The children were pulled from five
urban public middle schools in Rhode Island between 2009 and 2012.
The preservice teachers were viewing and discussing the case study entitled Making Weighty Decisions (Bowers et al., 2000), a 4 - day lesson sequence in an eighth - grade mathematics class in
an urban public middle school.
Not exact matches
The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of
Public Health — surveyed 1,649
middle - school students randomly selected from a single
urban school district in Connecticut.
U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer
middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that
urban public and
urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.
Teaching a core tested subject like
middle school math in the challenging environment of
urban public schools is a high - stakes game.
In the
middle of the last decade, in
urban communities across America,
middle - class and upper -
middle - class parents started sending their children to
public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.
Not for the students of Walden
Middle School, an all - black, low - income,
urban public school where Associate Professor Meira Levinson taught for several years.
Green Street Academy is a two - year - old
public middle and high school in
urban Baltimore, Maryland.
This finding has led some to dream about economically integrating every
urban public school with «a strong core of
middle - class students,» as Kahlenberg puts it.
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.
Mid-Career Math and Science (MCMS) is designed exclusively for mid-career professionals in math - and science - related professions who want to teach math and / or science in
public middle and high schools in
urban contexts.
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.»
Ms. Cristina L. Heffernan is a former
middle school mathematics teacher with classroom experience working with
urban and suburban populations and in
public and private schools.
He has 37 years of experience in
urban and suburban
public schools settings and has held the positions of deputy superintendent for curriculum and instruction, high school principal, and
middle school principal.
Mr. Jackson taught science for 10 years before becoming
Middle School Principal of Boston Collegiate Charter
Public School, a nationally recognized
urban school.
When it comes to the
urban public school, the location of the school is exceedingly important for how desirable the school is for
middle - class parents.
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).
Academy of Notre Dame Algonquin Regional High School Annie Sullivan
Middle School Another Course to College Ansin Religious School Arlington High School Ashland High School Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School Auburn High School Austin Preparatory School Baker School Beacon Academy Beaver Country Day School Belmont Day School Belmont High School Belmont Hill School Bernard Mcnally Beverly High School Bigelow
Middle School Bishop Fenwick High School Blessed Sacrament School Boston Adult Technical Academy Boston Arts Academy Boston College Boston College High School Boston Community Leadership Academy Boston Latin Academy Boston Latin School Boston
Middle School Academy Boston Preparatory Charter
Public School Boston
Public Schools Boston's Jewish Community Day School Brandeis Jewish Education Program Bridgewater Raynham Regional High School Brighton High School Brimmer and May School Briscoe
Middle School Broad Meadows
Middle School Brook Farm Business and Service Career Academy Brookline High School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School Burlington High School Burlington
Middle School Cambridge Family and Children's Service Cambridge Friends School Cambridge Montessori School Cambridge
Public Schools Cambridge Rindge & Latin School Cambridge School of Weston Cameron
Middle School Cathedral High School (Boston) Cathedral High School (Springfield) Center for Collaborative Education Central Catholic High School (Lawrence) Central Tree
Middle School Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School Charlestown High School Chatham High School Chelsea High School City On A Hill Charter High School Codman Academy Charter
Public School Cohen Hillel Academy Community Academy of Science and Health Concord Carlisle High School Concord
Middle School Congregation Beth El Congregation Beth Israel Hebrew School Congregation B'nai Shalom Congregation Shalom Curley K - 8 School Curry College Dana Hall School Dean Junior College Dearborn
Middle School Dedham Country Day School Derby Academy Diploma Plus Commonwealth Corporation Dorchester Academy Dorchester Community Center for the Visual Arts Dorchester Youth Alternative Academy Dorshei Tzedek Religious School Douglas High School Dover - Sherborn High School Driscoll School Duxbury High School East Boston Catholic East Boston High School East Bridgewater Gordon Mitchel
Middle School Easton Junior High School Edgartown School Edison K - 8 School Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers Edwards
Middle School Elizabeth Seton Academy English High School Excel High School F.A. Day
Middle School Fay School Fayerweather Street School Fenn School Fenway High School Fessenden School Fitchburg High School Fletcher Maynard Academy Framingham High School Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School Frederick Douglass Charter School Full Circle High School Fuller
Middle School Galvin
Middle School (Canton, MA) Galvin
Middle School (Wakefield, MA) Gann Academy: The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston Gateway Regional High School Goss II Secure Treatment DYS Graham and Parks School Greater Egleston Community High School Grover Cleveland
Middle School Hamilton - Wenham Regional High School Hanson
Middle School Harbor School Harvard Graduate School of Education Harwich High School Heath School Heritage Academy Hernandez K - 8 School Higgenson / Lewis K - 8 School Hillside Treatment Program Holy Name Parish School Hopkinton High School Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Hudson High School Hyde Park High School Immaculate Conception School Immaculate Conception School (Newburyport) Inly School International School of Boston Ipswich High School Ipswich
Middle School Jackson Mann K - 8 School Jeremiah E. Burke High School John F. 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
For example, the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is an innovative partnership between ESE, Springfield
Public Schools (the state's second largest
urban school district), and a number of key school turnaround partners and organizations, all focused on turning around nine struggling
middle schools.
The Edible Schoolyard The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior
Middle School in Berkeley, California, provides
urban public school students with a one - acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom.
In the summer of 2014, UChicago Impact, Chicago
Public Schools (CPS), Academy for
Urban School Leadership, and the Lefkofsky Family Foundation teamed up to launch the Success Project, an initiative designed to support certain Chicago
Public Schools in preparing more
middle grades students for high school.
-LSB-...] Curator and writer Carla Acevedo - Yates reviews an
urban art project by Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, «reForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and
public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill
Middle School in North Philadelphia, a
public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in 2013.