Sentences with phrase «urban high school graduates»

Schwartz was the first director of the Boston Compact, a public - private partnership formed to improve access to higher education and employment for urban high school graduates.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

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Zellnor is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, earned his B.A. in Communications and M.A. in Urban Studies from Fordham University.

It offers a different strategy to improve urban education with a promise of free college tuition to graduating high school seniors.

Chicago, Rochester Offer Flexible Graduation Options Two urban school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will allow students to graduate from high school in three, four, or five years.

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school sysUrban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school sysurban school systems.

Rural high school graduates are less likely to attend college than their urban and suburban peers.

Recently released reports from both the Urban Institute and the Manhattan Institute have highlighted the toll of this failure on our young people: Nationwide, one - third of high school students will fail to graduate, and...

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

Before entering high school, most Urban Prep students didn't know anybody who went to college, and now they see their mainly black, male teachers and staff as college graduate role models who reflect their image.

I graduated from a tough, urban high school and I know the obstacles that these kids face.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

A research team led by Harvard Graduate School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban district.

New Harvard Teacher Education Program Emphasizes Content, Practical Experience The Heartland Institute, 1/13/16» «Teaching schools have fallen short of what high - needs urban schools require,» said Stephen Mahoney, a professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

A graduate of an urban high school in Portland, Ore., Krieger was first attracted to the Ed School because of the opportunity to learn about teaching in an urban enviroschool in Portland, Ore., Krieger was first attracted to the Ed School because of the opportunity to learn about teaching in an urban enviroSchool because of the opportunity to learn about teaching in an urban environment.

Teaching and Curriculum (TAC) is designed for both recent college graduates in the humanities, math, and science, and experienced professionals in the humanities, who are committed to teaching in public middle and high schools in urban environments.

Two urban school districts — Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois — are launching programs this fall that will allow students to graduate from high school in three, four, or five years.

For eight years, he directed the School Leadership master's program; prior to that he was the founding director and then faculty senior associate of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, a five - year collaboration of Harvard Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government that focused on bringing high quality teaching and learning to scale in urban and high need districts.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

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

College - going rates rose to a little over 60 % for graduates of High - Income / High - Minority schools, with rates of 61 %, 63 %, and 60 % for Urban, Suburban, and Rural schools respectively.

Rural high school graduates are also less likely than their urban and suburban peers to attend college.

«Students with disabilities served in urban settings, in which minorities predominate, have higher likelihood of being placed in segregated settings, and lower likelihood of accessing challenging curricula,» said Tom Hehir, lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

While most of Chicago's high school seniors hope to attend college, the school system has a long way to go to make that vision a reality, according to a new report that is among the first to track the post-high-school experiences of graduates from a major urban district on a broad scale.

Evans points out that basketball allows kids to build networks, which, he hopes, will allow some urban players to meet people who have graduated from high school and achieved other goals they may have thought were unattainable.

Karp has been outspoken in his worries that the new standards and tests will only pose a greater hardship for students to stay in high school and graduate, especially in urban districts where dropout rates are high.

The Tribune reports today that Urban Prep Charter High School is about to send 100 % of its graduating class to college.

A new study by REL Northwest has found that high school GPA was better than college entrance exam scores at predicting college course grades for recent Alaska high school graduates from both urban and rural areas.

We operate high - performing urban public charter schools, a unique graduate school of education that trains teachers for high - poverty schools, and a hybrid college and jobs program that seeks unprecedented degree completion rates and employment outcomes.

Through the Financial Empowerment of Urban Youth study, a partnership with the Charter School Development Corporation and Building Hope, it was shown that after WealthyLife's implementation students were 85 percent more likely to graduate high school and 76 percent more likely to own aSchool Development Corporation and Building Hope, it was shown that after WealthyLife's implementation students were 85 percent more likely to graduate high school and 76 percent more likely to own aschool and 76 percent more likely to own a home.

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.

Baltimore is not alone among large urban districts in essentially having two tiers of high schools: a handful of selective enrollment high schools and a larger group of lottery - admission or neighborhood schools where fewer graduates go on to college.

They are also graduating students from high school and enrolling them in college at much higher rates than traditional urban public schools.

This common problem, which surfaces in school after school, led us to consult some of the most successful urban educators we know — teachers and principals who have been involved in founding new, small high schools in New York City and Boston, Massachusetts.1 These schools, which serve low - income, minority communities, have begun to routinely graduate and send to college more than 90 percent of their students.

