Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods with»

Looking at race, elementary school neighborhoods with low African American populations are likely to have higher boundary participation rates than neighborhoods with high African American populations.

For a long time, Tennessee limited its charter schools to serving low - income students, meaning that most have been located in neighborhoods with concentrated poverty.

Affluent families could afford to buy homes in expensive neighborhoods with high - quality schools.

Notably, many of the neighborhoods with small or growing African American populations are also located in the Wilson HS boundary, which reinforces our primary finding (see Figure 12).

Wealthier families had the money to buy expensive houses in neighborhoods with better schools — we didn't.

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

Join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute on May 23 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. ET for a summary of Fordham's new study, Charter School Deserts: High - Poverty Neighborhoods with Limited Educational Options.

The studies examined schools that scored well on standardized or criterion - referenced tests while serving students from inner - city areas or neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status.

The neighborhoods with the highest opt - out levels are economically advantaged, generally well - performing and predominately white.

Since the relaxing of discipline, Broward youths have not only brazenly punched out their teachers, but terrorized Broward neighborhoods with drive - by shootings, gang rapes, home invasions and carjackings.

No, their kids get to go to cool magnets and the better schools in town, because THEY DO N'T ACTUALLY LIVE IN NEIGHBORHOODS WITH HIGH NUMBERS OF LATINO FAMILIES.

The culprit is the overreliance on property taxes to fund local public schools, which helps rich neighborhoods with high property values have better public schools than do poor areas.

This is particularly true among families that can not afford private school tuition or homes in neighborhoods with better schools,» said Jeremiah Grace, Connecticut State Director for the Northeast Charter Schools Network.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

The scores, along with an accompanying number ranking schools across the state from 1 10, were promoted by web sites like GreatSchools.org, and became a marketing tool for real estate agents to sell houses in neighborhoods with «good» schools.

Also, most of the younger students who enrolled in the MOOCs belonged to neighborhoods with 38 % higher median income than average American neighborhoods.

Because students move frequently, including to neighborhoods with higher - performing zoned district schools, I consider each student's district school to be the first school where they are enrolled.

In fact, prior research has shown that refugees, and recent immigrants in general, are more likely to settle in neighborhoods with larger shares of immigrants from their country of origin.

These five schools were located in neighborhoods with some of the highest retention rates in the city (after the promotion policy took effect), and they had large percentages of minority and poor students.

Nieves alluded to the importance of acknowledging students who live under adverse conditions from low - income neighborhoods with limited community resources.

Granted operational management in 2013 of six long - standing Pre-K to 8th grade schools in the South Bronx and Harlem, we are committed to providing students in historically underserved neighborhoods with the academic preparation, faith, values, and skills they need to excel in school and in life.

Charter - school advocates say the shift in resources is warranted because charters often excel where traditional schools have failed, posting stellar test scores even in impoverished neighborhoods with little history of academic success.

Granted operational management in 2013 of six long - standing Pre-K to 8th grade schools in the South Bronx and Harlem, the Partnership is committed to providing students in historically underserved neighborhoods with the academic preparation, values, faith, and skills they need to excel.

Beginning 40 years ago, a series of court rulings forced states to reallocate money for education, giving more to schools in poor neighborhoods with less in the way of local resources.

This is so senior teachers can choose the schools they believe are the best workplaces — most often schools in nicer neighborhoods with students from higher - income families — while newer teachers with no seniority rights and fewer choices tend to work in more disadvantaged schools serving poorer students.

Students Map Neighborhoods With GIS Geographic Information Systems (GIS), mapping and analysis software employed by the U.S. government, NASA, and other agencies, now is helping students locate and document hazards in their communities.

Among current projects, I am excited about a demonstration project working with community - based organizations to saturate neighborhoods with information and supports around the Fundamental Five early childhood caregiving practices that I mentioned earlier.

Per capita preschool supply is fully 50 percent greater in neighborhoods with highly educated parents, relative to communities dominated by poorly educated families.

Massachusetts neighborhoods with high proportions of non-English speaking Latino families have the lowest preschool supply of any ethnic group.

Furthermore, schools serving students from neighborhoods with the highest crime rates and the fewest social resources predominantly serve African American students; thus, most of the schools in Chicago where students and teachers report the lowest levels of safety serve a majority African American student population.

In Chicago, residents of neighborhoods where Catholic schools closed had «less cohesive and more disorderly communities than residents of neighborhoods with open Catholic schools.»

About how, in neighborhoods with so little social capital, so few functioning institutions and places of authority, those schools give hope and structure to their kids that they yearn for.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

Written by Suzanne Goldsmith, whose last book was A City Year: On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods With 12 Community Service Volunteers, the aarr project includes chapters on writing activities,...

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

DuBois joined 21 online dating services to craft his project, called «A More Perfect Union,» which maps the entire United States, replacing the names of towns, cities and neighborhoods with the words people use most on matchmaker sites to say who they are and who they want to be with.

«Even if you stick to your city, you'll meet new people in different neighborhoods with different routines than you», says Michael Cunningham, PhD, a professor at the University of Lousiville.

Growing up we lived in older neighborhoods with huge trees which meant huge piles of leaves each fall.

And although a 2008 study discovered that eating out doesn't necessarily cause weight gain, people who live in neighborhoods with more fast - food restaurants have a higher risk of obesity than individuals who have a higher per capita of sit - down options.

The 14.5 - mile trail is also practical: It connects residential neighborhoods with schools and business district, and is popular among students and commuters.

Different racial and ethnic groups also eat different diets, live in neighborhoods with more or less pollution, experience different levels of poverty, and are more or less likely to smoke tobacco, all of which could also impact their health outcomes.

Affluent neighborhoods with lawns — and occasionally swimming pools — use up to 10 times more water than neighborhoods with higher density housing with less landscaping, according to a Portland State University study.

By looking at the changes in healthy food availability in a sample of food stores in the city of Baltimore between 2006 and 2012, researchers found that corner stores, particularly in neighborhoods with large numbers of black residents, were modestly but significantly more likely to carry a larger number of those healthful choices.

Previous research (pdf) has found support for both these theories, such as a study earlier this year showing that neighborhoods with more food and soft drink outdoor advertising had higher rates of obesity.

Increases in healthy food were greatest in corner stores and in neighborhoods with a majority of black residents.

«Our findings indicate that stores that carry a limited variety of food may be more receptive to stocking healthier food than previously thought, particularly within neighborhoods with a majority of black residents.

When immigrant parents live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of people from their same ethnic background, their babies weigh less than those of Canadian - born parents.

New Jersey neighborhoods with a majority of black residents are on average twice as close as other neighborhoods to major industrial sources of air pollution, the researchers found, and more likely to be near busy highways that produce high concentrations of harmful particulate matter.

Teenagers are much more likely to take up smoking if they live in neighborhoods with a large number of shops that sell tobacco products, a study suggests.