Sentences with phrase «urban high school»

She describes classrooms that successfully engage at - risk, urban high school students in personal meaning making.

Here she is, in a very large urban high school, in an area of town with no industry and the highest crime rate in the city.

About 75 percent of urban high school students attended schools of that size.

Most grant recipients here are community clinics, county health services departments, teen clinics at urban high schools, rural health care operations.

By contrast, 70 percent of the students from high - income urban high schools with few minority students were enrolled in college in the fall.

Imagine that you're finishing ninth grade at a large comprehensive urban high school.

These may be elementary schools where students do not come with the array of discipline problems that are characteristic of many urban high school students.

More urban high school graduates than rural high school graduates attended at least some college.

This is not your average struggling urban high school.

Could they take the same big urban high schools (or in one case, middle school) and get much better performance by doing things differently with the same school?

Even the architecture of most urban high schools reflects the ethos of the 19th rather than the 20th century.

High school graduation from really easy urban high schools, I'm less sure.

Urban high schools also have many students who are far below grade level in one, more, or every subject.

This program examined the ways urban high school students benefit from and utilize school - to - work programs, with an exploration of class differences on work relationships and overall experience.

It was the beginning of the spring semester in a large urban high school.

One study showed that urban high school students were 21 times more likely to access mental - health services in a school health center than a free - standing center.

Larry taught carpentry in urban high schools in Boston and Cambridge and was principal of the Rindge School of Technical Arts, and of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Eric is also the lead teacher in Cyber-Challenge, a multi-partner program for urban high schools in the state.

Social Emotional Learning in High School: How Three Urban High Schools Engage, Educate, and Empower Youth

They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more.

On average, low - income urban high schools with high concentrations of minority students sent about half, or 51 percent, of their 2013 graduates to college in the fall immediately following graduation.

The project, Changing the Subject: The New Urban High School Project, builds on the U.S. Department of Education's New American High Schools program, which this past spring recognized 10 high schools for their efforts to integrate vocational and academic learning throughout the curricula.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

In an era when many urban high schools use cops on campus and high tech monitors to increase security, Silva makes aggressive use of social service referrals.

I taught for 10 years at an average - performing urban high school in San Mateo County, Calif..

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leaders.

She undertakes a detailed study of two small urban high schools in their first year of conversion from a large, comprehensive high school.

I've seeded it in urban high schools across the country and a few of the Kardashian's cell phones, so keep an eye out for it to become the new cool word in 4 — 5 months or so.

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

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

When people ask how urban high schools in our EL network manage to get every single graduate into college, there is no quick answer.

For more than 30 years, Harris had been the principal of William Penn, a large, traditional urban high school.

Pulling this off in a giant urban high school is a rare and remarkable accomplishment.

(Hechinger Report: Twenty five percent of low - income urban high schools beat the odds).

The college - going rate rose to 58 % for graduates of Low - Income / Low - Minority Urban high schools.

A Saturday Academy of hands - on lab investigations introduces urban high school girls to science careers.

Engaging Schools reviews current research on what shapes adolescents» school engagement and motivation to learn — including new findings on students» sense of belonging — and looks at ways these can be used to reform urban high schools.

The total attrition rate at AF Amistad High this year was 4 percent, which is a percentage significantly lower than the attrition rate at a typical urban high school.

«If students knew when they woke up in the morning that what they had to say really mattered in what changes were made in the school - they would really come,» says RaShawn, 17, who attends an overcrowded urban high school his district has labeled as failing.

One specific study, which examined five low - performing, high - poverty urban high schools in three districts and their use of data to inform school improvement, concluded that the more school staff worked collaboratively to discuss and analyze student performance the more likely staff members were to use data to inform curriculum decisions (Lachat & Smith, 2005).

Classrooms in three urban high schools demonstrate the power of teaching students to make meaning.

Navigating contested spaces: Principals leading for social justice in a demoralized urban high school.

Poor attitude, gang involvement, and a lack of motivation are serious problems that especially plague urban high schools.

Classnotes Podcast (April 29, 2008) Students in a large, urban high school came together to survey other students about their math learning at their school.

The cooperating college professor reported that this experience helped dispel stereotypes his teacher education students had held about urban high school students.

His passion for reaching urban high school students through innovative teaching practices led to his receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching in 2011.