Sentences with phrase «traditional high schools did»

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

It's obvious I wouldn't be the student or person I've developed into if my traditional high school didn't become a small school.

Not exact matches

Then throughout high school I trained mainly for sports, I always did the traditional lifts of Bench Press, Squat and bench press.

Let's be honest, this is much more interesting and creative than the traditional hat ceremony that almost every high school football or basketball player does.

Most middle schools and high schools, attended by children aged about 11 to 17, also do not sell fruits and vegetables outside traditional cafeteria lunch lines so that students can find them at random times, the report showed.

First, let me point out that while you're right that I did some of my reporting for the book at a public charter school and a private school, I reported in more depth at two traditional public schools (Fenger High in Chicago and I.S. 318 in Brooklyn).

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

It is innovating within an antiquated federal regulatory structure that has historically prized access to higher education and tried to control quality based on a school's inputs — does it look like a traditional college?

However, many others believe charters divert resources from traditional public schools and don't meet up to accountability measures.These opposing views often lead to friction among people who actually have much in common: a genuine concern for children and the national right to high - quality public education.

Research on traditional VE compared outcomes for high school graduates who did not go on to postsecondary education.

We didn't think we could get the attention of (much less have an impact on) traditional schools without proving that low - income kids could be served at a scale akin to a district and achieve at high levels.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

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.

Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

Staff at the college started with the idea of a traditional school garden typically aimed at a lower year level and imagined a redesign more like a laboratory for a senior cohort; a higher standard facility where students can do research, capture data and make use of technology.

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

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Given what we know about learning, why don't schools look more like California's High Tech High, with its emphasis on project - based team problem solving and the relevance of curricula that cross traditional content domains?

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 traditional high school was set up to meet diverse needs by sorting students into different curricular paths — many of which did not lead to college prep.

«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.

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.

For example, in the state of Louisiana, when a young person leaves the traditional K - 12 education system, their federal and state MFP per pupil funding does not follow them to adult education or high school equivalency programs like those that YEP operates.

Traditional public schools have their own built - in barriers to admission, starting with zip code: You don't have to write an essay to get into a high - performing suburban school, but you do have to belong to a household with the means to buy or rent in that neighborhood.

In a 6 - 3 ruling, the high court said charter schools don't qualify as «common» schools under Washington's Constitution and can't receive public funding intended for those traditional public schools.

How can high - quality charter schools show they are as effective, or better, than traditional public schools if they don't have comparable data to prove it?

In many cases, the charter community does reflect lower percentages of enrollment for these high need students than the traditional district schools on an aggregated level.

But we see similar patterns in charter schools too: a number of studies have shown that charter school students have a higher chance of high school graduation or college enrollment even when their test scores do not differ on average from their traditional public school counterparts.

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

Our work isn't done until every parent in Mississippi has a range of high - quality education options and the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

Both charter schools and traditional schools gained students.The school system, as Ms. Henderson acknowledged last week, still has a long way to go: Unacceptably high numbers of students remain unable to read or do math at grade level.

The following year, however, the city's Independent Budget Office released another report that overturned the previous report's findings, indicating that children with disabilities stayed at charter schools at a slightly higher rate than they did at traditional public 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.

Young men and women who are now in the traditional colleges, technical schools and apprenticeships that make up America's higher education will also be deported from the only country they have ever known, sent to places that they don't call home.

Their report found that, on average, charter school students in New York City tend to stay at their schools at a higher rate than do students at nearby traditional district schools.

Their students may be doing better than traditional public school students, but they're still dropping out of college at alarmingly high rates, and earning low wages.

The article cites research showing that compared with students in traditional schools, students in EdVisions schools score higher on college entrance examinations, have higher levels of engagement and dispositional hope (the ability to establish and accomplish goals), and do well in college.

Just really looking at a very different model that's far more transitional to adulthood than walking out of a traditional high school and then being expected to go to college or into the workforce or gap years or whatever kids do, and be ready to do that.

A number of studies have shown that charter school teachers are asked, on average, to work longer hours than traditional school teachers do, which has also led to a higher burnout rate.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

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.

Charter schools are not a magic bullet to success, and detractors like to point out how many charters don't boast test scores all that higher than their traditional public school counterparts.

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).

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

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.