Sentences with phrase «suburban students»

Their kids may have matched the performance of suburban students when the standard was set at a modest level, but a higher bar has exposed real gaps that have been there all along.

It found significant gains for disadvantaged students in charter schools but the opposite for wealthy suburban students in charter schools.

The increasingly diverse urban and suburban student population presents school boards with the challenge of creating positive learning environments to meet the needs of these diverse students.

A 1968 study found that urban high - school students learned business education better in a blocked schedule and suburban students learned it better in a traditional schedule.

Since suburban students certainly have other advantages over the average student in the cities, we might not expect equal spending to produce identical results.

Among the highlights, the cover story describes a success story about teaching city and suburban students about nature, and how easy it is to make friends and partnerships while learning.

However, Jay P. Greene and Josh B. McGee, authors of the study, note that this is «false reassurance,» as «America's elite suburban students are increasingly competing with students outside the U.S. for economic opportunities,» making meaningful global comparisons essential.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

Both districts faced problems that reflected initial periods of severe racial segregation, followed by such remedial efforts as busing, followed by evidence of resegregation, followed by a need to end busing and encourage the return of, e.g., suburban students through increased student choice.

Similar findings hold, on average, for suburban students in Massachusetts, although the charter schools they attend are nonetheless consistently oversubscribed.

This promising pattern of performance may well reflect the fact that a surprising number of charter schools in these states serve suburban students, bucking the national trend of charters concentrating in big cities.

Their rides also tended to be more arduous, traversing poorer roads and more hilly or mountainous terrain than those experienced by suburban students.»

Johnson didn't want to admit that MPS students receive thousands of dollars less in per pupil funding than nearby suburban students, or that legislation to take over a democratically elected school board had been forced upon Milwaukee residents.

Representatives from suburban school districts met with their city counterparts today to learn more about a new partnership that allows suburban students to attend work - based education programs at Edison Tech and East High this fall.

Concerning the so - called «achievement gap», why don't we create a test that is biased in favor of urban populations instead of one biased against them, and see how suburban students score.

The best new glittering schools should be the ones in poorer districts for those residents — not because a few suburban students might want to go there.

And if out - of - district, * equally * isolated, homogenous suburban students wish to go to what would become the state's best schools, they could have a chance, space permitting, and reciprocal agreements in place.

Instead of attacking I choose to find solutions 1) Create a regionalize system where suburban students go to school with poor students.

These efforts have resulted in substantial gains — more than 1,600 Hartford students now take part in Open Choice, over 5400 Hartford Students and over 8000 suburban students attend 37 regional magnet schools and now 42 percent of Hartford schoolchildren are attending integrated schools.

But she failed to note that the top Hartford students, who were the top before Sheff, are now the ones in these choice / charter / magnet schools, so all the State of Connecticut is shamelessly doing is moving some students around, spending money on a small number of schools, and only integrating if wealthy and non-integrated suburban students can benefit.

His current gig is running Sean «P - Diddy» Combs» 160 - student charter, a Harlem magnet school that recruits suburban students.

This mixing of urban and suburban students appears to have produced some positive educational results.

Another report blows away the myth of safety in schools: Rural students are almost as likely as urban students are to report that their school is unsafe, with suburban students only a few percentage points behind.

First, it was found that both fourth - and eighth - grade rural and urban students of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had fewer teachers with recent professional development in computers and mathematics education and had less access to home computers than did suburban students.

Meantime, as a new school year begins for students in the Rochester area, it's the first time in years that a handful of suburban students will be attending classes in the city.

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

America's elite suburban students are increasingly competing with students outside the United States for economic opportunities, and a meaningful assessment of student achievement requires a global, not a local, comparison.

But the isolation of low - income minority students in cities (and increasingly of low - income black and Latino students in racially segregated and isolated suburban schools) means that middle - class and wealthier white suburban students are also isolated, at a measurable cost.

Capital Prep, a year - round magnet school on Main Street for students in pre-K to 12th grade, has a social justice theme and enrolls city and suburban students through the Sheff v. O'Neill desegregation agreement.

ACES Open Choice was established through state legislation for suburban students to attend schools in New Haven and for New Haven students to attend schools in the suburbs.

City school officials said Kinsella needs to remain its own school because of its magnet status under the state's Sheff v. O'Neill pact, where city and suburban students are enrolled through a state - run lottery engineered for racial integration.

In this case, 70 % of Urban students, 73 % of Suburban students, and 65 % of Rural students enrolled in college.

Meanwhile, the suburban students, while not immune from standards and testing, are certainly not limited by them.»

That effort has traditionally allowed Rochester students to attend schools in the suburban districts, but starting this year, suburban students can go to Rochester schools.

Buses for school desegregation rarely crossed the urban - suburban boundary, thanks to a Supreme Court ruling in 1974, which meant that suburban students would not have to participate in court - ordered desegregation of city schools.

Throughout his time in school, most of his research focused on educational disparities between inner city and suburban students.

The high school is trending more urban, as some suburban students are choosing to migrate back to their high schools after attending BVP through 8th grade.

To a great extent, parents could choose their child's school, but if any school approached more than 40 percent low - income students, the district would assign and bus some suburban students into city schools and vice versa.

Creating a 50 - 50 balance of Hartford and suburban students is a main goal of magnet schools because Hartford is the second poorest city in the country, and the vast majority of Hartford is black or Latino, with only 15.8 % of the city's population whites of non-Latino background in the 2010 census.

In Wake County, N.C., which includes Raleigh, and Jefferson County, Ky., which includes Louisville, district lines have been drawn to include both urban and suburban students.

Additional attempts to bind the fate of urban and suburban students have similarly failed, leaving the two worlds of urban and suburban education largely separate.

Moreover, most of the benefits we observed are significantly larger for minority students, low - income students and students from rural schools — typically two to three times larger than for white, middle - class, suburban students — owing perhaps to the fact that the tour was the first time they had visited an art museum.

Your school emphasizes its unique position as a school that caters to both inner - city and suburban students, so I think my varied experiences would make me an asset to your program.