Sentences with phrase «urban school experience»

This, sadly, is the one similarity between the suburban school shooting and the urban school experience.

There is a disconnect between the urban school experience and that of the suburban school, which has become the all - too - common setting for mass murder.

For example, it is possible that the oft - discussed challenges some students from high - performing urban schools experience in college (see ««No Excuses» Kids Go to College,» features, Spring 2013) stem in part from deficits in fluid cognitive skills.

Recruitment is often informal or passive, and urban schools experience a distinct shortage of high - quality candidates in principal candidate pools.

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Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

But he maintained that his experience as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in President Bill Clinton's administration schooled him in passing legislation.

Mr. Simons has extensive experience in the areas of urban universities and public school collaborations, community development, public finance and philanthropy.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

«Urban expansion on the scale the world is going to experience is going to require more land,» argued economist Paul Romer of New York University's Stern School of Business.

The study is the first of its kind to examine the effect of Experience Corps, a national volunteer service program that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.

Female teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.

One large primary in the urban North West found the experience of developing their grounds was a catalyst for engaging the wider school related community as well as the pupils.

At both schools — one in our city and one in Los Angeles — educators saw blended learning as a way to custom - tailor the school experience for urban students whose backgrounds and learning needs varied widely.

In particular they will have three years minimum of direct work experience or significant volunteer work in urban education settings (primarily urban schools, but also community organizations, non-profits, government agencies, etc.).

The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.

Through the story of their experiences, this film highlights some of the complexities faced by urban public schools and communities.

«In urban schools, students experience a lot of teacher turnover, which is not very good for learning,» Nemser adds.

More recently, we drew heavily on those experiences to create Opportunity by Design, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York that is enabling a select group of urban districts to design new secondary schools that serve all students, particularly those who are underprepared and need to accelerate and recuperate their learning.

Mandy Savitz - Romer's professional experience has allowed her to link research to practice in the field of school counseling, specifically as it relates to college access and retention for urban students.

Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.

Typically, urban and rural schools serving poor and minority students have the highest turnover rates, and as a result they have the highest percentages of first - year teachers, the highest percentages of teachers with fewer than five years of teaching experience, the lowest paid teachers, and the lowest percentages of accomplished teachers.

Now in its third year of offering bonuses to experienced teachers to transfer to struggling schools, the Hamilton County (Tennessee) school district, which includes urban Chattanooga, has seen student scores soar in their neediest schools.

Usually, the vacancies were in urban schools, and the district had to scramble to fill them in the opening days of school, and often was forced to hire the least experienced teachers.

Urban Prep has created partnerships with different schools, from Cornell and Georgetown University to Cambridge College in England, so that students can experience taking college classes and campus life.

It's unfair and unnecessary to risk confusing children with topics — sailing, BMX racing, snowshoeing — that low - income urban children, in particular, are likely to know little about and have no out - of - school experience with.

Ed Secretary Nominee Has Fans in the Field Colleagues of Houston Independent School District Superintendent Rod Paige say that although they will miss him, the country will benefit from his experience in dealing with urban education issues.

In that time, our approximately 20 teachers will continue to work together to create authentic learning experiences for Baltimore urban middle school students.

Specifically, her dissertation explored the professional learning experience of second - stage teachers (working for four to 10 years) in three urban school districts.

A consortium of big - city school districts and businesses were scheduled to announce this week plans to create a national distance - learning network that would make those educational experiences — and many more — possible for urban students.

I also narrate the stories of a few urban and rural teenagers to provide context; China is not a monolith, and educational experiences can vary depending on whether a school is, say, public or private, or urban or rural.

London schools are the most oversubscribed, but urban centres throughout the country are also experiencing the strain, with one in five primary schools now full or close to capacity.

From July 16 — July 23, 10 high school students from urban communities visited Harvard through Quang's program to get an initial taste of the college experience.

For almost as long, Mr. Haberman has been arguing that schools of education can not prepare enough effective teachers for America's city schools because faculty members themselves have virtually no urban teaching experience.

His experience in urban education will be helpful in keeping our nation's schools on the path to reform.

In my experience at an urban no - excuses school, the rigid discipline and structures we put in place allowed us to focus on the urgent academic intervention that our students there desperately needed.

New Harvard Teacher Education Program Emphasizes Content, Practical Experience The Heartland Institute, 1/13/16» «Teaching schools have fallen short of what high - needs urban schools require,» said Stephen Mahoney, a professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

The disconnect between real life and the high school experience and the absence of any real connection to peers and teachers causes many students on the margins to give up: More than 30 percent of U.S. students who enter high school never finish, according to a recent report by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project, the Urban Institute, Advocates for Children of New York, and the Civil Society Institute.

This weeks Voice of Experience essay was submitted by Perri Gibbons, an instructional assistant in an urban Indiana school district.

Faculty interests and experiences encompass ensuring equity of access to quality literacy instruction, especially in urban schools, addressing the opportunity gap, promoting effective data - driven school - wide literacy programs, and developing sustainable school - based professional development.

The staff at Urban Prep looks at their students» experiences and needs, incorporating them into their Pride curriculum to help these young men better navigate their situations in and outside of school.

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.

In programs that prepare teachers to work in urban schools or in communities with linguistic and cultural diversity, community experiences tend to be emphasized.

In the 1970's, my experience with High Schools» counselors in the urban educational setting in a General Motors «GM» town were slanted towards vocational education and not Higher Ed.

Even though Mary Grassa O'Neill, managing director of the newly merged Principals» Center and Programs in Professional Education, has years of hands - on experience as a school leader in urban and suburban settings, she adamantly claims that she is «only a practitioner working among a genius faculty of researchers.»

A similar thing can be said about principals working in rural areas, where we have seen that schools have less qualified and less experienced teachers than schools in urban areas.

We're joined by math experts in two school districts, one urban and one suburban, to share their strategies and early experiences in preparing schools for the new standards.

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.

Drawing on interviews with female superintendents of urban, small - town, and rural school districts, the cofounder of the women's studies program at the University of Tulsa examines their contradictory experiences with power and subjection.

The practicum and student teaching experiences may be in an urban or suburban school.

Georgia's Gwinnett County Public Schools, one of the nation's top urban school districts and the largest school district in the state, has recently experienced the benefits of this collaboration by piloting a new adaptive cognitive vocabulary app that's enabled by this new platform.