Sentences with phrase «best school systems»

He said there was no relationship between increasing selection and how well school systems performed.

In classes we studied how the best schools and best school systems worldwide went to great lengths to foster environments where teachers learned from each other.

The numbers also add to questions about how well the school system is responding to its increasingly diverse community and whether more needs to be done.

The report looks at student outcome and efficiency, and how well the school systems in Newark are serving students and their families.

Better economic resources have allowed families to settle seasonally in more populated areas, improving their housing and living conditions, placing the farmers and their families in proximity of better school systems and higher education.

«This has led to a very vibrant charter school movement in Washington in part of the great search to find out what kind of education or educational system will establish better school systems for all — white, black, brown, yellow,» Ottaway says.

I watched Bush entertain a delegation of visiting legislators from North Carolina during an informal luncheon at his Coral Gables headquarters, an incisive and expert hour - long primer on building better school systems.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

«Everybody talks about how we have to make education so important in America, and here we are dismantling a really good school system.»

The OECD's head of education Andreas Schleicher has criticised plans to open new grammar schools in England, claiming there is no relationship between increasing selection and how well a school system performs.

DCPS is a vastly better school system than it was in 2007, when Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson took the reins.

A far better school system has emerged from the floodwaters.

While charter critics contend that allowing these schools into good school systems is the very antithesis of funding excellence, Gassner - Snyder says if her school were to open at full capacity — or 90 students in the first year — she'd hardly be siphoning away large amounts of money.

The world's best school systems depend on teacher collaboration, but the concept has not caught on in the U.S..

As Sir Michael Wilshaw, Ofsted's chief inspector said, «The question of how well our school system is preparing young people for the world of work has never been more important.

It's about economic development,» he said, adding that a good school system is often a key draw for attracting people to the area.

In order to better our school systems, make our streets safer, incentivize environmentally friendly habits, we must have every member of our community buy into, engage with, and work towards that vision,» said Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

What was once one of the best school systems in New York State is now facing declining enrollment as the number of young families with school - age children declines.

When the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and couldn't afford to buy a home in suburban Shaker Heights, which boasted one of the country's best school systems, Robert Black decided it would be better to rent than to own until his younger son graduated from high school.

Speaking to the Today programme, Willets, who is now the chair of think tank the Resolution Foundation, suggested that the best school systems around the world do not use a selective system and that a return to a grammar system would not successfully raise standards for all children.

Stand - alone charter schools need access to the same high - quality, pooled expertise that the best school systems and EMOs provide to their schools.

McKinsey & Co.'s most recent education report on how the best school systems improve cites evidence from Singapore, Finland, and elsewhere that improving overall performance can best be accomplished at the same time achievement gaps are closed.

Massachusetts is widely seen as having the best school system in the country: Just 2 percent of its high - schoolers drop out, for example, and its students» math and reading scores rank No. 1 nationally.

This amount represents a major infusion of funding for the state's schools, which have declined from their collective status as one of the best school systems in the nation in the 1970s.

State test data reveal significant achievement gaps yet to be addressed, even in high - spending, high - achieving Montgomery County, Maryland, considered by many to be one of the best school systems in the nation.

The best school systems in the world invest deeply in their teachers, they devise rigorous training and professional development, and they develop regular opportunities for collaboration.

Arlington has always had a good school system, as so many suburban area would claim.

A distinguishing trait of the world's best school systems - systems that regularly outperform the school systems in the United States - is that they «invest in high - quality preparation, mentoring and professional development for teachers and leaders, completely at government expense,» according to an international analysis.39 If U.S. school districts were to heed that finding, they would, for starters, provide mentoring for all novice principals for at least a year.

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It sounds like you didn't have a supportive or good school system.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

Designed to promote conversation about how to educate students for a rapidly changing and increasingly borderless and innovation - based world, this comprehensive and illuminating book from international education expert Vivien Stewart is not about casting blame; it is about understanding what the best school systems in the world are doing right for the purpose of identifying what U.S. schools — at the national, state, and local level — might do differently and better.

Meanwhile, Save Our Schools and state legislators on both sides of the aisle, wary of charters in good school systems, are trying to push through a variety of bills that would increase transparency in charter schools and subject charter - school applications to a local approval before the applicants could seek DOE approval.

In case after case, and in study after study, the best school systems do more with less than America and its public education systems.

I also can't say how good the school system was in New Orleans...

In most places, the whiter the neighborhood, the better the school system; and the better the school system, the higher the prices of homes, making it impossible for those who aren't wealthy to escape substandard schools.

• The best school systems were the most equitable — students do well regardless of their socio - economic background.

We're moving toward offering one of the best school systems in America by 2020.

Despite DeSoto County's reputation as also being one of Mississippi's best school systems, the elementary school Powell's children attended wasn't cutting it, especially for her middle child and only son, Nicholas, who had struggled with reading and fitting in socially.

to gauge how well their school systems have the necessary training, support, and culture to facilitate the identification and ongoing development of teacher leaders.

District and school administrators can use the Teacher Leadership: District and School Leader Readiness Tool to gauge how well their school systems have the necessary training, support, and culture to facilitate the identification and ongoing development of teacher leaders.

In September 2007 Michael Barber, by then at McKinsey & Company, published a study of the world's best school systems.

London is a world - renowned centre for medical research, and is home to one of the best school systems in Canada for both grade school and post secondary education.

It now boasts one of the best school systems in the country being ranked, For the Second Time, as the best Place to Raise Your Kids in Florida by Business Week magazine.

As their priorities shift, millennials will eventually want more yard, increased space, and a good school system for their children in the suburbs over a cramped place in the city, some builders and analysts say.

Communities with the best school systems tend to have home that carry a very hefty price tag.

Buyers priced out of the city are heading for the» burbs, driving up demand and creating a more fraught buying process in close - in towns that have long enjoyed reputations for good school systems, lively downtowns and ready access to the city.