Sentences with phrase «school configuration of»

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.

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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 ominSchool 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 ominschool children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominschool 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,&raquconfiguration 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,&raquConfiguration» 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.
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