Sentences with phrase «ghetto school»

If I were in charge of the world, as I should be, I would reward you for your distinguished career by promoting you from Emeritus to a teaching position at the worst ghetto school I could find, where you would do the most good.

One academy takes the cream of the crop, the other is fast becoming a despised option, a typical «ghetto school,» where disaffected students are warehoused for the duration.

District spokeswoman Nora Carr said officials are recommending that one teacher be fired for writing that she teaches «in the most ghetto school in Charlotte» and describing her students as «chitlins.»

and i go to one of the 6 top middle schools in texas so we are not some ghetto school or anything.

In her book Ghetto Schooling, Jean Anyon, former chairperson of the education department at Rutgers University — Newark, describes administrators at a typical school in 1992 and 1993 as buck - passing incompetents and teachers as tough and resentful of outsiders (especially white ones) looking to tell them how to do their jobs.

Despite the painfully bad educational outcomes in many public schools in ghettos across the country, there are also cases where charter schools in the very same ghettos turn out students whose test scores are not only far higher than those in other ghetto schools, but sometimes are comparable to the test scores in schools in upscale suburban communities, where children come from intact families with highly educated parents.

This book reveals the historical roots of the current crisis in ghetto schools and what must be done to reverse the downward spiral.

«Ghetto Schooling» offers a penetrating historical analysis of more than a century of government and business policies that have drained the economic, political and human resources of urban populations.

Not exact matches

As the co-founder of the IRIS - IN program for girls in partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest stories.

Do any of you want increased taxes so that your money can go to programs buying school supplies for that black child born in the ghetto so they have a real honest to god (see what I did there?)

and that's why the Republicans want to cut funding for public schools — so ghetto kids will never be able to leave the ghetto because they have no education — and they won't be able to get birth control either so they will proliferate and perpetuate their situation for generations — and this will never stop until America ends its dependence on fossil fools like Romney, McConnell, Cantor, Ryan, The Bohner, Limbaugh, etc..

In ghetto areas, typically, the criminal law is weakly enforced, the schools do not expect children to learn, and welfare has not required adult recipients to work.

Had the generation of young Jews that went through the Buber - Rosenzweig school of Bible reading and Bible interpreting been permitted to grow up and to remain together, they would probably have become the most Bible - conscious Jews since the days before the ghetto - walls had fallen in Europe.

At 11 a.m., Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr., the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, Cynthia Lopez, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and Ghetto Film School representatives outline plans for a worldwide casting call for online video service Netflix Inc.'s planned original series «The Get Down»; suite 41A, fourth floor, South Bronx Post House, 79 Alexander Ave., the Bronx.

At 4:15 p.m., Hochul highlights Regional Economic Development Council Investment during a tour of the Ghetto Film School Summer Program, 79 Alexander Ave., the Bronx.

Young aspiring filmmakers from the Ghetto Film School will be honored tonight at Lincoln Center.

I went to high school in the ghetto in Chitungwiza, a residential suburb near Harare, studying biology, chemistry, and mathematics.

The high school is closed, and Marty's neighborhood, an otherwise perceptibly middle class compilation of front porches and two - car garages, has become some sort of ghetto.

The Lottery (Unrated) «Ticket out of the ghetto» documentary follows the diverging fortunes of four NYC families who feel their children's prospects in life depend on whether or not their names are drawn in the lottery admitting students to a phenomenally - successful, Harlem charter school.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Born in Georgia and raised in a black Long Island ghetto, Jim Brown distinguished himself in high school athletics.

A fun and eclectic Watch List including old school mega-epics (Frankly, my dears, we don't give a damn), Ricky Jay on Henry David Thoreau and dramatic Steve Martin, early Cameron Crowe flirtations ghetto blasters and the IRS troubles, and ends with Andrew trouble with tribulations in his Blindspotting adventures that lead to just a re-watch of Star Trek II.

