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Westerberg provides comprehensive research on high school reform from leading education experts, candid examples from his 26 years as a principal, and thought - provoking insights from other high school leaders who have taken up the call to improve their schools.

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In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

That Msgr. Shea and his colleagues in Bismarck have welcomed him to the University of Mary, giving him a platform from which to extend his work into the Latino worlds of U.S. Catholicism while continuing to be the go - to consultant for Catholic Studies programs across the country, testifies to that young school's bright future as one of the leaders of Catholic higher education reform.

Students from Montgomery Blair High School march down Colesville Road in support of gun reform legislation on February 21 in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Speaking from a packed high school auditorium in the South Bronx, Mark - Viverito proposed a far - reaching overhaul of Rikers Island to bring it to the point of closing down and a plan to scrap old warrants from New Yorker's records — policies that could put her ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration on justice reform and in direct conflict with the city's powerful correction officers» union, the court system and the police department.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

Feldman told members this morning during a live Webcast from the AFT's 76th annual convention in Philadelphia that she is concerned about those students who have not benefited from high standard reforms in their early school years and now lack the basic literacy and math skills they need.

Some key reforms live on, including the federal requirement that states test their students in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, disaggregate the results, and report the information to the public; and the requirement that states intervene in the bottom five percent of their schools.

Several high school reform efforts have promoted the movement from VE to CTE.

And from the start, the efforts to create public buzz set it apart from previous high - school - reform initiatives.

Student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School participate in a rally for gun control reform on the steps of the state capitol, in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 21.

Special coverage of district and high school reform and its impact on student opportunities for success is supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

«The education reforms of the 1980's demonstrated that it is futile to try to wring high performance from schools by doing more of the same,»...

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Among the reform milestones they achieved were a new requirement that 40 percent of a teacher's evaluation be based on student achievement; raising the charter school cap from 200 to 460; and higher student achievement goals on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 4th grade and 8th grade reading tests and Regents exams.

While the nation seemed transfixed by No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Common Core State Standards, «one of the most wide - ranging reforms in public education» during that time, according to a group of researchers from Duke and MIT, «was the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools» in New York City.

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.

We were standing on part the answer to that kid's question — the stage of Chalmette High School's magnificent theatre — far from the swearing - in ceremony and the scene of the next day's massive protests, far from the world of ed reform conferences, blogs, policy briefs, and Tweets.

However, the highest barrier to the engagement of teachers in education reform comes from conservatives who believe that teacher unions shouldn't be involved in substantive decisions about the direction of school reform.

Schwartz has written and spoken widely on topics such as standards - based reform, public - private partnerships, and the transition from high school to adulthood.

A study from the Consortium of Policy Research in Education (CPRE) of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school refFrom the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reffrom the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform.

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

That theme was echoed by speakers from each of the three sectors during «The American High School: Time for Reform,» a conference for educators sponsored by the Council for Basic Education (cbe).

At day's end, the multifaceted challenge of high - school reform seems to be a problem that needs to ripen before any comprehensive solution can drop from the policy tree.

The third involved business leaders» advocacy of a range of reform ideas, from school choice to higher performance standards, that were not necessarily linked to the goal of systemic...

Among the eleven states of the old South, only Florida receives a grade higher than C for its charter school laws from the Center for Education Reform (CER).

They are also open to a host of school reforms ranging from high - stakes student accountability to merit pay for teachers to school vouchers and tax credits that would give low - income families greater access to private schools.

Lobbyists and attorneys listen as student survivors from the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School interrupt a house legislative committee hearing in the hope to challenge lawmakers on gun control reform in Tallahassee, Fla., on Feb. 21.

In the initial analysis, I assessed the impact of these reforms on the chance that students would graduate from high school and enter college.

The report shares key reforms, principles, and practices of laudable public high schools from Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Maryland, Texas, and Washington, D...

Checked (all titles published by the Center on Education Policy): From the Capital to the Classroom, Year 1 (January 2003) Year 2 (January 2004) Year 3 (March 2005) State High School Exit Exams series: A Baseline Report (August 2002) Put to the Test (August 2003) A Maturing Reform (August 2004) States Try Harder, but Gaps -LSB-...]

Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.

Since the Milliken ruling, there has been a vast effort to improve public education for students from kindergarten through high school with an extensive range of reforms.

During his tenure in the district, the high school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school refhigh school was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school rschool was described by the United States Department of Education as «the most recognized and celebrated school in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school rschool in America,» won four Blue Ribbon awards from the United States Department of Education, and was one of the first comprehensive schools designated by the DOE as a New America High School for being a model of successful school refHigh School for being a model of successful school rSchool for being a model of successful school rschool reform.

The Toolkit for Parents and Families is a collection of materials and resources that will help parents and families understand education reform initiatives and how the changes will help students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

Forty - five percent of those students came from middle and upper income families, according to Out of Pocket: The High Cost of Inadequate High Schools and High School Student Achievement on College Affordability, a new research report from Education Reform Now and Education Post.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

A slightly different perspective on the Kentucky reform comes from a case study of nine high school English teachers faced with implementing the state portfolios in the second year of the mandate (Callahan, 1997).

Perhaps one of most widely publicized examples of school boards acting courageously to push back on some of these regressive policies comes from Texas where 520 boards of education and their superintendents fought the implementation of 15 end - of - course high school standardized tests that were part of a state education reform package.

Indeed, from such tests, many policymakers and pundits have wrongly concluded that student achievement in the United States lags woefully behind that in many comparable industrialized nations, that this shortcoming threatens the nation's economic future, and that these test results therefore demand radical school reform that includes importing features of schooling in higher - scoring countries.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.

Following are a few examples from high schools that started actively implementing TD reforms for the first time in the 2009 - 2010 school year and participated in the annual TD climate survey in the spring of 2010:

«The [Tulane] authors also report that the [academic] gains were not equal across groups: white students gained more than black students from the reforms,» according to the NEPC, also noting that a large - scale out - migration of higher income students may have resulted in inflated growth scores for the charter schools.

How can they pat themselves on the back for all school YEARS (results on any high stakes test is a culmination of teaching and learning from many teachers not just the one you had that year) that preceded taking the tests since Pryor / Malloy had not implemented their reforms yet.

Eli Broad, who endows the prize, was one of the few prominent education reform donors to publicly oppose DeVos» nomination, and recently said the proposed cuts to education programs in Trump's budget would «hurt the very communities that have the most to gain from high - quality public school options.»

His leading opponent, Nick Melvoin, an educator, lawyer and reform advocate, is backed by prosperous donors and received high - profile endorsements from the Los Angeles Times, the California Charter Schools Association, and two former LA mayors.

From 2001 - 2005, CCE served as the National Turning Points Center, a New American Schools - recognized reform model for creating high - performing middle schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,Schools - recognized reform model for creating high - performing middle schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,schools, based on the principles and practices for effective middle schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation,schools outlined in the national Turning Points report (Carnegie Corporation, 1989).