Sentences with phrase «improve failing urban schools»

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Implicit in these very different proposals is the assumption that urban schools are failing because they are run badly, and that the solution lies in improving their management.

And exceptional urban schools are nearly always start - ups or consistently excellent schools, not drastically improved once - failing schools.

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.

The educational achievement of black children and the overall quality of urban public schools have failed to improve significantly.