The club
offers urban students an opportunity to participate in activities that are fun, educational and physically active.
Not exact matches
The top - rated University
offers access to an
urban campus,
student development opportunities, and athletic activities.
Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of
Urban and Labor Studies» at the CUNY that will
offer more courses to union workers and other
students wanting to learn about labor issues.
Gov. Cuomo stuffed a $ 1.5 million line item into his election - year budget to create a new «School of
Urban and Labor Studies» at the City University of New York that will
offer more courses to union workers and other
students wanting to learn about labor issues.
Whether
students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities &
Urban Studies at Aalborg University
offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.
The MSc programme
offers each
student a creative combination of problem - based learning (PBL) and realistic projects with «hands - on» challenges that equip the
student to address challenges pertaining to e.g. climate change, temporary
urban development projects,
urban mobility, projects and strategies of the culture city, the
urban landscape and city growth.
Many programs, including TBB,
offer need - based scholarships, but accessing those funds requires both information and guidance, a tall order in
urban schools where a single college counselor can have 700
students on his or her caseload.
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.
The Olympics
offer teachers the opportunity to enthuse
students in a number of different subjects, including sustainability,
urban design, healthy eating, regeneration and sports studies
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.
Their
urban school systems don't
offer (or greatly restrict) gifted - and - talented programs; they mandate «heterogeneous» groupings of
students and tell teachers to do their best meeting a panoply of diverse needs using «differentiated instruction.»
Now in its third year of
offering bonuses to experienced teachers to transfer to struggling schools, the Hamilton County (Tennessee) school district, which includes
urban Chattanooga, has seen
student scores soar in their neediest schools.
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.
Price
offers examples of ways a community can motivate
students in
urban schools, including assemblies, book - reading contests, and community - based honor societies.
In a speech Thursday to the National
Urban League in Washington, the president
offered a rebuttal to such criticism, saying the steps the program encourages states to take, including lifting caps on charter schools and using
student data to inform teacher evaluation, are the right ones.
The unique doctorate in education leadership,
offered in partnership with faculty from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares
students to lead large and influential organizations, from
urban school districts to charter networks to state systems.
At Blackstone Valley Prep, analysis of the suburban and
urban students» scores on the 2013 state exams measuring proficiency in reading and math
offers 80 different snapshots, by grade, subject and family income, with Blackstone
students faring better than their peers on nearly all.
Given the
student demographics and the
urban environment, the Boston Public Schools system
offers an extraordinary diversity of cultures, ethnicities, class backgrounds, and types of learners.
Urban Scholars takes a comprehensive approach to serving its
students,
offering afterschool classes and tutoring, a seven - week intensive summer program at UMass Boston, and individualized college counseling and career awareness.
Harvard's Teacher Education Program (TEP)
offers its candidates a carefully crafted curriculum grounded in fieldwork and coursework, practice and reflection, and attention to the teaching skills needed to provide
students attending
urban schools with the best education possible.
These people
offered thoughtful, nuanced perspectives on the issues facing our
students in
urban communities: these perspectives helped to elevate thinking and provide a platform for exploring measures by which to enact sustained, productive changes both in and beyond the classroom.»
We
offer pathways to success to
urban students who otherwise might not have access to both formal arts training and a college preparatory education.
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.
In
urban schools learning is
offered in disconnected jolts.The work of the day is unconnected with the work of preceding days or subsequent ones.Life in
urban schools is comprised of specific periods and discrete days each of which is forced to stand entirely on its own.If homework is not done, or books not taken home (behaviors which are universal for males and almost so for females by the completion of the upper elementary grades), everything
students are taught must be compressed into isolated periods of «stand alone» days.Teachers and principals, as well as
students, survive one day at a time.
As a guest speaker in Merseth's course — one of the first education classes
offered by Harvard College — he candidly shared stories with undergraduates about the challenge of educating
students in
urban communities, and about what is needed for one to succeed at working in education.
High - needs
urban and rural schools, on the other hand,
offer their teachers extremely challenging
students, unusually poor working conditions, and compensation unresponsive to market conditions even within the teaching profession.
Percentage of schools that had
students enrolled who received Title I services by School has a magnet program, School has special requirements when admitting
students, Percentage of
students who went to a 4 - yr college, Charter school identifier, Four - category level of school based on grade levels
offered, and Collapsed
urban - centric school locale code.
They seemed to
offer a hopeful glimmer of how an
urban district could win out against resistance from teachers unions and community pressures by sticking with
student - centered policies.
Midtown Educational Foundation At MEF, we seek to impact the future of Chicago education by
offering high - quality enrichment opportunities for low - income, at - risk,
urban students and their parents through our unique, holistic approach to after - school and summertime programs at the Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls.
Boston University enjoys longstanding relationships with many
urban and suburban school systems in greater Boston that
offer our
students rewarding field experiences under the guidance of expert teachers and faculty.
Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a
student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district
offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white
students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black
students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino
students» «
urban culture.»
More than 30 state and
urban school leaders have
offered strong statements of support for the Council of Chief State School Officers and the Council of the Great City Schools Commitments on High - Quality Assessments, a series of established principles to guide state leaders and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to
students, parents and teachers.
Serves Kindergarten through 5th Grade Contact: (206) 621-9211 or
[email protected] 914 Virginia Street, Seattle WA, 98101 http://sprucestreetschool.org/ We
offer kindergarten through fifth grade
students highly personalized instruction in an
urban setting.
«Until now, we didn't know if
urban school districts could
offer high - quality summer learning programs for low - income
students and whether they would make a difference for children,» said Will Miller, president of The Wallace Foundation.
Pruitt said while she does not
offer that as an excuse for Gary schools or any
urban school, she said those facts underscore the urgency to alleviate the effects of poverty on children, and help them receive a full range of educational and family services that complement one another to help
students reach their potential.
Our so - called «shopping - mall» high schools were predicated on
offering a vast college style menu of courses; our teachers tend to be focused on raising
student test scores; and metal detectors and police officers characterize many
urban high schools.
When you join our team and family, you join over 700 committed educators
offering world - class education to more than 5,100
students in one of the top
urban charter networks in the country.
These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve
urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to
offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its
students.
Mission: The mission of Legacy Charter School is to
offer a quality, rigorous, and relevant educational program leading to college graduation and empowering under - served
urban students to become productive, fit, principled citizens in a changing society.
Researchers are following
students from the Class of 2012 in three large,
urban school districts that
offer POS.
Communities —
urban or otherwise — can determine their own education needs, and the schools these communities want
offer more than remediation and repair: They recognize the value of traditionally underserved or excluded
students.
The Kindle Classroom Project was created in late 2010 with the goal of
offering a set of donated Kindles to lower - income,
urban students to promote literacy through reading and technology.
Offered each semester, the Social Practice Workshop immerses
students in the discourse of socially engaged practices, providing opportunities to work contextually in a variety of public spaces, including
urban environments and specific regional communities, as well as online social spaces and institutional structures.
For more than three decades, Wave Hill has
offered a paid summer internship program for high school
students, giving them an opportunity to gain hands - on field and academic experience as they learn about
urban ecology.
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO is an
urban institution that
offers innovative degree programs in the visual, performing, media and communication arts for more than 10,000
students in 120 undergraduate and graduate programs.