Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged students at schools»

Disadvantaged students at this school are performing far better than other students in the state, and this school is successfully closing the achievement gap.

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Too many college students are relying on large student loans to get through school, and this puts them at a huge financial disadvantage when they graduate.

For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

Few students on the team, from what I could tell, faced quite the daunting array of disadvantages and obstacles that the average student at Fenger High School in Roseland did, but with 87 percent of IS 318's students eligible for federal lunch subsidies, the school had come by its Title I designation honSchool in Roseland did, but with 87 percent of IS 318's students eligible for federal lunch subsidies, the school had come by its Title I designation honschool had come by its Title I designation honestly.

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

«Having the shortest school day in the nation puts teachers and students at a disadvantage and it's time that we provided both with the tools they need to drive student success in the classroom,» said CPS CEO Jean - Claude Brizard.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Project BOOST is an enrichment program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated a commitment to academic success but come from disadvantaged or underserved neighborhoods.

Project BOOST is an enrichment program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated a commitment to academic success but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is a program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they may not have the opportunity to develop theirStudents) is a program targeted at elementary and middle school students who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they may not have the opportunity to develop theirstudents who have demonstrated academic talent but come from disadvantaged neighborhoods where they may not have the opportunity to develop their talent.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

A: In general, deaf students are regularly at a disadvantage in school and at university.

Immaculate does not have an admissions test for students, but Hecker acknowledges that especially disadvantaged or disabled students might not do well at the school.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

Disadvantaged students need their schools to take them on enriching field trips if they are likely to have these experiences at all.

Although most of the students at my school come from economically disadvantaged households, I found that the vast majority of them had some kind of a computer at home that was hooked up to the Internet; they simply weren't using it for anything other than games.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

«Economically disadvantaged students come to school behind on average,» said Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a Washington - based think tank.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

Despite the setback caused by changing schools, disadvantaged students at charter schools still did better in math within two years after switching to charter schools.

They define equity, disadvantage and student needs along socioeconomic lines; allocate resources to schools at least partially on the basis of students» backgrounds; and design programs and interventions specifically for low socioeconomic and Indigenous students.

Applying that criterion puts schools serving the disadvantaged at risk of being said to «fail,» even if they are doing a fine job of enhancing the skills of their students.

These schools are open to students at all levels of academic achievement, located in disadvantaged communities, and emphasize strong relationships between students and faculty.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

This has been done effectively at local public schools such as PS 396 in the Bronx, where a significant percentage of children have special needs and all of the students could be characterized as economically disadvantaged.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

On the one hand, disadvantaged students who attended schools that had been at risk of failing experienced long - term gains.

The crushing defeat of the charter referendum in Massachusetts is at least partially explained by the political foolishness of narrowly focusing the charter movement on a certain type of school to serve disadvantaged students.

Unfortunately, schools serving low - income and minority students are often at a competitive disadvantage in trying to meet their employees» needs.

The nation's Catholic schools appear more successful than public schools at closing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged 8th - grade students, according to a study released here last week during the annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association.

Education World explores the strategies educators at KIPP Academy Charter School, Mother Hale Academy, and Crossroads School are using to break the cycle of failure for students living in some of New York City's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Last month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a speech at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in which he lamented the fact that many high schools that serve disadvantaged students and students of color lack highly effective teachers.

Maryland is looking at ways to create an innovative, technology - based high school assessment for students who face disadvantages taking traditional paper - and - pencil tests.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

It is well known that schools serving disadvantaged students are at a competitive disadvantage in the labor market (see «The Revolving Door,» research, Winter 2004).

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

At their best, charter schools can give disadvantaged students strong learning boosts, closing substantial learning gaps.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

If the measures are insufficient and the academic growth of disadvantaged students is lower than that of more advantaged students in ways not captured by the model, the one - step value - added approach will be biased in favor of high - SES schools at the expense of low - SES schools.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

It involves students attending a disadvantaged state or independent school from outer and metropolitan Melbourne to ensure they have the best possible chance at gaining a foothold in the job market when they finish their studies.

Many of the nation's schools are tasked with educating large numbers of disadvantaged students who, at the start of kindergarten, already lag far behind their peers.

At Pleckgate High School in Blackburn, the school was facing high numbers of students attending with low prior attainment scores, and relatively high numbers of disadvantaged stuSchool in Blackburn, the school was facing high numbers of students attending with low prior attainment scores, and relatively high numbers of disadvantaged stuschool was facing high numbers of students attending with low prior attainment scores, and relatively high numbers of disadvantaged students.