NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Hendrie, Caroline – Education Week, 2006
After violence in poor immigrant neighborhoods shook the country last year, France responded by focusing more resources on schools facing the most pressing disadvantages. This article discusses on a project dubbed as "ambition reussite" or ambition success, which refocuses the extra resources granted to needy schools under France's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Aspiration
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2006
Picked up by immigration authorities, undocumented children who are apprehended without their parents are sent to shelters throughout the United States and educated while they wait out deportation proceedings. At one such shelter in Miami, new students appear almost as rapidly as others leave. The shelter is run by Catholic Charities of Miami…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration, Federal Government, Foreign Countries
Hendrie, Caroline – Education Week, 2006
This article deals with an initiative embarked upon by the government of France one year after widespread youth violence broke out in many disadvantaged communities in France. The initiative is aimed at adapting its 25-year-old "priority education" program to a landscape that has dramatically changed. The initiative is the centerpiece of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Violence, Educational Change
Hurst, Marianne D. – Education Week, 2005
The Columbine High School shootings were still fresh in the minds of educators across the nation in May 1999, when school district officials in the small, quiet town of Port Huron, Michigan, unearthed a similarly violent student plot targeted for one of their middle schools. Four students from Holland Woods Middle School had allegedly written out…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Safety, Violence, Middle School Students