Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the
Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of
public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance -
based assessment in lieu of
high - stakes exit exams.
In order to enable
public non-charter
high schools to compare their own outcomes with those of similar
high schools, the outcomes in this report are presented on the
basis of
school - level characteristics: low income and
higher income,
high minority and low minority,
urban and rural.
At Springpoint, a national non-profit organization that supports the development of new competency -
based high schools, we are establishing competency - based schools in Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Denver Public Schools, Internationals Network for Public Schools, Providence Public School District, The School District of Philadelphia, and The Urban Assembly in New Yor
schools, we are establishing competency -
based schools in Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Denver Public Schools, Internationals Network for Public Schools, Providence Public School District, The School District of Philadelphia, and The Urban Assembly in New Yor
schools in Cleveland Metropolitan
School District, Denver
Public Schools, Internationals Network for Public Schools, Providence Public School District, The School District of Philadelphia, and The Urban Assembly in New Yor
Schools, Internationals Network for
Public Schools, Providence Public School District, The School District of Philadelphia, and The Urban Assembly in New Yor
Schools, Providence
Public School District, The
School District of Philadelphia, and The
Urban Assembly in New York City.
This trial provides convincing evidence that
high - quality
school -
based MBSR instruction for youth in
urban public schools is feasible, acceptable, and leads to improvements in psychological symptoms, coping, and posttraumatic stress symptoms.