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Kennedy Middle School (Natick) Josiah Quincy Upper School (Washington St) Kilmer K - 8 Upper School King Middle School (Dorchester) Knesset Israel Hebrew School Lawrence Public Schools Lawrence School (Brookline) Lesley College Lexington High School Lexington Montessori School Lilla Frederick Pilot Middle School Lillian Kessel Religious School at Temple Emanuel Lincoln School (Brookline) Lincoln School (Lincoln) Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Littleton High School Lowell High School Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School Lyndon Pilot School (West Roxbury) Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Maimonides High School Malden High School Marblehead Middle School Marblehead Public Schools Marlborough High School Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Martin Luther King Open School Mary Lyon School Massachusetts Department of Corrections MATCH School Matignon High School McCall Middle School McCormack Middle School McKay K - 8 School McKinley Middle School McKinley South End Academy Medford High School Media Communications Technology High School Melrose Junior High School Meridian Academy Middlesex Community College Mildred Avenue School Miles River Middle School Milton Academy Mission Hill School Mitchell Middle School Monument High School Mother Caroline Academy Mount Alvernia Elementary School Mount Alvernia High School Mystic Valley Regional Charter School Nashoba Brooks School of Concord Nashoba Valley Technical High School (Westford) Nauset Regional High School Needham High School New Mission High School Newton Country Day School Newton North High School Noble & Greenough School North Shore Christian School North Shore Community College Northbridge Middle School Northeastern University Norwell High School Notre Dame Academy (Hingham) Oak Hill Middle School O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science Office of Curriculum and Instruction Ottoson Middle School Our Lady of Perpetual Help / Mission Grammar School Parkway Academy of Technology and Health Pathfinder Regional High School Pembroke Community Middle School Phillips Academy Andover Pierce School Pike School Plymouth South Middle School Pollard Middle School Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy (Neponset, Lower Mills, Columbia, and Mattapan) Prospect Hill Charter Academy Prozdor Hebrew College Public Service And Civic Engagement Academy (Lowell High School) Quincy Public Schools Randolph High School Reading Memorial High School River Valley Charter School Rogers Middle School (Hyde Park) Roxbury Latin Roxbury Preparatory Charter School Runkle School Sacred Heart School Saint Agatha School Sarah Greenwood K - 8 School Shady Hill School Sharon High School Sharon Middle School Shore Country Day School Shrewsbury Middle School Snowden International High School Social Justice Academy Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston Somerset High School Somerville High School South Area Solomon Schechter Day School South Boston Catholic Academy St. Brendan's School (Dorcester) St. Columbkille School St. John's Preparatory School St. John School St. Mary of the Assumption School (Brookline) St. Patrick School St. Paul's Catholic Church St. Peter Academy (South Boston) St. Theresa St. Thomas Aquinas High School Stoneham High School Striar Hebrew Academy Swampscott High School TechBoston Academy TechBoston Lower Academy Temple Beth David Religious School Temple Beth Shalom Temple Emanu - El Temple Etz Chaim Temple Isaiah Temple Israel Temple Israel Religious School Temple Sinai The Accelerated Learning Laboratory The Carroll School The Engineering School The Governor's Academy The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University The Meadowbrook School of Weston The New Boston Pilot Middle School The Park School (MA) The Rashi School, the Boston Area Reform Jewish Day School The Rivers School Thomas Blake Middle School Thurston Middle School Timilty Middle School Tobin K - 8 School Trinity Catholic Academy Tufts University Umana Middle School Academy University of Massachusetts, Boston College of Community Service University Park Campus School Urban Science Academy Ursuline Academy Waltham High School Washington Irving Middle School Watertown High School Watertown Middle School Wayland Middle School Wellesley Middle School Wentworth Institute of Technology Westborough High School Weston Middle School WGBH Whitman Middle School Whitman - Hanson Regional High School Wilbraham & Monson Academy Wilmington High School Wilson Middle School (Natick) Winsor School Winthrop High School Worcester North High School Worker Education Program Young Achievers Science and Math K - 8 School

A 2016 US News & World Report story found that only about half of big urban districts track students after graduating high school, or know which colleges and universities do best and provide that information to counselors and colleges.

They found voucher students were 21 percent more likely to graduate high school, and declared the program was «one of the most effective urban dropout prevention programs yet witnessed.»

In fact, we know that in Texas, 51 % of high school graduates statewide who enter community colleges require remedial courses, and in the urban areas, this percentage is much higher.

These findings turn out to be as good or better to what we've seen in urban districts, where Linked Learning students are earning more credits and graduating at higher rates than peers in traditional high school programs.

When I graduated from college, I stayed in touch with a graduate professor but did not maintain contact with most other professors, as most had teaching experience in the suburbs, not in an urban, high - poverty school like the one where I secured my first teaching position.

Teach for America, the national corps of new college graduates who commit to teach for at least two years in urban and rural public schools, will bring in 40 teachers each of the next three years to high - needs schools in the Twin Cities.

Charter schools and voucher programs improve a student's chances of graduating from high school and enrolling in college, with the greatest benefits concentrated among urban minority students.

The community school model is based in the idea that if educators can engage an urban student in middle school, they have a better chance of getting that student to graduate from high school.

Luke Amphlett is a teacher at Luther Burbank High School, a fellow in the NEA Early Career Leaders Fellowship, and a graduate student in UTSA's Urban School Leaders Collaborative, a program created to develop social justice leaders in education.

Place - based scholarship programs such as the Kalamazoo Promise, in which all students graduating from specific high - poverty urban school districts qualify for free college tuition, also have been shown to increase high school outcomes and college matriculation (Bartik and Lachowska, 2012; Andrews, DesJardins and Ranchhod, 2010).

LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2011 — The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today it has awarded $ 2 million in Broad Prize college scholarships to 106 graduating high school seniors whose school districts were recognized last year as the most improved urban school districts in the country.

Kevin Waters, a Camden high school graduate now working as a counselor in the district, said the project is an example of what he called the continued dismantling of urban districts, part of a national strategy led by conservative politicians like Christie.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.