Sentences with phrase «down school improvement efforts»

For too long, low - income communities of color have been targeted for top - down school improvement efforts.

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Efforts to rationalize schools through NCLB style accountability just double down on the existing structure, and are largely impotent to create the kind of significant improvement we say we seek.

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the rest.

Her journey taught her that top - down efforts to reform a district don't work; only by starting over school by school — like businesses emerging from bankruptcy — could real improvement occur.

Great schools are grown from the ground up and the top down: when teachers and leaders come together in a joint effort for whole - school improvement, everybody wins.