Sentences with phrase «other students in their neighborhoods»

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It was totally unsolicited and in a student neighborhood of Boston where very few other customers had heard of Redd Foxx.

If we try to fix the schools in a low - income neighborhood without addressing the other needs of students there, it's not a real solution to the neighborhood's problems.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

Calderon and other Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivors attended a #NeverAgain — as their movement is known — rally this week at Washington's Thurgood Marshall Academy, where two students were killed in separate neighborhood shootings in the last year.

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

«You are never too young to contribute to your neighborhood and to your community,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «We need more young people like the Bronx Youth Corps student volunteers, students who want to be engaged in the world around them and who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

What I also realize because of the background that many students, inner city students or even urban students, like the Hopi reservation or any other, they come from heavily compromised backgrounds, family backgrounds; either it's drugs in the neighborhood or family or single parent homes whatever.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

These included siting schools so that they might draw from demographically distinct neighborhoods and recruitment in neighborhoods of color or in white neighborhoods to create a diverse mix of students, among other possibilities.

These data are a useful starting point, but may be confounded by comparisons to statewide averages instead of to the other schools in these students» neighborhoods as well as the differences in program participation discussed earlier.

The students share a sprawling concrete campus with four other schools in an industrial neighborhood in the shadow of famed Griffith Park.

If students had access to vouchers, then more students would go to school in other neighborhoods and even other cities.

Differ from other neighborhood public schools in that students are not assigned to them based on address.

But if Tucker had read the chapter on Shanghai, he would have found a description of a system by which «students choose schools in other neighborhoods by paying a sponsorship fee.

And at the other end of the age spectrum, diverse high schools located in far - flung parts of Philadelphia hope to have students embark on a walk originating in their own schools and converging at a midpoint in a historic neighborhood.

The children sometimes are surprised to learn that other people in their neighborhood, or even the school building, don't respond to conflict the way they do, but Connections teachers think the training can pass from their students into the smaller and larger worlds in which they circulate.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

Ask students if there are other common names in the school or their neighborhood.

In 2009, Austin Circle Rock students outperformed the other Austin neighborhood schools on the composite (reading, math, and science combined) Illinois Standards Assessment Test (ISAT), with from 68 to 76 percent of students in grades 4 through 8 meeting or exceeding the state standarIn 2009, Austin Circle Rock students outperformed the other Austin neighborhood schools on the composite (reading, math, and science combined) Illinois Standards Assessment Test (ISAT), with from 68 to 76 percent of students in grades 4 through 8 meeting or exceeding the state standarin grades 4 through 8 meeting or exceeding the state standard.

Looking at data from students who lived in the HCZ neighborhood and attended a Promise Academy charter school there, and others who only attended Promise, Fryer and Dobbie found that by eighth grade, both groups had closed the achievement gap in math.

The report, Resegregation in American Schools, published by the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University, found that minorities tend to go to school with other minorities in impoverished neighborhoods and that white students go to schools that remain overwhelmingly white and middle class.

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 commStudents 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 commstudents locate and document hazards in their communities.

Because we have a good relationship with the [elementary] school downstairs and because we have graduates who live in the neighborhood, we can arrange to have other people pick up the students» brothers and sisters.

Such measures may include strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of neighborhood demographics; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.

The value - added measures are designed to provide estimates of the independent effect of the teacher on the growth in a student's learning and to separate this from other influences on achievement such as families, peers, and neighborhoods.

The nearly $ 1 billion in state funding that has left the district, as more than 100,000 students have fled their traditional neighborhood schools in the past decade for charter schools and other school districts?

The Clinton Administration, signaling it will take a strong stand in controversies involving disabled students» desires to be educated with other children, has joined in a California lawsuit involving a mentally retarded girl who wants to attend her neighborhood school.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

Using detailed student - level data to compare what sorts of students enter KIPP as compared to public schools in the neighborhood, and what kinds of students replace those who leave, authors find, on average, that KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools.

In 2007 we interviewed a random sample of parents of MPCP students in grades 3 — 8, all the parents of MPCP 9th graders, and a sample of parents of MPS students who were matched to the sample of MPCP students based on their grade in school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristicIn 2007 we interviewed a random sample of parents of MPCP students in grades 3 — 8, all the parents of MPCP 9th graders, and a sample of parents of MPS students who were matched to the sample of MPCP students based on their grade in school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristicin grades 3 — 8, all the parents of MPCP 9th graders, and a sample of parents of MPS students who were matched to the sample of MPCP students based on their grade in school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristicin school, neighborhood of residence, ethnicity, test - score performance, and other characteristics.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

The school, located in a recreation center in a low - income neighborhood, offers a year - round education to students who have either dropped out of or were asked to leave other schools.

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

In many cases, the community school serves as a neighborhood hub, bringing together educators, families, business leaders, elected officials, and many other local partners to ensure that students have real opportunities to succeed in school and in lifIn many cases, the community school serves as a neighborhood hub, bringing together educators, families, business leaders, elected officials, and many other local partners to ensure that students have real opportunities to succeed in school and in lifin school and in lifin life.

Many distance learning students connect with friends in their neighborhoods, meet others through community organizations, and participate in outings with other online students.

While other factors — families, peers, neighborhoods — are obviously elements in a student's learning, it is the school and particularly the teachers and administrators that are given the public responsibility for the education of our youth.

Equity, when used in education, refers to all students receiving the same caliber of education regardless of the neighborhood they live in or their demographic characteristics, such as their race, ethnicity, special education status or other factors.

While the upcoming round of closures has provoked the usual complaints, the reality is that many students already opt for something other than their neighborhood public school — and charter enrollment is highest in some of the city's neediest neighborhoods.

At a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availability.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

To explore the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and school participation rates, we compare the characteristics of neighborhoods where in - boundary schools draw the highest proportions of students (e.g., those with boundary participation rates above the 75th percentile) to other school neighborhoods.

In other schools, students and community members identify a neighborhood each year to work in together, or all students stage a school musical to inform and entertain the larger neighborhooIn other schools, students and community members identify a neighborhood each year to work in together, or all students stage a school musical to inform and entertain the larger neighborhooin together, or all students stage a school musical to inform and entertain the larger neighborhood.

I share stories about how our school has partnered with other schools and organizations in the neighborhood to share resources because our commitment to Newark's students goes beyond the classroom walls.

Three - quarters of public school students in the District attend a school other than the in - boundary school in their neighborhood, where...

Meanwhile, most students who get placed on waiting lists have no other choice but to attend low performing schools in their local neighborhoods, while they wait to be called.

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

Aspire's mission is to open and operate small, high - quality charter schools in low - income neighborhoods, in order to increase the academic performance of underserved students, develop effective educators, share successful practices with other forward - thinking educators, and to catalyze change in public schools.

In subsequent years she opened more schools, first in Harlem and then in other neighborhoods in the city, and now has a total of 9,000 students in schools in every borough but Staten IslanIn subsequent years she opened more schools, first in Harlem and then in other neighborhoods in the city, and now has a total of 9,000 students in schools in every borough but Staten Islanin Harlem and then in other neighborhoods in the city, and now has a total of 9,000 students in schools in every borough but Staten Islanin other neighborhoods in the city, and now has a total of 9,000 students in schools in every borough but Staten Islanin the city, and now has a total of 9,000 students in schools in every borough but Staten Islanin schools in every borough but Staten Islanin every borough but Staten Island.

When schools are as bad as they are in the inner - city neighborhoods of Detroit, Washington, and a few other large cities, they certainly have a depressing effect on student achievement.