Sentences with phrase «traditional school boundaries»

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

The wisdom of continuing without such cooperative planning is attracting new scrutiny now, when there is broader interest than usual in the city's education landscape because of a politically charged debate over traditional school boundaries and the future of neighborhood schools.

Starting with La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1979, a handful of school districts across the country have rejected traditional school boundaries and instead have created boundaries that encourage diverse schools.104

Without being anchored by traditional school boundaries, the charter network pulls from all of northern Rhode Island.

In cities where traditional school boundaries are fluid and more options, such as charters, have entered the mix of K - 12, selecting a school is an increasingly complex endeavor for parents.

Not exact matches

«The intensifying battle for negotiating power and market share will lead companies to do acquisitions across traditional industry boundary lines,» said Erik Gordon, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan who studies the drug industry.

At the High Tech High network of California STEM - based charter schools, academic subjects break free of traditional boundaries.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

Virtual charter schools can attract students from all around the state, without regard to any traditional school - district boundary.

Inter-district magnet schools in Connecticut provide a current example outside the scope of traditional school districts as to the way charters might draw students across district boundary lines to create high - quality, integrated schooling options.

Author of Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World and co-author of Reinventing Project - Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real - World Projects in the Digital Age, I'm inspired by educators who push the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

From exciting new products and services to inspirational teaching and learning practices, Innovate My School motivates teachers to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead proactively and, most importantly, stay informed.

Such charges would be more appropriate if they were leveled at traditional public schools where students in residential boundaries are forced to attend segregated schools.

Although charter schools can (and sometimes do) attract students across traditional boundary lines, we do not believe it is reasonable to expect that students move freely across entire CBSAs to attend charter schools for a number of reasons.

For example, in the case of Washington D.C., if the entire CBSA were an appropriate point of comparison, charter students would be crossing state lines (since the Washington D.C. CBSA also includes Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia) and city boundaries in the 5,000 square mile region in an effort to travel to charter schools in the heart of inner city D.C. Of course, it doesn't make sense to compare, for instance, the charter schools in Washington D.C. (where 93 % of the charter schools in the metro region are located) to the traditional public schools in Front Royal, VA, which is 63 miles away!

Controlled choice eliminates the default assignment of a neighborhood school in a district, removes traditional school attendance boundaries, and creates larger zones or catchment areas within the district.

The One Newark plan, which took effect in September, essentially erased school boundaries by allowing students to win seats at traditional schools or charters through a single lottery, similar to those in the District and New Orleans.

One way to do this is for states to authorize the development of regional charters, which enroll students from geographic areas beyond traditional school district boundaries.

More specifically, charter schools have greater flexibility than traditional public schools in their ability to enroll students from regions larger than traditional school attendance boundaries.

Districts should shift away from the traditional notion of a neighborhood school and redraw attendance zone boundaries so that they transcend neighborhood lines.

Experienced teachers are well aware that students often show discontinuities in growth rates in school, with some students going through a series of spurts and plateaus that are not necessarily aligned with traditional grade boundaries.

That puts them outside the traditional school districts, which have specific geographic boundaries.

Learner Connected: Anytime, Anywhere and Socially Embedded Learning is not confined to the traditional boundaries of a school — it happens anytime, anywhere.

As part of the statewide data, 1,068 schools are located in LA Unified boundaries: 776 schools are traditional district schools and 292 schools are charter schools.

Learning is not confined to the traditional boundaries of a school — it happens anytime, anywhere.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

The mandate that the charter school be innovative and efficient allows the school and consultants considerable freedom to cross the traditional boundaries between mental health clinicians and teachers.

Within DC's traditional public school system, the vast majority of schools are required to admit all students who live within certain geographic boundaries.

Because magnet schools break down traditional school attendance boundaries by allowing families to choose schools that appeal most to their children's academic interest and talents, they are often more integrated.

According to director Gediminas Urbonas, ACT «isn't an art school in the traditional sense» — but of course, the boundaries between visual culture, research, and other fields are constantly eroding.