Sentences with phrase «with urban students»

The council's Beating the Odds VI report, a city - by - city analysis of student performance, recently revealed that urban students» scores on state assessments in reading and math as well as on the more rigorous federal test — the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-- are rising, with urban students making the most gains in mathematics.

«The first time we brought our small - town, somewhat sheltered kids together with the urban students — most of whom live in the shadows of Chicago's skyscrapers but have never once been to the heart of the Loop or a major museum — one of them pondered, «What are the real differences between life in Effingham and life in Chicago?»»

Not exact matches

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.»

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).

[United Muslim Association] co-sponsored the event with sixteen other student groups including Campus Crusade for Christ and the Muslim Urban Professionals (known to members as «muppies»).

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, etc..

I work with engineers, academics, students and volunteers to create a closed - loop urban model.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

L.A. Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday to ban the purchase of chickens that have been raised with antibiotics.

Now starting her forty - second year, Reveta Bowers is the Head of School at The Center for Early Education, an urban pre-school through 6th grade Los Angeles independent school with 538 students.

At 9:30 a.m. Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will meet with students from Brooklyn's Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice, Senate Chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

If we proceed on those terms... David can listen rather more to Conservative MPs, who represent the real people of this country, and give rather less regard to the Liberal Democrat intellectual urban elite, with their student politics idea of reforming the constitution and taking forward green policies.

Aggie Lane of the Urban Jobs Task Force said they are working with students at the Syracuse University Community Development Law Clinic to try to come up with state legislation so larger industrial development agencies can not encroach on smaller ones.

To celebrate this historic effort, one of the Tata group companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will host a «Read - A-Loud» with pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students at Urban Scholars Community School, where each of these 300 + students will receive two books to add to their personal libraries at home.»

«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.

- «[D] evelop a new commuter rail and multi-modal station in downtown Buffalo and completing Buffalo's light rail extension to University at Buffalo's North Campus will provide 20,000 + students access to downtown Buffalo and the waterfront, as well as connect urban job seekers with suburban employment centers, helping Buffalo to deliver economic inclusion for all the region's workers.»

The Urban Youth Collaborative's 28 - page report, complete with charts, statistics, footnotes and an executive summary, shows that the roughly 33,000 students in the 21 high schools that have completed their phase - outs since 2000 had exceptionally high drop - out and discharge rates.

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

Yoon and her co-author, Hyeongmin Christian Kim, PhD, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, conducted four studies with urban consumers and university students.

WSU is an urban commuter institution with a total student enrollment of more than 31,000 students, of which 23.84 % are African American, 5.47 % are Asian Pacific Islander, 1.94 % are Hispanic, and 0.38 % are American Indian / Alaskan Native.

Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.

Researchers with the Urban Education Lab and the UChicago Crime Lab are evaluating the effects of Match's tutoring model and BAM mentoring for CPS students.

«Metropolitan areas look like carbon footprint hurricanes, with dark green, low - carbon urban cores surrounded by red, high - carbon suburbs,» said Christopher Jones, a doctoral student working with Kammen in the Energy and Resources Group.

The researchers focused on data from 1,680 teachers in 200 urban schools, along with their more than 50,000 students in grades six through nine.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

The MSc programme offers each student a creative combination of problem - based learning (PBL) and realistic projects with «hands - on» challenges that equip the student to address challenges pertaining to e.g. climate change, temporary urban development projects, urban mobility, projects and strategies of the culture city, the urban landscape and city growth.

Working with community members ranging from scientists to engineers, students, and neighbors, she co-creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

For example, we might share with a Mentor that the student with whom he is working is a 7th - grade student at a public school in an underserved urban area in a large east coast city.

I ran my first urban meditation day retreat just before Christmas and during the preparation of the day, the day itself, as well as with the feedback received from the students that attended, it made me realise how much knowledge you had shared with us - even more so than i had realised at the time.

We are a group of postgraduate students studying Urban Design at Newcastle University with backgrounds consisting of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape.

We are a group of postgraduate students studying Urban Design at Newcastle University with backgrounds consisting of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

A decade ago, the Cleveland Heights - University Heights City School District in Ohio set out on a daunting task of taking a large urban high school with 2,000 students and breaking it up into five smaller units housed in different parts of the building.

The lab set up four different models in four cities with low - performing urban school districts — Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C. — and over two school years, handed out a total of $ 6.3 million to 38,000 students.

We chose three urban districts with high percentages of minority and low - income students (at least 60 percent on both counts) in each region (Northeast, Midwest, South, West).

In New South Wales, GTANSW has worked with the Department of Planning and Environment to develop lesson plans for Year 7 and 8 students exploring urban and regional planning.

Since 2007, the proportion of D.C. students scoring proficient or above on the rigorous and independent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) more than doubled in fourth grade reading and more than tripled in fourth grade math, bringing Washington up to the middle of the pack of urban school districts at that grade level, while the city's black students largely closed gaps with African American students nationwide.

In response to that question, students from both communities will make day - in - the - life films, with the Effingham / Teutopolis kids teaching their urban peers the art of videography and storytelling.

Lunch provided an opportunity for Bersin to speak with some of HGSE's Urban Scholars and doctoral students about education.

This incredible organization uses technology to connect students in urban schools to compete in slams with students in other cities.

The past decade has seen a relative surge in research conducted in urban, underperforming schools focused on doing exactly this — providing students with deep, language - and content - based instruction, with a focus on teaching both specialized vocabulary and the specialized structures of language in academic speech and text.

I am the author or co-author of about 20 books related to behavior and motivation including Discipline With Dignity and Meeting students where they live: Motivation in Urban Schools.

As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

The fact that 72.6 percent of Ohio's charter schools operate in urban areas likely has something to do with the fact that the state's suburbs continue to opt out of enrolling students from other districts.

BOB isn't the only garden bus driving around: The Green Urban Lunch Box in Salt Lake City hosts summer camps on a bus to teach K — 3 students about plant biology and healthy eating, in partnership with the University of Utah and the local YMCA.

David Riley, executive director of the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative, talked with Education World about this years Inclusive Schools Week theme and the progress U.S. schools are making in meeting the needs of all students.

As his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gap.