Sentences with phrase «other urban school»

Like other urban school districts, Philadelphia has its islands of excellence.

But a small number of other urban school districts are much further along, and they're beginning to show results that ought to persuade many others to follow suit.

Additional data collection is especially important for understanding the prevalence of chronic early absence in rural and suburban areas as well as other urban school districts.

But unlike Connecticut's statewide data and the results from other urban school distrticts, the SBAC achievement results at Achievement First charter schools had incredible fluctuations between grade levels — differences that suggest that students in some grades may of had some «assistance» filling in the answers.

They tap the resources of these organizations and seek out the best practices and solutions that other urban school districts have discovered.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

Baltimore City, whose scores were released along with 20 other urban school districts, also had disappointing results.

The results put the district far behind other urban school districts, and behind even other midwestern industrial cities like Cleveland and Chicago (see Figure 2).

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

More than 1,200 teachers have graduated from the program, and an ongoing assessment reveals that only 10 percent of graduates leave teaching after three years, compared to more than half in most other urban schools.

Not exact matches

«Next year, we want to expand to work with both charters and traditional district schools in other urban regions.»

There are no shortage of issues that I hope will be the focus of debate in this election (urban sprawl, inner city schools, regional amalgamation, and others that I plan to write about over the next six months), but the one issue that may have the potential to create a major wave is the Katz Group «s desire to have the City of Edmonton to fund $ 400,000,000 for a new downtown arena.

His church and ours, along with some other ministries here in the city, collaborate to do an urban high school camp every summer.

You've told us that Carpinteria is «an example of what other schools can do,» so how can I get my huge urban school district to serve food just like that?»

L.A. Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday to ban the purchase of chickens that have been raised with antibiotics.

Like many large, urban school districts, Houston ISD does almost all of its cooking at a huge central kitchen, with the food then trucked to our 300 individual schools for reheating and other final preparation.

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.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon and Urban Valet Dry Cleaners invite local high school girls to «shop» for a free dress for their prom or other special occasion.

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.

He said the team would visit 10 schools in the urban and rural areas of the state to inspect the impact of the free school feeding programme of the state as well as other education intervention.

Berky earned her Bachelor's degree in Art History from SUNY Stony Brook and two Master's degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation: one in Urban Planning and the other in Real Estate Development.

De Blasio said Wednesday that the city's test scores beat out increases seen in the state's other «Big 5» urban school districts and stressed that the city is closing its performance gap with schools across the state in general.

Major universities located in urban areas with other top - level schools are not actively recruiting dual - career couples, unless it is to secure a star in a certain field, Nerad said.

The study is the first of its kind to examine the effect of Experience Corps, a national volunteer service program that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.

More than any other school show, it attempted to reflect the realities of an urban classroom during years of radical change.

While it is reasonable to extrapolate the findings to other urban students who are similar to New York City applicants, we would argue against these results being applied to students who differ substantially from applicants to the charter schools.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

This incredible organization uses technology to connect students in urban schools to compete in slams with students in other cities.

Other than that basic commonality, the schools were very different — some were big, some small, some urban, some rural, some were high - tech, some were low - tech, some integrated, some racially and economically isolated.

The fact that 72.6 percent of Ohio's charter schools operate in urban areas likely has something to do with the fact that the state's suburbs continue to opt out of enrolling students from other districts.

As with many other public schools in urban districts, Wildwood has been up against some tough resource challenges:

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

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.

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Other urban districts, including Denver, Hartford, New York, and Spring Branch in Houston, have also embraced a school portfolio strategy with meaningful cross-sector collaboration.

One similarity that they all share that's no longer a requirement in some of the other leadership programs, or in any of the programs that have been developed outside of colleges, is that USP students have taught in urban public schools.

Working closely with existing programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, such as the Urban Superintendents Program and the Teacher Education Program, the Center will draw on the intellectual resources of other professional schools and faculties at Harvard University.

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.

Its impressive «Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education Schools That Work» series, in which Edutopia throws all of its multimedia resources into detailed coverage of an individual school, recently featured YES Prep, an urban charter - school network often mentioned in the same breath with KIPP, Achievement First, and other «no excuses» schools championed by advocates of test - driven education schools championed by advocates of test - driven education reform.

While the book pointed out how urban schools fell far short of the egalitarian dream, Tyack, unlike other revisionists, did not condemn reformers, schools, or teachers.

While 15 of the 25 students will work in an urban school district or state department of education, others will be at a range of well - established and startup education organizations.

Specifically, I pointed out that gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee's tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts participating in the assessment in 8th grade math and in 4th grade reading and math.

Among other things, he will teach a course about systemic reform in urban schools.

HGSE has a stronger commitment to urban education than the other schools I applied to, and it shows strongly in my leadership program especially.

Kamras: I wish people knew — and believed unequivocally — that children in urban schools are just as capable as any other children in this nation.

«Even though the law says a lot about parent involvement, parents are usually on the other end of one - way communication,» said Lauren E. Allen, the senior program director for accountability at the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, based in Chicago...

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»