Sentences with phrase «urban students»

I argue that charter schools deliver better results for urban students in poverty, without spending more money.

More than 90 % of urban students finish high school.

For all these reasons, the task of uplifting urban students in a comprehensive inner - city high school is very difficult.

The second principle is the conviction that a teacher's race or gender has no bearing on his or her ability to foster success with urban students of color.

In the midst of consistent algebra failure, though, I have been able to achieve remarkably different results with urban students from low - income families.

Founded in 2011, the school design is based on inspiring examples of charter schools throughout the country that are helping urban students achieve at very high academic levels.

When public conversation turns to charter schools, much of the attention is focused on urban students.

These participation trends are not surprising, since most voucher programs are targeted to low - income urban students or students with disabilities.

There is no better way to close the achievement gap between urban students and their suburban counterparts, provided the instruction is good and enrichment programs sound.

Strategies for attracting and keeping good teachers in low - performing schools — such as alternative certification, special training to teach urban students, financial incentives, and mentoring — will be evaluated.

Our results should be helpful for many policymakers who are concerned about urban students like those we study.

She discusses her hope that the collaboration will produce teachers better prepared to teach in urban schools — and higher - achieving urban students.

Clinical interventions are designed to teach positive behavior skills and strategies, and address the underlying causes of disruptive behaviors among urban students.

For example, urban students generally have higher achievement levels than rural / remote students.

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

In some ways, the Catholic - school problem mirrors that of charter schools, a sector that is essentially competing for many of the same urban students.

The club offers urban students an opportunity to participate in activities that are fun, educational and physically active.

Those allies saw an opportunity to use urban students of color as a wedge to break down the alliances defending public education.

They prevent urban students, for example, from enrolling in suburban schools that typically have higher - income families and sometimes more lavish budgets.

The corporation was formed to assist local urban students to complete high school, attend higher education, and contribute to their local, regional and global community.

Millions of urban students arrive to school already two years behind, and leave schools without even basic math and reading skills, which can set them back for the rest of their lives.

This physical setting presents urban students with challenges and obstacles, while it also provides a sense of family and community.

Highly effective teachers demonstrate daily the compassion, skills, collaboration, and perseverance necessary to ensure success for urban students.

Urban students in grades 3 - 5 received inquiry - science instruction.

Research shows the achievement gap between urban students and their more affluent peers increases significantly in the 4th grade.

Marcey Sorensen believes urban students who experience campus life first hand will be better prepared to apply to and attend college fit schools.

Under Bob's leadership, Envision Education put in practice a highly successful redesign model that has opened a path to college and college retention for underserved urban students at Envision's three Bay Area arts and technology high schools.

Despite his dispute with how the state data is being used, Bauer is not saying the charter schools aren't doing a good job for black urban students.

A passion for serving urban students from diverse backgrounds and a strong commitment to social justice and equity

Garcia brings to the council an understanding of the struggles faced by many urban students.

The authors concluded that when the curriculum is highly specified, developed, and aligned with professional development and administrative support, the use of standards - based, inquiry - science curriculum can lead to standardized achievement test gains in historically underserved urban students.

I've also received training in the University of Texas at El Paso's systemic initiative targeting minority students, and I piloted Connected Math for urban students as principal at my previous school.

On 2015 NAEP assessments, only one in three eighth - grade rural students were proficient in math or reading, about where urban students scored and well below their suburban peers.

LUMIN's organizers determined to reverse that trend by developing a network of high performing schools focused on academic excellence, leadership development and spiritual growth; and supported by human care and social services designed to address the numerous «barriers to learning» confronted by urban students.

It's time for the movement to embrace an inclusive «Social Justice Plus» strategy that aims to give urban students access to private, charter and suburban schools.

Driven by the belief that technology could be used to engage urban students struggling to read and write, Mrs. Rohatyn joined forces with former teachers, principals and technology experts and founded Teaching Matters in 1994.

And online courses have the potential to liberate the quality of education from a student's zip code by, for example, allowing rural and low - income urban students access to AP classes now clustered in suburban schools.

At the same time, research confirms the critical impact that teachers and school leaders have on urban student achievement; and by extension, the tremendous need for highly effective K - 12 professional preparation and development.

[A Council of the Great City Schools» report «Beating the Odds» released in March 2004 indicated that urban students made gains in reading and mathematics in the first year of NCLB.]

«I chose Harvard because I knew I would learn to create and implement structural reforms benefitting urban students that align with my teaching philosophy.»

Voucher programs narrowly targeted to income - disadvantaged urban students reach a particular student population that appears to benefit most from access to private schooling.

The School Choice 1.0 failed urban students insomuch as it failed to unlock the suburbs.

The pilot program would be geared to help urban students prepare for the Connecticut Academic Performance Test in 2008, when it is scheduled to be administered on computers.

The federal private school voucher program is an exemplar subject for study because self - selection is assumed to be a major influence on whether or not a low - income urban student attends a private school.