Article: GRADUATION RATES LOWER IN BIG CITIES.(NEWS)

Article: Big Cities Missing Out on Education Reform, Study ...
The Washington Post;  March 16, 1988 ;     700+ words ...While recent education reforms have succeeded in many school systems, they have largely bypassed big cities, leaving millions of children in deteriorating urban schools, a prominent education foundation charged yesterday. In a bleak ...

Article: SCHOOL TESTS ON PAR WITH OTHER BIG CITIES'
The Boston Globe;  December 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... comparison of some of the country's largest school systems. The test gauges fourth- and eighth ... compares reasonably well with the other big cities," said Albert Beaton, a professor ... Educational Progress in the 1980s. "But the big cities as a whole don't do as well as the ...

Article: OVERKILL? ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCREENS KIDS FOR WEAPONS INDIANAPOLIS ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... screen elementary school students for weapons. Not even big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami have taken ... elementary school youngsters bringing guns to school. Other major school systems also said that such incidents are rare and that they see ...

Article: Urban Schools Face Teacher Shortage, Study Finds; Urgent Need ...
The Washington Post;  May 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Many of the nation's largest urban school systems are continuing to face severe teacher ... are going to be very difficult for school systems to deal with," said Michael Casserly ... 47 of the nation's largest urban school systems. "And this is really going to affect ...

Article: Her worship: cities look for a savior to transform their ...
Education Next;  December 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... superintendents have taken the helm in big cities from Washington, D.C., to Chicago ... for reforms. For the past ten years big cities have been searching for alternatives ... mayors have been moved to take over school systems in Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland ...

Article: DUAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS RETURNING.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  January 9, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... School Boards Association, and by a four-month study of school systems nationwide by The Boston Globe. The slippage has been most ... housing trend that, according to the 1990 Census, finds most big cities as racially divided as they were 20 years ago. "Blacks ...

Article: 17 BIG CITIES' GRAD RATES UNDER 50%.(FRONT)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... released today. The report, issued by America's Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely ...