Sentences with phrase «urban neighborhood schools»

It «appears» to do better than some of its other urban neighborhood schools because it refuses to provide educational services to the full range of students who make up the community.

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Catholic schools matter to urban neighborhoods not only as educational institutions — although, to be sure, they matter a great deal educationally — but also as community institutions.

Committed to the urban neighborhood, Sojourners is involved not only in political organizing and lobbying, but in food cooperatives, day school tutoring programs, neighborhood recreational programs, and extended - family living situations.

Yet the fates of urban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Reurban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational ReUrban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

The forces that cleared old, antiquated urban Catholic schools hurt at - risk neighborhoods.

April 29: Urban Neighborhoods and the Persistence of Racial Inequality with New York University Associate Professor Patrick Sharkey; Senior Fellow Richard Rothstein, University of California - Berkeley School of Law; and Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson, director of Harvard Kennedy School Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

The fact that most of it comes from urban schools in low - income neighborhoods leaves most audiences astonished.

How do the social contexts of family, neighborhood, and school in the early years relate to life outcomes for urban youth?

6 - 9 — Education research: 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, sponsored by the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Peking University, the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Saint Mary's College of California School of Education, and the University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Program, for researchers and educators, at the Ilikai Waikiki Beach Hotel in Honolulu...

This would be a neighborhood school, in the heart of impoverished urban America, committed to educating all students, not to weeding out the most challenging.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

Houston and other urban districts must also increase their use of chartering to create new options in neighborhoods where schools consistently fail to educate students to state standards.

The neighborhood schools movement has found friends among some of the city's more progressive urban planners.

A huge part of the value of urban Catholic schools is their longevity — and the social capital that neighborhood continuity fosters.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

When you cut the data to look just at urban charters, the percentage beating the surrounding neighborhood schools rises to 40 percent.

At the Urban Education Institute my colleagues have built 15 years worth of empirical evidence that even schools in Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods can thrive if they are organized for improvement.

In my years teaching in urban public schools, I saw many students experience extreme stress from living in poverty and also in gang - affiliated neighborhoods.

Because of the entrenched practice of assigning students to public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged students in schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.

One school ran an «urban expeditions» program where parents introduced teachers to city neighborhoods.

Oakland Unity High School is a four - year (grades 9 - 12) public charter high school located in the tough urban neighborhood of East OaSchool is a four - year (grades 9 - 12) public charter high school located in the tough urban neighborhood of East Oaschool located in the tough urban neighborhood of East Oakland.

Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken, alternatives to public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»

Offered new, presumably safe, and tuition - free charter schools in their neighborhoods, many urban parents decided to forego the expense of Catholic schools.

For a high - poverty urban district like LAUSD, where declining birth rates, reduced immigration, gentrification and the expansion of charters have left neighborhood schools scrambling for resources, education researchers believe that community schooling offers the first meaningful bang for its buck in delivering equity for its highest - needs students.

Like Chicago, these urban districts — such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, St. Louis and Cleveland — are struggling to figure out the role of failing neighborhood high schools that have been on life support for decades.

BTR operates within our two neighborhood based Teaching Academies, schools that provide a world class education for all students while preparing outstanding new teachers for successful, sustainable careers as urban educators.

And although charters enroll only 5 percent of America's K - 12 students, to the cash - strapped, high - poverty urban districts that have been targeted for charter expansions, that number represents a shift of roughly $ 38.7 billion per year in lost tax dollars and mass closings of neighborhood schools.

The closures have hit urban neighborhoods the hardest: Since 2005 alone, nearly one - quarter of the elementary schools located in the nation's 12 largest urban dioceses have closed.

• Mike Petrilli wrote about how to create diverse schools in gentrifying urban neighborhoods here.

Over the last 50 years, thousands of Catholic schools have closed, most in low - income urban neighborhoods.

The quiet school was located in the same urban area but in a quiet neighborhood.

6 - 9 — Education research: 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, sponsored by the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Peking University, the Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Saint Mary's College of California School of Education, and the University of Louisville's Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods Program, for researchers and educators, at the Ilikai Waikiki Beach Hotel...

But if the spillover effects of urban charter schools on district schools are confined to relatively small neighborhoods, then findings from prior analyses may well be underestimates.

There currently are 99 KIPP schools in 20 states and Washington, D.C., serving 26,000 students from low - income rural and urban neighborhoods.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

«A lot of the charter schools are concentrated in urban neighborhoods and believe that a longer school year or school day is just necessary for the student population they serve,» said Peter Murphy, vice president of New York Charter Schools Resource schools are concentrated in urban neighborhoods and believe that a longer school year or school day is just necessary for the student population they serve,» said Peter Murphy, vice president of New York Charter Schools Resource Schools Resource Center.

In cities including Denver, New York City and Washington, D.C., black children are more likely to leave their own neighborhood in search of a high - quality school, according to the study, which examined urban school districts that operate school choice programs.

How does this gentrification of urban landscapes, as it's commonly referred to, alter not only individual neighborhoods and schools, but the public education system at large?

Even Andy Smarick, a fervent charter advocate who authored the provocative book The Urban School System of the Future: Applying Principles and Lessons of Chartering, recognizes that closing a neighborhood school can have negative and unintended consequSchool System of the Future: Applying Principles and Lessons of Chartering, recognizes that closing a neighborhood school can have negative and unintended consequschool can have negative and unintended consequences.

We empower urban youth to transform their neighborhoods through intensive community service and to change the world by building schools in some of the economically poorest countries on the planet.

It bothers him deeply that urban public schools in high - poverty neighborhoods don't have that.

June Jordan prepares urban youth to be: Community members who show respect, integrity, courage, and humility; Agents of change in their school, their neighborhoods, and the world; and Intellectuals with the skills necessary to succeed in college and life.

Excerpt: In this soon to be printed Local Government Commission report entitled «New Schools In Older Neighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhooNeighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhoodsneighborhoods will need.

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.

New York City's peculiar blend of hard - edged intensity and neighborhood intimacy shows up daily in the idiosyncratic classrooms of Urban Academy, which occupies a second - floor corner of a transformed giant city high school between First and Second Avenues at 67th Street.

In December, CPS became the latest large urban district to sign an agreement with the Gates Foundation, pledging greater cooperation and collaboration between the city's charter and neighborhood schools.

For a description of how one urban elementary school in a diverse neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas reaches out to the community, click here.