Sentences with phrase «for urban minority students»

Behind the Headline Schools of Choice: Expanding opportunity for urban minority students Education Next Spring 2016

Like virtually all prior work, their results suggested that the effect on educational attainment is largest for urban minority students.

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

Not exact matches

Students from every racial group are more likely to attend college if they go to a Catholic school, but the positive impact is greatest for urban minorities.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

Another literature review, conducted by economists Jeffrey Grogger and Derek Neal, found few clear - cut gains for white students, while «urban minorities in Catholic schools fare much better than similar students in public schools.»

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.»

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.

As is common for large urban school districts, the student body of Baltimore city's schools is predominantly minority and poor.

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.

The lack of progress, particularly among African Americans and Latinos, drives Ottaway to continue being a advocate for and provide scholarships to minority students and urban schools.

Whitman focuses, for perfectly legitimate reasons, on the benefits of so - called paternalistic schools for urban, minority students.

But for many years, it has meant just that, as minority urban students have made do with out - of - date textbooks, leaking school roofs, and substandard school libraries.

Urban charter schools in Massachusetts are delivering for minority, economically disadvantaged, special education and ELL students in a way that is historically unprecedented in the long struggle for equitable education in the United States.

Contrary to Howe's prediction, the New American Schools designs have focused overwhelmingly on improving education for urban and minority students.

Mr. West concludes that «attending a school of choice, whether private or charter, is especially beneficial for minority students living in urban areas.»

The second (Jeynes 2007), focusing exclusively on studies of urban secondary school students, found that family involvement had a significant effect on student achievement for minority and white students.

Another recent study in Massachusetts for the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that urban charter schools are shown to be effective for minorities, poor students and low achievers.

In addition to an impressive list of keynote speakers, author presenters, and concurrent sessions, this year's convention will feature special events for NAESP's Diversity Program, a series of special sessions that will focus on the needs of principals serving largely minority student populations in urban schools.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

The Color of Teaching: In a Small Black School, Students Fight for Their Faculty (2004) Nationally, urban schools struggle to recruit minority teachers.

And as for identification, a properly trained gifted coordinator would be well versed in using multiple criteria to identify all gifted students in an urban setting, whether minority, poor, under - performing or GTLD (gifted with learning disabilities).

For example, charter public schools in Colorado have outperformed other public schools in nearly every area while serving high percentages of minority students in traditionally urban areas.

This report concludes that «six educationally relevant disparities» — vision problems, asthma, teen pregnancy, aggression and violence, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and concentration problems — have negative academic outcomes for minority students in urban settings.

Principal Rainey also highlighted several aspects about the school: - 2015 National Excellence in Urban Education Award by the National Center for Urban School Transformation - 100 % of the students receive free and reduced lunch - 99 % minority - 75 % of seniors took at least one AP course during high school - 2nd charter school in the country to be named an AVID National Demonstration School - 1st charter school in the country to be fully funded by bond money

Inland Empire School District Repeats as Finalist for Academic Prize The Corona - Norco Unified School District was named as a finalist Thursday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence by minority and low - income students in urban districts across the nation.

In addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private education.

The challenge for college counselors at these urban charters: getting their students equipped to survive far from home in an environment where few of their classmates share similar backgrounds as theirs: low - income minorities, some of whom are undocumented.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is a new annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

Like many urban districts, the Indianapolis school system has daunting challenges: It's been losing enrollment for decades, leaving a concentrated population of low - income minority students within its borders, while passing rates on state assessments for the 2014 - 15 school year were not quite at 30 percent.

Charter management organizations that meet the following criteria will be automatically eligible for this award each year: charter management organizations that have been operating a minimum of five schools for at least four years (yielding multiple years of data) and that serve sizeable percentages of urban, poor and minority students are automatically eligible.

The Broad (rhymes with «road») Prize for Public Charter Schools is an annual award to honor the urban public charter school system that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement in the nation in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1, 2011 — The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today a new annual award to honor the public charter management organization that has demonstrated the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement among the country's largest urban charter management organizations in recent years while reducing achievement gaps for poor and minority students.

I've also received training in the University of Texas at El Paso's systemic initiative targeting minority students, and I piloted Connected Math for urban students as principal at my previous school.

Because of the void that exists between high school counseling and college advising (Grites, 1979) and because of the additional obstacles and pressures that impinge on gifted urban minority students who attend college, the school counselor's role in preparing gifted urban minority youth for appropriate postsecondary school education can not be underestimated.

Suburbs are studied as places that give white students access to high achieving schools while urban areas are critiqued for their failure to educate working - class minority students.

Urban League of Greater Madison president Kaleem Caire has criticized the School District for not having a well - defined plan for addressing the achievement gap between white and minority students.

Gifted E525: Blending Gifted Education and School Reform (1994) E492: Career Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth (1990) E359: Developing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for the Gifted and Talented (1985) E485: Developing Leadership in Gifted Youth (1990) E514: Developing Learner Outcomes for Gifted Students (1992) E510: Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students (1991) E484: Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students (1990) E493: Fostering the Post Secondary Aspirations of Gifted Urban Minority Students (1990) E427: Giftedness and Learning Disabilities (1985) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E486: Mentor Relationships and Gifted Learners (1990) E483: Personal Computers Help Gifted Students Work Smart (1990) E494: Supporting Gifted Education Through Advocacy (1990) E478: Underachieving Gifted Students (1990)

High - quality mindfulness instruction merits consideration as primary prevention for mental and behavioral health problems in low - income, minority urban students.