Sentence examples for top-performing schools from inspiring English sources
Will race and geography factor heavily into the equation, since the top-performing schools are disproportionately white and Asian, and middle class?
Around the world, countries with the top-performing schools, like Finland, Singapore and Canada, all emphasize equity in school financing to provide added resources for schools in poorer communities.
While top-performing schools tend to push students towards Russell Group universities, there is a wealth of renowned courses at specialist colleges and new universities, says Rachel Wenstone, NUS vice-president, higher education.
What teachers have always worried about, says Williams, is that the academies programme will lead to a "two-tier system" in which top-performing schools turn into academies and become even better institutions, while those not rated outstanding "slowly sink into becoming a second level of education".
The coalition government's new-style academies will be selected from England's top-performing schools, rated outstanding by Ofsted.
On the other hand, top-performing schools want to demonstrate that their students are well-rounded beyond their test scores, which is especially helpful for hiring top teachers.
Surrounded by top-performing school districts, Dwight Morrow's students have scored below the state average on basic skills tests.
P.S. 87 is a top-performing school that will be exempt from the city's uniform curriculum next year.
Ms. Switzer, who was a popular principal at a top-performing school in TriBeCa before Mr. Klein picked her to open the academy, speaks of it wistfully.
By contrast, last week the head of the OECD Program of International Student Assessment (Pisa) surveys, Andreas Schleicher, set out the seven big myths about top-performing school systems, with myth number four being that small classes raise standards.
When the most recent scores came out in 2010, Arne Duncan, the education secretary, called on Americans to "study and learn from other nations once again" and commissioned a report on what the world's top-performing school systems can teach us.
