Sentences with phrase «urban public school reform»

In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

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In fact, several urban union locals, in Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and public school choice.

Robin J. Lake has studied public charter schools and urban school system reforms since 1993.

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

In Free Schools, Kozol wrote that urban parents should exit the public school system because reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of public school.»

, Kozol wrote that urban parents should exit the public school system because reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of public school.»

No reform short of unloading a dump - truck filled with hundred - dollar bills on the campus of each urban public school will solve today's education ills.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distSchool's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school distschool districts.

It was launched in 2004 as part of a three - sector strategy for urban education reform that also included increased funding for public charter - school facilities and added funds for educational improvements in District of Columbia public schools.

Despite years of education reform efforts, many urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.

A 2003 survey of urban public - school superintendents that one of us (Fuller) conducted for the University of Washington found that more than two - thirds of the administrators in states with collective bargaining said union contracts impede reform.

The author of this paper investigates the relevance of Waldorf education for public urban school reform.

Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the reforms.

PN: While many public schools, especially in urban areas, are in dire need of reform, I am concerned that there is a lack of clarity about why past reforms have failed and insufficient understanding about the direction change must take if we are to obtain better results.

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the npublic school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nschool system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nPublic School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nSchool (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

, A decade of urban school reform: Persistence and progress in the Boston Public Schools (pp. 219 — 242).

Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which was recognized as the best urban school district in America in 2002.

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What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

Co-hosted by the Indianapolis Urban League, 100 Black Men, School Choice Indiana, Stand for Children, La Plaza, Education Reform Now, Lacy Leadership Association and UNCF, the event attracted stakeholders from across the community to hear Dr. Fuller's ideas and observations about public education in the U.S.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

According to a published report in the Connecticut Post, the «Education Reform Plan» that Governor Malloy will announce later this week will include Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor's plan to give charter schools more public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's poorest urban districts.

In 1999, Pete established Excellent Education for Everyone, to reform urban public schools in New Jersey through parental school choice.

This report takes a look at whether the underperforming Camden Public School System can set an example for effective urban school reform for the coSchool System can set an example for effective urban school reform for the coschool reform for the country.

The college utilizes its Teaching & Urban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environUrban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environurban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environurban environment.

What evidence do we have that the CommPACT model (a reform model that is supported by the American Federation of Teachers - Connecticut, the Connecticut Education Association, the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, the Connecticut Association of Urban Superintendents, and the Connecticut Federation of School Administrators, in addition to UConn's Neag School of Education) is turning schools around?

These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform: The Success of California Charter Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public sSchools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public sschools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public schoolsschools.

CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education reform advocates see as crucial to fixing urban schools.

-LSB-...] Curator and writer Carla Acevedo - Yates reviews an urban art project by Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, «reForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inreForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inschool established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission inSchool Reform Commission inReform Commission in 2013.