Her way out came in the form of a federal program that gained her access to a rich suburban school, where she was one of only a handful of African-Americans.
FORBES: The Education Of Oprah Winfrey: How She Saved Her South African School
In struggling urban schools in particular, students "can't afford to have a single great teacher cut in a way that maybe a kid in a suburban school district could, " he said.
WSJ: Newark Lays Off Newest Teachers, Even If They're the Best Teachers
Therefore, there should be no problem in judging the effectiveness of those teachers in an inner-city school such as Hurlingham and Chelsea, or a suburban school, or indeed a selective school.
Yet the Copely-Fairlawn School District felt she was lying about being a resident, and hired a private eye to follow her, videotaping Williams-Bolar leaving her public housing home and dropping her children off at the suburban school.
Howard Brim takes public transportation east from the city's predominantly African-American West End to a suburban high school that has an equally strong academic and athletic program.
Set in a suburban high school, Lilley introduced us to Mr G, a Broadway theatrical impresario trapped inside the body of a camp high school teacher - perhaps the funniest Australian comic creation since Norman Gunston, a hapless television reporter from Wollongong who rose to pre-eminence in the 1970s.
Tension in a suburban New York school district is rooted in an unusual dynamic: The families who send their children to public schools are mostly Hispanic and African-American.
There's also an article by reporter Hiroko Tashiro, former head of the parent-teacher association at a suburban Tokyo elementary school, on the anxieties that her daughter--and millions of Japanese schoolchildren--face in the nation's rigid education system.
LITTLETON, Colorado (CNN) -- After word from the bomb squad that a suburban Denver high school was safe, investigators entered the building on Wednesday to collect evidence and photograph the scene of the rampage that left 15 people dead, including two teen-age suspects.
It all began when a student at Monarch High School in suburban Denver was hauled into the principal's office on suspicion of smoking cigarettes on school grounds.
Louis Park High School in suburban Minneapolis, he was "serious about my art, " and lucky enough to have an art teacher, Robert "Doc" Anderson, who both recognized and encouraged Oxborough's talent.
Holloway, 18, disappeared while visiting Aruba with about 100 classmates celebrating their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and was last seen leaving the nightclub with the three youths.
CNN: Prosecutor: Crime reporter's info may help Holloway case
Grandview High School in suburban St.
FORBES: SAPVoice: Finally! The First Large Public Rollouts of Android, PlayBook Tablets
The Internet is changing the rules for one school district in suburban Chicago.
The sophomore, who played his high school ball in suburban Atlanta, urged his teammates to complete the trip to the Georgia Dome.
Though Paul had a successful high school career in suburban Los Angeles, he ended up at Division II Chadron State in Nebraska.
Kuhlmeier, a case in which high school students in suburban St.
"I'm a big advocate of low fees, and the new regulations have caused an extra layer of fees, " says Richard Nichols, a high-school teacher in suburban Chicago.
Speaking in a high school gym in suburban Detroit, Biden sadly recalled that it was McCain who was the victim of false ads and other such attacks during the primary season of 2000.
Scott has known Pettine since his high school playing days in suburban Philadelphia.
At a suburban campus of the Shanghai Vocational School of Technology and Business, half the students are migrants and half are local Shanghainese (five years ago, only one student in seven was a migrant).
As whites began to leave Little Rock's inner city and increasingly place their children in suburban and private schools, Little Rock School District's schools became increasingly African-American.
In Indian Country, 1 in 3 children are overweight or obese before their 5th birthday and a national survey of American Indian and Alaska Native high school students from urban and suburban areas found that 18.9 percent are obese.
After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.
Earlier Thursday, school officials announced that Columbine High, in suburban Denver, would be closed indefinitely.
Then he's off to another grade school, 25 miles south and a world away, in suburban Matawan, N.
Beale planned to vote at a school in Chicago, Halvorson was set to cast a ballot at a suburban community center and Kelly voted early.
That's exactly what Kelley Williams-Bolar did, pulling her 12- and 16-year-old daughters out of the decrepit school they attended in Akron, Ohio, and enrolling them in a suburban district where her father lived.
Raised in suburban Long Island, Ruddy earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics, signed on as a journalist first at the New York Post, then as a national correspondent for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
Born and raised in western New York, Beilein began his coaching career in high school, spent four years at the community college level, and one in Division III at Nazareth in suburban Rochester, N.
应用推荐