Sentences with phrase «school curriculum options»

«Today's smart move by the House gives Michigan the opportunity to work out a range of state - based high school curriculum options.»

Not exact matches

Bob Jones homeschool reviews from across the web praise the BJ curriculum as a great option for parents to find an organized and systematic way to cover all of the material that must be taught as students progress throughout school from a biblical and academic stand point.

Though the DoE said the city doesn't have require a specific curriculum, New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott responded to the New York City Parents» Coalition's charges by saying that a good sex ed program includes abstinence and other options.

The curriculum has been changed in its entirety in primary schools, and secondary schools are coping with hurried changes to GCSE and A-levels and having to redo their curriculums and subject options as well.

A balanced curriculum With children required to study EBacc subjects to GCSE level, it's easy to see that the creative pathways for our school children are disappearing, which will slowly result in funding for creative subject areas being cut, leading to options for our children being vastly reduced.

This option covers an array of activities, such as modifying curriculum, altering the school's management structure or choosing a school reform model.»

A number of schools appear to have responded with whole - school reform models or a new curriculum — also options for schools in corrective action.

«Alongside the EBacc, the arts are a crucial part of a broad and balanced curriculum and it is great to see that the best schools ensure young people have the option to study both academic and creative subjects.»

We need to provide flexible multi-pronged support options for high schools, including curriculum, to help teachers easily embed sustainability concepts.

The last school they visited — a small Title I school with an Expeditionary Learning (EL) curriculum — turned out to be the best option.

It advocates for strong standards, aligned curriculum frameworks, improved teacher preparation and certification systems, increased school - level autonomy, diverse school options, and more early - childhood programs.

To date, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of options in the antibullying curriculum market for schools, and many incorporate aspects of empathy, perspective - taking, and mindfulness.

Online college curricula and offerings from for - profit entrepreneurs give home - schooling, anxious college - driven, and rural parents new options.

The Beaverton School District did just that four years ago when it started Summa Options, a program of advanced curriculum for students who score in the 99 percentile on standardized reading and math tests or a test of cognitive ability.

We foster a culture of respect for every member of our school community in our values, behaviours and through differentiated learning options in our curriculum and co-curricular programs.

Camron is enrolled in the FLVS full - time virtual instruction option for elementary school students and follows an accelerated curriculum for gifted students.

One option is to focus on structural features of schools and classrooms, such as teacher education and certification, class size, and curriculum, and enact policies to ensure that these proxies for quality are uniformly in place.

Although online education is growing as an option for students in K - 12 school districts, colleges and universities have been much quicker to develop and provide online courses and incorporate them into their curricula.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 3schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

In the time since, White has worked to unify the state's fragmented early childhood system, to modernize curriculum, to professionalize the preparation of educators, to provide pathways to prosperity for all high school graduates, and to provide families with expansive school options irrespective of their financial means.

In other words, I'm a true believer in the centrality of a first - rate, content - rich curriculum — and it's topmost in what I look for as I help our kids navigate their kids» schooling options.

Instead of letting each teacher in each school come up with his or her own curriculum and approach, resulting in an incoherent and in some cases ineffective system of instruction, Payzant gradually narrowed the range of options for schools and teachers to materials and teaching strategies that he and his teams of coaches thought worked best for Boston students.

He also pushed for a gradual narrowing of curriculum options for most schools.

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ESBMM schools have a more limited set of options they can customize, which include their budgets, staff selection and professional development expectations, curriculum, and bell schedule.

«This is what is going on in schools across the country: It's not an option to do anything else than retake the class with the same book and same curriculum,» said Anthony B. Fong, the lead researcher at WestEd who conducted this November 2014 study, «Who Repeats Algebra I, and How does initial performance related to improvement when the course is repeated?»

Districts and schools influenced the degree and types of differentiation in the classroom mainly in three ways: mandated time for instructional differentiation, curriculum options, and online program adoption.

There will need to be tweaks but actually Progress 8 is a workable solution which is actually fairer for many schools and the revised system of measuring Ebacc via an APS system means that we need not be designing a curriculum in which every student has to take a Foreign Language and means that teaching Art or Construction can be seen as better options for some students.

