Sentences with phrase «by urban superintendents»

Two HGSE doctoral students, Laura Kelley and Leslie Boozer, who were the driving forces behind the book, encouraged Peterkin to focus on the good work being done by urban superintendents across the country as a result of the program.

Kaya knew the tremendous personal cost shouldered by any urban superintendent or chancellor: the demands are 24 - 7; the needs of children are urgent; and the politics can be brutal.

Not exact matches

Prior to his appointment by the Governor, he was Superintendent of Public Education in San Diego City Schools, the nation's eighth largest urban school district.

Hill should also know that urban schools are not governed by gypsy superintendents who wander the nation in search of leadership positions.

February 14: Driving Change: Challenges Superintendents Face in Urban Schools Kaya Henderson, Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, was joined by Tommy Chang, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Tom Boasberg, superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

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.

I view that as the wrong question to ask,» Louisiana State Superintendent of Education John White said Monday at an event hosted by the Urban Institute.

Twenty percent of our graduating doctoral students are from the Urban Superintendents Program — all were mentored by Bob.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

He received his training in education as a fellow at the Broad Superintendents Academy, an 18 - month program funded by the Broad Foundation of Los Angeles that trains executives from inside and outside education to become activist superintendents for uSuperintendents Academy, an 18 - month program funded by the Broad Foundation of Los Angeles that trains executives from inside and outside education to become activist superintendents for usuperintendents for urban districts.

The graduation rate for LA Unified's Class of 2017 was 80 percent, and Superintendent Michelle King has made 100 percent graduation her goal — a feat not achieved by any urban school district.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

This July 29 letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of Education John King by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; AASA, the School Superintendents Association; the George W. Bush Institute; the National Association of Elementary School Principals; the National Association of Secondary School Principals; the NYC Leadership Academy; New Leaders; the National Institute for School Leadership; the National Urban League; the University Council for Educational Administration; and The Wallace Foundation.

«Urban superintendents know they're going to be judged by test scores so unless something bumps up scores, it takes a much lower priority for them.»

The recent «manifesto», issued by Michelle Rhee and Chancellor Klein along with a number of urban superintendents in the Washington Post, is yet the latest manifestation of the «ineffective teachers are the problem» mantra.

The reforms currently under way in Minneapolis have been driven by the board, not the superintendent, as in other urban districts facing falling enrollment, widening achievement gaps and shrinking budgets.

But urban superintendents are hard to come by in an era of high - stakes testing and widening achievement gaps.

In 2009, 43 percent of all large urban superintendent openings were filled by Broad Academy graduates (p58).

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?