Sentences with phrase «performing academic schools»

All families whether rich or low - income, deserve the right to choose not only high performing academic schools but the school program that best meets their child's needs and passions.

Not exact matches

«There's lots of work that's been done by academics on how well different types of schools perform,» says Richy Thompson, the BHA's campaigns officer for faith schools and education.

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In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

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Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

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The intention is to allow parents and pupils to see how schools are performing in key academic subjects and to encourage schools to give all pupils, including those from the poorest backgrounds, the opportunity to study academic subjects.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

Almost all of the schools whose students under perform are students at a «bad» school by the other two measures, and experience minimal or negative academic growth from year to year.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

A significant number of schools that are safe but below average in absolute academic performance (perhaps half to the 10 % of schools that over perform) are excellent by a value added measure.

At that juncture, 94 of the city's lowest performing «Renewal» schools will be evaluated for academic progress; early signs indicate the program is having mixed results at best.

In choosing schools, at - risk students place less weight on academic indicators, and low performing students are more likely to attend a school with low average achievement.

Children who started school a year later did not perform better in teacher ratings of their academic attainment than children who had started at an age appropriate time.

Strikingly, children from low - income families, who typically don't perform as well at school, show similar academic performance as children from high - income families.

«Not only do these mice have trouble learning and remembering, they can't perform some other normal daily behaviors such as building a nest,» adds C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., senior author on the paper, Joslin's chief academic officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

This shift toward greater accountability also included putting «low performing» schools, those in which fewer than 15 percent of elementary students met national norms in reading, on an academic watch list.

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

The system would not meet the letter of the new ESSA law, which requires that academic indices weigh more heavily than non-academic ones in identifying low - performing schools.

In late 2011, Denise Watts, a Charlotte - Mecklenburg zone superintendent, approached Public Impact for help meeting the goals she had as executive director for the new Project L.I.F.T., a $ 55 million public - private partnership to improve academics at historically low - performing, high - need schools in western Charlotte, N.C.

Many other states, meanwhile, are lagging behind schedule in complying with the provision, which requires that students in consistently low - performing schools have access to a choice of tutoring services or other extra academic help.

The NCLB law says that after two years of falling short of academic targets, districts must offer students the chance to transfer to a better - performing school, and after three...

«They know that going into high school, if they perform at this particular level at this GPA and class rank, they can get into the University of Colorado guaranteed,» said Jack O. Burns, the university's vice president for academic affairs and research.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

During the current academic year, a limited number of districts in five states — Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina, and Virginia — have been permitted to offer students a choice of supplemental educational services a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.

21st Century Community Learning Center grant: A grant provided by the U.S Department of Education to community learning centers that provide academic - enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

The young organization has already achieved notable success: in 2005 its first campus, Marin School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), was the highest - performing school in its district on California's academic performance index School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), was the highest - performing school in its district on California's academic performance index school in its district on California's academic performance index (API).

A study of 700 students from 11 school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

The Sunday Times named Sevenoaks as the top performing co-educational independent school in 2012; A testimony to the school's growing sophistication can be seen in the recently inaugurated Baccalaureate - linked Centre for Innovation lectures announcing top flight academic and professional speakers and inviting local schools and the wider Sevenoaks community to participate.

A 1992 study of 700 students from eleven school districts in Tennessee found that students doing projects using videotaped problems over a three - week period performed better in a number of academic areas later in the school year.

WGU also has lower employee costs, as full - time faculty members serve primarily as student mentors and neither develop curriculum nor perform research (this also supports the school's narrow value proposition of providing professional rather than academic training).

When a school screens applicants for academic talent, it ends up with pupils who perform well on tests, earn high grades, and get into competitive colleges.

Sometimes called «exam schools,» because test scores are typically part of their selection process and a handful of them rely solely on such scores, they tailor their curricula and teaching to high - performing, high - potential kids who want a high school experience that emphasizes college - prep, or college - level, academics.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

The program promotes individual achievement while supporting the academic agenda in the Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools with 22 - week project - learning programs in four subject areas: the performing arts, film, music production, and information technology.

Schools should no longer play the central role in teaching basic academic skills, he wrote, but rather serve mainly «to coordinate [students»] activities and perform guidance and testing functions.»

Additionally, the power of strong signals of academic performance — enabled by meaningful grades and test scores — has greater importance for students trapped in low - performing schools.

The report cited that private school students may have lower incentives to perform well at university and therefore are more likely to invest more effort in social life rather than academic work.