Sentences with phrase «big city students»

Moreover, even without TUDA, it's possible to compare big city students» NAEP scores from state to state.

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The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

From the city's point of view, the process of presenting a challenge and being offered an in - depth solution by a group of enthusiastic, creative students seemed like a big win.

There are other cities that have focused on replacing disappearing industries such as steel or autos with technology, but they have big research universities or hospitals that naturally feed students and startups, Lang said.

It is actively engaged in the central problems of the big city, not in order to be engaged in activism, but in order to train churchmen and theological students to minister in such situations.

This sub-thread is acting like every student at A&M is some podunk farmer from small town Texas that ain't never seen a big city like Austin.

A big time Game is looming as they will be part of the co-Main Event powered by Student City on Wednesday Night.

«Working with such a big company as city is great for the university, having this partnership will hopefully attract many more students to MMU like myself in future».

, location (near Spain, halfway between the ocean and the Alpes, the student environment (big universities city) and finally the cuisine (Southern France)... Yet, although the menu is balanced and varied, it doesn't seem to have the extra «splash» that the menu in Pau seemed to have.

School officials, especially in big cities, were concerned about how the changes might affect their ability to feed needy students.

Until then, bigger cities provided student lunches on their own, including Chicago.

A combination of big city apartments, grad student housing, and living in countries that don't do the whole Halloween thing means that I've never actually had someone show up at my door looking for candy, let alone allergy - safe treats for Halloween.

Education policymakers — including big city mayors such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel (D)-- see rating teachers by student test scores as reasonable and know voters and big foundations feel the same way.

In math, the percentage of students in grades 3 - 8 who scored at the proficient level increased slightly over last year in most of the Big 5 City School Districts.

With those funds, Miner and de Blasio say cities could provide programming that would lift students and families out of poverty, which is what's they say is one of the biggest issues facing their cities.

In 2013, Kelly was meant to give a Brown talk, called «Proactive Policing in America's Biggest City,» but some students protested and the lecture was canceled.

The districts, which do not include the Big 5 city school districts (NYC, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers), together expect to increase school property taxes by $ 516 million, or 2.4 percent, even while forecasting total enrollment to dip by 6,145 students, or 0.4 percent.

According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), New York City is one of the biggest school districts in the country that enrolls a large number of students into charter schools.

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Before you pay big money for caviar, check with two New York City high school students.

The voucher program is targeted toward poor students in big cities.

The doctoral student in biological anthropology at New York University in New York City wanted to tease out whether monogamous primates had bigger or smaller brains than more promiscuous species.

March 13, 2000 Big city drug prevention program targets Spencer, Iowa Twelve University of Chicago medical students will immerse themselves in Spencer, Iowa, for four days, bringing with them healthy and diseased human organs to give kids an inside look at what drugs can do to the body.

In 1969, during the Culture Revolution in China, Dongxian, like many students in big cities, was sent from Shanghai to a rural village to be «re-educated» by farmers.

Sure, like most, I am a suburban high school student who craves the big city and is a definite shopaholic.

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On April 10, the U.S. Department of Education will release the latest results of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), which will tell us how fourth - and eighth - grade students are faring nationally, in every state, and in most big cities in math and reading.

But, many of my former students say that can't pass by the City College campus without thinking about all the trips we took to the campus theater — and the big hill we had to climb to get there!

Mayor Bloomberg is justifiably proud of the big gains New York City made in boosting the high - school graduation rate on his watch, with about two - thirds of students now graduating in four years, up from half a decade ago.

Yet Mayor Mike's good work for big kids is matched by lackluster results for the city's younger students.

• Show that public charter schools could benefit the students most in need of new opportunities (poor and minority children in big cities).

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

Opposition among antipoverty groups is building on two grounds — that charter schools are done to, not by, families in big cities; and that transfers of funds to charter schools hurt students in district - run schools.

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

A consortium of big - city school districts and businesses were scheduled to announce this week plans to create a national distance - learning network that would make those educational experiences — and many more — possible for urban students.

Clad in bright orange lifejackets, the students lined second - floor balconies in the city's beloved French Quarter and unrolled sea - blue tarps down to the streets below, dramatically illustrating the level to which the Big Easy could be inundated should a hurricane hit the city dead - on.

On a community basis, a number of big cities — including San Antonio, Memphis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, New York City, and Chicago — have instituted reforms focused on enabling students to meet high standards.

Finally, few big cities have the ability to track how their reforms are being put into practice or whether they are ultimately improving student learning.

But, lo and behold, test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress for students in Washington, D.C. have risen more than those of students from any other participating big city.

That's how he frames his role as superintendent of the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York, delegating much of the day - to - day work of running a high - poverty turnaround district of 6,800 students to look ahead and concentrate on the big picture.

By 1920 most big - city high schools in the country were offering four high - school tracks: college preparatory, commercial (which prepared students, mostly young women, for office work), vocational (industrial arts and home economics), and general (which offered a high - school diploma without any specific preparation for future educational or vocational endeavors).

In School Breakfast in America's Big Cities, a January 2011 report released by the Food Research and Action Center, 16 of the 29 urban districts examined in the study «performed above the national average in reaching low - income students with breakfast.

Dee Alpert says that New York City, like other big cities, provides test accommodations to a higher percentage of students than do schools across the nation.

Ninety - two percent qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, yet Venture's students made bigger fall - to - spring gains than all but one of the city's schools.

Single - gender education has long been a pillar in the world of private schools, but in the past decade, several big - city school districts have opened all - boys schools designed to improve academic achievement and social - emotional skills for non-white students.

Not enough college students want to teach in big cities, and few education schools focus on preparing teachers for urban classrooms.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

· In fourth - grade reading, DCPS's non-poor students again had the largest gains compared to their peers in all cities, and white students had the fifth - biggest gains.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.