Sentences with phrase «inner city public school»

Amy Love firmly believes that bringing mindfulness practice into the lives of inner city public school youth is an act of compassion that positively effects their social,...

It's not abnormal for gunshots to ring out at a graduation event, a block party, or funeral for that matter in this town in the inner city public school community.

Here's a scene you don't see very often: a line of an inner city public school students standing outside of a classroom eagerly waiting for their teacher to let them in and begin class.

And you haven't seen a classroom in an inner city public school that is so out - of - control that no one learns.

Distributed more than 46,824 to schools across the U.S. Supported more than 26 inner city public school districts» music programs.

Eager to learn more about the comparisons and contrasts between the two societies, I decided to take another gap year in order to volunteer in an inner city public school.

Volume I, Number 1 Waldorf Education in an Inner City Public School System — Research Report Encounters in Waldorf Education — A Tribute to Ernst Boyer — Eugene Schwartz Waldorf Education Research Institute in North America — Susan Howard and Douglas Sloan

Waldorf education in an inner city public school: The Urban Waldorf School of Milwaukee.

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

Not exact matches

«Inner - city public schools are a disaster.»

A vast majority of both inner - city poor and advantaged whites agreed that school choice would be «especially helpful to low - income kids, because their public schools tend to have the most problems.»

These inner - city Catholic schools are «public schools» in the best sense of the term; they're open to the public (not just to Catholics), and they serve a genuine public interest, the empowerment of the youthful poor.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

She has served as an educator and instructional leader in inner - city public, bilingual and charter schools.

Positive relationships between parent school involvement and public school inner city preschoolers» development and academic performance.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.

They go to a public place in their neighbourhood, and for most of them, especially in inner city constituencies, voting may be their only cause to visit their local school or community centre.

In 1994, her daughter, Pamela Corley, set up a nonprofit at the family home called the Parents Information Network «to disseminate information to parents and others regarding the inner workings of the New York City public - school system.»

Residential areas and Zongos, the Central Business District, including the inner city periphery, markets and lorry parks, university campuses, schools and hospitals, and beaches and public places of entertainment and tourist centres are all going to elicit special attention.»

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

As part of the broader Generating Genius program, Richards facilitated and hosted a school challenge at ICL that paired pupils from inner city schools and Eton College, the prestigious public school, to help them understand different approaches to learning by solving science and engineering - based challenges together.

The program was piloted in five public inner - city elementary schools in Denver, Colo. and three in Hartford, Ct. during the 2013 - 14 school year.

SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14 - year - old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents» relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

The Dublin - set feature follows 14 year - old Conor (Ferdia Walsh - Peelo) who is looking for a break from his parents» strained relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust at the inner - city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher.

The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working - and middle - class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

Consultant for inner - city public school districts, specializing in customized models and solutions based on the assets of the particular districts / cities

The second, Martinez v. Malloy (led by the legal team behind Vergara v. California), contends that, in Connecticut, «inner - city children are compelled to attend public schools that the state knows have been failing its students for decades.»

But the bottom line seems to be that for inner city students, charter schools offer some systematic long - term improvement, which accounts for the long - waiting lists of students desperate to escape the public school monopoly.

They also seem to be willing to accept some propositions with highly circumscribed causal contingency — for instance, that reducing class size increases achievement (provided that it is a «sizable» change and that the reduction is to fewer than 20 students per class); that Catholic schools are superior to public ones in the inner - city but not in suburban settings.

Sara Mead, a member of the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board and a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, adds that charters find it easier to fend off critics by operating in the inner cities rather than in the suburbs.

L.A. Unified has been losing students at a rapid clip since 2008, when five charter - management organizations — Green Dot, Aspire, Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), Alliance College - Ready Public Schools, and Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools (ICEF)-- announced major expansion plans.

Armed with this shared belief and the confidence that they could lead, Feinberg and Levin launched KIPP as a 5th - grade public school program in inner - city Houston, Texas.

«The studies that I'm familiar with say that the inner - city parochial schools, which spend much less per child on education, do a better job than the public schools that spend much more,» said Scalia, adding «so I just don't think it follows that... more money [will] solve the difficulty that the people of Cleveland found with their public schools.»

Citing studies of both evangelical Christian private schools and inner - city public schools, Levine noted that classrooms are often rich with political and ideological diversity.

The organization, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with shortages of credentialed teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.

All were privately funded; all were targeted at students from low - income families, most of whom lived in the inner city; all provided only partial vouchers, expecting the families to supplement them; and all of the students in the evaluations previously had been attending public schools.

But Moe is careful to note that a more «benign» interpretation exists: that inner - city whites who choose private schools simply don't value diversity as much as do whites who see diversity as a strong reason to stay in the public schools.

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

In return, graduates pledge to teach in the local inner - city public schools for at least three years.

Is this school really more «public» than an inner - city Catholic school serving poor minority children?

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Syscity high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Sschool in the Oklahoma City Public School SysCity Public School SSchool System.

Programs like Teach for America and New Leaders for New Schools have introduced a new generation of talented educators into inner - city public sSchools have introduced a new generation of talented educators into inner - city public schoolsschools.

Thus the Washington charters offer encouraging news for those concerned primarily with ensuring that inner - city children have viable alternatives to failing public schools.

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.»

One may argue that public schools in the inner city are now doing such a poor job that the increase in the opportunity to choose only means that some will escape and raise their educational achievement.