Sentences with phrase «suburban schools in the study»

In addition to Railside, we included two suburban schools in the study.

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In a pilot project this year in two suburban Atlanta high schools, students earned $ 8 an hour to attend study sessions in math and sciencIn a pilot project this year in two suburban Atlanta high schools, students earned $ 8 an hour to attend study sessions in math and sciencin two suburban Atlanta high schools, students earned $ 8 an hour to attend study sessions in math and sciencin math and science.

Dr. Chris McGee serves the Webster Groves school district located in the St. Louis suburban area as a curriculum coordinator for Science and Social Studies.

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

She's currently conducting a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation that's giving teachers in grades four and five in a suburban Boston school the tools to conduct self - evaluations through online videos that model effective math instruction.

University of Illinois Associate Professor Amanda Lewis and HGSE Assistant Professor John Diamond presented research on a suburban school in the Midwest, studying why African American students and Latinos lagged behind white students, even though there was no presence of peer pressure for the minority student to perform worse or be accused of «acting white.»

This project studies the impact of an increased Asian American population alongside increased competition at high schools in wealthy suburban communities.

The study employs 200 in - depth interviews with white, Chinese American, and Indian American students and parents in two wealthy suburban communities — one with a large, growing Asian American population — and ethnographic observations and staff interviews at the local high school in both.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

In the study, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested 250 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in two suburban North Carolina elementary schools at the end of one school year and again at the beginning of the next school yeaIn the study, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested 250 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders in two suburban North Carolina elementary schools at the end of one school year and again at the beginning of the next school yeain two suburban North Carolina elementary schools at the end of one school year and again at the beginning of the next school year.

The study is rooted in analyses of parental behavior in District 4 in Manhattan and in suburban Montclair, New Jersey, with comparisons with neighboring districts that offer limited or no public school choice.

CHICAGO — Desegregation plans that provide for the busing of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types of plans, a new study released here concludes.

New York City's charter schools are making strides in closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged inner - city students and their better - off suburban counterparts, a new study concludes.

Kathy Lineberger, a third - grade teacher at Marvin Ward Elementary School in suburban Winston - Salem, North Carolina, doesn't need to see studies to conclude that children learn better when they get exercise and fresh air.

Recent studies have cast doubt on the value of charter schools in DeVos» home state of Michigan, but an earlier study by Brookings found urban charter schools across the country succeeding even as suburban ones have not.

Dr. Dale is active in a number of professional associations, including the Washington Area School Superintendent's Study Council, American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the National School Board Association, and AASA's Large Countrywide and Suburban District Consortium.

In Ohio, suburban school districts close themselves off from city students, study finds chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017 /

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

Students who won lottery spots in charter schools scored at levels closer to wealthier suburban students, a new study has found.

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.

The Color of Learning: Youth Researchers Tackle the Legacy of Brown (2004) For three years, one hundred inner city and suburban youth researchers and their adult partners at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York have studied how race influences learning in schools across America.

Her study examines principals in diversifying suburban schools as well as their transformative leadership practices used to advocate the elimination of deficit thinking through the promotion of cultural competence and social justice so that all students have equitable educational opportunities in classrooms and on standardized assessments.

When Liz went to work at The Edward Brooke Charter School, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational suSchool, I studied the school and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational suschool and other charter schools in Boston and found high - achieving schools outperforming wealthy suburban towns with kids graduating at high rates and headed on a path of educational success.

Madden et al. (1986a) studied CIRC among 461 third - and fourth - grade students in 21 classes in a suburban Maryland school district.

Stevens et al. (1989) studied CIRC in a sample of 529 students from 29 classes in grades 2 through 6 in a suburban Maryland school district.

Future social studies teachers who are committed to working in urban and suburban schools and with diverse student populations and who are seeking to fulfill academic requirements for an initial teacher license in Massachusetts, which has reciprocity with most other states.

The study looks at class sizes, student - to - teacher, student - to - administrator and teacher - to - administrator ratios in suburban, rural and city school districts, teacher pay and the demographics of teachers between 2009 and 2014, using data from the Department of Public Instruction and school district data from the U.S. Department of Education.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

While the preservice teachers in this study taught in a variety of settings (urban, suburban, and rural), as well as a variety of grade levels and subjects, they faced a consistent challenge in using technology as a tool for learning: lack of access to adequate technology in the K - 12 schools.

In particular, Gabriel's dissertation studies how Latina / o youth navigate their schooling by examining their enactments of identity and efforts to forge community in a predominately white suburban high schooIn particular, Gabriel's dissertation studies how Latina / o youth navigate their schooling by examining their enactments of identity and efforts to forge community in a predominately white suburban high schooin a predominately white suburban high school.

Students in fourth grade from southern California suburban elementary schools participated in the study, which included28 % English Learners, 37 % qualified for Title I services, 8 % eligible for speech and language services, and 5 % with learning disabilities.

MIT education researcher Meredith Thompson shares three vignettes of three different approaches to virtual reality in K — 12: a social studies class in a suburban school district, a district - wide perspective from an urban school district and a class designed entirely around understanding and implementing VR for other classrooms.

In several studies in suburban middle schools, African - American and Latino students were asked during stressful moments to write about things most important to them — their relationships with friends or family or their personal interestIn several studies in suburban middle schools, African - American and Latino students were asked during stressful moments to write about things most important to them — their relationships with friends or family or their personal interestin suburban middle schools, African - American and Latino students were asked during stressful moments to write about things most important to them — their relationships with friends or family or their personal interests.

For example, Kamil and Rausher (1990) conducted a study in which they compared whole class reading instruction with small group teaching in a large suburban school district.

Officials in rural, suburban and urban areas in case study states cited various reasons why restaffing presented major challenges in all types of low - performing schools.

The University of Minnesota study of high schools included four schools in urban, suburban, and rural locations in four states.

She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban BostoIn Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Bostoin a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Bostoin Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Bostoin a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Bostoin suburban Boston.

The study finds that in states with larger proportions of rural SIG schools (in comparison to states with more urban and suburban districts), significantly fewer school leaders reported that replacing principals to meet SIG requirements helped improve student achievement.

Whether or not the variation in AP offerings affects the decision of suburban residents to participate in the New Haven School Choice Placement Process has yet to be studied and could be an important topic for further ethnographic research.

In a four - year, longitudinal study conducted between 2000 and 2004, the author followed 700 students as they progressed through three high schools: a diverse, urban school as well as two suburban schools.

About Blog I teach Writing Workshop, Language Arts and Social Studies to sixth graders at a middle school in suburban New Jersey.

The change process surrounding the introduction of an all - day kindergarten program in a small suburban school district is examined in this case study.

In another study, Frank and research associate at the center Patricia Broderick, who developed the program, found that suburban Philadelphia high school students were less stressed and could better regulate emotions after 15 - to 25 - minute weekly sessions of a mindfulness - based curriculum called Learning to Breathe.

The study included 92 ninth - grade students in four World Civilization social studies classes in a suburban high school in California.