Sentences with phrase «urban students in»

Through its mission to «eliminate the achievement gap in our lifetime,» Rocketship targets minority, low - income, urban students in tandem with a particular interest in engaging these students» parents as well (Rocketship Schools 2017a).

The analysis from the charter school association, which used data collected by the Michigan Department of Education, concluded the largest gaps were found in the MEAP reading scores — as high as 9.3 percentage points difference in eighth grade; with 43.6 percent proficient for black urban students in charter schools, compared to 34.3 percent proficient for black urban students in traditional public schools, said Buddy Moorehouse, spokesman for the state's charter school association.

I wanted to participate in creating new schools that would better serve urban students in Oakland Unified School District.

Professor McDermott works with MA and MAT students, encouraging student teachers to develop classrooms that engage all urban students in rigorous content in a warm and inviting environment.

The report states: «It can not be said with certainty that clones of these choice programs, or an exportation of specific pedagogical techniques and strategies used, will necessarily ensure similar performance success for urban students in general.»

Most essential, a federal stipulation should require that those urban students in the greatest need (those with lower achievement scores and those attending the most troubled and most crowded schools) receive priority.

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

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

The PATHWAYS Program is a unique campus - community collaboration that provides mental health services to urban students in the Boston Public Schools.

The urban students in this study were encouraged to select books that were slightly above their current reading level, and researchers continually assessed the appropriateness of the challenge through conferences with each student during every session.

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

Urban students in grades seven and eight who were engaged in the LeTUS inquiry - based science curriculum demonstrated higher standardized test scores than students engaged in traditional instruction in a sample of 5,000 students.

The majority of urban students in about half the states fail to meet even minimum national standards in mathematics, reading, and science, finds the report, Quality Counts» 98, scheduled for release Jan. 8.

The community school model is based in the idea that if educators can engage an urban student in middle school, they have a better chance of getting that student to graduate from high school.

Not exact matches

Keith Urban and Underwood dueted, while Harry Connick Jr. saluted a music center in New Orleans» Katrina battered - Ninth Ward by inviting a young student, Marley Fletcher, to join him on «It's a Wonderful World.»

She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

A new tool from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., lets people dig into student loan information on a state — and even county — level.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is the jewel of Parkland, graduating top - notch students and athletes who grow up in a dignified affluence far removed from the gritty urban sprawl of Miami.

RAHB provides two $ 1,000 Outstanding Student Scholarships to the top student in the first year and the top student in the second year of the Urban Planning Program at Mohawk CStudent Scholarships to the top student in the first year and the top student in the second year of the Urban Planning Program at Mohawk Cstudent in the first year and the top student in the second year of the Urban Planning Program at Mohawk Cstudent in the second year of the Urban Planning Program at Mohawk College.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

Every student should be strongly encouraged, if not required, to take at least one quarter of clinical pastoral training and another in an urban internship; the first would help equip him to be a change agent in individual relationship, and the second would help equip him to be a change agent in organizations, structures, and social systems.

Wallace Katz, a longtime student of American urban areas, suggests in a recent Commonweal article that resources are available for institutional renewal.

A student of mine went jogging with his father in their urban neighborhood.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcIn countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

The department in 2017 will also open a 5,000 - square - foot urban market near a new student apartment complex.

Based on this quote from Urban Meyer, the OSU coach doesn't think Cardale Jones was the best student in Columbus.

But a 2014 study of nearly 17,000 students in a large urban district in Kentucky found the opposite.

A 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research revealed that students at five urban EL middle schools advanced ahead of matched peers at comparison schools by an average of ten months in math and seven months in reading over the course of three years.

According to a study by Byers, Dillard, Easton, Henry, McDermott, Oberman, and Uhramcher (1996), students at Urban Waldorf went from having 26 % of third grade students reading at or above grade level in 1992 to 63 % at or above grade level in 1995.

To remedy this problem, some districts, particularly those in large urban areas, have adopted universal, in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast in their classrooms at the start of the school day.

Students in DC Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.

This year, students are try to answer the question «Why are big trees important, especially in an urban ecosystem?»

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.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal standards.

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.

«Five years prior, they funnel in students that need additional resources and support without giving them additional resources and support,» said Maria Fernandez, senior coordinator of the NYC Urban Youth Collective and a member of the group.

High Achievement New York, a business - backed group that is supportive of the Common Core standards, is pointing to the «opt - in» rates of students in the state's urban areas.

The plan includes an expansion of the state's Urban Youth Jobs Program, a large increase in affordable housing and homeless services funding, and a student loan program that would supplement the federal Pay As You Earn income - based loan repayment program.

ALBANY — «The Power Broker» may weigh down countless bookshelves in the state Capitol, but for New Yorkers who don't happen to be students of politics or urban planning, Robert Moses isn't exactly a household name anymore.

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This Green House Christopher Sedita is the founder of the «Green Buildings» program at the Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, which prepares students for careers in 21st - century building design.

Also at noon, Urban Youth Collaborative, Desis Rising Up and Moving, The Point, Girls for Gender Equity, and Rockaway Youth Task Force are joined by NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso to protest what they describe as «the unrelenting over-policing of students of color in New York City,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The inter-professional model of care will result in enhanced patient satisfaction, and improved health outcomes while increasing dental student awareness of urban health issues.»

The issue of safety and bullying, specifically, came under scrutiny since a student was fatally stabbed in a classroom at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation last month.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenIn Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievemenin student achievement.

A panel consisting of former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin (D - Bronx), student Betty Mahmud of the New York City Urban Debate League and Terryl Demendonca of the Misunderstood Youth Center argued that corrupt politicians come and are prosecuted in all colors and ethnicities.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

«The fact that someone who grew up in the most urban area of the nation — Hell's Kitchen — could be welcomed into dairy barns in Delhi, and small businesses in Monticello, and mix with today's college students at New Paltz, while returning home at night to Orange County and being welcomed there also, is something that is a testament to the people of the 42nd Senate District,» said Bonacic.

In urban central cities, funding levels per student tend to be at least average, but student needs (e.g. for special education for students with learning disabilities and for general support for very poor students such as homeless students) tend to be much greater.