Sentences with phrase «improve urban districts»

We'll even look at ways people can help improve urban districts, whether they have kids in the district or not.

For decades, discussion of education reform always began with a question along the lines of, «How do we improve the urban district?»

And the Obama administration too has bought into the notion that turnarounds are the key to improving urban districts.

Turnarounds have consistently shown themselves to be ineffective — truly an unscalable strategy for improving urban districts — and our relentless preoccupation with improving the worst schools actually inhibits the development of a healthy urban public - education industry.

That's why we're going all in to make Syracuse the most - improved urban district in America.

«Can Detroit become the fastest - improving urban district in the country?»

For several years, Oakland was considered one of the most improved urban districts in California.

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For a long time I've wanted to write on TLT about School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in Urban Schools), a national collaborative that brings together the thirty largest school districts in the country to improve school food.

Researchers from NYU Langone's Department of Population Health will evaluate these services so that the NYC Department of Education and other urban school districts can continue to improve on efforts to provide high - quality family - centered educational experiences to all children.

It's too optimistic about chartering's ability to improve «the broader system» — that the good examples and competitive forces produced by charters will help urban districts get much better.

As the leader of the Chicago Public Schools, America's third - largest urban school district, Arne has launched key initiatives all with a singular aim: improving student performance.

As his one - year term as chairman nears its end, Garcia talked with Education World about his desire to help urban districts pinpoint ways to improve student performance and continue to shrink the achievement gap.

As long as the elites hold onto the belief that their own school districts are excellent, they have little desire to push for the kind of significant systemic reforms that might improve their districts as well as the large urban districts.

They may wish the urban districts well and hope matters improve, but their taste for bold reform is limited by a false contentment with their own situation.

This is invaluable to those interested in dramatically improving urban schooling, but especially for those, like me, who are convinced that the traditional urban district structure should've been banished from the theater a long time ago.

Houston's graduation rate also improved twice as fast as that of other urban districts.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

Why is it that major urban school districts are unable to improve student learning at scale?

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

«Tom is unique in that he understands the theoretical, research, and policy perspectives on urban education, yet is masterful in designing and executing practices that result in improved teaching and learning in the classroom, at the school and at the district level.

Urban school leaders who join me at the program will learn more about their personal leadership style and how they can use it most effectively to improve teaching and learning in their schools and districts.

Because urban districts aren't improving the way we need them to, the Broad Prize was brought to an end.

On the other hand, Denver's steady improvement has widened the achievement gap, something that happens in many urban districts that improve, as white and middle - class students raise their scores faster than poor and minority students.

Last year, DCPS was the fastest - improving major urban school district in the country.

Under Henderson's leadership, DCPS has become the fastest - improving urban school district in the country.

Antwan Wilson was the Chancellor of DC Public Schools (DCPS) from February 2017 to February 2018, assuming leadership of the fastest - improving urban school district in the country.

Boston Public Schools wins Broad Prize for Urban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couUrban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couurban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couUrban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couurban school district in the country.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

And while test scores in the district have improved since IMPACT began, a recent study by the National Urban League found that Washington produces the nation's largest reading - proficiency gaps between black, Hispanic and white fourth - graders.

During her seven - year tenure, she gained a national reputation as one of the most effective urban district superintendents in the country for her successful implementation of «Excellence For All,» a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at improving teaching and learning and promoting community engagement.

Michelle Rhee, for example, first used her TFA experience to develop The New Teacher Project in a parallel attempt to increase teacher quality in urban areas by recruiting new types of teachers, and now to help improve one of the nation's worst - performing urban districts.

Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prDistricts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school prdistricts can build a pipeline of effective school principals.

And it offers financial rewards to urban school districts that improve performance through initiatives like merit pay for teachers.

Miami - Dade County, the fourth largest school district in the nation, and Duval County, the 20th largest, were two of only four large, urban districts to improve in fourth - grade math.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

On Oct. 28, 2015, the D.C. Public Schools district put out a statement lauding itself with this headline: «DC Public Schools Continues Momentum as the Fastest Improving Urban School District in the Countrydistrict put out a statement lauding itself with this headline: «DC Public Schools Continues Momentum as the Fastest Improving Urban School District in the CountryDistrict in the Country.»

Cobb is involved in a partnership with an urban district that focuses on improving the quality of one - on - one mathematics coaching.

A: Both authors were engaged in the MIST study, where we partnered with several large urban districts between 2007 and 2015 to investigate what it takes to improve the quality of mathematics teaching and student learning on a large scale.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

Because when parents - particularly economically disadvantaged parents in urban districts - have more power, they demand more and better choices for their kids, and they put pressure on schools to improve.

URBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on nationalURBAN NAEP COVERAGE EdWeek: NAEP: Urban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on nationalUrban School Districts Improving Faster Than the Nation Baltimore Sun: Baltimore students score near bottom in reading, math on key national assessment Cleveland Plain Dealer: Vast poverty differences create unfair comparisons on Nation's Report Card Miami Herald: Miami and Florida students outperform peers on national test

Today, Henderson's biography on the district website says that the D.C. system became the «the fastest - improving urban school district in the country» under her leadership.

To improve education in the nation's troubled urban schools, school districts must make the development of stronger school leadership a top priority.

In 2016, nine urban school districts and their out - of - school time partners were awarded grants to help the partners collaborate on creating a plan to support the development of children's social and emotional skills by improving adult practices and climate during the school day and afterschool.

Led by an administrator in a large urban district and Title 1 school, attendees will leave understanding how they can partner with instructors to improve student achievement.

She has improved achievement and closed achievement gaps in rural, urban, and suburban public school districts.

Improving students» reading skills was a major issue for three high schools in an urban district in which the majority of students were below grade level in their reading assessment scores.

The foundation says that Houston outperformed peer districts in academic achievement; increased its graduation rate faster than other urban districts; narrowed the achievement gaps for low - income and Hispanic students; and improved college - readiness levels.

In at least 35 urban school districts with significant numbers of charter schools, efforts are under way to jointly improve instruction, align policies, address inequities, or garner efficiencies.

In a new series of short videos, superintendents of six large, urban school districts around the country share lessons for improving development of leaders for their districts» schools.