Sentences with phrase «as urban school reform»

Dr. Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society as well as the author of several books.

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Yet the fates of urban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Reurban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational ReUrban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.

Educators discussed using community organizing as a strategy to build civic participation and power in low - income communities and for change in urban schools at the Thursday, March 9, Askwith Forum, «Community Organizing and School Reform.»

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.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districtAs long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districtas the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districtas well as the large urban districtas the large urban districts.

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.

Thus it's no surprise that professionals and suburbanites tend to regard «reforms» — from merit pay to charter schooling — as measures that they'll tolerate as long as they're reserved for urban schools, but that they won't stand for in their own communities.

Not only has he held the top post in Pittsburgh for 12 years, he has also helped the Pittsburgh school district earn a reputation as one of the most innovative, reform - oriented urban districts in the country.

While Baltimore provides a cautionary tale for urban district leaders implementing the portfolio strategy, it should not be seen as the death knell for reform within a traditional school system.

Urban school districts tend to lose their focus, hopping from reform to reform, as new leaders with ideas of their own take the helm.

Common Core, teacher - evaluation reform, new CBAs, technology, schools within schools — the list goes on endlessly — all of these do nothing to alter the urban district's role as dominant - default school operator.

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as...

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay...

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

With a background that includes teaching in independent schools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay Area for New Leaders, a division of New Leaders for New Schools — jumped at the chaschools, management consulting, and urban school reform, Holleran — who also spent four years as executive director of Bay Area for New Leaders, a division of New Leaders for New Schools — jumped at the chaSchools — jumped at the challenge.

The most important education reform, in Kozol's view, is for urban schools to have as much money as the richest suburban ones.

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.

The MPCP was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense.

This case study describes how one urban elementary school in a high - reform district and state has been able to develop strong connections with community businesses and organizations as part of its program of school, family, and community partnerships.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidAs the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwidas the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

So «Tee - Jay» does not look so bad when tested by Virginia's standards, but Freeman pays the state standard little mind, as its students go on further to AP courses and tests: «A reform that might have tied urban and suburban schools together has been transformed into yet another one that reinforces the gap that separates them.

As the first noneducator to take the helm of a large urban district, Vallas inspired a trend in urban school reform across the nation.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach UnifieAs a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unifieas merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

Her research reflects urban school reform initiatives such as the community school model, democratic community engagement, culturally relevant family engagement, and the intersection of housing and educational policy, particularly as it impacts vulnerable families.

In addition to being a key - team member for many of CTAC's partnerships, Mr. Eglinton served as CTAC's co-project director for the TIF - supported Leadership for Educators» Advanced Performance Initiative (LEAP) with the Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, directed CTAC's National Urban Reform Network, led site research and evaluations teams in Christina (DE) Denver (CO) and Newark (NJ) and trained district leadership teams, community collaboratives, corporate leadership groups and policymaking bodies at local, state and national levels.

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 design concept comes from Rosenstock's experience as a former teacher and headmaster in Boston as well as from his experience as director of the federal New Urban High Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reUrban High Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school Schools project, which studied urban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reurban high schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school schools that were using school - to - work strategies as a lever for whole school reform.

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.

And Houston, under the former leadership of Bush's Secretary of Education Rod Paige and an enlightened board of trustees, has been a beacon for urban school reform, having achieved well - deserved recognition as the best urban school district in America.

As the evidence of urban school reforms based on the Superman model accumulates, it is becoming clear that most have been unable to turn a single superintendency into a continuing regime: a lasting organization that continues after the high profile superintendent leaves.

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.

As seen with the tremendous growth of charter schools within urban communities and even in films such as The Lottery, these families will support school reform with their feet and with their voiceAs seen with the tremendous growth of charter schools within urban communities and even in films such as The Lottery, these families will support school reform with their feet and with their voiceas The Lottery, these families will support school reform with their feet and with their voices.

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.

Program Benefits This program allows students from local colleges and universities to come together and interface with state - level and school district stakeholders, as well as university faculty, to address issues relevant to school - community collaboration, and urban education reform.

Rabinowitz questioned whether the embattled charter organization, also known as Family Urban Schools of Excellence, should continue running Dunbar School under a year - old arrangement through the state Commissioner's Network, a reform initiative that gives millions in extra funding to struggling schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround»Schools of Excellence, should continue running Dunbar School under a year - old arrangement through the state Commissioner's Network, a reform initiative that gives millions in extra funding to struggling schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround»schools that implement a three - to 5 - year «turnaround» plan.

In her commentary piece, Wendy Lecker reminded readers that as part of Malloy's education reform effort, Hartford's Milner School, a school where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy scSchool, a school where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy scschool where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy scschool management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy sSchools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy schoolsschools.

Urban school districts are increasingly considering this model as a way to reform their school systems, believing that it can ensure equity in school choice and better hold schools accountable for performance.

As discussed on Cloaking Inequity recently in the post Taylor v. Dewey: The 100 - year Trickle - Down vs. Pedagogical Debate / Fight in Education Reform, there is a breed of educational policy leaders in the mold of Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee that prioritize entering urban school district administrative positions to execute educational

Yet education traditionalists, ivory tower civil rights activists, and dyed - in - the - wool progressives, still stuck on integration as school reform, would rather criticize charters for supposedly perpetuating segregation (even though most urban communities largely consist of one race or class) than embrace a tool for helping poor and minority families give their children opportunities for high - quality education.

The success of high - quality charter schools serving mostly - minority children in those urban communities (where the schools tend to also be segregated thanks to pernicious zip code education policies) also proves lie to the idea of integration as school reform.

In his excellent 1998 book, Fixing Urban Schools, he outlines the roots of disagreement among school reform advocates as between intrinsic and extrinsic reforms.

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.

The U.S. Department of Education, which has often highlighted the District's school system as a model for urban school reform, was lukewarm.