Sentences with phrase «small public high schools»

Summary: This article reports on in - depth case studies of three urban, socioeconomically and racially diverse small public high schools, a student survey, and a comparison of student survey results to a national sample of students, Hamedani et al. investigate the ways in which school - wide social emotional learning can be implemented and how these efforts shape students» educational experiences.

In the case of New York City, this basket is the June 2010 «research» report by MDRC entitled «Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City's New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates» and the January 2012 follow up report «Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City's Small Public High Schools of Choice.»

A version of this article appears in print on January 26, 2012, on Page A26 of the New York edition with the headline: City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says.

Summary: This article reports on in - depth case studies of three urban, socioeconomically and racially diverse small public high schools, a student survey, and a comparison of student survey results to a national sample of students, Hamedani et al. investigate the ways in which school - wide social emotional learning can be implemented and how these efforts shape students» educational experiences.

Chicago's Renaissance 2010: The Small Schools Movement Meets The Ownership Society China's Small Schools Go Digital City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says Do Small Schools Harden Segregation?

It operated by Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, an independent non-profit charter management organization that has grown to 18 high performance small public high schools and middle schools created in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2010.

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.

Sustained Positive Effects on Graduation Rates Produced by New York City's Small Public High Schools of Choice.

On Top of the News City Students at Small Public High Schools are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says New York Times 1/26/12

New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City

Then came a fresh start as a freshman in one of this city's new generation of small public high schools.

In fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty line.

A small public high school in eastern Kentucky supports the teacher views cited above that collaboration and autonomy are critical to successful classroom practice.

Help Steve raise money to support students from MetWest, a small public high school in East Oakland (where Steve is tutoring math) attend the Woolman Semester School, a Quaker school focused on peace, justice and environmental sustainability.

I am now a special education teacher in the NYC Department of Education, at a small public high school in Brooklyn.

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One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

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.

Personally I think if they reduced it to 50 %, which I believe is the next highest level of support among the provinces that provide any support to private schools, it would be a small enough reduction that there would be little migration to public schools that Farmer Brian alluded to.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

This winter, the halls of the Bronx Aerospace Academy, a small military - themed high school on Gun Hill Road, look fresh and new thanks to a nonprofit group that is making its mission to spruce up the city's drab and dilapidated public school buildings.

Traditionally, everyone had one public school to which they were assigned on the basis of where they lived with elementary schools being more numerous and in smaller geographic catchment areas than middle schools than high schools.

STEM - focused high schools are important because they constitute the first U.S. science and mathematics reform that requires whole - school transformation rather than tinkering with peripheral components of an outmoded educational system or serving just a small, select segment of the public school population.

I'm usually not a person that wears shorts at all and don't think I have worn them much out in public since I was smaller and in high school.

Glee is the story of a high school teacher's attempts to organize his small public school's... Cucumber is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on Channel 4.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

The six sites include a suburban public school district and a small - town elementary school, a private religious school and a private secular school, an alternative public high school and a charter school.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

On one hand, the higher rates of preschool participation among children today suggest that any positive long - term effects of extending universal public schooling to four - year - olds may be even smaller than those estimated here for kindergarten.

What's more, critics say, single - sex schools such as the 49ers Academy and the Philadelphia High School for Girls might owe their success to any number of factors: smaller class sizes, specialized teachers, and a higher public profile, which often brings extra revenue.

From directors Jean - Michel Dissard and Gitte Peng, I Learn America follows five students through one school year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United StaHigh School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United SSchool at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Stahigh school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United States.

New Visions for Public Schools, a nonprofit established in 1989, launched a small - high - schools effort in New York City in 1993 with Annenberg'Schools, a nonprofit established in 1989, launched a small - high - schools effort in New York City in 1993 with Annenberg'schools effort in New York City in 1993 with Annenberg's help.

An analysis by the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly School Boards Association's Center for Public Education (CPE) suggests that «yes, we do,» revealing that (at least in recent years) the percentage of high school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly school graduates who don't go on to a two - or four - year college is surprisingly small.

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

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

In my public high school, a small school in rural Massachusetts, I was a conscientious student with a straight - A average.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

As a high - school student, I planned someday to join their ranks and to do my small part to make the purpose of public schools educating students, not just providing an education to «those few who want it.»

Second, given that charter high schools tend to be much smaller than traditional public high schools, charter school effects might simply be attributable to their smaller size.

The first BVP elementary and middle schools are among a small number (less than 10 percent) of public schools to receive the highest «Commended» designation from Rhode Island's commissioner of education.

In Chicago, the gap in college attendance is smaller but still sizable: among the study population of charter 8th graders, 49 percent of students at charter high schools attended college, compared to 38 percent of students at traditional public high schools.

A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call «high schools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools that improve life chances,» pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Sschools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public SchoolsSchools.

For example, they have pushed to reduce the size of public high schools, in the belief that small high schools, like families, can succeed by developing a strong, shared sense of mission among faculty and students.

King, a small public charter high school of 460 students (in the 2010 - 11 academic year) in grades 9 - 12, is part of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) network of schools.

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

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

Their small sample of schools was further stretched so as to compare private versus public sponsorship, elementary versus middle schools (the sample included no high schools), and higher - versus lower - income student populations.

In addition, reservation schools often are small, and native students can feel intimidated when they move on to large public high schools.

Upstart Startup: Creating and Sustaining a Public Charter School By James Nehring; Standards of Mind and Heart: Creating the Good High School By Peggy Silva and Robert A. Mackin; Central Park East and Its Graduates: «Learning by Heart» By David Bensman; One Kid at a Time: Big Lessons from a Small School By Eliot Levine