Sentences with phrase «public middle and high school students»

The study used a nationally representative sample of 2,099 public middle and high school students.

As discussed in the article, Jackson (2012) actually studies data of all public middle and high school students in North Carolina and finds that absences and suspensions affected teacher quality on non-cognitive skills can be determined by analyzing absences and suspensions.

Calling all public middle and high school students from Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta, and New York City!

Not exact matches

A new mandate from the city requires students in public middle and high schools to take sex education classes.

A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, 48 percent of middle - and high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.

Columbia High School is a four - year comprehensive regional public high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA StudHigh School is a four - year comprehensive regional public high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA StSchool is a four - year comprehensive regional public high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA Studhigh school in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA Stschool in Maplewood, New Jersey, which serves students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA students in ninth through twelfth Valentine's Day Activities for High School and Middle School ELA StudHigh School and Middle School ELA StSchool and Middle School ELA StSchool ELA StudentsStudents

Even in a country whose progressive public education system dispenses with tests and grades until middle school and provides every high school student with a laptop, Nordahl Grieg stands out for its commitment to innovation.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

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.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseschools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along theseSchools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

Designed to encourage students to become active voters once they are old enough to cast a ballot, the MyVote Student Mock Election, headed by Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, invites high school and middle school students, teachers and principals to participate in the MyVote California Student Mock Election, which this year took place on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, just one week before California's November 4 General Election.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whostudents who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whostudents; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whoStudents Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.

An experienced educator, administrator, and curriculum designer, he has taught elementary, middle, and high school students in public and private schools, as well as community college and teacher preparation courses.

Success Academy Charter Schools is the largest public charter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and theSchools is the largest public charter school network in New York City, with 41 elementary, middle and high schools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and theschools serving 14,000 students in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.

KIPP is a non-profit network of 209 college - preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.

KIPP, the Knowledge is Power Program, is a non-profit network of 209 college - preparatory, public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students.

Superintendent David Snead said that while Detroit public high schools are overstaffed, some elementary and middle schools have staffing shortages, with student - teacher ratios of up to 35 to 1.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

We supplement our analysis on math and reading achievement with similar analyses of the effects of entering a middle school on the probability of students» not being enrolled in a Florida public school in 10th grade (a proxy for dropping out of high school by this time) and on being retained in 9th grade (often a strong predictor that a student will leave school prior to graduation).

Broad analyses of charter performance have tended to show that they slightly outperform traditional public schools, especially at the middle and high school level, although critics say that could be because their students tend to come from more academically motivated families.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Thanks to the work of a coalition of hard - working, flexible partners, two Green Dot public charter schools in Los Angeles, Ralph Bunche High School and Jefferson Middle School, now own previously - leased facilities that will serve in excess of 1,000 students.

The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieschools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achievement.

Of more than 3,000 public schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofpublic schools statewide that fit that description, the highest API score — 967 — was earned by American Indian Public Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate ofPublic Charter, a middle school in Oakland whose students are primarily Asian, black and Latino, and have a poverty rate of 98 %.

Charter School Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theSchool Demand and Effectiveness: Understanding Boston A new report by researchers from the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theSchool Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative at M.I.T. has found that Boston charter school students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theschool students continue to significantly outperform Boston Public Schools students across the middle and high school grades on theschool grades on the MCAS.

The College Success Academy serves middle - school students enrolled in partner public schools in Allston - Brighton and East Boston who plan to attend a district Boston public high school.

Modeled after Steppingstone's first initiative, The Steppingstone Academy, the College Success Academy runs summer and after - school programs for middle - school students in Boston public schools who want to ready themselves for a college prep curriculum in high school.

Founded in 1982, the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieSchools Program recognizes public and private elementary, middle, and high schools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achieschools where students perform at very high levels or where significant improvements are being made in students» academic achievement.

The buildings and grounds of any public prekindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, junior high school, high school, or secondary school, or any combination of grades prekindergarten through grade 12, or contiguous school district land, during any time period in which students are not permitted access; or

Her work, along with other alumni that attended KIPP's program has impressed officials at the nonprofit network of college - preparatory, public charter schools that educates elementary, middle and high school students.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

He has been a senior program associate at Learning Point Associates; worked at Modern Red SchoolHouse and consulted for organizations, such as SchoolWorks, the Global Sleepover, Eduventures, and the Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School for Public Policy; and for 16 years taught language arts to middle and high school studeHigh School for Public Policy; and for 16 years taught language arts to middle and high school stuSchool for Public Policy; and for 16 years taught language arts to middle and high school studehigh school stuschool students.

Tomlinson's experience as an educator includes 21 years as a public school teacher working with preschoolers, middle school students, and high school students.

operates a public high school as well as an educational enrichment program for middle and high school students.

It will include nearly 200 teachers and 10,400 seventh - grade students in 66 public middle or junior high schools across North Carolina, which researchers find provides a demographic sampling that is more representative of the entire nation and thus more likely to reliably reflect the impact of the program.

The award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

Elementary school students attend in - boundary schools at the highest rates, and middle school students are most likely to attend a public charter school (see Figure 3).

Eskolta works with nonprofit organizations that partner with public schools to serve the hardest - to - reach high school and middle school students, particularly students in New York City schools who have fallen behind and are at risk of dropping out.

If a student transfers into a Florida public high school from out of country, out of state, a private school or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Schhigh school from out of country, out of state, a private school or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool from out of country, out of state, a private school or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High SchHigh SchoolSchool.

Enrollment in public charter schools was highest in middle school grades, at 52 percent, and lowest in high school grades where DCPS application high schools attracted 20 percent of all high school students.

These teachers reach over 155,500 middle and high school students each year, in 320 public, religious, and independent schools throughout the region.

Washburn county has 4 traditional public school districts - and eAchieve Academy represents another, offering free online courses for elementary, middle and high school students enrolled in:

The Native American Community Academy (NACA) is a tuition - free public charter school serving students in middle and high school.

This school year, teams from nine public NYC middle, high, and transfer schools are working closely with Eskolta facilitators Alicia Wolcott, Jessica Furer, and Katie Gleason using improvement science methods featured in Anthony Bryk's book Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school anschools are working closely with Eskolta facilitators Alicia Wolcott, Jessica Furer, and Katie Gleason using improvement science methods featured in Anthony Bryk's book Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school anSchools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school and life.

Elementary schools have the highest boundary participation rates, and participation in public charter schools is highest for middle school students

Some students attend public charter schools within their school boundary The impact of the Wilson HS feeder pattern is present here, too: location within the Wilson HS boundary (where there aren't any public charter schools) decreases public charter participation by about 11 percentage points for elementary schools and about 22 percentage points for middle and high schools.

In his role as deputy superintendent in Federal Way Public Schools near Tacoma, Garcia prioritized the creation of a flexible learning program to meet the needs of all students by introducing International Baccalaureate and advanced placement (AP) programs at the middle and high school levels, as well as led the implementation of Web 2.0 technology tools and social media programs.