Both communities have seen a significant surge in their youth populations, and the
existing public middle schools do not have enough seats to comfortably serve the growing number of students.
Give a Summer's partnership with
public middle schools shows how these insights can be practically applied by youth - serving organizations to more effectively help students access summer opportunities.
Prior to his work in Pennsylvania and Peru, Levitan received an MA in International Educational Development at Columbia University Teachers College and taught History and English Language Arts in an
urban public middle school in Baltimore City.
Since 2005, Ms. Wong has led BTNY, a nonprofit organization that shepherds low - income, high - achieving students from New York
City public middle schools all the way through college.
Upon graduation from Hollins University, Emily taught special education in traditional
public middle schools for three years.
Between 1970 and 2000, the number
of public middle schools in the U.S. grew more than sevenfold, from just over 1,500 to 11,500.
In a statement following her first visit to a public school as U.S. Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos praises New Leader - led Jefferson Middle School Academy as a «
public middle school on the rise and a great example of the successful collaborative innovations occurring within the D.C. Public Schools system.»
Gil Noam, a developmental psychologist at Harvard Medical School, has addressed these problems by launching the Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth (RALLY) program in selected
Boston public middle schools.
Laura Staich is executive director of All Points North Foundation, a small, private foundation dedicated to measurably improving
public middle school education and teacher training through funding innovation programs in underserved communities in the U.S.
The current study examines the processes and associations discussed above among an ethnically diverse sample of girls from primarily low socioeconomic backgrounds and
attending public middle schools in a large metropolitan area.
We find that, on average, KIPP middle schools admit students who are similar to those in other local schools, and patterns of student attrition are typically no different at KIPP than at
nearby public middle schools.
To compare attrition rates at KIPP middle schools with rates at
other public middle schools, we identified students who left their original schools either during or immediately after each middle school grade.
KIPP schools, which begin in 5th grade, admit a considerable number of new students in grade 6 (the time when
most public middle schools begin) but «the number of new enrollees declines substantially» in 7th and 8th grade.
Established in 2011 in Boston, Mass., APNF is a small, private foundation that supports two distinct priorities in the United States: evidence - based programs that measurably
improve public middle school education and teacher training, and projects that promote solar energy awareness and implementation.
Nan Stein, Ed.D., Senior Research Scientist, and Bruce Taylor, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, NORC at the University of Chicago, discuss the results and implications from the Dating Violence Prevention Programs in
Public Middle Schools research project.
Four - hundred seventy U.S. 6th graders attending... three
public middle schools within the Midwest United States and 731 Taiwanese 7th graders from one middle school in southern Taiwan completed a survey that contained both open - ended questions asking about real - life reports of witnessing peer victimization and a vignette assessing responses to a hypothetical victimization event.
The children of Cynthia Nixon, Samantha Bee and Louis C.K. got into this
popular public middle school, while hundreds of others are shut out every year.
But Spark Academy differs from a
typical public middle school in a big way: Each day, students get three physical activity periods for a total of about two hours of gym.
Through this initiative, students from six local
public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.
On Thursday, April 2, Mott Hall Bridges Academy (MHBA)-- a small,
public middle school established in Brooklyn, New York, in 2010 — brought some 200 scholars and staff to Harvard following a significant fundraising campaign, which raised nearly $ 1.5 million.
Because AAP recommends school start times of 8:30 a.m. or later for both middle schools and high schools, the analyses in this report
include public middle schools, high schools, and schools with combined grades.
When students in a New
Jersey public middle school decided to learn about their community's history of desegregation through a unique language arts and social studies project, no one imagined how powerful the experience would be for everyone involved.
Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Social Movement in Mexican Public Middle Schools
Earlier this month, a trio of proposals were floated that have the potential to directly
affect public middle school admissions in 2018.
KIPP schools dramatically
outperform public middle schools that enroll students of similar demographics, and that's due in large part to the extra instructional time and the intensive teacher training the charter chain invests in.
We are seeing more and more of these students
leaving public middle schools for the private, parochial, and charter schools that they and their parents believe will better accommodate their needs.
Walter Chen, the founding principal of a new Green
Dot public middle school set to open in south Seattle this fall, has a pretty simple...
Join TEP's middle school math department, which has placed in the top 5 in NYC (out of all 373 ranked
NYC public middle schools) for three consecutive years, based on students» long term growth in math from 5th to 8th grade.
Drawing on two years of work with more than 500 students and 200 parents at five Boston
area public middle schools, Give a Summer's work is the most comprehensive, in - depth look to - date at access to summer opportunities in Boston, and can inform the rest of the field.
Since 2008, our students have achieved at the highest levels
among public middle school students in Massachusetts, including when compared to students from wealthier communities.
Ivy Preparatory Academy was originally created to offer families a tuition - free,
public middle school option to students in Gwinnett County and surrounding Metro Atlanta communities.
In the shadow of Apple's headquarters, an initiative
requiring public middle schoolers to use iPads in class and at home has added to a battle over education in the digital age.
BRIDGING THE GAP Before receiving funding in 2010 to open a
small public middle school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City, principal Nadia Lopez envisioned her students crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
The DOJ outlined proposed business practices for Apple in the wake of its e-book lawsuit; a New York City
public middle school removed a Sherman Alexie novel from the classroom; Zadie Smith speaks with the Guardian's book club podcast; and other news.
The Edible Schoolyard program, which began in 1995 at Martin Luther
King public middle school in Berkeley, has inspired growth of garden programs in other communities throughout the county during the past 15 years.The program