Sentences with phrase «improvement efforts fail»

With TRACTION for School Improvement ™ (TSI), we can help you and your educators reverse chronic low performance in your schools by focusing on the area where the vast majority of improvement efforts fail: implementation.

Many valuable improvement efforts fail miserably because of a lack of active participation and clear support from school leaders (Guskey, 2004).

Not exact matches

Josh Dunn talks with Education Next about continuing efforts by New York City Chancellor Joel Klein to close chronically failing schools — despite a ruling by a state court that the closings could not proceed — using a federal School Improvement Grant.

The findings above deserve repeating: Fix - it efforts at the worst schools have consistently failed to generate significant improvement.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

Like I've said before, I've mixed feelings on the whole Common Core enterprise — largely because I find it easy to envision scenarios where it fails in ways that undermine promising improvement efforts.

Then there was the massive federal School Improvement Grant program, Arne Duncan and President Obama's $ 7 billion effort to tell us what to do with failing schools.

They can also be narrow, discrete efforts that aren't mutually reinforcing and fail to outline for the public a vision for school improvement.

With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efforts.

But unless newly hired teachers are protected from the rigid seniority policies of states and school districts, many of these improvement efforts will fail, and the money will be wasted.

The improvement effort ultimately failed to have the desired impact.

Despite best efforts, most school improvement initiatives in high needs schools fail or show little improvement.

Despite best efforts, most school improvement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvemimprovement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvemimprovement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School ImprovementImprovement Grants.

But the new study released this week shows that, as a large - scale effort, School Improvement Grants failed.

Ask your state to include language that makes sure authorizers will continue to have the option to close a failing school, rather than have the school forced into a state - mandated school improvement effort.

Resistance may be based on district - community tensions, failed past school improvement efforts, or a lack of understanding about what is possible in schools.

We know our efforts are paying off in a number of ways, ranging from improvements in student test scores, attendance rates and parent survey results, to a decrease in failing grades and disciplinary incidents.

School improvement efforts that focus largely on scaling - up specific programs or replicating the successes of individual schools without regard to maximizing external relationships and opportunities are likely to continue to fail.

An accountability system designed to have sustained impact must look at the factors that lead to success or are impeding the improvement efforts so that successful strategies may be further scaled and failing approaches may be modified or abandoned.

Despite best efforts, most school - improvement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvemimprovement initiatives — especially in high - needs, disadvantaged schools — fail or show little improvement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School Improvemimprovement, as evidenced by the recent findings from the USDOE School ImprovementImprovement Grants.

Efforts to centralize control — with decisions about everything from teacher evaluation, school improvement strategies, and accountability increasingly dictated by Washington — would almost certainly fail and, if they succeeded, would undermine these strengths.

The School Improvement Grant program attempts to accomplish what previous reform efforts have failed to do: make a real difference for children facing the dire challenges of poverty, such as unstable housing, neighborhood violence and parents with limited education.

This is too bad, since America's problems in education will not be significantly improved without change at the federal level, since the last administration's most important legacy, the «Every Student Succeeds» act, failed to sufficiently remove the federal meddling through insistence on annual testing in two subjects only that has stalled American improvement efforts in this century.

«We have seen some encouraging improvements over that time, but without concerted effort across governments and respectful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples we as a nation will fail to close the gap.