Sentences with phrase «traditional academic settings»

We solicit high quality work from writers with diverse backgrounds — from traditional academic settings, as well as the rural and urban, the domestic and international.

«Those skills come tolife in career academies in ways that are moredifficult in traditional academic settings,» saysJ.D.

Her work with students has spanned the years from preschool through young adulthood in traditional academic settings, alternative programs, and special needs placements.

Outside of the traditional academic setting, Jordan thrived.

Residential schools serve as a viable alternative for children with behavioral and emotional issues not adequately addressed in a traditional academic setting.

Not exact matches

Whether it's year - round school, or nine months out of the year like in traditional school settings, you need to decide how your school schedule will look for the upcoming academic year.

Shabazz is one of the oldest alternative schools in the nation, established in 1971 to educate Madison students whose circumstances, attitudes, and conduct are often not conducive to successful academic work in a traditional school setting.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Most students will do some of their academic coursework outside the brick - and - mortar setting — making home schooling a very mainstream activity — and traditional home schoolers will be more fully integrated into the larger education system (see «Home Schooling Goes Mainstream,» features).

«What is tricky to do is to figure out how to change the typically traditional high school model of educating students into the proposed model that incorporates academics and a new skill set,» he says.

Set up as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often boast small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.

We specialize in serving students ages 12 - 16 who have exhibited behavioral problems in traditional school settings, including problems such as truancy, multiple suspensions, mental health issues, peer conflicts, family dysfunction, academic problems, and gang involvement.

ELOs include traditional afterschool activities with an academic focus, but also incorporate activities such as internships with employers, independent study in alternative settings, classes on college campuses for high school students, and wraparound support services.

Our mission is to provide a caring environment of high expectations, individualized attention, and great teaching via a distance learning delivery system that is sufficiently adaptable to help K - 12 students in traditional and non-traditional educational settings achieve their maximum academic potential and life goals.

For families who can't afford to move to a «better» school district, and even for families who can, charter schools empower all parents with the ability to ask one simple question; «What is the best academic setting for my child — the traditional zoned public school or the charter public school?

Traditional Career & Technical Education and academic education are not separate disciplines that should remain entirely apart in a school setting.

For a while, the state's Recovery School District — eerily, it was given that name before Katrina and referred only to academic «recovery» — ran a set of traditional schools alongside a growing charter sector.

For the purposes of the brief, we operationalized access and equity as follows: to evaluate access, we examined districts» choice and recruitment policies and assessed the degree to which pathways were representative of their districts» high school student populations; to evaluate equity, we compared academic outcomes for Linked Learning student subgroups with those of similar peers in traditional high school settings.

More - closely monitoring the academic progress of students, essentially subjecting schools to the same Value - Added analysis that is now being applied to teachers and schools in traditional public school settings also makes sense, as does monitoring their graduation rates; a private school that doesn't make the grade shouldn't be a school that families should send their kids.

For the past three years, that's included a significant shift away from the state's traditional academic benchmarks and toward the Common Core, a set of more difficult standards.

From his first major sculpture, Rodin's work was marked by realism, which set him apart from the traditional idealized academic art of the 18th and 19th centuries.