Sentences with phrase «about urban students»

Our results should be helpful for many policymakers who are concerned about urban students like those we study.

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Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the CUNY that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

Gov. Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will offer more courses to union workers and other students wanting to learn about labor issues.

Together they mentored undergraduate students who synthesized the science and researched solutions about urban stormwater management in Prince George's County.

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

Learn more about DNA barcoding and how the DNALC has implemented student - centered research in New York City through the Urban Barcode Project and on Long Island through the Barcode Long Island project.

In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.

About Site - A book designer and PhD student now focused on writing Urban Fantasy books, young adult novels, SCIFI, and DYSTOPIA.

Summary Capsule: A killer, sigh, starts offing film students doing a movie about, sigh, urban legends

Students are learning about urban planning and «liveability» issues © Shutterstock / Olga Kashubin

The majority of urban students in about half the states fail to meet even minimum national standards in mathematics, reading, and science, finds the report, Quality Counts» 98, scheduled for release Jan. 8.

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Lunch provided an opportunity for Bersin to speak with some of HGSE's Urban Scholars and doctoral students about education.

I am the author or co-author of about 20 books related to behavior and motivation including Discipline With Dignity and Meeting students where they live: Motivation in Urban Schools.

BOB isn't the only garden bus driving around: The Green Urban Lunch Box in Salt Lake City hosts summer camps on a bus to teach K — 3 students about plant biology and healthy eating, in partnership with the University of Utah and the local YMCA.

«Students learn about the people who live in these urban communities as they provide carefully crafted programs.

David Riley, executive director of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, talked with Education World about this years Inclusive Schools Week theme and the progress U.S. schools are making in meeting the needs of all students.

As his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gap.

Parents of students enrolled in urban schools believe their children's schools are safe, according to a poll released last week, even though more than 60 percent think students fight a lot or aren't sure about the level of fighting.

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 students.

Some students and alumni came to HGSE because of its focus on urban education and leadership, while others had heard about it through the grapevine at TFA.

The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.

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

This SOW has been written to get year 9 students excited about art by exploring urban artists and techniques.

«Unfortunately, the majority of students entering Urban Prep read at about the fifth - or sixth - grade level, and most of them are not able to perform math above the seventh - grade level,» explains Allen.

I kept having that feeling of — I know what he's talking about, I've lived it for years as an urban educator — but I've never seen anyone make such a clear argument for the fact that schools need to focus on developing students» social and emotional skills.

I believe the biggest misconception about urban schools is the idea that students in urban schools generally do not care about school or lack motivation to succeed.

Although much of the development of student rights originally emerged from concern about nonwhite students in urban areas, educators in those settings had only a 41 percent probability of contact with a legal challenge.

It deserves a reading, however, because of what it reveals about the inner workings of an urban school self - consciously created as a better alternative for students without the advantages of their counterparts at Whitney.

We also know very little about how those needs change depending on students» developmental stages (e.g., pre-K, middle school) and the teaching context (e.g., urban, suburban, rural).

This finding has led some to dream about economically integrating every urban public school with «a strong core of middle - class students,» as Kahlenberg puts it.

As an L&L student, you will learn what neuroscience can tell us about dyslexia; how to conduct an appropriate and accurate literacy assessment in diverse urban schools; and how to develop a literacy intervention plan that engages learners, K - 12 in their own success.

To get them thinking about the politics of urban development, Ramos - Fermin divided his students into groups, each one representing someone they'd interviewed, and then he asked the young investigators to draw a picture of that person's vision of East New York in 2030, based on things that person had said.

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.

Prelesson Preparation: Develop a list of animals in your local area or in urban areas nationwide, or brainstorm with your students about which animals they think live close by.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

For instance, urban place - based lessons could include oral history projects where students collect the stories of community members, or historical parks or buildings, or learning about urban agriculture and community gardening in large cities with food deserts.

Here in Chicago, I've found that just because urban educators may know about the trauma their students experience, it doesn't mean that they know how it impacts them or how best to help them.

By teaching in inner - city schools as soon as they enter the program, the Harvard students learn first - hand about problems faced by urban schools.

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About The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation Founded by entrepreneur Eli Broad and his wife Edythe, both graduates of Detroit Public Schools, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is a philanthropy that seeks to ensure that every student in an urban public school has the opportunity to succeed.

In 2005 - 2006, about 60 percent of all California students were concentrated in large urban districts whose per - pupil base state grant was $ 85 less than the average grant statewide.

As a guest speaker in Merseth's course — one of the first education classes offered by Harvard College — he candidly shared stories with undergraduates about the challenge of educating students in urban communities, and about what is needed for one to succeed at working in education.

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.

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

There also are serious concerns about many urban districts clustering special education students and over-classifying young men of color inappropriately, all of which call into question what kinds of targets are appropriate to set for any school to meet.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

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.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.