Sentences with phrase «urban middle school kids»

Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard is an incredible program that helps urban middle school kids grow their own lunch.

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This school is a nonprofit, independent charter school in the middle of an urban area that serves the most diverse group of kids in the state.

Poor and middle - class urban families long ago recognized that education is critical to revitalizing communities and helping their kids be prepared for successful futures in an increasingly knowledge - based economic future — and have long - concluded that traditional public education practices such as zoned schooling and ability tracking no longer work (if they ever did in the first place).

In one urban middle school, conversations about improving student achievement focused mostly on sending «bubble kids» (whose results fell just below cut scores for proficiency levels) to tutoring or after - school programs (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

On a given day in Tokyo, the diverse array of people using bicycles here in this urban sprawl of 30 million souls includes: the middle - aged salary man riding to work on his fold - up bike in his business suit every day; the trendy adolescent skipping off to do some window shopping; the stay - at - home mother dropping not one, but two kids off at school; the pack of old men determined not to be late for their morning gate - ball contest; and, the serious cyclist kitted out in tight lycra and a fancy water - bottle pouch.