Sentences with phrase «traditional high school classes»

In total, 150 North Chicago students are enrolled in pathway programs across IT, healthcare and manufacturing and take career - specific coursework as well as traditional high school classes.

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PBL increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level, as compared with traditional classes, in a sample of 252 students at 11 high schools (Maxwell, Mergendoller & Bellisimo, 2005).

One reason more P.E. has not led to weight loss might be that traditional P.E. classes do not always offer students a real workout, particularly in high school.

As students and teachers explain in this video, traditional P.E. classes may not offer students a real workout, particularly when those students are in high school.

So far, high scores on relatively low - bar state tests have served to assure middle - class parents that their traditional public schools are good and their real - estate investments are safe.

That means they «do» middle or high school in a multiage setting without traditional classes.

Five veteran teachers at four high schools taught macroeconomics using PBL with one or more classes and traditional lecture format in another class.

PBL modestly increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level as compared with traditional classes.

Block scheduling is a hot topic in school reform these days, with a growing number of high schools replacing the traditional setup of six or seven 45 - minute classes a day with fewer classes that last longer.

Traditional high schools did not lose funds when students opted to take classes with FLVS.

«A co-op on steroids,» she says.The curriculum, which runs from prekindergarten through high school, includes classes in traditional subjects like chemistry and music theory.

Using data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools and controlling for individual characteristics, most notably verbal ability, they found modest evidence that, in the aggregate, PBL increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level as compared with traditional classes.

This chart compares traditional versus standards - based grading, courtesy of a Colorado - based high school math teacher who moved her class to standards - based grading:

Eighteen percent of the early college high school graduates who enrolled in college needed to take remedial classes (versus 22 % of the students who went to traditional high schools).

Even for middle - class households with the wherewithal to relocate, the reality that districts often arbitrarily change their zoning policies — especially based on the clout of the families who live in a particular area — means that simply moving residences doesn't guarantee that those families will get into one of the few high - quality traditional schools for which you made such a move.

If a student needs a unique class that can not be delivered at our site such as band, choir, or automotive, they have the option to take a course at our traditional high schools: East, West, and Highland High Schohigh schools: East, West, and Highland High Sschools: East, West, and Highland High SchoHigh SchoolsSchools.

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.

CEDAR CITY — A new Bible class is being offered to students who attend Cedar and Canyon View High Schools in Cedar City in like manner to the traditional seminary class offered to Utah students by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.

Dual - language programs most commonly exist as subsets of traditional high schools, where select students take classes in a language other than English, though generally not for a full half of each day.

Each student studies the same core subjects taught in traditional high school settings and can choose from a wide selection of elective, AP and honors classes.

Accelerate Education provides online education courses for Kindergarten through 12th grade to meet the needs of all students, from at - risk students who had trouble succeeding in the traditional classroom to high achieving students seeking classes their schools can not provide for them.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Commissioner of Education Robert Scott reasons that state standardized tests, soon to include end - of - course exams in high schools, already prevent some students from graduating — even if they slip too easily through some classes, traditional or otherwise.

Traditional middle and high school science classes ask students to learn lots of new ideas.

Even high school students currently enrolled in traditional school can register for part - time classes as supplemental credits.

Starting in 8th grade, each student receives four years of Spanish - language instruction, beginning with either a native language arts class for Spanish speakers or a more traditional high school Spanish course.

Virtual learning enables districts to expand learning opportunities beyond school walls and days by increasing access to high - quality courses and meeting the needs of students who are unable to attend classes on a traditional campus.

For example, the district's ePathways program allows middle and high school students to create a customized learning plan that includes virtual courses, traditional face - to - face classes and a wide range of options for acceleration.

Success Academy (SA) and the media blasted the News about the 17 students (out of 73 or more who started out in this group) that graduated from SA's first high school graduating class but do not mention the 31,400 African Americans that graduated with advanced regents and regents diplomas from New York City's traditional public schools.

As successful as ECforME has been, Pour says Maine community college administrators realized the traditional dual - enrollment model alone — in which high school students commute to college campuses to take classes — was not reaching enough students.

High school students at 21c have the opportunity to take college classes during traditional school day hours on - site at the nearby Ivy Tech campus.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he quotes from Steven Brill's Class Warfare, which compares the teachers» contracts at Harlem Success Academy, a high - performing charter school in New York City, and a traditional public school that shares the same building and teaches kids from the same socio - economic background.

Secondary vocational schools are public high schools that may offer the same advantages of any traditional high school — AP classes, the opportunity to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities.

As in traditional law school classes, professional values are mainly admonitions to take the high road.

Taught traditional high school agriculture classes incorporating shop and greenhouse safety