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This problem appeared to be most dire for girls at Rural School: A full 72 percent of them reported suffering relational bullying either «every once in a while,» «often,» or «every day,» compared with 58 percent of girls at Big City School and 48 percent at Small City School.

However, students at Big City School reported feeling safe much less often than did their peers at the other two schools (65 percent, compared with 83 percent at Small City School and 81 percent at Rural School).

In terms of grade level, bullying was more common for 7th graders than for 8th graders at the three schools we surveyed, with two notable exceptions: Verbal bullying affected 8th grade girls more than any other subgroup at Small City School, and physical violence affected 8th grade boys and girls more than 7th graders at Big City School.

At Small City School and Rural School, the second most common reason stated was being perceived as gay, which suggests rigid behavior expectations for boys and girls.

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She has been active in the Toronto community promoting startups, female entrepreneurship and has been a guest speaker at Ivey School of Business, University of Waterloo and City of Toronto Small Business Forum.

«In a small city, it will be easier to get to know the best service providers, such as lawyers, your banker may likely be someone you know, and you can more easily create a name for yourself,» said Chuck Sacco, assistant dean of strategic initiatives in the Charles D. Close School of Entrepreneurship at Drexel University.

The Kingdom is often taking root in small ways — in our kitchens and in our parish halls, in our streets and our subsidized daycares, in youth group mentoring relationships and after - school care, in prayer circles and by - law meetings at city council.

In Oklahoma when, as the song has it, «the winds come sweepin» down the plain,» the track team at Oklahoma Christian College, a small NAIA school on the northern edge of Oklahoma City, takes a beating.

One practice per week for each team will be held at a local high school or city park, with a second practice each week being held at an indoor baseball facility to focus on small group instruction for hitting, pitching, and catching.

That's exactly what Siena has done for the past six years at P.S. 150, one of the smallest elementary schools in the city, which has just one class per grade and has no cafeteria, gym or auditorium.

A diverse coalition of charter advocates rallied at City Hall on Friday to raise the cap, including several small independent charter operators who don't usually ally themselves with larger organizations, such as Families for Excellent Schools.

Cuomo, speaking at the downtown Strand Theatre on Wednesday, said the city contains all of the elements required to fuel economic growth, including a strong core of small businesses, a state school that acts as an idea incubator and a low corporate tax rate.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about the University at Albany / CDTA bus incident and school funding for eight small city school districts including Kingston and Poughkeepsie.

The issue of equitable aid was at the heart of the $ 1.11 billion lawsuit brought by the Alliance for Quality Education on behalf of 26 students in eight small city school districts, including Kingston, in 2008.

To solve it, otolaryngologist Ira Sanders and his colleagues at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City anesthetized a group of rats and inserted small digital cameras down their throats to videotape the vocal folds.

Texas Travel Directory, over 3200 Texas cities, towns, small towns and ghost towns: history, attractions, landmarks, vintage and contemporary photos Consider this an ode to knowing your neighbors, the local baristas knowing your coffee order, and seeing everyone gather at high school games on weekends.

The gist of this in a nutshell is liberal, college bred, big city types laughing down their noses at the amusing antics of conservative, might not have graduated high school, small town types.

I'm a learning specialist at an independent school in New York City, and the students I work with in small pullout groups have all been identified as needing extra reading support.

A 2010 MDRC report funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation looked at the 123 «small schools of choice,» or SSCs, that have opened in New York City since 2002.

«Even in crappy small schools, the stuff about relationships is automatic,» says Michelle Fine, a distinguished professor of social psychology at the City University of New York's Graduate Center.

Join Shael Polakow - Suransky, New York City Public Schools» chief accountability officer, and Rebecca Unterman, a research associate at MDRC, for a discussion about New York City's small schools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged stSchools» chief accountability officer, and Rebecca Unterman, a research associate at MDRC, for a discussion about New York City's small schools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged stschools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged students.

