Sentences with phrase «about urban school reform»

There is a hot debate raging in New York City and across the nation about how to effectively bring about urban school reform.

Currently reading: I'm planning a course about urban school reform in the spring, so I am reading a lot of books on education reform.

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Little surprise that in 2013, Harvard University tapped him to teach about system - reform in urban schools...

«We were all interested in district - level reforms and thought why not form a team and see how we could do in a high pressure, interesting situation with people who know a lot about urban school districts,» Spears explains.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

Among other things, he will teach a course about systemic reform in urban schools.

«Even though the law says a lot about parent involvement, parents are usually on the other end of one - way communication,» said Lauren E. Allen, the senior program director for accountability at the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, based in Chicago...

Yet its own experience in Memphis raises questions about whether the commitment to whole - school reform is the best strategy for improving educational outcomes in troubled urban schools.

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 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 nSchool (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

Corbett and Wilson's ongoing studies about the perspectives and roles of students in school improvement were perhaps best elaborated on in the findings from their comprehensive study of Philadelphia schools, published in Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (school improvement were perhaps best elaborated on in the findings from their comprehensive study of Philadelphia schools, published in Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (School Reform and the Teachers They Want (2001).

In the opening minutes of the new education «reform» documentary Waiting For Superman, director Davis Guggenheim has a moment of candor about the charter schools he hails as a panacea for urban education — he admits that most of them are not exactly getting extraordinary results.

The Coalition for Community Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among others.

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.

One of my biggest issues about Adamowski has been that he targets urban (or minority) school districts for his so - called reforms that amount to no more than institutionalized racism.

At an August 19, 2013 ceremony at the school, Bridgeport's «superintendent» and corporate education reform industry guru Paul Vallas gushed about Jumoke and its holding company, The Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE).