Sentences with phrase «high poverty neighborhoods»

It took a fresh input of resources to level the playing field and to put schools in high poverty neighborhoods on a par with affluent suburban schools.

And, in many high poverty neighborhoods, graduation is truly a difficult goal.

Over the past four years, chronic early absence fell from 10 percent to 5 percent among young students living in high poverty neighborhoods.

In this district, unlike all other localities examined, students from high poverty neighborhoods had better attendance than their peers living in other parts of town.

Dr. Franklin has been instrumental in turning around schools in high poverty neighborhoods with high levels of English Language Learners.

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

A shrinking middle class, widening income gap, and deepening racial divide further limits social mobility and middle class opportunity for all people - especially the unemployed, underemployed and those trapped in high poverty neighborhoods in cities and in suburbs.

Herrera and others argued the city's failing public schools are concentrated in high poverty neighborhoods, while children in wealthier areas have access to better schools.

Children from the high poverty neighborhoods surrounding Coney Island's PS 188 faced a number of challenges when the school joined our first CLS cohort in the 2012 - 13 school year — worsened by Hurricane Sandy.

«Although post-recession, more white kids were living in higher poverty neighborhoods, minority children are still significantly more likely overall to live in higher poverty neighborhoods,» she said.

«Regardless of individual family income, there is something about living in a higher poverty neighborhood that negatively affects education outcomes,» she said.

«A major reason why I'm running for state school superintendent is to correct some of these policies of inequity that I've seen — and continue to see — in the highest poverty neighborhoods that just don't make sense.»

cial mobility and middle class opportunity for all people - especially the unemployed, underemployed and those trapped in high poverty neighborhoods in cities

Mac Iver directs the Talent Development Middle Grades program (TDMG), a research and development team that helps middle schools in high poverty neighborhoods to engage students with rigorous curriculum and instruction, provides teachers with the support they need to develop deep content knowledge and effective instructional practices, and develops safe, nurturing and challenging learning environments.

We examine one recent, and uncommonly influential, reading methods study as an example of research that has been overly promoted by the media and misused by some policy makers and educational leaders to support a simple solution to the complex problem of raising the literacy of young children in high poverty neighborhoods.

«High - quality charters run by nonprofit organizations, particularly in high poverty neighborhoods, can benefit the public education system,» Tuck said.

During a veterinarian check up with a new cat owner, the prisoner passionately convinced Dr. Strimple that PAL needed to help DC children living in high poverty neighborhoods.