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Ryan Middle School (Houston)
James D. Ryan Middle School was a secondary school located in Houston, Texas, United States. The Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan, a magnet middle school, now occupies the campus. The school, which served grades 6 through 8, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. It served much Third Ward area and a very small portion of Midtown Houston. The campus is south of Downtown Houston, and in proximity to the University of Houston. History After Yates High School relocated from 2610 Elgin to 3703 Sampson in 1958, Ryan Colored Junior High School opened in Yates's former location. Ryan was named after the first principal of Yates High.Kellar, William Henry. '' Make Haste Slowly: Moderates, Conservatives, and School Desegregation in Houston''. Texas A&M University Press, 1999. , 9781603447188. p31(Google Books PT12). Some older maps referred to the school as Yates Junior High School. Allan Turner of the ''Houston Chronicle'' said that the building served as an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baylor College Of Medicine Academy At Ryan
Baylor College of Medicine Academy at Ryan (BCMAR) is a magnet middle school in Houston Independent School District (HISD), located in the Third Ward, Houston, Texas. It is located in the former Ryan Middle School. It is in association with the Baylor College of Medicine. It is south of Downtown Houston, A press release stated that the school was to be modeled after the Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions. History On April 11, 2012 the HISD board voted to establish the school. The HISD board approved the conversion of the Ryan Middle School building into a magnet school. Jyoti Malhan was selected as the founding principal of the school. The goal was to have at least 100 6th grade students upon its opening. Malhan used her own cell phone to personally recruit students to BCM Ryan. The school received 450 applications even though it had not yet been established; the lottery admissions process selected 250 of them. - The source does not clarify which ranking is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WALIPP Prep
The Lawson Academy, formerly WALIPP-TSU Preparatory Academy (WALIPP Prep), is a charter middle school in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. It was established as waves of single sex public schools opened in American inner city communities circa the 2000s. The school focuses on students living in urban communities, but does not have a specific focus on students deemed to be "at risk". History It was established by the 501(c)(3) William A. Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity (WALIPP), headed by Audrey Lawson, the wife of the pastor emeritus of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, William Lawson. The nonprofit had been established on April 15, 1996. After members of the U.S. Congress expressed support for male-only and female-only education at the primary and secondary levels, and a federal law passed making it easier for single-gender schools to get federal funding, WALIPP opened the school in fall 2002. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Terrace, Houston
Washington Terrace is a subdivision in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. History Nelms Investment Company initially owned the 1,000 lots established in Washington Terrace, which began development in April 1924; G.E. Simpson Realty Service handled the sale of the houses. The first houses for sale were on Chartres Street, and the lot sizes ranged from to .Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston Review''. Winter 1981. pp. 178-202. CITED: p. 183. Washington Terrace was designed for middle-class families.Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston Review''. Winter 1981. pp. 178-202. CITED: p. 184. In 1927 it was annexed by the City of Houston.Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Terrace, Houston, Texas
Washington Terrace is a subdivision in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. History Nelms Investment Company initially owned the 1,000 lots established in Washington Terrace, which began development in April 1924; G.E. Simpson Realty Service handled the sale of the houses. The first houses for sale were on Chartres Street, and the lot sizes ranged from to .Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston Review''. Winter 1981. pp. 178-202. CITED: p. 183. Washington Terrace was designed for middle-class families.Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston Review''. Winter 1981. pp. 178-202. CITED: p. 184. In 1927 it was annexed by the City of Houston.Kaplan, Barry J. (University of Houston).Race, Income, and Ethnicity: Residential Change in a Houston Community, 1920-1970" ''The Houston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Manor/University Woods, Houston, Texas
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ''Lithocarpus'' (stone oaks), as well as in those of unrelated species such as ''Grevillea robusta'' (silky oaks) and the Casuarinaceae (she-oaks). The genus ''Quercus'' is native to the Northern Hemisphere, and includes deciduous and evergreen species extending from cool temperate to tropical latitudes in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and North Africa. North America has the largest number of oak species, with approximately 160 species in Mexico of which 109 are endemic and about 90 in the United States. The second greatest area of oak diversity is China, with approximately 100 species. Description Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with lobate margins in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaves with smooth margins. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Oaks, Houston, Texas
University Oaks is a subdivision in southeast Houston with approximately 240 homes located adjacent to the University of Houston. It is bounded by Wheeler Avenue to the north, South MacGregor Way to the south, Calhoun Road to the east, and Cullen Boulevard to the west.University Oaks " ''Harris County''. Retrieved on April 5, 2009. History University Oaks was first platted in 1939 and the land that the subdivision occupies was formerly owned by Ben Taub. The original deed included a that restricted homeowners from selling or leasing their houses to any groups other than "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnet School
In the U.S. education system, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities (usually school boards) as school zones that feed into certain schools. Attending them is voluntary. There are magnet schools at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. In the United States, where education is decentralized, some magnet schools are established by school districts and draw only from the district, while others are set up by state governments and may draw from multiple districts. Other magnet programs are within comprehensive schools, as is the case with several "schools within a school". In large urban areas, several magnet schools with different specializations may be combined into a single "center," such as Skyline High School in Dallas. Other countries have similar types of schools, such as specialist schools in the United Kingdom. Most of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey and Ida B. Wells. Leaders of the organization included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. Its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination". National NAACP initiatives include political lobbying, publicity efforts and litigation strategies developed by its legal team. The group enlarged its mission in the late 20th century by considering issues such as police misconduct, the status of black foreign refugees and questions of economic development. Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term ''colored people,'' referring to those with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Forward Times
The ''Houston Forward Times'' (FT) is a weekly newspaper headquartered in Houston, Texas. It is one of the largest black-owned newspapers in the city. It is published by the Forward Times Publishing Company, which also publishes other publications such as the '' Daily Cougar''. As of 2014, the ''FT'' is one of the few remaining self-printing black newspapers.Houston Forward Times " Handbook of Texas. Retrieved March 17, 2014. Julius Carter started the newspaper, which opened in 1960: Carter died in 1971 and his wife, Lenora Carter, took over the operations of the newspaper. The Forward Times Publishing Company began publishing it in 1977. She continued to publish and edit the newspaper, and was continuing to do so in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on Bissonnet Street in Houston's Upper Kirby district.Harris County Improvement District #3 ''Upper Kirby''. Retrieved August 16, 2021. Its transmitter is located near , in northeastern |
KHOU
KHOU (channel 11) is a television station in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Conroe, Texas, Conroe-licensed Quest (American TV network), Quest station KTBU (channel 55). Both stations share studios on Westheimer Road near Uptown Houston, while KHOU's transmitter is located near Missouri City, Texas, Missouri City, in unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend County. History The station first signed on the air on March 23, 1953, as KGUL-TV (either Gulf of Mexico or gull, seagull). It was founded by Paul Taft of the Taft Broadcasting Co. (no relation to Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting, company of the same name nor its associated Taft family). Originally licensed to Galveston, Texas, Galveston, it was the second television station to debut in the Houston media market, market (after KPRC-TV, channel 2), taking the secondary CBS affiliation from KPRC-TV as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
