Sentences with phrase «school in a rural town»

In 2003 Baimbridge College, a P - 12 coeducational government school in the rural town of Hamilton, introduced the Standing Tall mentoring program for «at risk» students.

This book, based on a little school in a rural town of Minnesota, describes the creation of and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do.

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

This is most likely in small - town and rural congregations where allegiance to the Sunday School is still more powerful.

Schools tended to be located physically in rural settings or small towns.

Such schools tend to be placed physically in rural or small town settings.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

These schools exist in large cities and small towns, suburbs and rural enclaves.

We want the people in the rural areas to see their areas being developed, good schools should be built, modern towns should be built, there should be water for them to drink and there should be electricity.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

Horseheads High School is a public institution for secondary education (grades 9 — 12) in the rural town of Horseheads, New York.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studIn the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

The setting is a rural Texas town in 1976, on the last day of school.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areaIn Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

Pernell is aware that teachers with his educational background are not the norm in schools in small, rural, working - class towns like York.

City schools also were twice as likely to report serious violent crime compared with rural and schools in towns; however, there was not much difference in the amount of serious crimes in schools located in urban fringe areas, according to the NCES Annual Report on School Safety — 1998.

Born in 1915 and 1914, respectively, they both grew up in Mississippi — my father in the small rural town of Utica, where his parents both taught at a boarding school, the only school for blacks within a 200 - mile radius; and my mother in Vicksburg, where her father was an Episcopal priest and her mother a schoolteacher.

Grier grew up in Fairmont, a rural town that was so small, he laughs, «Our high school football team didn't have enough players to scrimmage.»

«So, I took the royalties from the first edition of my book, In the Middle, and I cashed in my teacher retirement and built this small school in a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I livIn the Middle, and I cashed in my teacher retirement and built this small school in a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I livin my teacher retirement and built this small school in a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I livin a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I livin rural Maine, which is near where I live.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

One of the three lawyers representing 36 rural school districts and several individuals that sued the state in 1993, Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have spent the past 16 months arguing in this small - town...

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havIn this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havin rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havin severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

Economically disadvantaged rural and small - town children do a lot better than their city counterparts in learning what they are taught in school, but schooling is not enough.

Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?

He ignores the fact that, overall, central - city schools out - spend the typical suburban school, to say nothing of those in small towns and rural areas (see Figure 1).

Whether you found it in a rural town, a major city, or a sprawling suburb, you could say for certain a number of things about that school.

Students who graduate from high schools located in the South or in a rural community or small town are less likely to attend college than their peers in other settings.

Using Census Bureau classifications, we group students into three categories according to the location of the school they attended in 3rd grade: 1) a large or midsize city, 2) suburbia (specifically, the urban fringe of a large or midsize city), and 3) towns and rural areas.

This table presents the results of a nationwide analysis, breaking down schools as located in one of three categories — city, suburb, and town / rural.

Would we get a «dynamic marketplace» in the exurbs, small towns, and rural locales, or even less support for those schools than they get now?

But choice, save for the virtual kind, is harder to make work in spread out suburbs, small towns, and rural areas, where one seldom has workable access to multiple schools.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo.In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo.in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo.in New York State and their propo...

Schools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan disSchools in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and included four rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan disschools from three large metropolitan districts.

In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterIn fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charterin the world of New York charters.

The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are not enough students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.

High school Graduation is an important milestone in the life of every student, but graduating seniors in Morenci, a rural mining town...

Trump's secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, supports vouchers, virtual schools, and other education policies that will harm students in rural areas and small towns.

higher for students attending schools in suburban locations than for students in cities, towns, and rural locations.

To Turn Challenges into Opportunities, a Rural District Goes Open The newly hired superintendent of schools in a small, rural Illinois town was faced with two challeRural District Goes Open The newly hired superintendent of schools in a small, rural Illinois town was faced with two challerural Illinois town was faced with two challenges.

Hundreds of our communities across the «Black Belt» of the South still have never addressed the type of segregation that occurs when white families flock to private schools in majority - black small towns and rural communities.

While the national focus is often on the poor performance of urban schools, rural and many small - town schools perform significantly worse than urban schools in many cases.

The schools studied were primarily in rural and small - town districts, with no schools in urban areas.

The school has campuses in both the rural town of Oswego and the city of Syracuse, in New York.

They were promoted as a way for students in isolated rural schools to tap into advanced classes not offered in their towns, or for students at risk of dropping out to make up credits.

Schools and community groups based in smaller towns and rural communities, however, often do not regard public colleges and universities — which might be 50 or 100 miles away — as a resource for starting up, expanding, or improving afterschool and summer learning programs or for assisting them with their 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Likewise, many colleges and universities also may not see the potential for an afterschool partnership with schools and community groups in small towns and rural areas.

The 11 project schools were from eight different school districts spread across a rural area in the southeastern U.S.; an eastern city; two small towns in the Midwest; a large city in the Midwest; and a large city in the southwestern U.S..

In rural southern Iowa, the town of Leon is home to 2,000 people, a popular annual rodeo, and a school system that has emerged as a beacon of teacher leadership.

«And while urban areas and high schools typically have the largest percentage of students missing school, the problem also exists in rural, town and suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.»