Sentences with phrase «traditional high schools like»

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.

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«Old school» and traditional; honest with high integrity; love physical and emotional closeness; want to be wanted, not needed.Active, intellectually curious, like to cook and drink good wine.

Brewer seems to understand that youth culture, both as performed and as consumed, is no longer hierarchical in quite the same way that Hollywood has been portraying it as since the»50s — that high school, like so much else on the planet, no longer operates according to the traditional power pyramid.

The film sees Kalu take on a community leadership role as traditional Hawaian burial sites are disturbed; Kalu's status Kumu sees her teach her male high school students as they prepare for a end of performance, accompanied by sixth grade tomboy Ho'onani, who is also «in the middle» like Kalu.

This certainly looks like a more female take on the traditional high school gun tragedy — compared to, say, Gus van Sant's Elephant.

It also describes more «traditional» educators like Mary Laurie, a high school principal who eschews data on students for relationships with them and «no - excuses» for a kind of personalized tough love.

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.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

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?

Despite the united front of opposition, with studies like Carol Klein's 2006 Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoSchools and Home Schooling finding high levels of parent satisfaction and student achievement at virtual schools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools, it is highly unlikely that independent home schoolers and advocates for traditional public schools will be able to stoschools will be able to stop them.

Grover, who'd led a traditional Salt Lake City high school as well as the district's career and technical programs, asked students what they liked and disliked about high school.

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.

Other innovations like peer - to - peer learning or early college high school models likewise may tug at the foundation of the traditional, centralized, factory - and time - based models that have dominated our education system for over a century.

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?

«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.

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.

The transfers of thousands of students like Cowans from traditional schools have spurred explosive growth in Orange County's alternative high school population.

High - quality charter schools like these are the norm, giving families access to local, public, and effective educational options in communities where traditional district schools aren't meeting the needs of students.

Consultants like Colby have been hired to lead wholesale change at some larger traditional high schools — among them Kingston's Sanborn Regional High School and Rochester's Spaulding High School — that may find coordinating change more unwiehigh schools — among them Kingston's Sanborn Regional High School and Rochester's Spaulding High School — that may find coordinating change more unwieHigh School and Rochester's Spaulding High School — that may find coordinating change more unwieHigh School — that may find coordinating change more unwieldy.

And then there are charter schools that are a welcome breath of fresh air to parents who, perhaps like me not too long ago, can only afford to live in neighborhoods where the traditional schools in that community are not of the highest quality, but desire a high level of education, nonetheless, for their child (ren).

With the new Margaret Aames centre looking much more like an ultra-modern museum, public library or university hub than a traditional high school

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.

And then there are charter schools that are a welcome breath of fresh air to parents who, perhaps like me not too long ago, can only afford to live in neighborhoods where the traditional schools in that community are not of the highest quality, but desire a high level of education, nonetheless, for their children.

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.

Our online high school courses provide academic instruction like you'd find in traditional brick - and - mortar schools and supplements it with electives and other practical courses preparing online students for everyday life.

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.

Like some traditional schools, certain charters have characteristics associated with higher turnover, such as their location in low - income communities and hiring of younger, newer teachers, said Leib Sutcher, research associate at the Palo Alto - based Learning Policy Institute.

And while a traditional high school typically has students that attended a handful of feeder middle schools, Bravo's students come to the school from more than 32 different middle schools from around East LA, South LA and other places like Hollywood and Koreatown.

But just like the SAT, the ACT participation rate is higher in charter schools than traditional schools.

Students didn't like the traditional textbook - and - worksheet - centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada's Ottawa Catholic School Board's (OCSB) high schools.

Economic conditions and changing cultural perceptions have made the traditional college route seem less like a necessity and more like just an option — one of several paths for high school graduates to consider.

Like traditional programs, online medical assistant schools are accredited by a recognized accrediting agency such as the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Higher Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (schools are accredited by a recognized accrediting agency such as the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Higher Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (Schools (ABHES).