Sentences with phrase «dozens of city classrooms»

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This conversation could be taking place at El Verano School, in Sonoma, California, or at Hamilton Central School, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievement.

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.

But for a dozen students in a muggy classroom at Sophie B. Wright Middle School, and thousands of others throughout the city, that yearned - for freedom is a long way off.