Sentences with phrase «dramatic school improvement»

Three cheers to a front - line educator for kicking off a new genre of non-fiction writing in education: a practical guide for dramatic school improvement that proves that children from every background can achieve at high levels when we as adults get our part right.»

This exploratory study examined the extent to which the reform processes of the schools reflected characteristics and strategies found in the research, whether schools improving at different rates differed in systematic ways, and the most significant challenges faced in both securing and sustaining dramatic school improvements.

Not exact matches

In the end, I do believe that if we could look into a crystal ball and get a glimpse of America's future school cafeterias, we'd see dramatic improvement.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

While Lunch Line does a tremendous job explaining the mind - numbing complexities of the USDA's sorted relationship with the School Lunch Program, the good news is that we don't need to wait for a drifting barge to self - correct — parents and principals can make dramatic improvements, right now, for free.

That explains her active involvement in the child nutrition bill reauthorization in 2010 which led to dramatic improvements in school food this year.

«Good tests that are comparable across geographic boundaries are prerequisites to the actions needed to make dramatic improvements in our schools,» John A. Krol said in a Sept. 4 statement.

Although ESSA requires states to intervene in the lowest - performing five percent of schools, far more schools need dramatic improvement, regardless of how you measure performance.

Confidence and well - being The improvement of social skills following a successful school trip is dramatic; Learning Away's recent survey of UK schools found that 87 per cent of students felt more confident trying new things, whilst 60 per cent of teachers noticed increased confidence, resilience and well - being.

Minority students in single - sex schools often show dramatic improvements in attitudes toward school, greater interest among girls in math and science, and dramatically fewer behavior problems.»

Since reformers claimed that the mere presence of choice will bring about dramatic improvement in schools, the expectation has been that the simple fact of having an alternative should yield demonstrable gains in academic achievement.

The reason we have operated only «A» rated schools every year since 2006 is primarily because 60 percent of that grade has been based on individual student growth, a metric on which our scholars and teachers post some of the most dramatic improvements year - over-year.

Can NCLB's accountability mechanisms be made more precise, so that they would compel significant reconstitution in chronically dysfunctional schools without catching in the net schools that, while in need of improvement, do not require dramatic reconstitution?

Their earlier work on this topic includes School Turnarounds: A Review of Cross-Sector Evidence on Dramatic Organizational Improvement (Center on Innovation and Improvement, 2007), and Julie Kowal and Emily Ayscue Hassel, Turnarounds with New Leaders and Staff (Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2005).

In reality, in the face of dramatic past increases in school funding, the gaps in attainment, high school graduation, and family poverty have remained significant, largely resisting any major improvement.

• When the program launched, we were told that this now - $ 6 billion program would produce «dramatic» improvements in our most troubled schools.

The key question for policymakers is therefore not whether it is possible to bring dramatic improvement to hard - to - staff schools.

Unfortunately, despite these changes in high - school course taking over the past two decades, student achievement in core liberal - arts courses has not shown dramatic improvement, and American students have repeatedly fallen short on international comparisons of achievement, particularly in math and science.

The EITP represented a dramatic departure from the existing teacher - evaluation system in Chicago and relied on the human capital that already existed in the schools to generate improvements in school performance.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

Prior research by William Howell and Paul Peterson suggested that the reason low - income inner - city African Americans benefit most from private - school choice is that moving to the new school represents a more dramatic improvement in the school environment for them than for less - disadvantaged white and Hispanic students.

It is critical that states and districts, and the national organizations they count on for support, have access to a pipeline of leadership talent equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure that these investments produce dramatic improvements in the performance of our schools.»

Other leadership actions that nurture school turnarounds include (1) sending a clear signal that dramatic change is urgently needed, (2) maintaining a consistent focus on improving instruction, (3) making visible improvements quickly, and (4) building a staff that is committed to the school's improvement goals.

More school administrators, educators, students, and parents than ever are seeing the dramatic improvements in Read More

He views helping to raise three wonderful children as his most rewarding accomplishment, but helping schools to attain dramatic improvements is his passion.

It is not hard to imagine, then, a scenario under which Villaraigosa a few years from now will cite some dramatic if narrow improvements in the test scores of the students in the schools under his control, while ducking responsibility for the problems that remain in the broader district.

However, states and the U.S. Department of Education must together confront substantial implementation problems in this area, because the new requirements are fraught with technical complications, will lead to dramatic increases in the number of schools identified as failing, set improvement targets that many see as unrealistic, and are no more grounded in research or experience than the standards set by most states under the old law.

If all teachers could be more like the best teachers, then we would have dramatic improvement in every school — public, private, or charter; rural, urban, or suburban; and large, medium, or small.

Some of the most dramatic improvements were among the school's most at - risk students.

The Consortium on Chicago School Research has found that Chicago school leaders» boasts of «dramatic» improvements in our schools over the past 20 years were greatly exaggeSchool Research has found that Chicago school leaders» boasts of «dramatic» improvements in our schools over the past 20 years were greatly exaggeschool leaders» boasts of «dramatic» improvements in our schools over the past 20 years were greatly exaggerated.

Since then, we have seen some dramatic improvements in our school and how students describe their experience with us.

And it's even more difficult when the Mayor, the City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a lie.

«With the Flippen Group's ongoing and continual support of Capturing Kids» Hearts and Teen Leadership, Nicholas County School district has seen dramatic improvements in many areas crucial to student success.

He and other administration officials sought to highlight individual schools that made dramatic improvements after receiving the money.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in U.S. education.

While the changes required by this shift can be challenging, they also create the opportunity for educators to make dramatic, lasting improvements in the lives of the millions of students who attend persistently low - achieving schools.

During his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services at the Chula Vista Elementary School District in California, he oversaw the district's dramatic improvement in academic performance and high - stakes test scores through the implementation of a student - centered instructional framework and a cloud - based differentiated instruction solution.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in pre — K to grade 12 education.

In the section about D.C., the report goes so far as to credit charter schools with contributing to «dramatic improvements» in the traditional public school system, a statement that doesn't take into consideration how demographic changes have improved D.C. school results.

In this Issue Brief, prepared by Public Impact for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement at Learning Point Associates, we offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.

One promising strategy to dramatically improve chronically low performing schools is known as a «turnaround» — a quick, dramatic, sustained improvement in performance brought about by a highly - capable leader.

Nearly 75 % of New Orleans students now attend public charter schools, and standardized testing shows dramatic improvement in student performance.

According to the International Institute for Restorative Practices, schools implementing restorative practices are seeing dramatic reductions in misbehavior, violence, suspensions, and expulsions as well as improvements in student learning.

Furthermore, in the broader K - 12 area, the evidence suggests that market competition via charter schools has not resulted in clear dramatic improvement in average school quality.

With the implementation of Accelerated Reader at St. Paul School, teachers reported dramatic literacy improvements.

In 2016, Jonathan Chait, a liberal writer for New York magazine (whose wife helped craft some of D.C.'s new policies and now works for a local charter school), declared, «The dramatic improvements registered in places like Washington show the revolutionary possibilities of education reform.»

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

A recent influential examination of reform in Chicago elementary schools that attempted to distinguish the characteristics of schools whose students made dramatic improvements from those of schools whose students stagnated.

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«Staff at Gardner have seen dramatic improvements in family participation since the school's conversion to a community school model: While only 25 percent of Gardner families attended parent - teacher conferences in 1997, 98 percent of families participated in the 2010 - 11 school year.»