Sentences with phrase «suburban area high schools»

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Williamsville, the Buffalo area's largest suburban school district, is tied for the second - highest number of candidates running for School Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara couschool district, is tied for the second - highest number of candidates running for School Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara couSchool Board out of the 37 districts in Erie and Niagara counties.

In contrast to progressive charters in suburban areas, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

The gatherings can be especially relevant for teachers in urban, high - needs areas, where students may be less likely than their suburban peers to have access to coding enrichment outside of school.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

Author Bio: Vann W. Prime teaches Advanced Placement (AP) economics, AP European history, and international relations at Mt. Hebron High School in Howard County Public Schools in the suburban Washington, DC / Baltimore metro area.

Encourage the National Center for Education Statistics to collect data on teacher recruitment and retention that would allow for a comparative analysis of the teacher shortage in states and districts by school level (elementary, middle, high); subject area; geographic region (rural, suburban, urban); gender; and race.

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The percentage of students receiving free and reduced lunch ranged from 8 % in suburban areas to 32 % in the one urban high school.

«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.»

There was a time when bus companies transported kids separately to elementary, middle, and high schools, but when increasing numbers of families started moving to suburban areas in the 1960s and energy prices rose sharply in 1973, bus companies were forced to change their strategy.

Students in schools located in suburban areas compared with those in urban area had a higher risk of DSH.

Field worker observations highlight the importance of kinship ties: «Johnnie's family and history are not contained in a single geographical area but rather in a kinship centered in two neighborhoods differentiated by social class and culture... Johnnie's mother, a beautician, lives in an inner - city St. Louis neighborhood... Johnnie's uncle, who works for the FBI, lives in the suburban middle - class area that surrounds Huntington High School [where Johnnie attends].»

The participating schools were chosen from different regions of Taipei, including urban, suburban and rural areas, and accounted for 11.7 % of all high schools in the Taipei area.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).