Sentences with phrase «by urban schools»

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

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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The graduation rate for LA Unified's Class of 2017 was 80 percent, and Superintendent Michelle King has made 100 percent graduation her goal — a feat not achieved by any urban school district.

My question: When are we going to come to grips with the fact that this problem deserves nothing less than the equivalent of a declaration of war by urban school districts on the illiteracy of our young children?

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Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

In addition to the Metro rail system, he said, Prince George's is sandwiched between major airports in Baltimore and D.C., features an urban area with ample space to build, and is surrounded by several universities, particularly Maryland's flagship school.

Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

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A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

These urban oases, carefully tended by teachers, students and volunteers, range from several square feet to several acres of fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers, and some schools even...

Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School Disschool food in the Los Angeles Unified School DisSchool District.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

The district is seeking to expand urban gardens throughout the city and is in the process of having its own garden, Great Kids Farm, certified to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to schools by the fall.

School meal programs are governed by a stack of federal regulations as thick as a large urban telephone directory, and nutrition directors have to know them all and follow them all.

The family services offered by the Broome County Urban League are: Information / Referral, Respite Reimbursement, and an Inclusive After School and Summer Day Program for children ages 5 - 21.

Bassett was joined at CCEM by a panel led by Errol Louis, Director of Urban Reporting for the Journalism School and political anchor at NY1 News, and featuring City Limits Publisher Jarrett Murphy and Haitian Times Editor - in - Chief Vania Andre.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

«That means Brownsville has a life expectancy more along the lines of Sri Lanka, a developing country,» Bassett told the panel moderated by NY1 anchor Errol Louis, the director of urban reporting at the school and joined by Vania Andre, editor - in - chief of the Haitian Times, and I.

«The ploy is obvious — he is offering $ 100 million for urban schools in upstate districts represented by Assembly Democrats,» Easton said in a statement.

Last Saturday (April 19), I stopped by the Michael Blake for Assembly kick - off announcement at PS 463, The Urban Scholars Community School.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.

Although state lawmakers restored some of the school funding last year, especially to urban schools like the Syracuse City School District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by thschool funding last year, especially to urban schools like the Syracuse City School District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by thSchool District, rural and surburban districts still get hammered by the GEA.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in ConnecSchool of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecschool district in Connecticut.

People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighbourhood, a study by the University of Exeter's medical school has found.

The research, conducted by Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor, and Ghassan Hamra, PhD, assistant professor, both of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, was published in the Journal of Urban Health and used a decade's worth of crime data in Philadelphia (from 2006 until 2015) to find that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct increased when daily temperatures are higher.

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

We were invited to the March 2008 Fordham Urban Law Journal Symposium, «The Lethal Injection Debate: Law and Science,» by Fordham University School of Law professor Deborah Denno to represent the medical and scientific aspects of it.

Led by Charlie Catlett, work done by the Computation Institute's Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) has fostered partnerships with industry, the city of Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

«Jordan's ability to satisfy future urban and agricultural water demands will be stressed by cascading effects on its freshwater supply,» said study co-author Steven Gorelick, the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new study by a Michigan State University education scholar.

The Urban Barcode Research Program (UBRP), is an initiative to engage high school students to study biodiversity in NYC supported by the Pinkerton Foundation.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

«We want them to think school is cool,» explains Shakur, cofounder and executive director of a unique afterschool program for urban schools in Boston (including Smith Academy) that for more than a decade has racked up impressive results in turning around low - achieving students, in part, by using financial incentives.

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.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadSchools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools, the nation's eighth largest urban school district.

The driving force of this relationship is not teachers» leaving urban districts for suburban ones; on the contrary, most of the difference in leaving rates between these types of schools is caused by teachers moving to new schools within their original district.

Mary: Even when the legislative environment is inclusive and extends educational opportunities to refugee learners, as we see in the Kenyan context, national security threats can roll back any progress made by refugee students in gaining access to national schools, as fear and xenophobia trigger government crackdowns on relocating urban refugees back to the camps or their countries of origin under the guise of «voluntary repatriation.»

The company, which has built 261 primary schools, 64 secondary schools and seven academies in the last three years, announced the Community Plus range which is supported by Morgan Sindall Investments, urban regeneration firm Muse Developments, and affordable housing provider Lovell.

In just two years, Revere High School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San Diego.

«I want to see our urban school districts and large charter networks play an even greater role in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»