Sentences with phrase «about urban high school students»

The cooperating college professor reported that this experience helped dispel stereotypes his teacher education students had held about urban high school students.

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Seidel knew he had similarly reached other students, but by the time he departed eight years later after funding was cut, South Boston High School was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuSchool was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuschool comprising about 900 students.

About 75 percent of urban high school students attended schools of that size.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Reporter Kathleen Cushman teamed up with 40 teenagers from four urban areas (New York City, Providence, Rhode Island, and San Francisco) to write a book about what high school students say they need from their teachers in order to succeed.

It spent about $ 650 million on a program to replace large urban high schools with smaller schools, on the theory that students at risk of dropping out would be more likely to stay in schools where they forged closer bonds with teachers and other students.

The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in high - poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.

On average, low - income urban high schools with high concentrations of minority students sent about half, or 51 percent, of their 2013 graduates to college in the fall immediately following graduation.

In this Action Research Project, students in an urban high school Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish Language and Culture class were experiencing anxiety about producing orally in the classroom.

Gary Orfield of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and Christopher Swanson of the Urban Institute found that about 50 percent of black, Hispanic, and Native American students fail to earn high school diplomas.

Host Christie Goodman, APR, IDRA's communications manager, welcomes back Aurelio Montemayor, M.Ed., to continue a discussion they began in Episode 31 (Latino Parent Engagement in High School Math) about how students, parents, and educators are working together to improve math instruction at an urban high school in Far West TeHigh School Math) about how students, parents, and educators are working together to improve math instruction at an urban high school in Far West School Math) about how students, parents, and educators are working together to improve math instruction at an urban high school in Far West Tehigh school in Far West school in Far West Texas.

A 2016 US News & World Report story found that only about half of big urban districts track students after graduating high school, or know which colleges and universities do best and provide that information to counselors and colleges.

Principal Rainey also highlighted several aspects about the school: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondSchool Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondSchool - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bondschool in the country to be fully funded by bond money

This is a stressful time for many urban eighth - grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing from public schools about acceptances into selective or other specialized programs.

In a subsequent panel segment about the suggested ideas, Dr. Estela Mara Bensimon, professor of higher education at USC Rossier School of Education and director of the Center for Urban Education said that promoting more coverage on the racial mismatch between students and the teachers, administrators and other education leaders who serve them was important.

«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.

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For more than three decades, Wave Hill has offered a paid summer internship program for high school students, giving them an opportunity to gain hands - on field and academic experience as they learn about urban ecology.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).