Sentences with phrase «big urban high schools»

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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks at Vaux Big Picture High School in Philadelphia.

Other than that basic commonality, the schools were very different — some were big, some small, some urban, some rural, some were high - tech, some were low - tech, some integrated, some racially and economically isolated.

Many urban educators complained that the large high school was simply too big to work and too impersonal to reach every child, much less hundreds of children.

We have these school divisions and the urban areas have [high populations] and obviously big school divisions, but the rural divisions have struggled to maintain a variety of course offerings to high school students in their really small schools.

In 1997, Richard opened the first Urban Assembly high school, and when the Bloomberg administration was looking for organizations with capacity to create small schools to replace the city's failing big high schools, Richard and the UA stepped forward.

Fueled by a confluence of interests among urban parents, progressive educators, and school reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool reform refugees, a small but growing handful of diverse charter schools like Capital City has sprouted up in big cities over the past decade: others are High Tech High in San Diego; E. L. Haynes in Washington, D.C.; Larchmont Charter School and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool and Citizens of the World Prep in Los Angeles; Summit in Northern California; the five - school Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagschool Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool of Science and Technology (DSST) network; Community Roots, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, pagSchool, and Upper West Success Academy in New York City; and Bricolage Academy, planned for New Orleans (see sidebar, page 33).

Going to college may not seem like the biggest of deals these days, but it remains an all too elusive goal for many public high school students in urban areas.

It's true that student test scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — sometimes called «the nation's report card» — are higher than when she became chancellor and made the biggest jump of any participating urban school district.

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.

Much of that money will go toward chopping up big, dysfunctional urban high schools into mini-academies.