Sentences with phrase «improving urban schools»

The hard part is improving urban schools enough so parents with an option want to stay.

Thompson emphasizes that improving urban schools is hard work, not a crusade, and a marathon, not a sprint.

Arguing «there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools — arguably the central problem — is the problem of teacher resistance,» he critiques the progressive expectation that teachers can eventually be coaxed along through evidence on two key counts: first, it presumes that reformers and teachers share the same aims and metrics, and second, it presumes that reformers can marshal the evidence to convince the holdouts.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University shares his insights on improving urban schools in America.

It's very different improving an urban school versus say a coastal school or rural school in terms of its very different attracting talent, attracting good teachers is much harder in a rural community.

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.

The Green Award emphasizes the need for continuing efforts to improve urban school systems, he said.

UEI undertakes rigorous applied research to inform practitioners and policymakers; develops innovative programs to train and support urban teachers and leaders; designs and operates exemplary preK — 12 schools on Chicago's South Side; and builds and disseminates scalable tools and models to improve urban schools nationwide, including in Newark, N.J; New York City; Washington, D.C.; New Orleans; Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; and Baltimore.

Schools of Education Work to Improve Urban Schools Donna Browder Evans of Ohio State University is the new chairperson of the Council of the Great City Colleges of Education».

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 country.

«Richard has done some of the most practical, insightful, and carefully crafted work on how to improve urban schools... not just in one or two classrooms and one or two schools, but in a systemic way,» says Knowles, now the executive director of the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University of Chicago.

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 Country.»

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.

«The candidate [Mayor Bowser] has selected appears by résumé and reputation to have the same kind of forward - thinking passion for excellence that has helped make D.C. schools the fastest - improving urban school district in the country,» The Washington Post editorial board said in November.

On that measure, DCPS has improved — in fact, as DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson likes to point out, it's the fastest - improving urban school district in the country.

LOS ANGELES, May 19, 2011 — The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today it has awarded $ 2 million in Broad Prize college scholarships to 106 graduating high school seniors whose school districts were recognized last year as the most improved urban school districts in the country.

Not exact matches

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 schoolSchool 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 schoolschool districts in the country to improve schoolschool food.

It offers a different strategy to improve urban education with a promise of free college tuition to graduating high school seniors.

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.

Try something really prosaic: improve the financial management staff of urban school systems.

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.

Urban middle school students engaged in PBL showed increased academic performance in science and improved behavior ratings over a two - year period (Gordon, Rogers, Comfort, Gavula, & McGee, 2001).

States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartfords urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.

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.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Schwartz was the first director of the Boston Compact, a public - private partnership formed to improve access to higher education and employment for urban high school graduates.

Tracking Improves, But Still Incomplete: In 2004 - 05, urban schools didn't even know the course completion status for 46 % of their students.

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.

This is the first step toward building healthy urban school systems — systems that are dynamic, responsive, and self - improving.

School Ties Edison Schools has indeed found itself caught in a fiery debate in which both sides claim to want the same thing: to improve K - 12 education, particularly for poor, urban children.

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?

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

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.»

Urban school leaders are on the front line of this work, and research points to the important role they play in creating the conditions to improve student achievement.

«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.

Do you have an idea for improving education — in urban schools, in hospitals, on sports teams, or in a remote African village — that has never been tried before?

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.

A major challenge for all urban school leaders is improving student learning — especially in the context of the achievement gap.

It is tough — but important — for urban school leaders to enlist the support of a wide network of stakeholders to work together to improve student outcomes.

«Positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.»

And positive test results, on both state assessments and the NAEP, show that urban schools are making progress and improving reading and math scores.

Thompson: One of the areas urban schools are making gains is in improving the academic achievement in reading and mathematics.

A new manual, Telling Your Story: A Toolkit for Marketing Urban Education, published by the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education, outlines ways administrators can improve their communication and marketing strategies.

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.

«Urban schools continue to improve, and more students are learning to higher standards.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

Dr. Hall: Urban schools continue to improve, and more students are learning to higher standards.