We need to allow more genuinely vocational options and reward schools for making that curriculum choice.

And, SB 461 by Sen. Sam Blakeslee, R - San Luis Obispo, which would add as an option to the high school equivalency certificate requirements that a candidate be at least 17 years of age and have successfully completed the academic curriculum of a National Guard Youth ChalleNGe (sic) Program.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Charter schools have the flexibility to offer tailored curriculum options to meet scholars» needs.

«Charter schools offer teachers the option to choose from single gender schools, project based curricula, environmental themed programs, and dual language instruction.

It said: «Schools must teach a broad and balanced curriculum and we understand that they will need to think carefully about how they will continue to offer a range of options at key stage four, including in the arts.

Critics charge that school - to - work programs displace basic skills and academic instruction, are impractical and wasteful, invade family privacy, narrow student options, promote societal change (by reducing ability grouping, integrating reshaping traditional gender roles, etc.), and allow the national government to shape school curricula and children's futures.

The options include private or parochial school tuition, textbooks, tutors, homeschool curriculum, public school and virtual online classes, education therapy, AP or college admission exams and college tuition.

Independent school tuition is higher than many other school options because we want our students to have the best teachers and most innovative curriculum in town.

The solutions would start with economically diverse housing options in all towns in CT, quality pre-natal care, quality pediatric care, high school courses on parenting, in - home parenting classes for teens, a robust curriculum rich in the arts, social sciences, science, math, and character education, lots of playtime in a safe literature rich environment for pre-schoolers, summer school and before and after school care provided by TFA or some other organization of young recent college graduates, small class size, teacher leaders instead of building administrators, and collaboration time built into the school day.

Davidson Academy students will be able to accelerate through the required middle - and high - school curriculum at a pace appropriate to their abilities and motivation until they become fully matriculated into the University through accelerated course options.

That's why we offer the option of enrolling in a complete grade - level curriculum package, individual courses to supplement a traditional school or homeschool curriculum, or in our full - time online private school, the Calvert Academy.

Bissell, who is a K12 Inc. shareholder and has three children enrolled in COVA, says that the school could still use K12's curriculum but says school leaders have decided that new management is the best option.

Just as importantly, the waiver gambit reaffirms the role of states in structuring education without holding them accountable for how they spend federal dollars (or for providing them with high - quality teaching, curricula, and school options); this includes the administration's move through the waiver process to bless implementation of Plessy v. Ferguson - like proficiency targets that allow districts and other school operators to effectively ignore poor and minority students.

So we must continue to overhaul how we recruit, train, evaluate, and reward teachers; develop stronger, more - entrepreneurial school leaders; expand the number of high - quality school options for all kids; provide all kids with rigorous college preparatory curricula; make parents the lead decision - makers in education and given them the tools they need to make smart decisions for their kids; and build cultures of genius in which the potential of all kids can be nurtured.

Utilizing the live teacher option, Proximity Learning works one - on - one with each school to fully align with their bell schedule, parent teacher conferences, grading expectations and curriculum adoption — your normal operations won't be interrupted.

We think Smart by Method (grades K - 12) is SoCal's most complete home school option, featuring online curriculum from Smart Fox, tutoring, and in person projects and social activities.

Also, like many charters attempting to expand, there are inherent challenges, and OPA is working with the school community and school board to ensure it meets and has met it's legal responsibilities so that it can continue to serve its 300 students and families to the best of its ability by offering a variety of curriculum options and with minimal disruption in the 2015 - 16 school year.

Through this process, community schools can provide families with a neighborhood school option that includes high - quality, challenging curriculum and instructional practices and that is grounded in what the community needs and wants.

We assist students and their families in exploring the range of options available, taking into account specific programs and curricula, school cultures, geographic locations, specialized programs, the choice of public or independent, and whether they prefer boarding or day schools.

Continually improve a curriculum designed to prepare students for transition secondary school options and post-graduation.

The Lower School curriculum offers gifted education that is typically 1.5 - 2 years above grade level with individualized learning options.