Sentences with phrase «driven high school reform»

In Data - Driven High School Reform, Lachat writes, «Putting student learning at the center of school accountability requires the capacity to assess and use data to monitor student performance and to evaluate the extent to which new structures and approaches to curriculum, instruction and assessment result in higher levels of achievement» (2001).

Lachat, M.A. Data - Driven High School Reform.

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Spurred by rapid globalization and a shift toward an increasingly information - driven economy, nations throughout the world are reforming their schools in an effort to educate greater numbers of students to a higher skill level.

Those data have driven the contemporary reform movement, lending it the moral authority to push for higher standards, parental choice, and charter schools.

The goal in school reform is fairly simple — to replicate, school by school, classroom by classroom, those qualities that have always driven the highest - performing schools and classrooms.

Teach for America helped build today's no - excuses, high turnover, standards - and - accountability driven school reform movement.

Dr. Thompson's book, A Teacher's Tale: Learning, Loving and Listening to Our Kids, is a case study of the unintended negative effects of test - driven, competition - driven reform on an inner city high school in the Oklahoma City Public School Sschool in the Oklahoma City Public School SSchool System.

«Driven by the small schools movement, more attention started to go to reforming high schools about six or seven years ago.

And high - quality candidates are being driven away from the field by school budget cuts imposed during the recession and the vitriol that often surrounds the education reform debate, educators say.

Starting in the 2012 - 13 school year, Project LIFT operates as a semi-autonomous Learning Community within CMS, providing the initiative with CMS infrastructural support and access to an initial $ 55 Million investment of private resources to drive a multifaceted reform effort in Charlotte's highest poverty schools.

«While the federal government has been driving K - 8 education policy, states are leading the way on high school reform,» said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve.

Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job of teaching low - income youngsters to read, through the tale of how a package of reforms, including high - quality pre-K and intensive, data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.

Her interests are centered on education policy, particularly on teacher quality, data use in schools, technology - driven education reform, and military veterans in higher education.