Sentences with phrase «replace large high schools»

Under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City's Department of Education moved to replace large high schools with troublingly low graduation rates with small, themed high schools.

This research adds to evidence that the strategy to replace large high schools with smaller ones increased student achievement significantly and at great scale.

During Bloomberg's administration, more than 120 small, non-selective high schools replaced large high schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

A new report describes the New York City school system's efforts since 2002 to close large comprehensive high schools and replace them with 200 new small schools.

The foundation encouraged urban school districts to close large, dysfunctional high schools and replace them with smaller ones, either in alternative spaces or by placing several schools within the building that once housed the large one.

One study, conducted by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinSchools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools led by new principals.

Among 11,000 ninth grade students who would have enrolled in the large schools but enrolled elsewhere because the schools had been replaced, the graduation rate was 15 percentage points higher than it would have been had the large, failing schools remained in operation.

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

It spent about $ 650 million on a program to replace large urban high schools with smaller schools, on the theory that students at risk of dropping out would be more likely to stay in schools where they forged closer bonds with teachers and other students.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

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Often, as in the case of the Gates Foundation's creation of small high schools to replace large, big - city high schools, they have brought about the opposite of what they intended.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has been critical of the signature education strategy of his predecessor, Mike Bloomberg, a strategy that involved closing large, failing high schools and replacing them with smaller specialized schools that offer a more rigorous curriculum and a more personal brand of instruction.

Creating small schools to replace large, impersonal high schools and transform them into smaller, more personalized environments.

«We're either going to replace this small gear with a larger gear, or we're going to flip the two,» said Nathan McKerley while examining a partially - constructed robot with fellow seniors Denesha Moorefield and Montario Meggett of City Charter High School in Downtown Pittsburgh.

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The study appeared to validate the Bloomberg administration's decade - long push to create small schools to replace larger, failing high schools.