Sentences with phrase «from urban school systems»

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The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteSchool Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

Qing Li and his colleagues from Nippon Medical School found that visits to the forest (compared with urban trips) can have a long - lasting influence on immune system markers, increasing the activity of antiviral cells and intracellular anti-cancer proteins — and these changes remained significant for a full week after the visit.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

After 1974, however, school integration efforts outside the South were stymied by the Supreme Court's 5 - 4 decision in Milliken v. Bradley, which prohibited heavily minority urban systems from including nearby suburbs in desegregation plans.

The council includes superintendents and board members from 28 of the nation's largest urban school systems.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a membership group representing nearly 60 of the nation's large urban school systems, pushed for the money to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare results from city to city on a trial basis.

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.

The unique doctorate in education leadership, offered in partnership with faculty from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state sySchool and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state sySchool, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state syschool districts to charter networks to state systems.

The scholars are chosen from among those who rank in the top 10 percent of the Ed School's applicant pool and have demonstrated a commitment to working in urban school sySchool's applicant pool and have demonstrated a commitment to working in urban school syschool systems.

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

While most of Chicago's high school seniors hope to attend college, the school system has a long way to go to make that vision a reality, according to a new report that is among the first to track the post-high-school experiences of graduates from a major urban district on a broad scale.

But the budget proposal drew condemnation from many in the education world, including teachers» unions, superintendents, school boards, and representatives of state education chiefs and urban school systems.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, had been reporting results by state since 1990, but in recent years began isolating test scores from selected urban school systems.

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.

Throughout her undergrad she tutored young minority students from urban public schools, served as president of the Sociology club at City College and researched racial / ethnic inequalities within the education system.

The districts on the list range from systems in growing suburban pockets, to countywide districts that cover huge expanses of territory with wide disparities in income and resources, to crowded urban districts that have to cope with both the deterioration of aging facilities and the construction of new schools to accommodate growth.

As you know, a few years ago Memphis City Schools underwent major surgery as several suburban districts seceded from the large urban district to establish their own school systems.

Researchers from Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois confirm that CPS is leading the country for academic growth among large urban school systems.

However, AUSL recognized that transforming teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization in the country to contract with a large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing schools from inside the public school system.

A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.

The Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI) is an organization created by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and American Institutes for Research to help district leaders from urban, rural, and suburban schools transform their systems to ultimately drive higher student achievement.

This from the Democratic governor whose «Commissioner's Network» program has undermined local control, handed public schools over to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain in Hartford and Bridgeport and devastated a number of urban schools by implementing a «money follows the child» system that has left troubled schools without the resources they need to even serve the students that have remained in those schools.

Ten urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education) districts, have designed a system to make schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving in these areas.

Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Dr. Kevin M. Maxwell, the school system serves a diverse student population from urban, suburban and rural communities located in the Washington, DC suburbs.

A nine - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 27 large established urban charter school systems and found that Achievement First, KIPP Foundation and Uncommon Schools had the best overall student academic performance in recent years.

The school's primary research interest, however, is urban education, and through research on this topic the School has launched two world - famous programs: KIDS (Kids Integrated Data System), a data collection system to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populaschool's primary research interest, however, is urban education, and through research on this topic the School has launched two world - famous programs: KIDS (Kids Integrated Data System), a data collection system to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populaSchool has launched two world - famous programs: KIDS (Kids Integrated Data System), a data collection system to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populaSystem), a data collection system to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populasystem to improve educational services of children; and EPIC (Evidence - based Program for the Integration of Curricula), a comprehensive early childhood program for children from underserved, minority urban populations.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

This is because many teachers recruited for urban school systems come from alternative teaching programs and many of the veterans are in the system due to political connections.

There's long been an assumption that white parents in urban areas have turned to private schools in part to separate their children from the growing black and Latino populations in the public school system.

The teachers were drawn from more than two dozen districts — from Alexandria Township in exurban Hunterdon County to urban Elizabeth that took part in the two - year pilot from 2011 - 13, leading up to the statewide adoption of the system this school year to meet the requirements of the state's new teacher - tenure law, TEACHNJ.

This article reports findings from a case study of district leadership for school, family, and community partnerships in an urban system in the northeast United States.

She retired as a School Psychologist from a large urban public school system in New Jersey where she was employed as an elementary school teacher and worked with special needs students as a Learning Disabilities Teacher - ConsuSchool Psychologist from a large urban public school system in New Jersey where she was employed as an elementary school teacher and worked with special needs students as a Learning Disabilities Teacher - Consuschool system in New Jersey where she was employed as an elementary school teacher and worked with special needs students as a Learning Disabilities Teacher - Consuschool teacher and worked with special needs students as a Learning Disabilities Teacher - Consultant.