Sentences with phrase «school credit recovery»

Grades 9 — 12 high school credit recovery and acceleration: James Madison Academic Campus, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Obama SCTE (online only; must meet requirements), Riverside University High School, South Division High School, and Transition High School

The district already has a stable of online initiatives, including high school credit recovery programs and summer school courses to help students advance.

The high school plans on expanding the program to include summer school credit recovery and hybrid initiatives.

Not exact matches

Anthony Borges, the teen credited with shielding 20 classmates during the Parkland school shooting, came home from the hospital this week to face a long recovery from five bullet wounds.

In some alternative schools, children attend for the purpose of credit recovery, and once they've earned a sufficient number of credits, they transfer back to a traditional school.

«Chancellor Fariña has taken an important step to deal with the credit - recovery problems caused by the Bloomberg administration and continued by his appointees — a scandal that school «reformers» chose to ignore when Bloomberg was in charge of the system,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

The pressure to inflate grades, bogus credit - recovery courses, and plain - old D.C. - style fraud don't happen just because school districts are under pressure to graduate students, contends Greene.

While individualized online instruction has become prevalent in many high schools, it is mostly used as an add - on, to offer special classes like foreign languages or credit - recovery courses.

But some teachers and parents attribute that to a new «credit recovery» program that lets failing students retake courses after school.

This marks a similar trajectory to the path that early online - learning programs took, by offering courses in credit recovery or Advanced Placement, where schools had limited or no offerings.

Martel, the long - time social studies teacher, says credit - recovery classes ran 82 hours per quarter at his school compared to 125 hours for classes held during the school day, and that teachers were told not to give homework.

In contrast, because there is rampant nonconsumption in secondary schools — of advanced courses, foreign languages, credit recovery and so on — the disruptive models of blended learning are likely to replace the traditional classroom over the long term.

In Los Angeles, when graduation standards were raised and it looked like many students would be denied high school diplomas, the school district turned to online credit recovery courses to get the students back on track.

These were, in fact, forms of «credit recovery» and they honored both the American principle of second chances and the schools» insistence that certain academic standards be met by their pupils.

However, while a lot of attention is being given to how such tests will work in the «regular» school context, not much has yet been paid to how they'll function in the world of credit - recovery.

In this case that meant at the fringe of schools — in the advanced classes, foreign languages, and credit and dropout recovery options they couldn't otherwise offer, for example.

For example, out - of - school learning, credit recovery, and advanced and elective coursework all represent areas where students face limited options because traditional schools often have a tough time offering solutions.

As I've noted before, alternative high schools, or dropout - recovery programs, are well - suited to forging competency - based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels.

As credit recovery grows in popularity, though, it's becoming increasingly common for school districts to turn to online companies.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

Some entire states, like Florida and Georgia, offer a range of online courses, including credit recovery, through state - funded virtual schools.

Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, has made online credit recovery classes the centerpiece of his aggressive dropout - reduction strategy.

EdWeek recently reported that at least three major school districts — Boston, Chicago and New York City — offer online credit recovery classes.

In the Capital Region, East Greenbush is just one example of a school district that has been able to raise its graduation rates after implementing credit recovery.

Executive Summary In the fall of 1999, Wichita Public Schools launched a dropout - recovery and credit - recovery program, called the Learning Centers, in response to the district's low graduation rate.

A reporting project by a group of students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism tackled some of the nuances of the debate, looking at a range of schools from those clearly gaming the system (much to the frustration of teachers) to those that reflect the ideals behind credit recovery.

Whether you're building an after - school enrichment program or a credit recovery course, we have everything you need to boost achievement.

State Education Commissioner John King said students can't learn a whole class in a week and he has heard allegations that some schools are inflating graduation rates with credit recovery.

Well - known blogger Joanne Jacobs, for one, is skeptical that credit recovery can motivate students who've failed before: «I see potential for a game of let's pretend: Students pretend they've learned, online providers pretend they've taught and schools pretend all their graduates have a high school education.»

But credit recovery is an essential part of efforts to increase high school graduation rates in urban, suburban and rural schools nationwide.

That's what critics call «credit recovery» education programs, which are increasingly used at high schools across New York as a way for struggling students to complete coursework online or using workbooks in subjects they've previously failed or in which they've fallen behind.

That's exactly the problem with online credit recovery programs; the speed with which they offer credit, said Liz Pape, president of the Virtual High School Global Consortium, which promotes effective online learning and course design.

And while it's an open secret in many districts, critics say credit recovery allows young people to cheat themselves out of an education while boosting a school district's graduation rate.

Proponents, however, say credit recovery is a miracle cure for high school coursework, the way for a student to complete an entire class in just a week.

In their own news releases, school officials talk about how Operation Graduation, which includes a credit recovery component, boosts the district's graduation rate and quotes one former student, Victor Lopez, as saying: «It was a shocker to learn what I could get done in a day.»

This might include early intervention for students who are at risk of failing Algebra I or any 9th - grade math class, credit recovery or targeting students with attention from graduation coaches in high school.

Next year, Regents Chancellor Tisch said, the state Education Department will require schools to break out the number of students using credit recovery when they report graduation rates.

She said she is concerned that some schools are abusing credit recovery.

The education news site GothamSchools (now Chalkbeat New York) reported on a guidance counselor at New York's A. Philip Randolph High School, for example, who said she was instructed to enroll dozens of failing students in credit - recovery classes solely so they could earn their diplomas.

In communities including New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Chicago, educators are creating alternative schools for struggling students that employ online credit - recovery programs as a core portion, or all, of their curriculum.

The Los Angeles Unified School District is back in the news for its use of technology, this time for its online credit - recovery courses.

Michael Bloomberg, who oversaw the schools as mayor from 2002 to 2013, has consistently denied that abuse of credit recovery led to rising graduation rates across the city during his tenure.

Leaders of schools that rely heavily on online credit recovery say they try to purchase courses that can be easily broken apart, so teachers can reorder the lessons or pull out specific sections to meet individual students» needs.

Even as online credit recovery hits the mainstream, for the most part it has remained free of any scrutiny beyond what individual school leaders and the consumer marketplace provide.

Meanwhile, about 80 percent of urban schools cite credit recovery as an issue of importance, according to the International Association for K — 12 Online Learning.

By definition, students taking online credit - recovery classes are behind in school.

Headmaster Julie Coles, left, works with Dequisha Hill, 19, on reading comprehension in an online credit - recovery course held this summer at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School.

As a result, the staff and teachers at schools like the NET and ReNEW Accelerated end up working extensively with the students on note - taking skills, supplementing the credit - recovery classes with more personalized instruction, and prepping the students for the content they will encounter online.

,» by Zoe Kirsch, describes how one school district came to rely on online credit recovery to boost its graduation rate.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.