Sentences with phrase «small schools of choice»

Cahill also reflected on her experiences in the New York City Department of Education, where she worked with some of the city's lowest performing schools During her tenure in the department, she phased out 23 failing high schools created over 200 new schools called Small Schools of Choice.

An additional comparison school sample of 13 small schools of choice with a focus other than STEM is being used to help disentangle the effects of a STEM - focused program from those of small school size and school choice.

Research shows New York's small schools of choice have reduced dropout and increased graduation rates while encouraging more students to meet higher standards.

One finding of the study is the effect small schools of choice are having on at - risk students.

Among the most popular selections were «small schools of choice,» which are small, nonselective public high schools that emphasize academic rigor, strong relationships between students and teachers and community partnerships.

If we had the political will to create high schools like these across the nation, what lessons about improving the life chances of low - income teen - agers might we take from the New York City decade - long experience with small schools of choice?

Reviewed strategies for enhancing students» high school and college outcomes include: 1) participation in rigorous curriculum; 2) small learning communities / small schools of choice; 3) career academies; 4) dual enrollment; 5) early college high schools; and 6) college and career counseling.

Small high schools send larger shares of students to college, new study says ChalkbeatNY: The multi-year study examines a subset of 123 «small schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.

Finally, small schools of choice can help to build a strong sense of community, which could particularly benefit inner - city neighborhoods where traditional institutions have been disintegrating.

MDRC has previously released two reports on these «small schools of choice,» or SSCs (so called because they are small, are academically nonselective, and were created to provide a realistic choice for students with widely varying academic backgrounds).

At the heart of these reforms lie 123 new «small schools of choice» (SSCs)-- small, academically nonselective, four - year public high schools for students in grades 9 through 12.

These schools are 115 of the 123 Small Schools of Choice.

Small schools of choice might also build the social capital that Coleman considered crucial for student success.

Specifically, the report looks at outcomes for students who attend the city's «small schools of choice.»

If we focus only on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a high degree of alignment between achievement and attainment outcomes.

At the same time, there were four programs that «don't test well» — initiatives that don't improve achievement but do boost high school graduation rates: Milwaukee Parental Choice, Charlotte Open Enrollment, Non-No Excuses Texas Charter Schools, and Chicago's Small Schools of Choice.

A 2010 MDRC report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looked at the 123 «small schools of choice,» or SSCs, that have opened in New York City since 2002.

Let's hope that the Gates Foundation and its followers are not impervious to evidence and reconsider their abandonment of the small schools of choice reform strategy.

With the support of the Gates Foundation, New York City created 150 small schools of choice between 2002 and 2008.

Despite more proof that the small schools of choice reform strategy pursued by the Gates Foundation before 2006 has been a clear success, the Gates Foundation has nothing to say about these positive results.

They take advantage of lotteries to gain admission to these non-selective small schools of choice to conduct a random assignment experiment.

With the new open - enrollment system, educators believed they could capitalize on the Small Schools of Choice reform.

A small school of choice also engenders a voluntary community that comes together over strong ties and shared values.

Not exact matches

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

In the U.S., we removed full - calorie sodas during the school day and replaced them with a range of low - and no - calorie, smaller - portion choices as part of our industry's voluntary School Beverage Guideschool day and replaced them with a range of low - and no - calorie, smaller - portion choices as part of our industry's voluntary School Beverage GuideSchool Beverage Guidelines.

Where our kids go to school is one small fragment of a much larger ecosystem of their life choices and values.

His investigation continues, and he expects more claims to be brought against other food service providers over rebates that not only create «an inherent conflict of interest» in the choice of foods children are served at school, but also discourage the use of locally produced goods from smaller suppliers, including local farmers.

I was — and remain — a big milk drinker, so even on days that I wasn't making the healthiest choices for myself I was still consuming 1 - 3 of those small cartons of skim milk each day at school.

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

Rather, voucher users are exercising private school choice, while control group members are exercising a small amount of private school choice and a substantial amount of public school choice.

Litky and his fellow small schoolers can make these claims more reasonably than other schools, since most small schools are schools of choice.

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the proliferation of high school exit exams, the success of school choice initiatives, and a dozen other smaller if more bitter battles, education has become one of the hottest policy topics in Washington.

With the choices available, students increasingly don't need to make the tradeoff between attending a large school with lots of choices but perhaps lots of anonymity or a small school with limited choices but a deeply developed personal support structure.

School choice will ultimately prevail or disappear based on how it affects entire urban populations, not just the small group of students who benefit directly from being able to attend private schools tuition - free.

New York has proved that high school reform is possible; that boosting graduation rates of the poor and unprepared, even if the effort is begun in high school, is possible; that small alone is not enough; that choice alone is not enough.

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.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

These lessons add to MDRC's evidence on the implementation of small high schools of choice in New York City.

As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to measure the effects of small schools on college enrollment and choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

In Zelman, the Ohio attorney general further pointed out that schools participating in the Cleveland voucher program represent only a small portion of the range of choices available outside the regular public schools.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

The market - and choice - oriented policies, which were imposed on schools «in need of improvement,» have consumed resources and local administrative time but have small impacts and are not being seriously evaluated.

It also might suggest that the benefits of school choice are limited to students attending a small subset of schools that admit few voucher students.

Can small high schools of choice improve educational prospects for disadvantaged students?

New York City became a poster child of the initiative when New York school chancellor, Joel Klein, accepted Gates dollars and began, in 2002, to create 123 «small high schools of choice.»

Some critics of school choice have suggested that small classes in private schools «explain» the achievement benefits of private - school scholarships and voucher programs.

Closing down large, chronically low - performing schools and replacing them with a greater number of smaller, new schools was central to Bloomberg's expansion of school choice and his overall approach to the achievement gap.

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.