling reasons to support the K — 8 grade configuration is the leadership aspect for students,» Bush says.

Research does not show that any particular grade configuration is best, but it definitely shows that avoiding and minimizing the frequency of transitions is highly beneficial.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

The key assumption of our methodology is that there are no unobserved differences between students who in 3rd grade attended schools that had these different grade configurations that affect achievement precisely in the year when students enter middle school.

We conduct an analogous analysis of high - school entry, taking advantage of the different grade configurations of the schools students attended in 6th grade.

We also find that the transition to high school causes a small drop in student achievement for all students who make this transition (as distinct from those in schools with 6 — 12 grade configurations).

In other words, we are assuming that the negative effect of a transition is not anticipated by parents and reflected in the choice of a school with a particular grade configuration in grade 3.

In recognition of the association noted above — that suspension rates differ by the grade configuration of schools — performance levels are different for elementary, middle, and high schools.

Perhaps the most telling research about the impact of middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall 2010).

They are also relevant to the expanding charter - school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations without the disruption caused by school closures.

With more than 345,000 students, Miami - Dade is the largest district in Florida and offers a wide range of grade configurations for students up through grade 8.

«Is there a «best» grade configuration for schools that serve early adolescents?»

Parents and educators have begun abandoning the middle school for K — 8 configurations, and new research suggests that grade configuration does matter: when this age group is gathered by the hundreds and educated separately, both behavior and learning suffer.

Perhaps the most telling research about the impact of middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» research, Fall 2010).

The Columbia Business School researchers studied the impacts of grade configuration on learning and concluded that «middle schools are not the best way to educate students» in districts like New York City.

This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the choice of grade configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.

The «conventional wisdom» on grade configuration, Cook and colleagues say, «has changed several times over the past century,» as we have seen.

The trends suggest that grade configuration matters to at least some parents and educators, who decided some time ago that separately configured schools for preadolescents are not the best way to go.

Peter reviews several studies investigating the difference made by grade configuration on the performance of students in this age group.

Superintendent Tommy Chang presented a plan to the Boston School Committee that would eliminate middle schools and change the grade configuration of other schools in Boston so that students only have to change schools once during their education, James Vaznis reports in the Boston Globe.

Researchers have questioned the merits of isolating middle school students in their own grade configuration for years.

The analysis focused on two structural characteristics — grade configuration and size — and two demographic characteristics — the percentage of students qualifying for free and reduced price meals and the proportion of African - American student enrollment.

Before joining the Deputy Mayor's Office, she worked at District of Columbia Public Schools as Chief of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer during which she supported the agency's portfolio planning activities, including school closures, grade configuration changes, and enrollment projections.

Table 3 - 2 exhibits the grade configuration of schools.

Each WSI participating school was matched to a similar school on size, grade configuration, Title I designation, as well as proportions based on gender, race / ethnicity, and students participating in the free / reduced price lunch program.

The district includes 202 schools: 113 elementary, 23 middle, 27 high, 10 alternative, 25 charters, 25 child development centers, and 4 atypical (grade configurations) schools.

In Paterson, Evans» plans call more for closing and reopening as many as eight schools in different grade configurations, as well as educational changes.