In every community I have served, we have reduced the dropout rate and in
a high poverty urban district substantially -LSB-...]
In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are
high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»
Boushall is
a high poverty urban middle school that serves as almost entirely African American and Latino students.
In the United States, the problem is most obvious in
high poverty urban schools, where boys are losing sight of the girls.
The highest turnover happens in
high poverty urban and rural public schools.
Not exact matches
Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of
urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the
highest Scottish levels of children living in
poverty, to which can be added
high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.
As the
high - tech industry takes off in the Capital Region's suburbs, the area's Regional Economic Development Council is focusing in part on something different as it readies for a $ 1.5 billion upstate revitalization sweepstakes:
urban poverty and inequality.
In wake of a national report on
urban poverty and segregation in the U.S. reaching all times
highs, Insight's Jim Aroune sits down with politic activist and Green Party member Howie Hawkins to discuss
poverty and politics.
High -
poverty schools in
urban areas tend to have the
highest rates of teacher turnover.»
Yes, there are opportunities, most with decent pay, good benefits, and superb job security, and mostly in
high -
poverty urban areas (although rural areas are also underserved).
The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and
urban communities that face
high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.
By far the greatest influence on premature mortality is
poverty followed by geographical location: mortality rates in
urban areas are
higher than mortality rates in rural ones.
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.
Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to
urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces
high - performing
high -
poverty schools.
The schools these young men would attend are typically in
high -
poverty urban neighborhoods, have
high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.
The district consists of
high -
poverty to middle - class schools, rural, suburban, and demographically diverse
urban schools — including one where over 60 languages are spoken.
Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their
high -
poverty schools than their low -
poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.
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.
Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in
high -
poverty,
urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.
A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six
high -
poverty,
high - minority schools in a large,
urban district.
African American students, students who qualify for free / reduced lunch (i.e. poor students), students living in relatively
high -
poverty areas, and students attending
urban schools are all more likely to be investigated by Child Protective Services for suspected child maltreatment.
Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start - ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running
high - performing
high -
poverty urban schools (see sidebar).
Keeping Kids Cosy will target both rural and
urban areas of
higher deprivation across the two counties where the latest government statistics show fuel
poverty levels as
high as 22.9 %, or over one in five house holds.
I've taught in three states from
urban to rural settings, and from deep
poverty to an area of
high affluence.
The expectation is that the resulting intervention, titled «SECURe for Parents and Children (SECURe PAC)» is feasible to implement within existing school - and community - based services in
urban areas with a
high concentration of families and children living in
poverty.
A
high -
poverty urban district with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse families.
We present results from a randomized experiment of a summer mathematics program conducted in a large,
high -
poverty urban public school district.
Really it is certain types of public schools are failing such as
high poverty rural and
urban schools.
For a
high -
poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its
highest - needs students.
With increasing teacher - turnover rates in
high -
poverty and
urban districts, school and district leaders need to make sure that the job is satisfying and rewarding — and quality collaboration time can help lower turnover rates.
Last week, I had the privilege of visiting several
high -
poverty urban schools in Cleveland.
And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped,
high -
poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.
Given this strong correlation, it's not surprising that almost all
high -
poverty urban schools in Ohio get failing grades on the performance index.
Mathematica worked across six different
high -
poverty areas (ranging from the rural Mississippi Delta to
urban Chicago) to randomly assign almost 2,000 students to 100 TFA and non-TFA classrooms.
The study also compared charter performance to average statewide performance — admittedly, a
higher bar, as schools statewide had significantly lower levels of
poverty than the charters (and their
urban districts).
In the two previous years, 46 and 39 percent of
urban schools were rated D or F. To be sure, fewer
high -
poverty schools will flunk under value - added as under a proficiency measure.
NCPW: You've painted a complex portrait of reform efforts in
urban districts, especially those plagued for years with
high poverty and low achievement.
On average, respondents estimated that a little more than half — or 52 percent — of all low - income students attend
high -
poverty schools.67 This estimate is slightly larger than the
Urban Institute figure showing that 40 percent of all low - income students attend a
high -
poverty school.68
«Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their
urban counterparts —
high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.
The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in
high -
poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.
While many whole - school reform models geared to
urban and
high -
poverty contexts provide excellent professional development for teachers, few provide anything that directly address the needs and experiences for principals in
high poverty settings.
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).
Even where
urban and
high -
poverty school districts emphasize public engagement, the policies and preferences tend to «trickle down» to schools only in the form of mandated representation on school councils — a weak strategy for distributing leadership.
We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one of our large,
high -
poverty, low - performing
urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the problem.
But our recent study of teachers» working conditions in six successful
high -
poverty urban schools suggests otherwise.
The Council of
Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to lear
Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping
urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to lear
urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise
high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in
poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learning.
It may also be difficult to translate work done in this small school, where in any given year a quarter to 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a federal measure of
poverty, to larger,
urban schools with
higher concentrations of low - income students.
The state's big - spending lists also always include a few so - called Abbott districts, the
high -
poverty urban districts targeted under the state Supreme Court's Abbott v. Burke rulings.
For fifty years, the Council of
Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to lear
Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping
urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to lear
urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise
high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in
poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.
We operate
high - performing
urban public charter schools, a unique graduate school of education that trains teachers for
high -
poverty schools, and a hybrid college and jobs program that seeks unprecedented degree completion rates and employment outcomes.