Sentences with phrase «small school reform efforts»

High School SLC and Small School Reform Efforts Vol.

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In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

Part of the reason that the small - schools effort was so remarkable is that it bucked the reform instinct to start when kids are young; it was also notable because it was so long in coming.

New York has proved that high school reform is possible; that boosting graduation rates of the poor and unprepared, even if the effort is begun in high school, is possible; that small alone is not enough; that choice alone is not enough.

The mayor's reform efforts were aided by the fact that veteran teachers and administrators were excited again about school because of the small - schools efforts spearheaded by New Visions.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

ASCEND is one of more than a dozen small, autonomous schools that have opened in Oakland, California, as part of a grassroots effort to reform the ailing school system.

It was one of the first five small, autonomous schools to be approved by the beleaguered Oakland Unified School District, the fruits of a nearly ten - year - long community effort to institute grassroots reform for Oakland's poor, mostly minority students.

For all the activity and buzz in and around new small schools, only 10 percent of all high school students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School Allschool students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School AllSchool Alliance.

Between 2014 and 2015 there were small but consistent declines in support for a range of reform proposals, though majorities still express support for many school reform efforts.

His research has also explored detracking, small - school reform, tuition - tax - credit vouchers, and the change process associated with equity - minded reform efforts — reforms aimed at benefiting those who hold less powerful school and community positions.

For our analysis of the relationship between district improvement efforts and state influences (see also section 3.3), we focused mainly on the small - to medium - sized districts, given that more than 90 % of school districts in the United States serve less than 25,000 students, and given our impression that much research on the district role in educational reform is concentrated on the experiences of large, urban districts.

Unfortunately, this reform effort initially included a policy that allowed new small schools to exclude English Language Learners (ELLs), and many small schools still do not provide programs that ELLs need.

The battle is even more illogical, the author contends, when compared with the opposing trend in urban areas, where reform efforts concentrate on breaking down dysfunctionally large schools and forming new, smaller learning communities.

I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

Since change takes time, our ability to analyze the impact of the reform effort has thus far been limited by the small number of schools which have been in the project for at least 2 years.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's scschool would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's scSchool if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.

At the present time, a small number of studies describes how superintendents and their staffs work with state policies and regulations to ensure authentic reflection of such reform efforts while, at the same time, doing justice to local district and school priorities.