Sentences with phrase «disadvantages urban ones»

The way «better» has been conceived of already advantages suburban schools and disadvantages urban ones.

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For example, in work that I have done studying performance in disadvantaged urban schools, a top teacher can in one year produce an added gain from students of one full year's worth of learning compared to students suffering under a very ineffective teacher.

For all of the talk of TUDA gains over the last decade, an honest assessment of our current status can lead to only one conclusion: The pace of improvement hasn't been nearly fast enough, because a miniscule fraction of disadvantaged kids in urban districts are succeeding.

This has been particularly helpful for evaluating the effectiveness of charter schools, a controversial education reform with a mixed record overall but one that shows remarkably large gains for disadvantaged students in urban areas.

Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced in Richardson may work for larger, urban school districts, it would put small, rural districts at even more of a disadvantage in staffing classrooms with high quality teachers.