Sentences with phrase «struggling urban high school»

This is not your average struggling urban high school.

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The Union Square's Washington Irving High School, Murray Hill's Unity Center for Urban Technologies, Chelsea Career and Tech Ed High School and the Bread and Roses Integrated High School in Harlem are among 33 struggling schools city - wide where the new evaluation systems will be introduced.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

• Despite our national struggle to create high - performing nonselective - admissions urban high schools, six D.C. charter high schools made Tier - 1 status.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

We have these school divisions and the urban areas have [high populations] and obviously big school divisions, but the rural divisions have struggled to maintain a variety of course offerings to high school students in their really small schools.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

The Sue Duncan Center was attended by kids from elementary to high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.

All that said, Chicago isn't the only urban school district in the nation struggling with the demands of educating a large number of high - need students.

If some of your schools are located in an urban - like environment — or your school board is struggling to educate a high - needs student population — then your school board can benefit from the educational opportunities and focus of CUBE.

Like Chicago, these urban districts — such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis and Cleveland — are struggling to figure out the role of failing neighborhood high schools that have been on life support for decades.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create obstacles to learning.

For fifty years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based school programs to support students who live in poverty or other circumstances that create serious obstacles to learning.

The Struggle to Pass Algebra I in Urban High Schools: Online vs. Face - to - Face Credit Recovery for At - Risk Students

Engaging Schools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalSchools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalschools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other challenges.

As the literacy coach at Oceanside High School, an urban school in Oceanside, California, I worked with reading support teachers who witnessed firsthand the struggles of students who had not mastered the fundamentals of reSchool, an urban school in Oceanside, California, I worked with reading support teachers who witnessed firsthand the struggles of students who had not mastered the fundamentals of reschool in Oceanside, California, I worked with reading support teachers who witnessed firsthand the struggles of students who had not mastered the fundamentals of reading.

An urban high school creates a reading support class for 9th graders struggling with reading comprehension.

Struggling schools — whether they be urban or rural, high - poverty or not — must improve.

With urban and rural education struggling mightily, it is incumbent on policymakers to help replicate the high - performing schools and provide parents with access to better information so they can make more informed choices.»

Especially in high - poverty urban schools, where kids often struggle with reading, teachers spend hours every day on these skills and don't teach history or science in any systematic way.

Especially in high - poverty urban schools, where kids often struggle with reading, teachers spend hours every day on these skills and don't teach history or... [Read more...]

Charter supporters say the system meets demand for high - quality education that regularly arises in economically distressed parts of the city, paving the way for innovation in a struggling urban school system.

For fifty years, the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - basUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) has been at the forefront in helping urban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - basurban school districts in their work to close the achievement gap, raise high school graduation rates, provide intervention services to academically struggling students, and create broad - based...