Sentences with phrase «many urban high school students»

About 75 percent of urban high school students attended schools of that size.

The school, which is located in the southwest quadrant of Dallas, Texas, serves 424 urban high school students who are first - generation college attendees.

9 Robert Cooper and Suzanne Markoe - Hayes, Improving the Educational Possibilities of Urban High School Students as They Transition from 8th to 9th Grade, University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity, September 2005 Url: http://ucaccord.gseis.ucla.edu/publications/pubs/pb-013-0905.pdf

She describes classrooms that successfully engage at - risk, urban high school students in personal meaning making.

These may be elementary schools where students do not come with the array of discipline problems that are characteristic of many urban high school students.

The cooperating college professor reported that this experience helped dispel stereotypes his teacher education students had held about urban high school students.

One study showed that urban high school students were 21 times more likely to access mental - health services in a school health center than a free - standing center.

His passion for reaching urban high school students through innovative teaching practices led to his receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching in 2011.

This program examined the ways urban high school students benefit from and utilize school - to - work programs, with an exploration of class differences on work relationships and overall experience.

A Preliminary Investigation into Critical Thinking Skills of Urban High School Students: Role of an IT / STEM Program

The sample was drawn from a longitudinal study (12 waves; 1994 — 2012) of 676 (54 % female) urban high school students.

Not exact matches

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

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 stanschool 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 stanschool lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal stanSchool Lunch Program meal standards.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

Hunter is the mother of a high school student, which she says gives her insights into issues an urban district faces.

The Buffalo Public School District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school stuSchool District and SUNY Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teacher Academy for high school stuschool students.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school stuSchool District and Buffalo State have launched the city's first - ever Urban Teachers Academy for high school stuschool students.

The Urban Youth Collaborative's 28 - page report, complete with charts, statistics, footnotes and an executive summary, shows that the roughly 33,000 students in the 21 high schools that have completed their phase - outs since 2000 had exceptionally high drop - out and discharge rates.

More than 90 % of urban students finish high school.

Giving special treatment to young urban black males in the high school classroom runs the risk of shortchanging these students academically once they get to college, indicates a new study by a Michigan State University education scholar.

The Urban Barcode Research Program (UBRP), is an initiative to engage high school students to study biodiversity in NYC supported by the Pinkerton Foundation.

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 buiSchool 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 buischool with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

America's urban public schools are in trouble: Student test scores are low and dropout rates are high.

Chicago, Rochester Offer Flexible Graduation Options Two urban school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will allow students to graduate from high school in three, four, or five years.

For example, it is possible that the oft - discussed challenges some students from high - performing urban schools experience in college (see ««No Excuses» Kids Go to College,» features, Spring 2013) stem in part from deficits in fluid cognitive skills.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaSchool districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaschool open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

Seidel knew he had similarly reached other students, but by the time he departed eight years later after funding was cut, South Boston High School was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuSchool was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuschool comprising about 900 students.

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.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

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.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Urban charter schools are another exception: They yield strongly positive outcomes for low - income and minority students despite high rates of teacher and principal turnover.

Recently released reports from both the Urban Institute and the Manhattan Institute have highlighted the toll of this failure on our young people: Nationwide, one - third of high school students will fail to graduate, and...

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

And unlike many urban schools where teachers spend the bulk of the day on scripted lessons, drilling classes on basic skills for high - stakes tests, LACES teachers spend very little time prepping students for California's state tests.

Typically, urban and rural schools serving poor and minority students have the highest turnover rates, and as a result they have the highest percentages of first - year teachers, the highest percentages of teachers with fewer than five years of teaching experience, the lowest paid teachers, and the lowest percentages of accomplished teachers.

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.

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.

His most recent publications include «African - American Parents» Orientations towards Schools» (with K. Williams Gomez; in press) in Education and Urban Society; «High - Stakes Accountability in Urban Elemenatary Schools» (with J. Spillane; in press) in Teachers College Record; «Teachers» Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning» (with A. Randolph and J. Spillane; in press) in Anthropology and Education Quarterly; and «Towards a Theory of School Leadership» (with J. Spillane and R. Halverson; in press) in Journal of Curriculum Studies.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

We have these school divisions and the urban areas have [high populations] and obviously big school divisions, but the rural divisions have struggled to maintain a variety of course offerings to high school students in their really small schools.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Before entering high school, most Urban Prep students didn't know anybody who went to college, and now they see their mainly black, male teachers and staff as college graduate role models who reflect their image.