Sentences with phrase «consortium schools»

Some H - LSAMP consortium schools reach out to undergraduates nationwide and advertise the program in high schools and middle schools.

Martin Davis of the Fordham Foundation writes that the 13 consortium schools achieved «remarkable growth» in grades 2 through 8 proficiency rates on the TerraNova from 2000 to 2005.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

Teams of teachers in consortium schools are learning how to create high quality, curriculum - embedded performance tasks in which students demonstrate what they know and are able to do in ways they will be expected to perform in life, and to reliably score the resulting student work.

Last year, 71 percent of students learning English at consortium schools graduated on time, versus 37 percent of English learners citywide.

If the testocracy is right — if it's true that high - stakes standardized testing is the key to improving accountability and performance — then these New York consortium schools that don't give the state standardized test should be the very worst schools in New York City.

«I think the pilot program is tailor - made for New York's consortium schools,» American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, a former leader of New York City's United Federation of Teachers, told POLITICO New York.

Those gathered in Washington on that morning in 2007 to learn of the fate of the consortium schools thought they knew what would come next.

To build teacher capacity to create rich, valid performance tasks, and to reliably score student work, MCIEA performance assessment lead teams from a first cohort of 15 consortium schools are participating in a four - day institute over four months.

Cook previously served as co-founder and co-leader of one of the consortium schools, Urban Academy Laboratory High School in New York City.

I work at Middle College High School, a consortium school.

«The consortium schools have created a powerful alternative to a system built around high - stakes testing,» Weingarten says.

«The consortium schools have figured out a way to give an amazing education to all students, even those who walk through the door with the most challenges,» says Michael Mulgrew, president of the UFT and an AFT vice president.