Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students
in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.
The authors of the study, Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell, and Isaac McFarlin Jr., focus their analysis on 17,057 graduates from the 2002 through 2008 graduating classes
in a large urban school district in Texas that historically has sent few students to college.
To investigate the issue, Goddard and colleagues conducted a study
in a large urban school district in the Midwest.
Data were collected from 230 students and 20 teachers in two high - poverty, low - performing schools
in a large urban school district in the Midwest Students were 93 % African American.
Not exact matches
The piece doesn't offer much
in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems
in school food, at least
in large,
urban districts like L.A. and Houston.
For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about
School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school
School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children
in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty
largest school districts in the country to improve school
school districts in the country to improve
schoolschool food.
To remedy this problem, some
districts, particularly those
in large urban areas, have adopted universal,
in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast
in their classrooms at the start of the
school day.
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the
Urban School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 sch
Urban School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 sc
School Food Alliance (USFA), a forward - thinking group of six
large urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 sch
urban school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children in 4,500 sc
school districts, is using its considerable joint purchasing power to replace the spork with compostable forks, spoons and knives, a change that reportedly will affect 2.8 million children
in 4,500
schools.
Another report says that the menu will now include «Salvadorean beef stew, chicken tandoori, Asian pad thai, California sushi roll and teriyaki beef and broccoli with brown rice,» but also notes the
district says the changes were already
in the pipeline well before Jamie even showed up
in L.A. (And given what I know about
school food procurement
in my own
large urban district, which I'm told can have a year - long lag time, that seems likely to be true.)
As a fellow member of the Parent Advisory Committee
in Houston, I'd love to hear any
large - scale victories
in sizable
urban school districts.
In late 2014, the
Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of six of the nation's
largest districts (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and Orlando), announced that it would seek to buy only antibiotic - free chicken for its... [Continue reading]
This study took place
in 3 middle
schools and 3 high
schools in a
large,
urban US
school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.
This longitudinal study
in 3 middle
schools and 3 high
schools in a
large,
urban US
school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stan
school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student
school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stan
school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National
School Lunch Program meal stan
School Lunch Program meal standards.
And
in a
large urban district like mine, where over 80 % of our kids are economically disadvantaged and a universal,
in - class breakfast is the norm among our 300
schools, paying for that 1/2 cup increase is likely to be a big drain on our
school food budget.
Mayor Gary McCarthy pointed out that Schenectady is home to a chronically underfunded
school district that is the
largest urban district in the Capital Region.
Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary
schools in a
large,
urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achiev
school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation
in the
School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achiev
School Breakfast Program (SBP),
school attendance and academic achiev
school attendance and academic achievement.
More importantly, FOSS is adopted
in 50 of the 100
largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches
large populations of under - served students.
Female teachers
in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase
in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.
The passing of the torch
in Cleveland is imminent: This fall, the beleaguered
school district will join the list of
large urban school systems — including Boston and Chicago — under mayoral control.
A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City
School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the bui
School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a
large urban high
school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the bui
school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed
in different parts of the building.
Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education
in San Diego City
Schools, the nation's eighth
largest urban school district.
Throughout the spring, VOISE designers have been up to their laptops
in the typical challenges of opening a new
school in a
large urban district: community outreach, teacher recruitment, student enrollment, fundraising, and a bit of bureaucracy, to boot.
«I want to see our
urban school districts and
large charter networks play an even greater role
in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining
schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»
They are more likely to attend
school in large,
urban districts.
«An ideal situation
in five years may be
in a leadership role at a
large urban school district, charter
school network, or nonprofit organization that serves underrepresented students, especially those living
in poverty,» she says.
The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of
large urban school districts and have sought refuge
in affluent suburban
districts for their own children.
The Milwaukee
school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public
Schools are especially significant
in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on
large urban school districts.
The Council of the Great City
Schools, a Washington - based advocacy group for 66 of the nation's
largest urban school districts, presented Mr. Forgione with the award at a dinner on Oct. 23, during its annual conference
in Houston.
In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2
In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue
School District,
in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2
in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student
in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2
in state compensatory funds, while
large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).
For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any
school in a
large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed
schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and
school segregation that has plagued our
school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.
Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business
School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty j
School and Harvard Graduate
School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty j
School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support
large - scale organizational change
in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty j
school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a
school district to a panel of faculty j
school district to a panel of faculty judges.
Not only did the
district, the
largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the
urban poor who entered high
school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded
in getting those students to graduation.
In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the Urban Institute in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates fund
In a book that Smerdon and Borman would curate for the
Urban Institute
in 2009, Saving America's High Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the larger districts receiving Gates fund
in 2009, Saving America's High
Schools, many of the members of the research team expanded on the findings from the Gates report, offering a wealth of specific findings for many of the
larger districts receiving Gates funds.
American education has problems, almost everyone is willing to concede, but many think those problems are mostly concentrated
in our
large urban school districts.
Perhaps no event represented the trend
in urban school politics better than Harold Levy's becoming chancellor of the nation's
largest school district, New York City,
in May 2000.
Now, reformers
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Maryland, and New York, and the
large urban districts of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, are challenging the notion that grouping students
in the middle grades
in their own
school buildings is the right approach.
Advocating at
school meetings several days per week at one of the
largest urban school districts in the country, invariably I see tremendously frustrated teachers, mind - numbing paperwork and by definition dissatisfied parents.
One superintendent of a
large,
urban school district said that low - income high -
school students
in his
district were beginning to take MOOCs
in greater numbers than students from more privileged backgrounds.
Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much
larger than average gains for the other ten
urban school districts participating
in the assessment
in 8th grade math and
in 4th grade reading and math.
This is a transcript from a student focus group conducted by Education Week on March 6, 2003 with high
school seniors
in a
large, diverse high
school in a mid-Atlantic state
in an approximately 11,000 student
urban / suburban fringe
school district.
The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and
urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the
district - based system
in America's
large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter
schools.
Michael Podgursky responds: Collective - bargaining agreements negotiated by the AFT
in large urban districts typically include language restricting the contractual teaching workday to little longer than the
school day for students.
The strongest results were
in Charlotte - Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T., a zone of struggling
schools within a
large,
urban school district, which got about 30 applicants per position
in the first two years.
While class - size reduction has helped achievement
in most of California's
large urban school districts, not all of those have enjoyed such results, says a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.
I teach science (AP Chemistry, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) at a
large, comprehensive,
urban public high
school in Los Angeles Unified School Dis
school in Los Angeles Unified
School Dis
School District.
All that said, Chicago isn't the only
urban school district in the nation struggling with the demands of educating a
large number of high - need students.
Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business
School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students pres
School and Harvard Graduate
School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students pres
School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support
large - scale organizational change
in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students pres
school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...
As the first layperson to serve as Secretary for Education and Superintendent of
Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120 schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urban
Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second
largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120
schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urban
schools and 42,000 students primarily located
in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse
urban areas.
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.
Because rural
school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for
large urban districts usually do not work as well
in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.