Not exact matches
This year the list is topped
by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation
systems in four
urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation
systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of
public opinion on education.
By contrast, the political forces that surround
public schools - particularly
schools in troubled
urban systems - tend to promote excessive bureaucracy and to impede the development of the qualities that
schools need to succeed.
As the traditional
urban school district is slowly replaced
by a
system marked
by an array of nongovernmental
school providers, new policies (undergirded
by a new understanding of the government's role in
public schooling) are needed.
This suit attacking the Texas
system of financing
public education was initiated
by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5]
schools in the Edgewood Independent
School District, an urban school district in San Antonio,
School District, an
urban school district in San Antonio,
school district in San Antonio, Texas.
The district in 2014 was one of two nationwide awarded the annual Broad Prize for
Urban Education, then considered
by some to be the Nobel Prize for large
public school systems.
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.
Fundraiser & Education Dialogue Professional Athletes and Youth Mentorship in
Urban Public Schools Convened
by the University of Texas Charter
School System WHEN: Thursday, February 2, 2017 • 5:30 - 7:00 pm WHERE: Dominion Church International, 4411 Dallas Street, Houston, TX 77023 WHAT: A panel of professional athletes, coaches and community stakeholders will... read more
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 n
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 n
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 n
Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the n
School (DCPS) to be the
system with the greatest improvement of any
urban district in the nation.
The Senior
Urban Education Research Fellowship Series By: Martha Abele Mac Iver & Matthew Messel Summer 2012 Large urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education sy
Urban Education Research Fellowship Series
By: Martha Abele Mac Iver & Matthew Messel Summer 2012 Large
urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education sy
urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education
system.
The three-fold increase nationally in the growth of independently managed
public schools has been driven
by the frustration of parents with the generally substandard level of education to be found in poor,
urban public school systems.
In The
Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competi
Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of
urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competi
urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined
by choice and competition.
As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles
Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stu
Schools, he led a
system of 17
urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stu
schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates
by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other
school system in California with more than 10,000 students..
This report, prepared
by Public Impact for the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation, analyzes common themes among eighteen promising programs to attract and prepare teachers and principals for success in
urban school systems.
Aspire is also one of the highest - performing
public school systems in California, operating
public charter
schools across the state with one specific goal - preparing
urban students for college - encapsulated
by its motto of «College for Certain.»
This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed
public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter
school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of
urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child»
system that has left troubled
schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those
schools.
While the State of Connecticut spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to reduce racial isolation in our
urban school districts, as required
by Connecticut's Constitution and Courts, Governor Dannel Malloy is pumping more than $ 100 million a year into Connecticut Charter
Schools despite the fact that they have become a primary vehicle for the segregation of our
public school system.
The simple act of publishing annual test scores «disaggregated»
by race, ethnicity, language and disability status has proved that discrimination remains deeply embedded in our
public education
system, and not just in dysfunctional
urban schools.