Sentences with phrase «traditional high schools»

In addition, students enrolled in certified pathways have better college readiness outcomes than similar students in traditional high school programs.

Finally, certified pathway students also have better college readiness outcomes than similar students in traditional high school programs.

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.

Is the half hour lunch break at traditional high schools really enough time to socialize anyway?

It's true that some online classes aren't as challenging as traditional high school classes.

At the city's project - based schools, the student experience is markedly different from that in more traditional high schools.

While attending traditional high schools, they say, they found many teachers simply didn't have the time or interest to develop a relationship with them — or to provide any real support.

With special permission, many traditional high schools will allow local students to participate in specific activities while continuing their studies elsewhere.

That is higher than the district, where 61 % of students in traditional high schools took the test.

If students opted out of the school, they could go to one of the city's three remaining traditional high schools.

Because I had recently lived through traditional high school and college instruction, I knew there had to be a different way — a better way.

Where traditional high schools sometimes struggle, our online program provides students with the tools and knowledge needed to excel.

A consortium of private schools is busy creating mastery transcripts to replace traditional high school transcripts.

They consistently demonstrate enthusiasm, encouragement and support that we didn't find in our local traditional high school.

He holds a regular breakfast with parents, and he knows that his parents are more active than at the neighboring traditional high schools.

Women were also more likely to enroll in college afterward, but the difference between their counterparts at traditional high schools was only 6 percentage points.

Accordingly, the report recommends that charter, virtual, and alternative schools, as well as traditional high schools, are monitored and provided with the necessary support to improve graduation rates.

The curriculum used in pathways differs from that used in traditional high school programs.

The report shows that students in linked learning programs do as well, if not better, on test scores and complete more credits than similarly - situated students in traditional high schools.

The majority of my students have come from traditional high school settings that did not work best for them for some reason, but here, at Catapult Learning, I am able to teach in an alternative learning environment specific to each student.

«Abstract: This study examines 4 years of small school reform in Chicago, focusing on schools formed by converting large traditional high schools into small autonomous ones.

I have demonstrated the 21st century skills of: Communication, Information Processing, Problem solving, Higher order thinking skills in the five test areas (Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies) to perform effectively in the workplace or in higher education as the top 15 % of traditional high school graduates.

Gill and his colleagues at Georgia State, Vanderbilt and Mathematica found that the young adults who had attended a charter high school made $ 2,300 more a year, on average, between the ages of 23 and 25, than their counterparts at traditional high schools did.

«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.

We wouldn't necessarily expect CTE students to show as much academic progress as their peers in traditional high schools because they are spending less of their time on academics!

«The premise is on working to transform traditional high schools to globally recognized models for innovative practices while also increasing achievement,» Sheninger told the audience.

Andrea kicked off her career by helping to convert a large traditional high school near Seattle into three smaller schools, all while orchestrating English and advisory courses.

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.

Ransel describes how Desert Rose High School structures learning in a way that meets the life needs of youth who have given up on traditional high school, using a competency - based, continuous enrollment set - up.

Time: From rethinking how we structure the school day to the notion that high school should be completed within four years, most small - school pioneers are finding that traditional high school schedules don't provide the time or space for creative teaching and learning.

DCIS offers not only Japanese, Mandarin, and other traditional high school languages but three levels of Lakota.

The councilman announced his plans to increase traffic safety, remove trash, lessen pollution and fight against plans to close traditional high schools like Long Island City HS.

An increasing number of urban districts are scrapping traditional high school grade structures, changing their retention policies, and devising more flexible routes toward graduation to address high dropout rates.

Moreover, the number of chronically absent students graduating from DCPS traditional high schools has been rising over the past three years.

Director Zack Conkle begins the documentary in the classroom of Jeffrey Wright, his former physics teacher at Louisville's Male Traditional High School (now co-ed).

Star recruits are increasingly choosing the prep route over traditional high school because of its superior competition and opportunities for exposure.

Skeptics and experts alike agree that one of the near impossible problems facing education is reimagining what traditional high school looks like for today's students.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf just signed legislation enabling more students to opt out of traditional high school exams if they're engaged in CTE activities.

On Top of the News Virginia Governor Moves to Upend Traditional High School The Washington Post 5/12/16

The students in Kettle Moraine's traditional high school performed as well as students in Canada, Finland, and European countries that are highly regarded, and charter school students» performance has been in the same league as Singapore, which came in as the second highest - scoring among the countries taking the test, but «with a learning engagement that's off the charts,» she says.

Therefore, the degree to which the student grasps an academic standard in a classroom is difficult for counselors, administrators, and parents to see and understand in today's traditional high school assessment systems.

The Los Angeles - based nonprofit operates 10 local charters as well as Locke High, the district's first traditional high school to be taken over by a private operator.