Sentences with phrase «serving middle class students»

47 % of charter schools serving middle class students perform worse than similar schools.

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Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

I agree it is Wholefoods disciples pushing for excessively expensive school foods be served to all students (much of which they only toss in the garbage) to be paid for with increasing tax dollars from middle and lower class taxpayers.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

Flanders serves about 460 students in grades kindergarten through four, mostly from middle - class families.

With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle - class families enters the lottery.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Is that focus appropriate or should we have a broader aim, including better serving middle - class and affluent students, too?

For - profit stand - alone school Franz Liszt Nº 784 serves 240 students in Maipú, a middle - class municipality in Santiago.

And to what extend should charters focus exclusively on poor kids and low achievers versus serving a more diverse population, including gifted students and middle - class kids with specialized curricula?

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Caterpillar Corner believes making tutorial services affordable for low - income, middle - class families, and serving students with learning disabilities will increase educational performance in the classroom and make for a brighter future for all.

In addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private education.

A WBEZ investigation found that Chicago's new school construction and additions disproportionately benefit schools that serve white, middle class students, even though white students are far less likely to suffer overcrowded schools than Latino students, whose schools do not see the benefit of capital spending.

Writes Gary Howard (2002), «Whether the measure is grades, test scores, attendance, discipline referrals, drop - out or graduation rates, those students who differ most from mainstream White, middle / upper class, English speaking America, are also most vulnerable to being mis - served by our nation's schools.»

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four, serving more than 10,000 students.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four participating districts, serving more than 10,000 students.

For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.

«From my many years of experience, it's often the students in the «big middle» of the class that go on to be great lawyers and serve society.

Severn River Middle School, Location 2001 — 2002 Music Instructor and Computer Science Instructor Tutored students on computers, general music classes, chorus, and served as the assistant director for Jazz Band, Cadet Band, and Concert Band.

During a 90 - minute self - defense class, Rossi taught O'Connor and several other students from the real estate industry — six women and one man, all middle - aged — to serve up hammer fists, eye pokes, and kicks to the groin.