In 2014, the NBR awarded grants to 16 students from seven schools, as well as the Children's Aid Society, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, The Ghetto Film School, and the Educational Video Center.

Freedom Writers tells the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell and her students — a class of left - behind ghetto kids nobody cared about or believed in — who, in working together, overcame the negative expectations of a school system that had given up on them.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adultSchool (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adultSchool, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adultschool filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

But you also believe in the promise of social mobility, and can point to examples of schools — even mediocre ones — that have helped some kids escape the ghetto or the barrio or the reservation.

In a small city far away from the churning ghettos of Detroit and D.C., a small public school was about to enter the racial hubbub and become part of education history.

Moreover, reform advocates note, basing admissions on geographical boundaries is an exclusionary practice, all too redolent of the days when low - income students of minority background desperately sought to escape from «slum» or «ghetto» schools and gain access to the generally superior schools in «good» neighborhoods from which they had been barred.

In the past few years, folks like Nikole Hannah - Jones (formerly of ProPublica, now headed to the New York Times) or Ta - Nehesi Coates of The Atlantic have reminded us of things like resegregation of schools in the South and the policy decisions that created the American ghetto.

Still 13 percent of all students are still placed into special education ghettos that all but assure that they have slim chances of graduating high school, completing college, and participating productively in the nation's economy and society.

As a result, more children are being kept out of special education ghettos long - used by American public education to warehouse the children that adults in schools don't want to educate.

A Montessori school is a school that follows the teachings of Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian doctor who devoted herself to educating the children of Rome's ghettos.

The schools run and overseen by BIE have been one of the ghettos of American public education, with a longstanding history of perpetuating abuse and malpractice (educational and otherwise).

Thanks to AYP, traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

The CORE districts also couldn't offer a specific plan for how they would provide comprehensive college - preparatory courses aligned to the standards to poor and minority children in their schools, as well as English Language Learners and children trapped in the nation's special education ghettos.

Ferguson - Florissant meted out at least one out - of - school suspension to 11 percent of black children condemned to its special ed ghettos (including kids covered by Section 504 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act); that rate is double the 4.9 percent of black kids condemned to special ed in St. Louis who were suspended once from school.

Apparently, «the 1 percent» includes the struggling, poverty - stricken students in urban ghettos like Compton and Watts — the students that the union has tried to trap in failing schools through their opposition to charters.

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.

The Browns weren't trying to escape some ghetto - school nightmare.

But, as in the case of the for - profit college sector, the lax oversight of the vouchers, along with the loosening of standards for providing them to students, has perpetuated the kind of fraud that can be as damaging to special ed students — many of whom likely were really struggling with reading than actually learning disabled — as condemning them to traditional school ghettos.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

2004 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York / NY, USA Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany Adaptations, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York / NY, USA Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago / IL, USA Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton / NJ, USA The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York / NY, USA Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York / NY, USA Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York / NY, USA

In the storefront's darkened basement, Duron Jackson, who got his sculpture MFA from Bard in 2010, has a video projection called «Gladiator School,» showing what looks like a ghetto schoolyard beatdown.

When he was eleven, his mother sent him and his brother to an art school, where Wiley learned a few basic skills and discovered a world beyond the ghetto.

One ethnographer observed the appeal of the street lifestyle this way: «The ghetto street culture can be glamorous and seductive to the adolescent, promising its followers the chance of being «hip» and popular with certain «cool» peers who hang out on the streets or near the neighborhood school....

For instance, the parents in the Harrison family offer their teens encouragement for school achievement: «Like many ghetto parents Lincoln and Lillie place a great value on education for their children....

I might be jaded, but I've also gone to some of the worst schools in the country and seen the real thinking had by many in the ghetto.

The school is so ghetto and ugly.

The ghetto thing is a rivalry between kids of the two schools for which one is worse — they wear it like a badge.

The public schools here are huge and have great subject selections, though they rival each other for «ghetto» status (the kids» words).