Sentences with phrase «how urban school systems»

I also think that your book doesn't deal sufficiently with how the urban school system of the future will ensure that all students are served equitably.

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In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

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.

In Free Schools, Kozol wrote that urban parents should exit the public school system because reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of public school.»

, Kozol wrote that urban parents should exit the public school system because reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of public school.»

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

To win a contest «takes capacity and skill and know - how and grant - writing savvy,» said Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of urban public school systems.

How does this gentrification of urban landscapes, as it's commonly referred to, alter not only individual neighborhoods and schools, but the public education system at large?

Inner - city urban environments pose special challenges to school systems and communities in how to best deal with the issues of upgrading and renovating school facilities.

Part of my fellowship was to look at how a big urban school system tries to make sense of reform.

The report is chilling in its description of how school closures and privatization are destroying America's big cities and turning urban public school systems into institutions of last resort.

Malloy said the education proposals Foley made Wednesday as part of a larger urban agenda show that the Greenwich businessman has no grasp of current education policies and resources, nor does he appreciate how devastating it would be to urban school systems to begin denying funds to schools that need more resources.

Educators, parents, and students who feel oppressed by the system or are not satisfied with their present situation; people who are in danger of losing a school to consolidation; or small school movements in urban areas will want to read this book and discover a different outlook on what learning is, how learning takes place, and how to keep young people interested and excited about learning.