While low nationally, the number of
public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of Education John White said Thursday.
While low nationally, the number of
public high school students who earned college credit this year rose 10 percent, state Superintendent of E...
Not exact matches
The NRA, bolstered by Trump, has been a vocal proponent of allowing more guns in
public places, including
schools, but the exception for the convention has raised eyebrows and prompted skepticism among
students and at least one parent
who lost his child in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas
High School in Parkland, Fla., in which 17 people were killed and others injured.
Sprint 1Million Project is helping more than 700
high school students from Puerto Rico
who were displaced after Hurricane Maria and are now enrolled in Orange County
Public Schools.
Although the issue of homeschool
student participation in
public high school sports isn't exactly a pressing national concern, it hits pretty close to home in our family — both our kids are competitive club - level swimmers
who could contribute to the success of our local
high....
Kim looks at SGKAs
who are
students at one highly selective
public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial
high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.
Berger,
who spent 25 years working as a
public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL
schools, like Polaris, that enroll
high numbers of
students growing up in adversity.
But you wouldn't know it by listening to an angry coalition of
high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the f
high school students who plan to speak out on Chicago Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the
school students who plan to speak out on Chicago
Public Schools meals Wednesday at the monthly Chicago Board of Education meeting.One of those
students is Teresa Onstott, a sophomore at Social Justice
High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the f
High School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the
School who last week practiced a speech that details the «sickening pizza, chicken sandwiches and nachos» the district serves each day and urges the board not to renew the contract for the company providing the food.
Look for people with a medical background, or those with youngish kids in the
public schools, or those
who have fought similar battles in the past, especially battles based on the idea of social justice, that low income
students deserve the same respect and services as
higher income
students.
Nancy Weiss Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA)
Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave
Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the
high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave
schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the
school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the
high school students who otherwise might leave campus.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to
students, parents and employers
who all depend on
high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO of the Partnership for New York City.
Buffalo
Public Schools want to make sure
high school students who want to play college sports knows the rules.
«Gun control now,» Cuomo chanted, reclining on the sidewalk in his black suit and tie, along with
students and teachers from nearby Leadership &
Public Service
High School who joined in nationwide school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland sho
School who joined in nationwide
school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland sho
school walkouts on the one - month anniversary of the Parkland shooting.
BY MICHAEL CAHILL No
public comments on budget at this week's NRCSD Meeting The North Rockland Central
School district met on Tuesday evening at North Rockland
High School to honor several
students who had won essay contests, and hold a
public hearing on the 2012 — 2013 budget.
Each CEC consists of 12 members (9 elected members, 2 appointed by the Borough President and 1 non-voting
high school student appointed by the superintendent)
who serve as volunteers and provide hands - on leadership and support for their district's
public schools.
Mayor de Blasio doesn't seem to want to have that discussion and just wants a rubber stamp renewal, but when 8 out of 10
students who walk across a stage and receive a New York City
high school diploma need remediation in college, how can we say that this
public school system is doing its job?»
According to him the implementation of the policy will cover the full fees of
students who attend
public Senior
High Schools in the country.
The CCHS has 10 elected members, two from each borough,
who must be the parents of
students currently attending a
public high school.
«Maintaining mayoral control of city
schools is critical to
students, parents and employers
who all depend on
high quality
public schools,» said Kathryn Wylde, the president of the Partnership for New York City.
Formed as a
public / private partnership, Teachers
Who Code will use the Girls
Who Code model to equip New York City
public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate
students for
high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.
At the event, Jones,
who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to
public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and
students in
high - pressure environments with «
high stakes» testing.
Ranjana Mehta, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Texas A&M
School of Public Health, researched freshman high school students with who used standing
School of
Public Health, researched freshman
high school students with who used standing
school students with
who used standing desks.
The researchers compared two groups of
high school students from low - income neighborhoods in Los Angeles — 521
students who were offered admission to
high - performing
public charter
schools through the district lottery, and 409
who were not.
In the state of Oklahoma, low - income
high school students who agree to make good grades in a prescribed curriculum, attend
school, and stay out of trouble can get free tuition at
public and private colleges in the state.
