Sentences with phrase «promising high school reform»

High School Allotment: Provides $ 275 per high school student in additional funding to districts to prepare students to go on to higher education, encourage students to take challenging course work, increase the rigor of academic courses, align secondary and postsecondary curriculum, and support promising high school reform initiatives in grades 6 through 12.

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The White House «fact sheet» on America's College Promise lists what states and colleges would have to do: participating colleges would have to «adopt promising and evidence - based institutional reforms to improve student outcomes,» while states would have to coordinate high schools, community colleges, and four - year schools to reduce remediation rates and, to create incentives to improve, «allocate a significant portion of funding based on performance, not enrollment alone.»

The Obama administration, as part of a strategy to promote school reform, has promised to double funding for new charter schools with high academic standards, which many believe are key to improving the nation's K - 12 system through competition with traditional public schools.

The promise of CSR models — such as Accelerated School Project, Core Knowledge, Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, School Development Program, Success for All — and the comprehensive reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

RESOLVED, that the School Reform Commission hereby accepts with appreciation by The School District of Philadelphia, through the Superintendent or his designee, a grant from Drexel University for an amount not to exceed $ 1,200,000 to provide support for services, professional development and professional staff at Samuel Powel Elementary School, Science Leadership Academy Middle School, Alain Locke Elementary School, Martha Washington Elementary School, Morton McMichael Elementary School and West Philadelphia High School for the implementation and evaluation of «Promise of Strong Partnership for Education Reform (ProSPER)», a United States Department of Education Promise Neighborhood grant, for the period commencing April 1, 2018 through December 31, 2021.

As the Linked Learning high school reform initiative expands across California, the results of a two - year study by the Education Trust — West identifies promising practices in Linked Learning schools and districts.

However, additional research is needed to further establish the efficacy of dual enrollment as a promising high school and CTE reform strategy, including analyses using randomized or quasi-experimental designs to eliminate some of the shortcomings of our regression analyses and further examining sub-group differences in outcomes in order to better understand which groups of students may benefit most from dual enrollment participation.