Sentences with phrase «urban schools serving»

Ten urban schools serving low income children from mixed cultural backgrounds participated in a large study.

According to the Shanker Institute report, attrition is «the most significant impediment to increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce,» with minority teachers» strongest complaints related not to being concentrated in urban schools serving high poverty, high - need communities, but because of «a lack of collective voice in educational decisions and a lack of professional autonomy in the classroom.»

It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects.

The program principals were also more likely than a national sample to say they planned to stay in the job, despite the fact that they tend to work in more challenging urban schools serving more low - income and minority students.

In addition, the working conditions in urban schools serving low - income children are likely to be rigid, rule - bound, and unpleasant, none of which facilitates enthusiasm among teachers or fosters academic learning.

Related: Should an urban school serving black and Hispanic students look like schools for affluent white kids?

An urban school serving needy kids posted big test gains.

Not exact matches

CitySoft CEO Nick Gleason was a community and labor organizer in Oakland, Calif., and ran his own urban - development consulting company, serving nonprofits, foundations, school districts, and governments.

Blandin also served as: special assistant to the assistant secretary of administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1977 to 1981; executive director of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, from 1972 to 1977; executive staff assistant in the Office of the Governor, California Council on Intergovernmental Relations, from 1970 to 1971; and just prior to joining ASEC, Blandin served nine months as executive vice president of the Council for Excellence in Government.

This year's Conference features keynote speaker Linda Williams, Ed.D., who served as a class teacher at the Detroit Waldorf School from 1987 - 1992, after which she taught grades 1 - 3 at the public Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee.

You've told us that Carpinteria is «an example of what other schools can do,» so how can I get my huge urban school district to serve food just like that?»

This study took place in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district that serves predominantly low - income, racial / ethnic minority students.

One - hundred percent of the proceeds from the Popcorn that Gives Back kit ($ 14) goes to Urban Sprouts, a non-profit dedicated to providing edible gardens and nutrition education to students in under - served San Francisco schools.

In their study, the researchers randomized 22 urban elementary schools serving low - income families to either the INSIGHTS intervention or a supplemental reading program, which served as a control condition.

More importantly, FOSS is adopted in 50 of the 100 largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches large populations of under - served students.

But if there's one clear, unambiguous victory that reformers can rightly claim, it's urban charter schools, which have generally served low - income kids of color very well.

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 decadSchools 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 decadschools 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 decadschools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

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.

As the number of schools serving poor, urban, de facto segregated populations is steadily increasing, more and more students are deprived of exposure to «mainstream» or «dominant» cultural capital.

«An ideal situation in five years may be in a leadership role at a large urban school district, charter school network, or nonprofit organization that serves underrepresented students, especially those living in poverty,» she says.

I also think that your book doesn't deal sufficiently with how the urban school system of the future will ensure that all students are served equitably.

Jewell - Sherman, a graduate of HGSE's Urban Superintendents Program, has served as superintendent of the Richmond schools since 2002.

This would seem to be a simple matter of common sense in affluent communities, but it represents a form of privilege, it seems, in schools serving low - income, urban children.

This focus is not entirely without reason, since large, urban school districts serving low - income students are clearly dysfunctional.

The Milwaukee voucher program is the largest and longest - running urban school choice program in the U.S., established in 1990 and now serving over 22,000 low - income students who attend 107 private schools using $ 6,000 vouchers toward tuition.

He ran his idea by Richard Kahan of the Urban Assembly, a nonprofit organization committed to creating small public schools in under - served areas of New York City.

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.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

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.

In 2005 and 2006, the department gave several urban school districts (Anchorage, Boston, Chicago, Hillsborough County [Florida], and Memphis) permission to serve as tutoring providers, even though they were themselves «in need of improvement» under the law.

Based in Houston, the nonprofit in which McDonald serves as national director of strategic initiatives places low - income, urban high school seniors into challenging work environments such as Continental Airlines, Exxon, and NASA.

The Urban study also finds evidence that schools that serve a smaller percentage of FTC students have larger positive impacts on college enrollment than schools where a majority of students are on scholarship.

The school, which is located in the southwest quadrant of Dallas, Texas, serves 424 urban high school students who are first - generation college attendees.

Kristin Kearns - Jordan is the CEO of Urban Assembly, a nonprofit that serves a family of public high schools in New York City.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

As the first layperson to serve as Secretary for Education and Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120 schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urbanSchools for the Archdiocese of Boston, she served on the Cardinal's Cabinet and led the second largest school district in Massachusetts composed of 120 schools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urbanschools and 42,000 students primarily located in Greater Boston's ethnically diverse urban areas.

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.

It basically results in a charter movement that is designed to serve certain urban students with no - excuses - type schools.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

At the close of the 2018 — 19 school year, the diocese of Memphis will withdraw its schools completely from the urban communities it has served for decades.

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Urban Scholars has grown from just 15 students annually to 120 and now serves both middle - and high - schoolers.

The nonprofit New Leaders for New Schools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bSchools, founded in New York City in 2000, has trained 431 principals who are now serving as leaders in urban schools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps bschools and plans to build a 2,000 - person national principal corps by 2018.

Jessica serves on the Boards of Friends of Choice in Urban Schools (FOCUS) and the Alliance of Securities and Financial Educators (ASAFE).

In general, charter schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job than their traditional public - school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter schools in suburban areas.

In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.

Denver serves as an example that robust public school choice systems can serve as one several key catalysts in urban revitalization and redevelopment efforts.

The difference in educational opportunities ultimately drove me to teach in an urban high school that served Camden's students.