Students who attend five charter
schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently
higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable
public schools, an independent evaluation of the
schools concludes.
The result is that African - American
students who switched from
public to private
schools scored, on average, 6.3 points
higher than their
public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.
It will take a lot to make
public schools more effective for all
students: greater academic rigor,
higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the
students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many
students who are in need of such.
As just one example, interviewing
students in a San Francisco Bay Area
high school a few years ago I was repeatedly told about a known
student drug dealer
who administrators were hurriedly trying to help graduate rather than risk exposing the
school to a
public scandal.
But even when all
students are included in the analysis, African - American
students who attended private
schools scored significantly
higher than their
public school peers (see Figure 2).
Murphy
High, the
school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white
students in 1963, despite
public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace,
who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»
From directors Jean - Michel Dissard and Gitte Peng, I Learn America follows five
students through one
school year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United S
school year at International
High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sta
High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United S
School at Lafayette, a small,
public, alternative
high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sta
high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United S
school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers
who are newly arrived to the United States.
But then one would recall that other
public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and
higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the
schools, such as
students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.
The New
Public is a documentary that takes a personal look into the lives of teachers, parents, and
students who are part of a new
high school community in Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families
who used vouchers to go to Catholic
schools were much more likely to complete
high school within four years than similar
students who were in the city's
public schools.
To address the issue of
student self - selection into charter
schools, the researchers compared
high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter
students who entered charter
high schools with outcomes for 8th - grade charter
students who entered conventional
public high schools, ensuring that both the comparison group and the treatment group of
students were once charter choosers.
In Florida, 57 percent of
students who went from a charter
school in 8th grade to a traditional
public school in 9th grade received a standard
high school diploma within four years, compared to 77 percent of charter 8th graders
who attended a charter
high school.
Among the study population of charter 8th graders,
students who attended a charter
high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar
students who attended a traditional
public high school.
As a
high -
school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of
public schools educating
students, not just providing an education to «those few
who want it.»
For example, Figure 1 shows that 45 percent of
students who first participated in FTC in elementary or middle
school attended a
public college in Florida within two years of expected
high school graduation, compared to 39 percent of matched non-FTC
students.
Officials for the West Haven (Conn.)
Public Schools are considering plans to extend the
school day for
high -
school students who want to take courses in addition to those now being offered.
Controlling for key
student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle
school),
students who attend a charter
high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than
students who attend a traditional
public high school.
«The most significant accountability system for
public schools is an organized community of people
who have
high expectations for their
students,» said Tompkins.
Among the study population of charter 8th graders,
students who attended a charter
high school in 9th grade are 8 to 10 percentage points more likely to attend college than similar
students who attended a traditional
public high school (see Figure 1).
Granted, the fabulous standardized test scores of those
high - performing charter networks
who take on this special ed challenge may not be as uniformly
high — at least in the short term, but when one in every twenty
public school students now attends a charter, the movement is mature and entrenched enough to move to the next stage of reform for both moral and political reasons.
In Chicago,
students who attended a charter
high school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular
high school diploma than their counterparts with similar characteristics
who attended a traditional
public high school.
In Florida, among the study population of charter 8th graders, 57 percent of
students attending a charter
school in 9th grade went to either a two - or four - year college within five years of starting
high school, whereas among
students who started
high school in a traditional
public school the college attendance rate was only 40 percent.
That is, we compare
high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter
students who entered charter
high schools (the treatment group) with outcomes for 8th - grade charter
students who entered conventional
public high schools (the comparison group).
Dramatic scenarios of moral and ethical lapses are everywhere on the Internet: the college
student who used his webcam to secretly film his roommate,
who later committed suicide; the
high school students who tweeted about the rape of a fellow
student; the hackers
who stole compromising photographs from celebrities and posted them to a
public site, where commenters blamed the celebrities for their predicament.
A «hack your wheelchair» studio came about because of a suggestion from Mohammed Sayed, a
student who transferred to NuVu last fall from a nearby
public high school.
Massachusetts education officials have released data that they hope will counteract what they say is a false
public perception that most
students in the class of 2003
who haven't yet passed the state's
high school exit exams are members of minority groups or come from poor families.