Report
Shows How Effective Use of Expanded Learning Time Boosts Student Achievement
NEW ORLEANS, LA, Friday, September 30, 2011
– Arthur Ashe Charter
School is earning national recognition for its success in using expanded learning
time to boost student achievement. It is
one of 30 schools from across the country featured in a new national report
that examines effective practices for improving teaching and learning at
expanded-time schools. The report is set
to be released at an event with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in
Washington, D.C. today.
"We
are proud to have been nationally recognized as a successful model for expanded
learning time,” said Sabrina Pence, School Director of Arthur Ashe Charter
School.
The
report, Time Well Spent: Eight Powerful
Practices of Successful, Expanded-Time Schools, from the National Center on
Time & Learning (NCTL), outlines how high-performing, expanded-time schools
implement one or more of eight different practices to help improve student
achievement, including allocating time towards focused goals; individualizing
learning time and instruction based on student needs; and using time to assess
student data in order to continuously strengthen instruction.
Arthur Ashe Charter School
The
mission of Arthur Ashe Charter School is to prepare all students academically
while developing their character so they will excel at a high school with
rigorous academics and graduate from a four-year college.
FirstLine Schools
The mission
of FirstLine Schools is to create and inspire great public schools in New
Orleans. We do this by directly
operating open admissions public schools and by developing training programs
for teacher and school leaders across New Orleans. FirstLine operates four K-8 schools and one
high school in New Orleans: Arthur Ashe Charter School, John Dibert Community
School, Langston Hughes Academy (through a management contract with NOLA180),
Samuel J. Green Charter School, and Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School.
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