Sentences with phrase «performing focus school»

Charter firms, including Aspire, Green Dot, Alliance for College - Ready Public Schools, and smaller charter operators, put forward one - quarter of the takeover plans, but only one plan was aimed at turning around a chronically low - performing focus school.

Not exact matches

Some parents come specifically for the religious instruction, but others seek an alternative to the utility - focused aims that typify many high - and low - performing schools in the United States.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

The consequences, for far too many children, are hunger, ill - health and an inability to focus and perform in school.

The second results area (Pillar 2) focuses on improving the quality of education in 125 selected low - performing SHS through: (i) strengthened school management and accountability; (ii) improved mathematics and science teaching and learning; (iii) expanded information, communication technology and internet connectivity in schools; and (iv) the implementation of school performance partnership plans.

«Wadleigh Middle School is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educSchool is part of Harlem's integrity; it's part of Harlem's culture,» he remarked of the school, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused educschool, which he said was valuable in providing the neighborhood's children with a performing arts - focused education.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO»S Eileen Buckley says students performed songs they wrote after a long school year of learning the tough Common Core Standards.

Another group of schools that often over perform relative to the socio - economic background of their students are well focused vocational training schools.

WBFO»S Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says New York State United Teachers believe Buffalo teachers are being blamed for poor performing schools.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

The senator has been fighting a city plan to close the middle school at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Visual Arts in Harlem and focus only on the high school gschool at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Visual Arts in Harlem and focus only on the high school gSchool for the Performing Visual Arts in Harlem and focus only on the high school gschool grades.

We are really focused on, and enthusiastic about, our ability to perform successfully translational bench - to bedside - and - back - again psoriasis research here at CWRU School of Medicine Department of Dermatology and the Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.

Now, thanks to work performed in collaboration between researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, the mechanism is coming into focus.

He performed his post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on the gamma / delta T - cell receptor rearrangements and at Tufts University Medical School, investigating pathogenic Vbeta T - cell receptor usage in a mouse model of SLE.

Children who have protein at breakfast will have an easier time focusing at school and have been found to perform better on tests.

The Louisiana School Turnaround Specialist Program focuses on training principals in its worst - performing schools.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a school.

Even if we overlooked the shortcomings of testing as a measure of learning, a single - minded focus on reading and math would not be a cure for what ails children in the nation's poorest - performing schools.

If an additional level of support was required, schools could also explore pro-active remote services which are focussed on freeing up network teams by performing automated or standardised tasks such as system updates and security checks; tasks which are necessary, but often overlooked when network teams are busy firefighting more pressing issues.

As districts nationwide struggle to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, the U.S. Department of Education has shifted its focus to turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools.

Digital learning advocates» best move would appear to be to fight for the allowance of all forms of digital learning with a strong focus on student outcomes that insures that low - performing schools of all stripes can not grow and persist.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

The Gates grantmakers created seven «attributes of high - performing schools» that would guide its giving to those who wanted to create small high schools: a common focus; high expectations; personalization; respect and responsibility; time to collaborate; performance - based instruction; and using technology as a tool.

Even the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.

Students are expected to focus on their studies, perform at a minimally acceptable standard, and conduct themselves according to the school's code.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

Such thinking is why elementary - and secondary - school reform focuses almost exclusively on resources (per pupil spending), time (class size), knowledge (professional development), or experience (teacher retention) and relatively little on incentives to make educators perform better.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

In the state under study, public schools that had failed to make AYP focused instruction on the entire range of low - performing students in the subsequent school year, and did so without negative impact on high - performing students.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

The overarching goal must be to improve student outcomes, which means a focus on turning around (rather than simply punishing) low - performing schools.

Graduate research focused on the goals, communication channels, and funding structures of non-profit performing arts organizations» arts education programming in public schools.

Early graduation is focused on higher performing students, many of whom will receive scholarships, etc. and use the last year or two of high school to take A.P. classes that they can receive credit for in college.

A district also must focus early wins on student learning to fit the turnaround formula, perhaps by adopting similar goals for one subset of struggling children or a few low - performing schools.

By focusing on students» social - emotional needs and enabling them to create relevant, impactful work, School 21 is embedding the skills that their students need to perform well academically.

But rather than focus on the problems, we turned to the best performing schools to understand what others could learn from their energy efficiency strategies and celebrate the champions.

Last year, Newlands School in Southwark won the award thanks to its new building, which has superb facilities for sport, design, construction, hospitality and catering, art and the performing arts alongside specialist teaching focus on literacy and numeracy.

It allows them to target consequences on a smaller subset of low - performing schools and move away from NCLB - era interventions that were largely ineffective, and states appear to be focusing their efforts on more promising interventions that target growth and effective practices.

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

Third, the efforts of the school board and superintendent have been focused on the accountability function: supporting schools that perform well, assisting schools that are earnestly struggling to improve, and creating alternatives to failed schools and ineffective central - office initiatives.

The administration is betting on states to focus their efforts on a small, finite number of low - performing schools.

Yet you focus on the negative finding: that higher - performing Texas schools were more likely to keep their low - performing kids from taking the test, and those kids did worse over the long term.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

Supplemental services shift the focus from improving poorly performing schools to improving individual student achievement, but only for those requesting services.

The state Department of Education may consider investing in high quality formative assessment and data analysis programs as a tool for low performing schools to use in focusing instruction and preparing students for the MCAS.

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.