Sentences with phrase «used high school reform»

Established more than 30 years ago, Career Academies have become a widely used high school reform initiative that aims to keep students engaged in school and prepare them for successful transitions to postsecondary education and employment.

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Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Rather than preach reform in the way parents and schools prepare students for higher education, Stanford and its fellow institutions could quickly improve student well being by basing admissions on finding the appropriate students rather than on generating statistics the school can use to promote its brand.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

First, it should be conceded that Duncan has a great idea, rewarding states willing to undertake reforms such as launching high - quality charter schools (while closing bad ones) and using data to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

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A study from the Consortium of Policy Research in Education (CPRE) of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.

High school reform should include making sure that we are measuring the relevant skills; allowing states the flexibility to design systems that produce results; using multiple measures to assess achievement; allowing the use of growth models; including commonsense flexibility for students with special needs; involving educators in planning; and effectively addressing dropout rates.

Engaging Schools reviews current research on what shapes adolescents» school engagement and motivation to learn — including new findings on students» sense of belonging — and looks at ways these can be used to reform urban high sSchools reviews current research on what shapes adolescents» school engagement and motivation to learn — including new findings on students» sense of belonging — and looks at ways these can be used to reform urban high schoolsschools.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

We used quantitative and descriptive methods to examine the programs and practices in 11 moderate - to high - poverty schools selected because of their dual reputation for implementing recent reading reform and for beating the odds by promoting greater than expected primary - grade reading achievement.

Integrate the use of technology and student engagement to support high school and middle school reform initiatives

With a 71 % poverty rating, this district has managed to show such a high level of student growth through reform, that the Indiana State Department of Education used the 8 - Step Process for continuous improvement of the Warren Township schools as a model for persistently low - performing schools.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

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The design concept comes from Rosenstock's experience as a former teacher and headmaster in Boston as well as from his experience as director of the federal New Urban High Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school refHigh Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school refhigh schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reform.

«We used to focus solely on dropout prevention, relying heavily on supplemental programs,» said Chris Sturgis of MetisNet, a consultant to foundations, states and school districts on high school reform.

The high school reform initiative also involved using data - warehousing technology to follow the progress of three cohorts of students from grade 9 to grade 11 on one particular subskill of the state assessment.

In addition to the small learning communities, San Diego is also using other reform models, all with the intent of breaking down the larger comprehensive high school and ultimately offering students a choice among many different kinds of schools that would suit their needs.

California Schools Flunk Education Group's Ratings California is sorely lacking when it comes to school reform, failing to adopt policies to limit teacher tenure and use student test scores in teacher evaluations, according to a rating of states issued Monday by a high - profile education advocacy group.

Another provision of the reform plan allows students in low - performing schools to use a portion of the voucher for individual courses at colleges, or for technical or vocational programs, or for online courses, or for a high - performing public school.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

We will support evidence - based policy reforms aimed at ensuring principals have the autonomy and data they need to lead schools with strong cultures focused on improving teaching and learning, and that they are trained to use teacher evaluations to deliver high - quality observations and feedback.

The George W. Bush Institute's Alliance to Reform Education Leadership launched a study to explore how states are using their authority to increase the supply of high - quality principals who could raise student achievement in schools.

Furthermore, reform opponents believe the inappropriate use of high - stakes testing, combined with declining federal support for education, has led to a wide scale vilification of public school teachers in particular and public schools in general.

In Data - Driven High School Reform, Lachat writes, «Putting student learning at the center of school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (School Reform, Lachat writes, «Putting student learning at the center of school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (2001).

Instead, this report provides readers with brief reviews of the critical issues facing America's middle and high schools, and a survey of approaches - including comprehensive school reform - used to address these challenges.

Of course, the proponents of corporate education reform have been riding high for more than two decades thanks to the policies and politics of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom used their time in office to promote charter schools and the broader corporate reform agenda.

However, additional research is needed to further establish the efficacy of dual enrollment as a promising high school and CTE reform strategy, including analyses using randomized or quasi-experimental designs to eliminate some of the shortcomings of our regression analyses and further examining sub-group differences in outcomes in order to better understand which groups of students may benefit most from dual enrollment participation.

Capturing momentum from the new high - profile education reform documentary «Waiting for «Superman,»» Indianapolis - based charter school incubator, GEO Foundation, is using a $ 100,000 grant to fund a «Superman» fellowship to launch charter schools in Indianapolis.

Because high - stakes testing is so central to the entire apparatus of the corporate educational reforms that are being forced upon us — and because of the overwhelming evidence of the invalidity and injustice of using the tests as they are presently being used — we are publishing Pencils Down: Rethinking High - Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schohigh - stakes testing is so central to the entire apparatus of the corporate educational reforms that are being forced upon us — and because of the overwhelming evidence of the invalidity and injustice of using the tests as they are presently being used — we are publishing Pencils Down: Rethinking High - Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public SchoHigh - Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools.

Hoping to capture momentum from the new high - profile education reform documentary «Waiting for «Superman,»» the GEO Foundation is using a $ 100,000 grant to fund a «Superman» fellowship to launch charter schools in Indianapolis.

As high school principals, we are deeply concerned about the direction of the Regents reform agenda, especially in regard to evaluating teachers using test scores.

The chief researcher, Dr. James Kemple, said that «our results offer support for the strategic use of school closures as part of a multi-dimensional high school reform strategy.»

States, school districts, colleges, universities and others can use this resource, compiled by the Reform Support Network to prepare teachers and administrators to develop high - quality SLOs or to improve SLOs that they have already developed.

Career Academies, designed to provide academic and technical training around a career theme, are a widely - used approach for high school reform.

In Parkland, Florida, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are using their voices to ignite the #neveragain movement, demanding action on gun reform.

Her interests are centered on education policy, particularly on teacher quality, data use in schools, technology - driven education reform, and military veterans in higher education.