Sentences with phrase «high poverty elementary»

Council members also organize and participate in a service project over the summer that provides a hot meal for students and their families in a nearby high poverty elementary school.

For decades, districts have also chosen to invest their Title I funds primarily in their highest poverty elementary schools because addressing student learning needs at the earliest age possible produces the greatest return on investment.

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In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

As researchers long focused on social studies and informational reading and writing education in the early elementary grades, we were frustrated by this pattern of neglect, and troubled that it is even worse in high - poverty school settings.

The study focused on the 16 percent to 17 percent of elementary schools nationwide that the researchers deemed to be «high poverty» schools.

The Sue Duncan Center was attended by kids from elementary to high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.

In one high - poverty elementary school, a teacher remarked, «Without a trusting environment in our classroom and with the families of my kids, it's all uphill.

When students do not learn to read by third grade or develop reading difficulties after third grade, as is disproportionately the case for students living in poverty (Kieffer, 2010), it is critically important that an emphasis on learning to read remain an instructional priority in upper - elementary classrooms as well as in middle and high schools.

In this study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures used in previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.

The high poverty rates in the district meant elementary school students already were lagging academically by the time they arrived.

A charter school desert is defined in the report as an area with three or more contiguous census tracts with moderate or high poverty and no charter elementary schools as of the 2014 - 15 school year.

Instead, the district plans to create full - service community schools in its highest - poverty neighborhoods, offer key services in all schools, and turn a former elementary school into a central hub that will provide a full range of services.

For many years, he served as a classroom teacher, working in a high - poverty elementary school.

State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District poverty (high, medium, low) District diversity (high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School level (elementary, middle school, high school) School poverty (high, medium, low) School diversity (high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).

On the one hand, studies have often combined results for several subject matter areas, elementary and secondary schools, or high - and low - poverty populations.

For example, In all ‐ elementary districts, those with the highest ethnic minority status (25 ‐ 100 % ethnic minority students), regardless of poverty levels, have fewer library / media center specialists per 100 students than low ethnic minority status districts (0 ‐ 6 % ethnic minority students).

This laminated guide from Eric Jensen discusses how poverty affects students and the best teaching strategies to meet the differing needs of this population, whether elementary, middle, or high school age.

This channel examines how two elementary schools are successfully meeting the needs of students living in poverty while encouraging them to become high achievers.

In elementary schools with the highest ethnic minority populations, regardless of poverty levels, there are fewer libraries specialists per 100 students than low ethnic minority status.

The CIERA School Change Project: Translating research on effective reading instruction and school reform into practice in high - poverty elementary schools.

Currently, I teach in an almost exclusively minority, high - poverty elementary school.

These include reduced class size in early elementary school, high - quality summer school for elementary students who are behind, longer school year for high - poverty schools, small group tutoring for high school students who are behind, and high school career academies for students interested in a more career - focused high school education.

In addition to Granger High and Dayton's Bluff, we visited four other high - performing / high - poverty schools: Taft Elementary in Boise, Idaho; P.S. / M.S. 124, an elementary school in Queens, New York; Lapwai Elementary on the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho; and Port Chester Middle School in Port Chester, New YHigh and Dayton's Bluff, we visited four other high - performing / high - poverty schools: Taft Elementary in Boise, Idaho; P.S. / M.S. 124, an elementary school in Queens, New York; Lapwai Elementary on the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho; and Port Chester Middle School in Port Chester, New Yhigh - performing / high - poverty schools: Taft Elementary in Boise, Idaho; P.S. / M.S. 124, an elementary school in Queens, New York; Lapwai Elementary on the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho; and Port Chester Middle School in Port Chester, New Yhigh - poverty schools: Taft Elementary in Boise, Idaho; P.S. / M.S. 124, an elementary school in Queens, New York; Lapwai Elementary on the Nez Perce Reservation in northern Idaho; and Port Chester Middle School in Port Chester, New York.

Thea Williams - Black, chair of elementary and early childhood education at Jackson State University, said the school is pushing students to get experiences in both high - poverty and low - poverty districts.

Part of that focus was closing the achievement gap at our high - poverty, high - ELL elementary school.

The 15 - student minimum is too high for high - poverty elementary schools.

This seems unlikely given that the African American population has declined by 5 percent across elementary school boundaries over the last five years, and no elementary school boundary has a poverty rate higher than 48 percent.

A high - poverty, previously low - performing elementary school in Maine shifted its from looking mainly at achievement and test scores to focusing on ways to create motivated, confident, engaged students.

I successfully fought for smaller class sizes in our high - poverty elementary schools, and for funding additional special education assistants.

Real School Gardens 817-348-8102 1700 University Drive # 260, Fort Worth, TX 76107 Mission: Real School Gardens directly partners with high - poverty elementary schools to create learning gardens that become an integral part of their teaching culture and community and grow successful students.

The distribution of school types for low - poverty elementary schools was similar to the distribution for high - poverty elementary schools.

Since the 1960s, there have been continuing federal efforts to bring reform to scale in high - poverty elementary and secondary schools across the U.S..

* High - poverty elementary schools were primarily regular schools (98 percent); special education schools (schools that serve children with disabilities) and alternative schools (schools that serve students at risk for school failure) each made up 1 percent or less of high - poverty elementary schoHigh - poverty elementary schools were primarily regular schools (98 percent); special education schools (schools that serve children with disabilities) and alternative schools (schools that serve students at risk for school failure) each made up 1 percent or less of high - poverty elementary schohigh - poverty elementary schools.

* Twenty percent of all public elementary schools and 9 percent of public secondary schools were considered high - poverty schools, compared with 15 percent and 5 percent respectively in 1999 - 2000.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

Explore our findings on elementary, middle and high schools around Baltimore and the country that are breaking the link between poverty and low achievement.

The Century Foundation's 2010 study of Montgomery County, Maryland elementary school students living in public housing found that those who attended mixed schools significantly outperformed those attending high - poverty ones in reading and math.

Although the school has a relatively high level of poverty compared with some of DSST's other campuses — 77 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch — poverty is much lower than at the feeder elementary school, in which 94 percent of students are eligible (Colorado Department of Education, 2013).

Taylor, Pressley, and Pearson (2002) summarized findings from five large - scale research studies on effective, high - poverty elementary schools, which were published between 1997 and 1999 (Charles A. Dana Center, 1999; Designs for Change, 1998; Lein, Johnson, & Ragland, 1997; Puma, Karweit, Price, Ricciuiti, Thompson, & Vaden - Kiernan, 1997; Taylor, Pearson, Clark, & Walpole, 2000).

(1999) Hope for urban education: A study of nine high - performing, high - poverty urban elementary schools.

Especially in high - poverty elementary schools, we waste precious years by giving kids a steady diet of reading and math rather than building their knowledge of the world by immersing them in history, science, and the arts.

Success for All focuses on ensuring success in reading for children in high - poverty elementary and middle schools.

In private, board members selected Marten, an elementary school principal who'd turned heads for her ability to transform a high - poverty school.

Charter school scarcity: A new report concludes that Florida has one of the highest number of charter school «deserts,» which are defined as three or more contiguous census tracts with poverty rates above 20 percent and no charter elementary schools.

I recently brought a magician to a high - poverty elementary school to entertain the children.

Experience Corps, a national organization that puts the time, talent, and know - how of older adults to use in urban elementary schools, served 14,250 students in 199 high - poverty communities in 2003 — 04.

This year's harvest was plentiful, providing locally grown produce to congregants, neighborhood gardeners, and the church's food pantry, which serves families from Albemarle Road Elementary School, a local high - poverty, high - ESL elementary with whom Central partners.

The one RCT of this program — showing positive effects as described in our evidence summary — was a multi-site trial conducted in the real - world public school settings and conditions where this program is normally implemented (41 high - poverty elementary schools across 11 states).