Sentences with phrase «traditional high schools because»

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!

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The traditional leader talked about the provision of potable water in the district that was of grave concern to the people, saying water delivery was in short supply in the district because of the growing population He further called for a senior high school to be cited at Gbentri in the East Mamprusi District and Sanguli in the Tatale - Sanguli area in order to bring secondary education to the doorstep of the people living around that area.

«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

In the community, you'll sometimes hear that this is the school for the bad kids, because they're the kids who were not successful at the traditional high school.

Perhaps because of limited experience with different science disciplines, the girls closely associated their high school teachers» personal qualities with the attributes of the traditional scientific disciplines.

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

THE Journal recognized Dr. Keruskin as one of the top innovative administrators in the country, because of his development of a high school gaming curriculum, FABLabs, converting traditional school libraries into media centers, 1:1 iPad initiative, personalized learning and the founder of the Pittsburgh SMALLab Consortium and the Pittsburgh FAB Network.

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

In contrast, in high school, and to a lesser extent middle school, we said that in the long run, the disruptive models of blended learning will substantially replace traditional classrooms because there are so many areas of nonconsumption for online learning to plant itself.

It's a figure that also stands out because D.C. charter school students consistently score higher on tests than those at traditional public schools in the capital.

Broad analyses of charter performance have tended to show that they slightly outperform traditional public schools, especially at the middle and high school level, although critics say that could be because their students tend to come from more academically motivated families.

Sometimes credits don't transfer because the traditional high school has different graduation requirements than the online school.

CBL is most prevalent at the high school level because the students have varying interests or logistical situations in which a CBL approach makes more sense than the traditional system.

After a career in traditional public education, Dr. Nichols said that she was attracted to the administrative position at IPA because of the single - gender model focused on equipping girls for academic success in high school, college, and in life.

It showed that, of the 10 schools that reported the highest numbers of dropouts, only one was a traditional, comprehensive high school — and the principal of that school said it ranked so high because of a data error.

Furthermore, a sizable number of child prodigies, children with extremely high IQs, and those with extraordinary special talents in the arts end up homeschooling for part of their academic career, because traditional schools (public and private) do not meet their needs (Feldman, 1986; Hollingworth, 1942; ABC News, 1995).

The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.

Because of the growing availability of open - source information online, high schools» traditional role as transmitters of content knowledge is becoming obsolete.

Back to the Twitter conversation... One educator * noted that he hears students specifically ask for traditional schooling, because they feel it better prepares them for high school, testing, and for college.

Charter schools attract a higher percentage of black students than traditional public schools, in part because they tend to be located in urban areas.

Under rules for traditional public schools, it would be difficult for a businessman like Jackson native Jim Barksdale, a former executive at FedEx and Netscape, to teach a business or computer science course at a local high school because he lacks state certification.

Alternative schooling opportunities will be needed to accommodate the educational needs of its youth because the traditional school system, and particularly the traditional high school, can no longer serve the needs of the students and their family lifestyles common in the 1990s.

Charter school officials say they should get just as much funding because their schools perform just as well, if not better, than traditional public schools while educating higher percentages of low - income, minority students.

Because many of these individuals are first - time homebuyers, having enlisted in the armed services right after finishing high school, they do not generally have the same credit history or high credit score that is required by traditional lenders.