Sentences with phrase «small high schools»

By contrast, the new smaller high schools, typically in black or Hispanic neighborhoods, serve about 100 students per grade.

On college - related variables — entrance examination scores, acceptance rates, grade point averages — students from small high schools match or exceed those from large ones.

I reported last year on a study that showed that most of the middle school students who ended up in small high schools showed higher achievement and better attendance.

The miniature and small backpacks are perfect for elementary school aged children, and the large backpacks are perfect for middle school aged kids and small high school kids.

Will academic success and public support protect charters and small high schools under a de Blasio administration?

The report describes how leadership is distributed in seven redesigned small high schools.

The evidence base is growing in other areas as well — from home visiting to preschool, from the early teaching of reading and math to the rising graduation rates of small high schools of choice, from programs that facilitate the transition from high school to higher education to college reforms that dramatically accelerate and increase degree attainment.

The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York City.

One of the Gates Foundation's initiatives provides funds to create small high schools in urban districts.

MDRC's follow - up policy brief examining the effects of small high schools on an additional cohort of students.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

A new report released by MDRC touts the success of Bloomberg's signature small high schools initiative in NYC.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was pushing the idea that small high schools worked better than big ones.

The study covers more than 108 oversubscribed high school programs with 9th grade entry, which represent 70 % of unselective small high schools opened between 2002 - 2008.

Right now Varnell's best player is Frank Stainback, a good outside - shooting guard who played so unimpressively for so small a high school that the subsidized talent sharks never even nibbled at him.

That leaves traditional schools with a system that is a bit perplexing — small elementary schools that get merged into giant middle schools, and then broken up into smaller high schools.

An In Perspective story in the April 18, 2007, issue of Education Week about teachers in small high schools gave an incorrect name for a teacher at Mapleton Preparatory High School near Denver.

We evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country's largest school district, New York City.

The message of teamwork and accountability, all in the service of a tangible product is, by now, a familiar one for this inaugural class of students at Vaux, the newest addition to Philadelphia's network of recently opened small high schools designed around the project - based learning curriculum.

«This study shows conclusively that our new small high schools changed thousands of lives in New York City, across every race, gender and ethnicity — not only helping them graduate, but graduate ready for college,» Mr. Walcott said.

But there are very few Phil Knights and Red McCombs in small high school communities to contribute to the cause of returning once - proud programs to their glory days.

He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

Now that I am at Johnson a much smaller high school in comparison staff wear jeans all the time.

The Bloomberg administration's small high schools team succeeded in creating 200 mission - driven schools, most with a specific theme or subject, including college prep and career and technical specialities.

After graduating from a very small high school on Long Island, New York, I attended Salisbury State University in Maryland.

That record consists of eight years of rising test scores (evidenced most reliably by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-, far higher graduation rates, strong performance from the new small high schools Klein created, and often - impressive results from the growing charter schools sector that he championed.

Funders get excited about things like small high schools, education technology, or a local teacher - pay initiative and they dive in.

Middle school students aren't just smaller high schoolers.

At the same time, New York opened a group of small high schools offering open enrollment and personalized attention for students, and it instituted a citywide choice policy.

A second report, Approaches of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Funded Intermediary Organizations to Structuring and Supporting Small High Schools in New York City, prepared by Policy Studies Associates, Inc., examines the roles of 18 intermediary organizations that were funded by the Gates Foundation to start and advise new small schools.

«We must realize that young people between the ages of 10 and 15 are neither large 4th graders nor small high school sophomores,» said Ross Burkhardt, the group's president - elect.

Part of the national trend to carve smaller high schools out of larger ones, financed by groups such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is to increase student involvement and make it harder for kids to be anonymous or overlooked, Bylsma said.

Founded by Global Kids and Former Principal Brad Haggerty in September 2004 as part of the Prospect Heights Educational Campus, the High School for Global Citizenship is an innovative small high school in Central Brooklyn that aims to create a community of active learners who are engaged participants in the democratic process and are learning about foreign policy issues and the connections between their personal lives and international events.

Based on such successes, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has begun a campaign to finance the establishment of many more small high schools in the United States.

New York City opened 40 new small high schools last year and 60 more this fall.

The researchers looked at 14 recently converted small high schools in a large, urban school district in California.

So says Robert Hughes, who has been at the center of creating and supervising more than 100 small high schools since he became president of New Visions for Public Schools in 2000.

In addition to our work with the state, we also provided leadership coaching for the district of Providence for the school design leader of a new, small high school funded by the Carnegie Foundation.