Sentences with phrase «selective public high school»

The Selective Public High School Grant is intended to support the establishment of new programs or enhancement of existing initiatives that prepare academically talented students with financial need to get into and / or through selective public high schools.

There are no easy answers but, as Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett show, for more than 100,000 students each year, the solution is to enroll in an academically selective public high school.

Housed at the University of Buffalo, the program identifies disadvantaged but talented minority children, places them in academic - enrichment classes, and then finds them spots at private schools and a more selective public high school in the area to complete their precollegiate careers.

Academically selective public high schools are 35 percent white and 13 percent Hispanic, as compared to 56 percent and 20 percent, respectively, in the public high school universe.

Critics point out that none of the few dozen Success Academy 8th graders who took the entrance exam over the past two years did well enough to get into one of the city's eight selective public high schools.

Viewed as a whole, selective public high schools have a surprising demographic profile.

Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett are the authors of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools (Princeton, 2012) and «Exam Schools from the Inside,» in the Fall 2012 issue of Education Next.

Chester E. Finn, Jr. is distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and author of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools

Jessica is the co-author (with Kristina Doubet) of Differentiation in Middle & High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners (ASCD) and Differentiation in the Elementary Grades: Strategies to Engage & Equip All Learners (ASCD), as well as Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools with Chester E. Finn, Jr..

Selective public high schools provide a uniquely stimulating learning environment for students.

Since 1938, The Bronx High School of Science has been one of New York City's most selective public high schools.

She is the coauthor (with Kristina Doubet) of Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners and (with Chester E. Finn Jr.) of Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools, a big - picture look at a high - performing but understudied niche of U.S. education.

In 2012, Hockett published Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools with Chester E. Finn, Jr., a big - picture look at a high - performing, but understudied, niche of American education.

Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High Schools.

Not exact matches

Kim looks at SGKAs who are students at one highly selective public university and asks why, given their proficiency in English, impressive educational credentials earned in interracial high schools, and rosy occupational prospects — the attributes that make them «whiz kids» or a «model minority» in the eyes of some — they so often prefer to worship with their own kind.

Eighty - eight students, most from highly selective public and private schools including Phillips Academy Andover, Stuyvesant High School, and top private schools in California and Texas, competed in the LD division.

On Friday morning, he and his entourage visited Walter Payton College Prep, a decade - old, high - achieving, selective - admission public high school that focuses on science, math, and languages and which has hosted a «Confucius Institute» since 2006.

The six kids who represented the United States in Hong Kong last month are an interesting bunch: Five of them appear to be Asian - Americans, and four attend selective - admission high schools (three private, one public).

Second, private schools are generally more selective in admissions than public schools and, on average, have students with higher socio economic status.

That's rare in the world of selective - admission public high schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination of some 165 such schools around the country.

When selective public schools attract high - performing students and involved parents, nobody complains.

What distinguishes this small subset of America's 20,000 public high schools is that they are academically selective.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government public policy professor Christopher Avery, who recently co-authored a study on the lack of high - achieving low - income students at top schools, said that even at selective institutions, «diverse» still does not imply total representation.

Some of the districts» top - performing public high schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighborhhigh schools were among those with the highest number of students who didn't take the exams: Northside College Prep and Lane Technical High School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighborhHigh School on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboSchool on the North Side and Lindblom Math & Science Academy, a selective - enrollment school located in the West Englewood neighboschool located in the West Englewood neighborhood.

We found just two smallish studies focusing on the actual effectiveness of selective - admission public high schools.

Families must use the My School DC lottery application to apply to all DCPS pre-K3 / pre-K4 programs (including programs at families» in - boundary DCPS schools); DCPS citywide and out - of - boundary schools (pre-K3 through grade 12); DCPS selective high schools (9 - 12); and all participating public charter schools (pre-K3 through grade 12).

The My School DC application is a single, online application families must use to apply for participating public charter schools (PK3 — 12); DCPS schools outside your boundary or feeder pattern for any grade (PK3 - 12), including citywide schools; all DCPS PK3 and PK4 programs, including programs at in - boundary schools; and DCPS selective citywide high schools (9 — 12).

«These five states have an opportunity to be selective and provide new high - quality public charter school choices for students and parents.»

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

Lindblom Math & Science Academy is one of eleven selective - enrollment Chicago public high schools while housing 7th - 12th grades.

Northside College Preparatory High School, a selective enrollment Chicago Public School, attracts many of Chicago's most gifted students to its rigorous college prep curriculum.

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In their 2012 book, «Exam Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools: Inside America's Most Selective Public High - Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational Schools,» Chester E. Finn Jr. and Jessica A. Hockett offer a comprehensive look at screened admissions secondary schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational schools across the US by spotlighting a cross-section of educational models.

Baltimore City Public Schools has offered few rigorous academic programs for the high - achieving student beyond five selective admission high sSchools has offered few rigorous academic programs for the high - achieving student beyond five selective admission high schoolsschools.

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During that time, I visited exactly one New Orleans public school: Benjamin Franklin, a selective high school reserved for the city's best students.

This is a stressful time for many urban eighth - grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing from public schools about acceptances into selective or other specialized programs.

In fact, many high - performing traditional public schools — particularly magnets and selective enrollments — enforce a

In fact, many high - performing traditional public schools — particularly magnets and selective enrollments — enforce a no - excuses policy by screening the students who enter their school.

The Northwestern Academy for Chicago Public Schools, which helps low - income high school students prepare for highly selective colleges and universities, unveiled its new facility, at the university's Streeterville campus on Jan. 22, 2017.

On the spring 2017 TNReady state test, Valor scholars achieved the highest overall scores of all non-academically selective middle schools in Metro Nashville Public Sschools in Metro Nashville Public SchoolsSchools.

University Laboratory High School is a selective admission, public, laboratory school sanctioned by the State of Illinois and associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana - ChamSchool is a selective admission, public, laboratory school sanctioned by the State of Illinois and associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana - Chamschool sanctioned by the State of Illinois and associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Walter Peyton College Prep High School is a selective enrollment public high school and an international model for global teaching and learnHigh School is a selective enrollment public high school and an international model for global teaching and leaSchool is a selective enrollment public high school and an international model for global teaching and learnhigh school and an international model for global teaching and leaschool and an international model for global teaching and learning.

Austin's Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) is the city's sole selective - admission academic public high school.

A high school near Midway Airport will likely become the city's 11th selective enrollment high school next year and the first on the Southwest Side, Chicago Public Schools officials said Wednesday.Officials said the decision to transform John Hancock...

Diane Ravitch reblogged an article from the NY Post telling that very few Success students have gotten into the most - selective NYC public high schools: 0 in 2014, 0 in 2015, and 6 in 2016.