Sentences with phrase «with high performing schools»

The analysis was conducted in accordance with the district's redesign / repurposing policy, which seeks to provide all children with high performing schools.

But then, once approved, they choose a neighborhood with high performing schools?

If a child is not getting the education they need to prepare them for college or a career, it's our responsibility to change their trajectory with a high performing school.»

Not exact matches

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

«I am particularly pleased that our highest - performing schools, Hampden Gurney, has secured fantastic outcomes with a significant number of disadvantaged pupils in Year 6 - demonstrating once again that a child's success should never be limited by their background.»

We don't go to the festival very often now but my husband still has many fond memories of being in the parade and performing at it with his high school punk band.

With this in mind, it makes me sick sometimes when I walk into weight rooms at some high schools and see how poorly the lift is being performed — mostly because coaches haven't taken the time to study, understand, or perform the lift themselves, and therefore making it impossible to coach correctly.

Newbury Park High School, our most consistently performing boys team, was as always, a force to be reckoned with.

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has selected 578 top performing high school seniors with financial need to advance as semifinalists for its College Scholarship Program, the largest undergraduate scholarship in the country.

The study notes that there are limitations to the sample of students used in the study — with all of them attending privileged, high - performing schools — but they said they felt it was worthwhile to investigate the stresses of homework on this population of students.

Children with a strong bond with a parent / guardian are more likely to have higher self - esteem, perform better in school, have positive relationships, and manage stress.

The proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

EMERSON HILL — Officials cut the ribbon on a $ 13 million building dedicated to performing arts at Susan E. Wagner High School with a black box theater, practice spaces and more.

The redesigned School Quality Reports give high marks to schools with pass rates in the single digits because the administration would rather give parents a falsely rosy picture than admit schools are not performing.

Under the bill, introduced late last week, the top 20 percent of the state's highest performing school districts would be allowed to submit their current evaluation plans along with a request for a waiver to the Department of Education.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

After touring the under - performing Automotive High School in Brooklyn, de Blasio and his education team once again touted their ongoing effort to improve 94 of the city's struggling schools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mschools, which they call «Renewal Schools,» with $ 150 mSchools,» with $ 150 million.

«During this process we will work individually with every student and family to ensure they have a seat at a higher - performing school where they will receive the instruction and support they need to succeed.»

BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM The North Rockland School board meeting began with the North Rockland High School Marching Band performing in honor of the hard work done by district employees to get Thiells Elementary up and running after it was flooded by Hurricane Irene.

The administration has also already announced a $ 51 million plan to expand Advanced Placement courses, with full implementation at high schools expected by 2021 and a $ 15 million program called «Single Shepherd» to hire guidance counselors for each middle and high school student in low - performing school Districts 7 and 23, which will be fully implemented by next fall.

«If these proposals are approved, we will work individually with each family to ensure all students have a seat at a higher - performing school next year,» he added.

The chancellor said it was important to have an «equity lens» to serve disadvantaged students and vowed «we're going to have resources» to serve them when they're integrated in schools with higher - performing students.

A recent study at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis, for example, found that students in rooms with high ceilings perform better on tasks that entail seeing relationships between things, whereas students in rooms with low ceilings perform better on detail - oriented tasks.

During its first year, not only did its students greatly outperform an equivalent group of at - risk high - school students, but they also performed on a par with average Binghamton high - school students on state - mandated exams.

Novozymes also holds a biotech contest for Franklin County Early College High School, with equipment and mentoring for experiments to perform at school, culminating with presentations and pSchool, with equipment and mentoring for experiments to perform at school, culminating with presentations and pschool, culminating with presentations and prizes.

The school and college, based in Exeter, has been providing education and care for young people with visual impairment since 1838 and is a designated High Performing Specialist Sschool and college, based in Exeter, has been providing education and care for young people with visual impairment since 1838 and is a designated High Performing Specialist SchoolSchool.

Members of the public in counties with higher median household incomes are more likely to step into action to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when they witness someone have a cardiac arrest, according to a new study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which was presented today at the American Heart Association's Resuscitation Science Symposium 2014.

Similarly, the team found that children with lower executive function were not at a disadvantage in Montessori schools, and performed as well as those with higher executive function.

Compared with the control group, all school classes which worked with oral history accounts in whatever form performed better: They exhibited a higher historical competence and had more factual knowledge.

Likewise, a study at a Ohio high school revealed that students who received handouts with less - legible type performed better on tests than the students who were given more readable materials.

He's from South Jersey and went to a performing arts high school with one of my good friends.

Off to college this fall, Colleen loves to take dance classes, perform in her high school's show choir, and hang out with friends.

The 29 year old high school substitute teacher was arrested in January 2006 after the police heard that Patch had gone on a date with a 17 year old student and performed oral sex on the boy after ONE DATE.

From the age of five on, Lewis occasionally performed in his parents» act, and later quit high school in order to travel with his own comedy routine, which consisted primarily of mocking famous entertainers while their records were played off - stage.

She would act in local theatre shows, but decided against going to one of LA's prestigious performing arts high schools, opting instead for a normal teenage experience with her friends.

«Choke» (2008) 2008 was not a great year for the festival, with films like «Assassination Of A High School President,» «Transsiberian,» «What Just Happened,» «The Escapist» and «The Great Buck Howard» all under - performing when they finally made it to screens.

The 21 - year - old breakout star of three upcoming movies with Oscar buzz («Call Me by Your Name,» «Lady Bird» and «Hostiles») grew up in Hell's Kitchen, graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, studied at both Columbia and NYU and now resides in the East Village.

A skateboarding road - trip flick that will bore real skateboarders silly (and I should know — I've been one since the late»70s), it includes barely 10 minutes of badly - edited actual boarding, less than half of which features the main characters (no - name actors using obvious stunt doubles), who in the course of the movie perform only one trick (at the very end) that's beyond the abilities of any dedicated junior high school punk with a modicum of talent.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Musical MPAA rating: R Director: Alan Parker Actors: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri Plot: Follows four students with different personalities at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts where actors, singers, dancers and artists come to hone their talents and try to become stars.

The new movie begins with the Cheetah Girls — Galleria (Raven - Symone), Chanel (Adrienne Bailon), Dorinda (Sabrina Bryan), and Aqua (Kiely Williams)-- performing a concert for their high school's graduating senior class.

Jonathan has sex for the first time with Elena, and at this point «Jonathan» feels like David Cronenberg's «Dead Ringers» (1988) as performed by cute young high - school kids.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

According to research from the National Foundation for Education Research (NFER), there is «considerable potential» within the current state school system to improve the quality of underperforming schools «in need» of support through school - to - school partnerships with high - performing schools within a certain radius.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

But, in areas with consistently low densities of high performing school places, the proportion of pupils with access to such places fell from just six per cent in 2010 to five per cent in 2015.

The report, «Access to high performing schools in England» looks at the density of high - quality secondary school places across England, comparing high - quality places in 2015 with 2010 in order to identify whether geographic access to high performing schools is improving.

With a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schoWith a mission of «high - performing public schools, inside and out,» EdBuild sought to provide both facilities renovations and academic support to a group of low - performing schools in the District of Columbia, with a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schowith a vision of eventually taking on a large swath of D.C. schools and creating space that could be used flexibly by both traditional district and charter schools.

Of the 20 local areas with the biggest increases in high performing school places, 16 of which were in London, the proportion of such places rose significantly from 36 per cent to 60 per cent from 2010 - 2015.

If that's true, it's probable that schools with the highest - need students (who traditionally have the least - experienced faculty) would be most likely to convert over to the new contract, and might thereby be able to attract higher - performing teachers.