Sentences with phrase «for urban high schools»

Eric is also the lead teacher in Cyber-Challenge, a multi-partner program for urban high schools in the state.

Specifically, Dr. Prime explores the ways in which African American students» science experiences are influenced by the socio - cultural position which African Americans occupy in American society and the implications of this for the preparation of STEM teachers for urban high schools.

«If there was ever a model for an urban high school, this is it,» Howard E. Taylor, the school's new principal, told The New York Times.

Schwartz was the first director of the Boston Compact, a public - private partnership formed to improve access to higher education and employment for urban high school graduates.

Not exact matches

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

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».

The Renewals that are closing include: PS 050 Vito Marcantonio; Coalition School for Social Change; High School for Health Careers and Sciences; New Explorers High School; Urban Science Academy; PS 92 Bronx School; Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School; PS / MS 42 R. Vernam; MS 53 Brian Piccolo.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon and Urban Valet Dry Cleaners invite local high school girls to «shop» for a free dress for their prom or other special occasion.

The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

The Buffalo Public School District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school stuSchool District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school stuschool students.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school stuSchool District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school stuschool students.

«We suspect a good many leave irrespective of IMPACT for many of the same reasons that turnover is high in many urban schools.

It affects a disproportionally higher percentage of low - income, urban minority children, and is also the most common disease - related reason for children missing school.

I've seeded it in urban high schools across the country and a few of the Kardashian's cell phones, so keep an eye out for it to become the new cool word in 4 — 5 months or so.

After a wild party, Danny stumbles upon Goddess Camp, the urban legend of «skinny - dipping chicks» that so many horny high - school boys have fantasized about for years.

On the menu with Guardians 2: The Dinner (a drama / mystery starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, and Rebecca Hall); Risk (documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange); My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (a strange animated comedy for adults); Citizen Jane: Battle Cry for the City (a documentary about urban activist Jane Jacobs); Buster's Mal Heart (some sort of drama / thriller); and Angkor Awakens (a documentary about how the past informs present - day Cambodia).

Fortunately for the rest of us, the fortuitously named Bloom High School isn't the only school to revamp an aging, urban institution to reflect an eco-School isn't the only school to revamp an aging, urban institution to reflect an eco-school to revamp an aging, urban institution to reflect an eco-ethic.

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.»

For the neediest or most troubled schools in urban areas, even the differentials calculated in Figure 2 would probably not be sufficient to stem the high levels of turnover in such schools.

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.

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

The program was developed by the Urban Land Institute (ULI), based in Washington, DC, and the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley, with input from high school government and economics teachers.

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school sysUrban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school sysurban school systems.

For example, it is possible that the oft - discussed challenges some students from high - performing urban schools experience in college (see ««No Excuses» Kids Go to College,» features, Spring 2013) stem in part from deficits in fluid cognitive skills.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaSchool districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaschool open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

Seidel knew he had similarly reached other students, but by the time he departed eight years later after funding was cut, South Boston High School was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuSchool was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuschool comprising about 900 students.

It is particularly urgent that urban high schools be reformed, and in 2000, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched a national initiative, Schools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high sschools be reformed, and in 2000, the Carnegie Corporation of New York launched a national initiative, Schools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high sSchools for a New Society, to help urban communities redesign their high schoolsschools.

In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the Urban Institute in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates funds.

The project, Changing the Subject: The New Urban High School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricHigh School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricHigh Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curSchools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the currichigh schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curschools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricula.

She embodies the values of courage and commitment that are required to meet the daunting challenge that confronts urban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Prourban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents ProUrban Superintendents Program.

I taught English and reading for four years in urban San Diego before moving to Northern, CA to teach at a rural high school and to complete my MA in Education from Chico State University.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

High expectations, demanding courses, and dedicated faculty combine to give the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) the feel and results of a pricey prep school rather than an urban magnet school.

Urban charter schools are another exception: They yield strongly positive outcomes for low - income and minority students despite high rates of teacher and principal turnover.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

• Maintaining philanthropic support for high - performing urban charter schools and for enrichment of curriculum and pedagogy in «no excuses» schools.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter worFor example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter worfor the charter world.

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic studenFor instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic studenfor Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

And unlike many urban schools where teachers spend the bulk of the day on scripted lessons, drilling classes on basic skills for high - stakes tests, LACES teachers spend very little time prepping students for California's state tests.

One case in point is Cincinnati's W. E. B. Du Bois school, which was among the highest - performing urban schools in the state — before its founder and leader, Wilson Willard III, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft and records tampering, and was sent to prison for four years.

His most recent publications include «African - American Parents» Orientations towards Schools» (with K. Williams Gomez; in press) in Education and Urban Society; «High - Stakes Accountability in Urban Elemenatary Schools» (with J. Spillane; in press) in Teachers College Record; «Teachers» Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning» (with A. Randolph and J. Spillane; in press) in Anthropology and Education Quarterly; and «Towards a Theory of School Leadership» (with J. Spillane and R. Halverson; in press) in Journal of Curriculum Studies.

In recent years (or even in recent decades), it has become all too common for folks to accept that our «best» teachers are the ones going to the well - funded, suburban schools, while our high - need schools — be they in urban or rural communities — are left wanting.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

How many high schools are involved, and just what does Urban Assembly do for and with them?

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.

A second necessity is an outline of what an effective school looks like, and the correlates of effective urban schools (which have held up remarkably well over the years) have given me a vision of the pieces that need to be in place for all children to learn at high levels.

The council must continue to be a voice for these districts as they work to educate all urban school students to the highest academic standards.

I taught for 10 years at an average - performing urban high school in San Mateo County, Calif..

Similar to our analysis of charter schools, access to private schools is much higher for families from urban areas relative to families from rural areas (although the difference is not as large).