Sentences with phrase «students by closing schools»

Moreover, the process for identifying «failing schools» was neither consistent nor research - based, and disproportionately affected low - income African American and Latino students by closing schools in disadvantaged minority neighborhoods while leaving untouched those schools in more affluent areas with comparable performance and enrollments.

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By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

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But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

The email, titled, «Cloudy with a chance of political pandering» and written by Councilman Danny Dromm, slams Ms. Moskowitz for her decision to close all of her schools on Tuesday so that students can attend a large pro-charter rally in Albany.

New York, NY — As the school year comes to a close, a shocking new report released today by leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY, The Graduation Facade: How New York City's Diploma Mills Mask College Readiness Crisis, exposes the problem of Diploma Mills — schools where the graduation rates are above average, but the students are not prepared for college or a career after high school.

Stakeholders from the Essence School in East New York pushed the DOE to allow the school to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elseSchool in East New York pushed the DOE to allow the school to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elseschool to operate, with students saying they lived close by and that safety was a major concern if they were forced to travel elsewhere.

NEWBURGH — Student enrollment figures in school districts across the Hudson Valley continue to decline and that has prompted discussion about closing schools and reorganizing districts, according to a report released Thursday by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress.

DISABLED STUDENT GRADUATION: One new measure will make it easier for disabled students to attend their high school graduation by closing a loophole that had allowed local education officials to keep some students out.

In New York, under close public supervision, they admit students by lottery and have outperformed traditional neighborhood schools.

The headmasters of some schools in the north have threatened to close down the schools and send students home due to the non-payment of feeding grants by government for students.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

The city Department of Education plans to close more than a dozen struggling schools — including the Bronx high school where a student was stabbed to death by a classmate...

Making for a crowded day, Eva Moskowitz closed her 32 charter schools and shipped some 7,500 students and parents to Albany on the very same day for an outdoor rally in the cold, capped by a performance by Ashanti, who declined to say how much she was paid for her appearance.

«By packing schools with struggling students, the DOE has not only set us up to fail, they have pushed us towards failure,» said Jorel Moore, 17, a senior at Brooklyn's Franklin K. Lane HS, one of the closing schools.

Since school meals formulate only part of a student's daily calorie intake, Smart Snacks was added to close the nutritional gap by providing healthy foods and beverages through school vending machines, stores, and à la carte services.

Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state schools with higher state grades.

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

Unlike other studies that have tracked how time is spent in school, this one kept close tabs on what students were up to through the use of time diaries kept by teachers throughout the day.

In all the schools I visited, behaviour management did not appear to be an issue — teachers were addressed by their first name and the relationship between student and teacher appears to be much closer than the more formal approach adopted in many countries.

Data such as that presented by CASE suggests too many state school students are closing down their options at a very early stage by, for example, choosing combined science instead of the separate subjects.

«Closing school for everyone appears to be better for student learning than adding to the challenges posed by American students» already low attendance rates,» Goodman concludes.

For this reason, we estimate charter school effects by comparing students who are more likely to attend a charter school because they live closer to one to those less likely to attend a charter school because it is less convenient.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

As in many Edison schools, Wintergreen starts each day with a 15 - minute (advertisement free) closed - circuit television «news» broadcast, written, filmed, and produced by Wintergreen students.

School financing policies should be driven by an analysis of what it costs to raise the bar and close the gap in student achievement, bringing teaching and learning opportunities in all schools up to a high standard.

In recent years Frank W. Ballou Senior High School in Washington, D.C., has suffered some well - publicized traumas, including the on - campus murder of a 17 - year - old and a deliberate mercury contamination by students that forced the school to close for a School in Washington, D.C., has suffered some well - publicized traumas, including the on - campus murder of a 17 - year - old and a deliberate mercury contamination by students that forced the school to close for a school to close for a month.

Mexican officials closed Casa by the Sea, a 538 - student school in Ensenada, Mexico, that specializes in behavior modification for troubled teenagers, on Sept. 10, along with two smaller schools nearby that worked with youths with drug addictions and other challenges.

My current research illustrates how intervening to improve the social dynamics of a school (particularly by improving teacher - student relationships) can help close achievement gaps.

A RCT of charter schools in New York City by a Stanford researcher found an even larger effect: «On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the «Scarsdale - Harlem achievement gap» in math and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English.»

At the same time, it should be made clear by both the district and the charter community that students pay the price of NOT closing schools.

The institute includes a blend of theory and practice - based techniques for addressing student learning by strengthening instruction and better engaging communities, closing the achievement gap and establishing a positive, safe and goal - oriented school culture.

For the past decade, school reform has been primarily about «closing achievement gaps» by boosting math and reading proficiency and graduation rates, among black, Latino, and poor students.

Most of the schools are not even close to it, resulting in students across the city receiving far less physical education than required by law.

Close school - to - home ties, so carefully built during a student's early grades, have often loosened considerably by the high school years.

As a high school for 3,000 students was closed down, it would be replaced by four or five small schools for 500 students.

The prize was awarded Sept. 16 by the Los Angeles - based Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which bestows the award annually to a city school district that has made notable strides in improving achievement, especially in closing gaps between students of different racial and ethnic groups.

Since 2005, dozens of Chicago's public schools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public Schoolsschools have been closed and thousands of students reassigned to campuses outside their neighborhoods — and often across gang lines — as part of Renaissance 2010, a program launched by Mayor Richard Daley when Duncan was Chicago Public SchoolsSchools chief.

Yet on close reading, de Blasio's nine - page education plan offers mostly bromides and impossible dreams: «ensure that all students are reading at grade level by third grade,» «reduce class size,» «involve and engage parents and families,» and «place great leaders to lead great teachers in every school.»

Some of our CMO schools are beginning to close the achievement gap; their students perform better than affluent students who traditionally outperform low - income students by a significant margin.

When they calculate the simple correlation between income and math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (close to a year's worth of learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.

iNACOL has five criteria that it recommends policymakers judge full - time virtual charter schools by: individual student growth, proficiency, graduation rates, college and career readiness, and closing the achievement gap.

It finds, for instance, that attending a charter school from kindergarten to 8th grade can close the achievement gap with a similar student in the affluent suburb of Scarsdale, N.Y., by 86 percent in mathematics and 66...

By allowing schools and districts to develop their own performance goals aligned with their programs, existing performance, and needs of students, ownership of school improvement will lie with the stakeholders closest to the students.»

If these steps do not turn around the schools and improve student achievement in two years, Clinton's plan would require states to take additional corrective actions, such as permitting students to attend other public schools, or reconstituting the school by evaluating the staff and making any necessary staff changes, or closing the school and reopening it as a charter with an entirely new staff.

The following figure displays the cumulative learning - gain estimates of displaced students by the third year after their schools closed.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

When charter students moved to higher - quality schools, they gained an additional fifty - eight days of learning in reading and eighty - eight days of learning in math by the third year after their school closed.

To put that in perspective, the percentage of students passing math assessments falls by about one - third to one - half a percentage point for each day school is closed.

The application was originally intended to offer students a forum where they could grade the prevalence of bullying at their schools by answering eight close - ended questions about the frequency, variety, and location of bullying, as well as one open - ended question on how they would like to see the issue addressed.