Putting Performance on the Map: Locating Quality Schools in the Kansas City, Missouri School District

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
IFF Chicago
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Missouri School District

The Use of Immitance Screening by the Kansas City, Missouri Public School District

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Sue Queen ◽  
Fran Moses ◽  
Suzanne Wood ◽  
Dee Harryman ◽  
Carol Couty
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
School District ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Public School District

scholarly journals A study of the elementary math program utilized by a mid-Missouri school district

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lisa J. Barabas
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Math Instruction ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Math Program ◽  
Elementary Math ◽  
Accelerated Math ◽  
Missouri School District ◽  
Math Students

This qualitative study focused on one Mid-Missouri school district and was designed to collect and analyze teachers' and administrators' perceptions regarding the elementary math program for the purpose of program improvement. The district utilized ability grouping including acceleration for elementary math instruction. This study was analyzed using a constructivist framework and consideration was given to the theories of both Piaget and Vygotsky. Based on teachers' and administrators' perceptions, the accelerated math classes met the needs of the highest ability math students. Overall, according to teachers, the elementary math program did not meet the needs of the lowest students at the fourth and fifth grade levels where the accelerated math classes were being utilized.

scholarly journals From Jefferson to Banneker: The Intersection of Race, Demographic Change, and School Naming Practices in Kansas City's Segregated School System, 1940-1953

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter William Moran
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
School District ◽  
School System ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Black Schools ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Segregated Schools ◽  
American Students ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of African American migration into Kansas City, Missouri, on the city's segregated school system in the 1940s and early 1950s. Substantial increases in the number of African American elementary school-age children produced chronic overcrowding in the segregated black schools, which was not easily relieved due to the legal requirement to operate racially segregated schools. In order to address the crowding, the school district was compelled on four occasions in the late 1940s and early 1950s to convert an entire school from white use to African American use. In each case, the school district took the symbolic step of changing the name of the school so that it was clearly identifiable as a school for African American students. The school district's practice of renaming schools coded those schools by race and further signaled that the surrounding area had become a black neighborhood.

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