Sentences with phrase «from rural schools»

Moreover, most of the benefits we observed are significantly larger for minority students, low - income students and students from rural schools — typically two to three times larger than for white, middle - class, suburban students — owing perhaps to the fact that the tour was the first time they had visited an art museum.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

Across the nation, students from rural schools have lower college enrollment and persistence rates than students from nonrural schools.

In February the U.S. Department of Education issued a Request for Information on Obtaining Input From Rural Schools and Local Educational Agencies.

For the Chinese teachers, four taught in suburban schools, four were from rural schools, and eight were from urban schools.

The program targets mostly at - risk participants, drawn nationally, giving emphasis to recruiting underrepresented groups in engineering, namely women, African - Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Eskimos, and students of all backgrounds from rural schools.

David Little from the Rural Schools Association joined us to explain.

The ten - year - olds in the study came from both a rural school and an urban school, but all had Norwegian as their first language.

Learners are given four sets of data one set from a rural school, one set from a town school and two sets from city schools.

Many of the respondents from Rural School spoke about the difference between physical and emotional safety.

As WPCP continues to divert funding from rural school districts, there is debate as to whether the program is even accessible to certain eligible rural students.

Not exact matches

SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«In just less than a month, there have been thousands of schools that have signed up to do this walkout,» McNaboe, from rural West Virginia, said.

The schools represented are diverse — from elementary schools to colleges, in urban, suburban, and rural areas — but they stand unified in message and mission.

A new report from the Church of England has outlined ways to save some of its small and rural schools.

«This report is about suggesting a range of collaborative and innovative ways forward for these schools, which clearly have a key role in rural life, while not shying away from the difficult questions.»

I know I'll start school in the fall, and ride the school bus in from our rural road, but that seems a long way off.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

We've even reached out to local trade schools and are trying to attract people from rural communities.»

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

Please check out http://www.School-Lunch.org to learn about a rural Vermont community where the school lunch menu sounds like it comes from an upscale bistro.

It's an online video broadcasting service, delivering webcasts from a rural junior school in Ghana to classrooms across the UK.

In terms of school breakfast, every year we release a teacher's report in which we survey 750 K - 8 teachers from around the country in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

The Waldorf School draws from urban, rural, and suburban communities in and around Baltimore.

This can also become an equity issue since students from small, rural, or low - income schools tend to have less access to AP classes.

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

In the small, rural area in which she lives, the school is awash in junk food for every occasion, from parties to fundraisers.

Phoenix High School is very far from a rural idyll.

Pupils across Wales are set to benefit from a new # 2.5 million Welsh Government small and rural schools grant announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

Methodology: The two - and - a-half-year study involved collecting data over a period of 18 months from nine state primary and secondary schools situated in London and a rural area of England.

«His personal assistant, drafted from a rural community secondary school on Grade Level 8, was Usani Usanii, the present Minister of Niger Delta.»

Flanagan had publicly said that the Senate would not approve a budget unless the budget totally eliminated something called the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which took millions of dollars in school aid away from suburban and rural school districts.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

The Senate and Assembly also want to wipe out this year the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which primarily reduced funding to suburban and rural school districts - especially districts on Long Island, where Flanagan is from.

This small measure actually has been proven to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy by up to 30 percent; it makes a big difference people with jobs, school, or who live in a rural community far from a pharmacy.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

Just about every office was packed with groups such as school kids from rural North Dakota and other interest and scientific groups.»

If necessary, we will also adjust our selections to achieve representation from urban, rural, and suburban schools from different parts of the country.

The experiment asked 54 athletes from rural Midwestern high schools to take the test twice, once while giving their best effort and once while subtly sandbagging.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

I loved it, and I read it every day when I was a kid at a rural primary school, just a few years after independence from British colonial rule.

Torero, who was born in Peru and now teaches at the University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, had come to investigate a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero.

The former high school drop - out from rural Mexicali triumphed over lack of finances and family tragedy to join the incoming Class of... More...

Researchers from The Pennsylvania State University conducted an intervention to test the effect of using herbs and spices to increase vegetable intake in rural middle and high school students.

Rural Pennsylvania for school, the Loire Valley for a semester abroad, San Francisco for a post-grad internship, back in Connecticut while I launched my online boutique, into New York where Will and I met, then to Dallas where Will is from, and now back to Connecticut where I grew up!

One day while working at a shady nightclub he gets a surprise visit from his former coach, who brings him a special offer - a gig at a rural high school coaching a rag - tag weightlifting team comprised of outcasts and misfits.

A few years after graduating from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998, David Gordon Green found critical success with his debut feature, George Washington, a lyrical coming - of - age story set in the rural South.