Sentences with phrase «urban kids»

Geoffrey Canada has an ambitious prescription to help poor urban kids in Harlem, first by ignoring vexing political and social question about the origins of the cycle of poverty.

If the system were nuanced enough to hold schools accountable for only what they can control, we would not see the overtargeting of schools serving poor urban kids for intervention.

Think urban kids don't have ecology and entomology worth exploring?

Factoring in the 15 % or so of urban kids who fall at the low end of IQ scores, Rozelle makes a stunning forecast: About 400 million future working - age Chinese, he says, «are in danger of becoming cognitively handicapped.»

I'm speaking now particularly to certain charter networks, such as Yes Prep and KIPP, which have apparently found formulas for doing what previously seemed impossible, successfully moving the poorest urban kids from the bottom to the top of the national quartile of educational performance.

Again, Dirty John Flanagan and his buddy Corrupt Carl Marcellino could care about urban kids education...

That letter helped fuel Fisher's idea of starting a school that would give urban kids, especially those from poor minority communities, access to water.

Celebrate Urban Birds seeks to overcome barriers of involvement with science, particularly among urban kids.

As a result, rural students, unlike urban kids, can't get exposure to broadening experiences including such important things as visiting college campuses or even interacting with adults with college degrees.

Charters show that children — including poor and underfunded urban kids — can learn as well as their suburban counterparts.

But now, public urban Montessori schools are catching on in a big way and challenging some deeply held beliefs about how urban kids should be educated.

Listening to Urban Kids provides a broad account of what middle school students at several low - performing schools think about their education.

When Dylan's music accompanies urban kids jumping rope on one video, art seems to want to take it to the streets or, perhaps, to the movies, like Day for Night.

Another reason you should drag your joystick - wielding tykes to experience nature in all its natural splendor: Urban kids who live around green parks and lawns may be less likely to be overweight, according to a study in the March / April issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion.Part of this is just common sense.

Urban kids from impoverished areas come to Kindergarten with a vocabulary deficit.

Last I checked, soccer experts were lamenting that not enough kids, in general, play unstructured soccer on their own time and that low - income and urban kids were eschewing soccer for sports such as basketball, football and baseball.

In the market for a gift for an urban kid?

This year the reading is sponsored by Pacifier, an urban kid and baby boutique; Park Nicollet Women's Center, a new concept in women's health; Corazon, a gift & clothing store with shops in Minneapolis and St. Paul; and The Loft Literary Center.

Almost primal in its appeal, this wrenching survival tale takes an urban kid (Josh Wiggins) and drops him into a harrowing weekend with his divorced mountain - man dad (Matt Bomer, a smart judge of scripts).

But good reasons or not, the impact on urban kids is devastating,» said Michael Druckman, executive chair of Schools That Can, a network of 177 public, charter, and private schools in 15 cities serving more than 70,000 students, including those at the Da Vinci Schools.

Review of «Listening To Urban Kids: School Reform And The Teachers They

Listening to urban kids: School reform and the teachers they want.

Corbett and Wilson's ongoing studies about the perspectives and roles of students in school improvement were perhaps best elaborated on in the findings from their comprehensive study of Philadelphia schools, published in Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (2001).

It upsets me that you are more upset that Bedford is out at Dunbar than you are that urban kids have one less thing offered to them (GT)-RRB- that suburban schools do... but yeah, lets compare their test results to those suburban schools under the rules of NCLB.

You and others seem to feel all urban kids need is test after test after test, which will prove whether or not their teachers have taught them.

The study found that exposing these urban kids (who already have dog allergies) to the protein from dogs caused asthma symptoms to occur.