Specifically, the report looks at outcomes for students who attend the city's «small schools of choice.»

One study, conducted by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinSchools at New York University and released in July by the journal Education Next, examined the effort to replace the management and staff of large, underperforming high schools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools with clusters of smaller schools led by new prinschools led by new principals.

Trump made his remarks at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, a small school located in a predominantly African - American neighborhood of the city.

The city broke up big failing schools to improve academics, but at the small schools that replaced them, fielding a robust music program is a challenge.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparaSmall High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparasmall schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaschools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

On Top of the News City Students at Small Public High Schools are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says New York Times 1/26/12

Interestingly, these new schools, supported by grants from philanthropist Bill Gates (see Colvin, «The New Philanthropists»), have attracted considerably more controversy than the charter schools, in large part because they played a role in overcrowding and friction at high schools that were not small elsewhere in the city.

One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works best at that moment, until the student meets the learning objective.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

Greg Fisher, a teacher at Narbonne High School in the Harbor City area of LA, is one of the leaders of his Small Learning Community's plan to transform into a pilot school thisSchool in the Harbor City area of LA, is one of the leaders of his Small Learning Community's plan to transform into a pilot school thisschool this year.

The article notes the 2013 report «Sustained Progress: New Findings About the Effectiveness and Operation of Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York Small Public High Schools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New YorSchools of Choice in New York City» by the group MDRC, which studies the causes of high graduation rates at small high schools in New York small high schools in New Yorschools in New York City.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famiSchool in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

At Cornerstone Heath and Technology High School, students work in small groups in preparation for a debate on Detroit's city plan that addresses gentrification.

The three schools in which the students were enrolled at the start of the study were not named but were in southeastern Texas, within a 200 - mile radius of Bryan - College Station, and included two small - city schools and a metropolitan school.

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The District is a relatively small city and allows its students to ride Metrobus or Metrorail at no cost through the Kids Ride Free program, but does not offer public school transportation.

For years, antipoverty organizations like the Harlem Children's Zone and the Children's Aid Society have operated forms of community learning centers at a small number of New York City schools, but some candidates are hoping to extend the idea to hundreds of them.

The stereotype of bad inner - city schools is overcrowded classes, but so many parents work hard to get their children elsewhere — whether a charter, a Catholic school or, by using a fake address, a better public school — that at P.S. 39 average class size is actually small, 21.

Hitting back was a particularly popular response to bullying at Big City and Small City Schools, particularly among the boys.

Nearly three years later, the results at P.S. 123, with its 530 students, offer a small window into what the city's larger initiative is seeing: an increase in student attendance and family participation in school activities, a drop in chronic absenteeism, but uneven academic progress.

«Small schools, with some noteworthy exceptions, seem to be successful at getting kids over a low bar for graduation,» said Clara Hemphill, co-author of the study and founder of Insideschools.org at the New School's Center for New York City Affairs.

The small schools were rolled out so quickly that, in some parts of the city, there was no system in place for the thousands of students who would have enrolled at the big high schools.

We take you to one small city in Pennsylvania where, despite its one high school failing for the past six years and despite only 50 % of kids being at grade level, the local union refused to be part of Pennsylvania's application.

In areas where DCPS schools have smaller at - risk populations, some nearby charters have at - risk populations closer to those of DCPS, while others have some of the lowest concentrations of at - risk students in the city.

The map below also shows that in the north and northeast parts of the city, plenty of charters have at - risk populations similar to those of DCPS schools, while other charters have much smaller at - risk populations.

Achievement First Bridgeport will go from 410 in 2010 - 2011 to 672 in 2012 - 2013 and smaller expansions will be taking place at Achievement First Amistad Academy and at Achievement First's Elm City College Preparatory school.

A version of this article appears in print on January 26, 2012, on Page A26 of the New York edition with the headline: City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says.

MEREDITH HONIG: School districts were created at the turn of the last century, though for different reasons in big cities than in small towns.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's scschool would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's scSchool if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.