Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle
school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.
Not exact matches
The Case
of the Peppered Moth — Craig Holdrege Spirit Will and Ethical Individuality — Michael Howard Did Rudolf Steiner Want a Seven - Grade Elementary
School Configuration?
In New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade
configuration — elementary, middle or high
school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time
of opening.
In one nocturnal interior shot, Legs is lit by a blue light while the other girls drift around her like moths; in another indelible interlocking
configuration, the five heroines gather around a sink in the
school bathroom; and Maddy's dark bedroom twinkles with as many mysterious pinpoints
of light as a planetarium.
Elsewhere, Adwaith, a student from Westcliffe High
School for Boys, set about investigating different forms
of fuels and alternate engine
configurations.
The increasing diversity
of home
schoolers and institutional
configurations should not obscure the fact that many who home
school still choose this option out
of frustration with or protest against formal, institution - based
schooling and seek to impart an alternative, usually conservative Christian, worldview to their children by teaching them at home.
In Florida, grade
configuration is not a primary driver
of the estimated positive effects
of charter high
schools on attainment.
Because the studies use data from a single
school year to contrast students in middle
schools and K — 8
schools, most
of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups
of students, rather than in the grade
configuration of their
schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.
In last year's fall issue
of Education Next Columbia Business
School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review
of almost ten years
of data for Gotham
school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different
school grade configurations, and concluded rather omin
school grade
configurations, and concluded rather ominously:
Could something as simple as changing the grade
configuration of schools improve academic outcomes?
Foremans» buildings can be purchased in single and multi-storey
configurations and can be designed and refurbished for a wide variety
of uses, including offices in the public and private sectors; teaching blocks and sixth form centres for
schools; transport depots; health centres, and ancillary accommodation for hospitals.
Perrotti makes the comparison that, years ago, when we first started talking about different
configurations of families or students, educators often worried about how to talk to young kids «about sex» when those kinds
of discussions in
schools didn't happen until at least fifth grade.
The researchers also conducted a test - score analysis separately for
schools in Miami - Dade County, which is Florida's largest district (345,000 students) and offers a wide range
of grade
configurations up through grade 8.
It takes a great deal
of personal time to become informed regarding such issues as racial desegregation, charter
schools, curriculum content, testing, graduation standards, geographic placement
of a new
school, and the
configuration of attendance boundaries.
For example, the amount
of money or
configuration of schooling resources needed to compensate educationally for impoverishment, disability, or language deficiency is simply not known.
We use a
school - level measure that has been standardized across the sample
of schools included in our analysis, taking into account the various grade
configurations in different
schools.
That statistic alone challenges the use
of grade
configuration as the defining factor for the straw man middle
school.
«On the other hand,» Fager continued, «a K through 8 arrangement might not be able to tend as specifically to the developmental needs
of a particular age group as
schools with narrower
configurations can.
In my research I have identified 34 different examples
of charter
school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in
school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade
configurations; split sessions and extended
school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.
As he explains the advantages
of this K through 8
school, Cox acknowledges that some
of them derive from conditions other than the
school configuration.
Teachers in Albemarle County Public
Schools have modified their environments to allow for a variety
of learning styles and classroom
configurations, helping students be more engaged and ready to learn.
And because some Florida students attend
schools with grade six through 12 or seven through 12
configurations, he was able to compare the effect
of entering a middle
school in grade six or seven to that
of entering high
school in grade nine.
While some earlier studies questioned the role
of grade
configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,&raqu
configuration in
school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade
Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,&raqu
Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some
Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.
This suggests that it may be harder to create an effective middle
school than an effective K — 8
school, and that part
of the challenge is simply that middle
school grade
configurations require an additional
school transition.»
Another district, Cambridge (Mass.) Public
Schools, is trying an entirely new model: This fall it moved away from its long - held K — 8
configuration with the creation
of a lower
school and an upper
school, with sixth - through eighth - graders in the upper
school still housed within four
of the city's elementary buildings.
Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents
of many other religions, their resistance to state - run
schooling in many countries helped create institutional
configurations that continue to spur student achievement.
«I'm generally sympathetic with this argument, especially to the extent that it points to a set
of practices that middle
schools could adopt to address their performance problems given that wholesale changes to grade
configuration are unlikely to occur overnight,» he says.
Our
Configuration Centre is capable
of processing over 500 units concurrently, this can deliver huge efficiencies, reduce double handling, additional logistics and eliminate time consuming steps when products are delivered to the
school.
Today we find out how one
school has been using prototypes and cardboard mock - ups to test the effectiveness
of different learning settings and
configurations in preparation for a site rebuild.
This partnership allows the company to support its clients with implementing the Prowise Chromebooks in
schools and the
configuration of the online administration console.
Metro Nashville Public
Schools: SEDL is collaborating with the Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia to help Metro Nashville Public
Schools in Tennessee develop Innovation
Configurations to monitor the implementation
of new programs.
Where a
school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more
schools have been designated as a
school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status
of the newly registered
school based upon his review
of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as:
school mission,
school administration and staff, grade
configurations and groupings
of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.
The key assumption
of our methodology is that there are no unobserved differences between students who in 3rd grade attended
schools that had these different grade
configurations that affect achievement precisely in the year when students enter middle
school.
We conduct an analogous analysis
of high -
school entry, taking advantage
of the different grade
configurations of the
schools students attended in 6th grade.
In other words, we are assuming that the negative effect
of a transition is not anticipated by parents and reflected in the choice
of a
school with a particular grade
configuration in grade 3.
In recognition
of the association noted above — that suspension rates differ by the grade
configuration of schools — performance levels are different for elementary, middle, and high
schools.
Perhaps the most telling research about the impact
of middle -
school grade
configuration is a recent study
of New York City middle
schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall 2010).
Investigating the transition to high
school, we find that students moving to a new high
school between grades 8 and 9 suffer a small drop in achievement
of 0.03 standard deviations in math and 0.04 standard deviations in reading (relative to those in grade 6 — 12
schools or
schools with another
configuration that requires no transition at this point).
Perhaps the most telling research about the impact
of middle -
school grade
configuration is a recent study
of New York City middle
schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» research, Fall 2010).
The Columbia Business
School researchers studied the impacts
of grade
configuration on learning and concluded that «middle
schools are not the best way to educate students» in districts like New York City.
The results suggest that the negative effects
of entering a middle
school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects
of configurations that separate the middle -
school grades are by no means limited to urban
school districts.
This suggests a final potential interpretation
of our results that is directly related to the choice
of grade
configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a
school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.
Each
of the three
schools runs the program with a different staffing
configuration — based largely on what was in place before the program launched.
Superintendent Tommy Chang presented a plan to the Boston
School Committee that would eliminate middle
schools and change the grade
configuration of other
schools in Boston so that students only have to change
schools once during their education, James Vaznis reports in the Boston Globe.
The New
Schools Network, which promotes free schools, has published research showing how the configuration of local schools can also affect parental
Schools Network, which promotes free
schools, has published research showing how the configuration of local schools can also affect parental
schools, has published research showing how the
configuration of local
schools can also affect parental
schools can also affect parental choice.
Researchers have questioned the merits
of isolating middle
school students in their own grade
configuration for years.
Before joining the Deputy Mayor's Office, she worked at District
of Columbia Public
Schools as Chief
of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer during which she supported the agency's portfolio planning activities, including
school closures, grade
configuration changes, and enrollment projections.
Table 3 - 2 exhibits the grade
configuration of schools.
Whatever their
configuration, networks
of public charter
schools are generally better able to leverage resources and access more established supports than can independent public charter
schools.
Far from being boring, a standardised design can enhance the flexibility
of space within a
school, opening up possibilities for different
configurations and settings.