Sentences with phrase «failing urban school systems»

Reformers say its successes as an almost all - charter, state - controlled district make it a model for other failing urban school systems.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

The arrival of charter schools in 1996 offered parents another way out of a failing urban school system.

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He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

He is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907 — 81, and, with David Angus, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890 — 1995.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

Billionaire Eli Broad has suspended a coveted, $ 1 - million prize to honor the best urban school systems out of concern that they are failing to improve quickly enough.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

My study eventually led me to conclude that we actually had a system - level problem: The existence of long - failing schools was a symptom of the urban school district.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

American universities are widely considered the best in the world, yet many urban school systems in the United States are failing.

The unfortunate answer is that too many urban school systems preemptively declare underperforming students to be failures, a practice that fosters dysfunctional classrooms that fail to motivate, engage, and inspire students to succeed.

Smarick's «urban school system of the future» would be structured to ensure that high - performing schools are continually replicated, new schools with a diverse array of program offerings are continually opened, persistently failing schools are closed, and family choice is maximized.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competiUrban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competiurban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.