Showing posts with label Best High Schools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best High Schools. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010
If Not Test Scores, What? Linda Nathan of the Boston Arts Academy
Uncovering the 'Invisible Barriers' to Student Success
By Anthony Rebora
TeacherMagazine.org
The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test: Lessons From An Innovative Urban School
by Linda F. Nathan
Beacon Press, 2009
Linda Nathan is a former teacher and the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy, an arts-focused public high school that has gained widespread attention for its unconventional methods and strong academic record. Some 95 percent of BAA graduates are said to be accepted into college. And that statistic is all the more impressive when you consider the school’s demographic: Nearly 80 percent of BAA's students are minority and 60 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch...
Instead of immediately instituting intensive test-prep sessions or some other "tactic of the month," Nathan and her colleagues embarked on a series of sometimes uncomfortable discussions on the connections between race, classroom practice, and academic achievement. These deliberations then led to potentially risky initiatives to help teachers look more closely at the way they interact with African-American boys in their classes and to open up the conversation to the students themselves. The immediate results, Nathan says, were promising...
Thursday, February 04, 2010
High schools are finally starting later to match teen melatonin levels
No wonder teens are so drowsy they need more zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
By Marissa Cevallos
mcevallos@mercurynews.com
02/04/2010 T
When Glorianna Klyce's radio blasts hip-hop at 5:45 a.m., the 17-year-old rolls over and hits snooze. If it weren't for the second alarm clock that goes off at 6, she might have a much harder time getting to Kennedy High School in Fremont for the 7:35 a.m. first block bell...
She's not the only 17-year-old struggling to get to class. Emerging research shows that puberty upends sleep cycles, making snoozing into the late morning hours as natural for teens as hairy armpits and embarrassing voice squeaks. When teens hit puberty, their internal circadian clocks wind forward 1 to 3 hours, meaning they need 9 hours of sleep on average, a couple more hours than their younger siblings.
Now a growing number of schools are pushing back the morning bell so class times and students' energy are better aligned...
By Marissa Cevallos
mcevallos@mercurynews.com
02/04/2010 T
When Glorianna Klyce's radio blasts hip-hop at 5:45 a.m., the 17-year-old rolls over and hits snooze. If it weren't for the second alarm clock that goes off at 6, she might have a much harder time getting to Kennedy High School in Fremont for the 7:35 a.m. first block bell...
She's not the only 17-year-old struggling to get to class. Emerging research shows that puberty upends sleep cycles, making snoozing into the late morning hours as natural for teens as hairy armpits and embarrassing voice squeaks. When teens hit puberty, their internal circadian clocks wind forward 1 to 3 hours, meaning they need 9 hours of sleep on average, a couple more hours than their younger siblings.
Now a growing number of schools are pushing back the morning bell so class times and students' energy are better aligned...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Green Dot charter high schools score big
US News and World Report Ranks Three Green Dot Schools Among the Nation's Best
US News and World Report ranked three Green Dot schools in 2008 as among the best in the nation. Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School and Animo Leadership Charter High School both made the top 100, with Oscar De La Hoya ranking #53 and Animo Leadership ranking #94. Animo Film and Theater Arts High School made the Silver Medal list.
The New High School Rankings Are Here
US News and World Report
December 14, 2008
U.S. News has just launched its second annual list of America's Best High Schools. The analysis of more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states is available here and on newsstands as of December 8 in the magazine issue dated Dec. 1522, 2008.
To produce the 2009 America's Best High Schools rankings, U.S. News teamed up with School Evaluation Services (SES), a K-12 education data research business run by Standard & Poor's. SES developed the comprehensive methodology that judges how well high schools serve all their students, not just those who are collegebound...
US News and World Report ranked three Green Dot schools in 2008 as among the best in the nation. Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School and Animo Leadership Charter High School both made the top 100, with Oscar De La Hoya ranking #53 and Animo Leadership ranking #94. Animo Film and Theater Arts High School made the Silver Medal list.
The New High School Rankings Are Here
US News and World Report
December 14, 2008
U.S. News has just launched its second annual list of America's Best High Schools. The analysis of more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states is available here and on newsstands as of December 8 in the magazine issue dated Dec. 1522, 2008.
To produce the 2009 America's Best High Schools rankings, U.S. News teamed up with School Evaluation Services (SES), a K-12 education data research business run by Standard & Poor's. SES developed the comprehensive methodology that judges how well high schools serve all their students, not just those who are collegebound...
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