Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by
serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.
Not exact matches
Havelock
Middle School has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in sc
School has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program,
served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the
school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in sc
school received a $ 1500 No
Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in
schools.
But when viewed against the entire array of what's
served by the district — the amount of processed, prepackaged food, the predominance of «
kid food» like chicken nuggets and hamburgers, the sub-par «a la carte» offerings (especially at the
middle and high
school levels)-- these improvements don't seem terribly significant.
Like in France, with all elementary
school kids (up to
middle school) just being
served what is on the menu for that day.
I was entertained by the menus on this season's
kid episode, disappointed that they were
serving a
middle school audience.
Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that
serves both elementary and
middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for
kids.
The bus can hold 25
kids at a time and has
served about 5,000 students at the district's elementary and
middle schools, as well as in neighboring districts in the county.
My initial approach to
serving elementary
kids living in poverty was similar to how I'd approached
middle school students.
Under his leadership, KIPP: MA has grown from operating one
middle school in Lynn
serving nearly 370
kids and families in grades 5 - 8 to a network of 4
schools in Lynn and Boston currently
serving over 850
kids and families in kindergarten and grades 5 - 12.
This
school is a nonprofit, independent charter
school in the
middle of an urban area that
serves the most diverse group of
kids in the state.
Of all the
schools in the top category of the SPF, traditional (i.e. neighborhood - enrollment)
schools dominate the early grades (mainly elementary); however every «blue» (distinguished, the highest ranking)
school serving predominantly
middle or high -
school kids is a charter.
That's just slightly higher than the 22 percent Algebra 1 course - taking rate for
middle -
schoolers in nearby D.C. Public
Schools and lower than the 43 percent rate for
kids in Alexandria's district, both of which
serve mostly poor and minority populations.
Aren't we in the
middle of a renaissance of inequity, opening Magnet after Charter after Magnet, thus weakening the Traditional
schools that inevitably
serve the most vulnerable, the least literate, the least motivated, and the least advantaged
kids?
The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida
school serving mostly -
middle class
kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in
school serving poor
kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.