Sentences with phrase «public high schools no»

What distinguishes this small subset of America's 20,000 public high schools is that they are academically selective.

Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett are the authors of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools (Princeton, 2012) and «Exam Schools from the Inside,» in the Fall 2012 issue of Education Next.

Viewed as a whole, selective public high schools have a surprising demographic profile.

New York City will open three new specialized public high schools for top students in the fall, the first expansion in more than three decades of the city's competitive - admission school program.

National studies also have cited the clash of Native American and Anglo cultures as a factor affecting native students» adjustment to public high schools.

It turns out, however, that their pupil - teacher ratio is actually a bit higher (17:1) than in all public high schools (15:1).

What Matters for Staying On - Track and Graduating in Chicago Public High Schools: A Close Look at Course Grades, Failures, and Attendance in the Freshman Year.

One - quarter of the students graduating from public high schools in 2007 took an Advanced Placement (AP) exam, up from 18 percent for the Class of 2002.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

That's rare in the world of selective - admission public high schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination of some 165 such schools around the country.

Some schools, we expected, would enroll many Asian American youngsters, but we were struck when they turned out to comprise 21 percent of the schools» total enrollment, though they make up only 5 percent of students in all public high schools.

We found the outcomes are driven entirely by students at public high schools.

I do know that we can't afford to lose the kids who can't afford to look for those resources outside our public high schools.

Avoiding the vast course miscellany and multiple specializations within large traditional public high schools, choice school students share a common academic and psychological experience.

Paul Curtis is director of school quality for New Tech Network, a national organization that works with communities to develop innovative public high schools.

The study involved approximately 180 students aged 16 to 18, from four public high schools in the Greater Boston area.

What Ravitch does not understand is that this is an «intention to treat» analysis, in which all students who started in private schools via the voucher program are counted as if they had remained there, even if they transferred into public high schools.

The study found that deeper learning public high schools graduate students with better test scores and on - time graduation rates nine percent higher than other schools, a win for teachers and students alike.

Kristin Kearns - Jordan is the CEO of Urban Assembly, a nonprofit that serves a family of public high schools in New York City.

According to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), during the 2002 — 03 school year (the last data available), 36 percent of U.S. school districts (5,500 out of 15,040) had students enrolled in distance - education programs, and 38 percent of public high schools offered distance - education courses.

In the area where I live, Philadelphia magazine recently published a list of what it identified as «best» — the top 50 public high schools in the region.

Alum.us is an online engagement platform that provides alumni networks for public high schools and community colleges with an aim to help give back to schools in need.

Coleman then describes his two - year study of the «climate of values» in nine public high schools that gave rise to his conclusions about this «adolescent society.»

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

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).

For example, they have pushed to reduce the size of public high schools, in the belief that small high schools, like families, can succeed by developing a strong, shared sense of mission among faculty and students.

Unfortunately, public high schools have barely begun to tap nonfamilial incentives to motivate their staff.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

High Schools: Nearly a third of Americans believe that the quality of education in public high schools has fallen over the past five years, according to a survey.

Unlike public high schools, colleges do not pay faculty solely on the basis of years of experience and degrees held.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

This means that in many of California's public high schools, students can graduate, but they won't be able to get into a UC or CSU college even if they have a good GPA and good test scores.

Second, given that charter high schools tend to be much smaller than traditional public high schools, charter school effects might simply be attributable to their smaller size.

According to U.S. News, only 15 public high schools in America can boast that 100 % of their graduated students passed a minimum of one AP exam last year.

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.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

Then came a fresh start as a freshman in one of this city's new generation of small public high schools.

Sixteen Houston public high schools have piloted the doctor - created program, called Project ASPIRE (A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience), for two years.

The cram schools prepare children for the next school year and school entrance exams, giving them a leg up into gifted classes and, hopefully, into one of New York City's specialized public high schools.

Academically selective public high schools are 35 percent white and 13 percent Hispanic, as compared to 56 percent and 20 percent, respectively, in the public high school universe.

A 2002 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) helped usher the curriculum into twelve public high schools in the state; a dozen others will adopt it this fall.

Every school day, more than 7,200 students fall through the cracks of America's public high schools.

Public high schools in the United States with more than 40 percent of students participating in the federal free or reduced price lunch program are eligible to apply.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

The suburban Denver schools in which we work are among the first large, comprehensive public high schools in the nation to convert to a performance - based system.

The awards recognize three public high schools that demonstrate excellence in academic growth and help disadvantaged students achieve their higher education goals despite social, cultural, and economic challenges.

Riesco collaborates with Manhattan Theatre Club's education program, helping at - risk youth in public high schools and correctional facilities develop a voice through theater.

Get a good grade, pass the entrance exams, an then get into the best public high schools and colleges.

The data contained 1500 participants aged 14 - 19, from 15 different public high schools.

Gladstone scientists collaborate with teachers to facilitate career discussions and lab lessons for students in public high schools in San Francisco.