In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New
York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.
Two - thirds of
city elementary schools in 2014 had a positive score on the Poverty - Achievement Index, beating the odds when it comes to poverty.
Former New York
City elementary school teacher, current doctoral student in urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Lt. Governor candidate Brian Jones said «We are thrilled to have the endorsement of Diane Ravitch.
This pioneering work tested the effectiveness of both the Good Behavior Game and Mastery Learning in reducing aggressive and violent behavior and promoting school success among inner -
city elementary school students.
When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children A recent episode at a Salt
Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard - to - solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay for lunch?
Foundation has created reading rooms at three
Oklahoma City elementary schools this season and launched a reading challenge in which students from 78 local schools compete to read for the most minutes.
The principal of the New York
City elementary school where a field trip to a beach ended in the drowning death of a sixth grader has finally been fired.
Daria Rigney, a former New York
City elementary school principal, counted teacher, coach, mediator, building manager, budget director, guidance counselor, grant writer, custodian, data - entry clerk and mother - figure as among the responsibilities she assumed on a daily basis.
The program was piloted in five public inner -
city elementary schools in Denver, Colo. and three in Hartford, Ct. during the 2013 - 14 school year.
What follows is a description of The Diversity and Technology Project, a Freirian approach to virtual field experiences cultivated through ongoing relationships with teachers working in an
inner city elementary school, populated by students of low socioeconomic status, in East Chicago, Indiana.
An elementary school in Bay County, Mich., has handed out hundreds of bottles of medicated shampoo, and students at a Salt
Lake City elementary school are storing their belongings in garbage bags.
This month she'll start working at Change For Kids, a nonprofit that provides resources to underserved New York
City elementary schools.
But wait just a minute: The researchers didn't have data on milk waste from the previous year at the 11 Oregon schools, so they used results from five New York
City elementary schools (where chocolate milk was still available) as a comparison.
In addition to lunch services, Chartwells launched a pilot program to provide free breakfasts to students inside the classroom at
a city elementary school in 2007.
School choice is likely a contributing factor to racial segregation in New York
City elementary schools, according to a new report by...
Ralph Spezio, principal of an inner -
city elementary school, was Rochester's catalyst for change.
If he wants to be bold, he might urge
all city elementary schools to adopt Core Knowledge.
Imagine you are a teacher in an inner -
city elementary school.
The New York City School Board recently voted to require students in
all city elementary schools to wear school uniforms beginning in September 1999.
Since starting my career teaching in inner -
city elementary schools in London, I have always been struck by how many students report that history is their favorite subject.
In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York
City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with children in nine control schools over three years.
His teaching career began as an inner -
city elementary school teacher in New York City.
My first teaching assignment was in an inner -
city elementary school, where 100 percent of the students were in the free and reduced - price lunch program and all but one of my students was an English Language Learner.
She has taught English to adult immigrants as well as second grade ICT and fifth grade in New York
City elementary schools.
This year, 139
city elementary schools are adopting the departmental approach, almost twice as many as a year ago.
This study compared information about students at six inner -
city elementary schools in the Bronx.
In a randomized control - group study, researchers from New York University, Fordham University, and Columbia University tracked the development of students in nine New York
City elementary schools that implemented The 4Rs Program compared with children in nine control schools over three years.