Sentences with phrase «in a large urban school district»

A randomized evaluation of the Safe and Civil Schools Model for positive behavioral interventions and supports at elementary schools in a large urban school district.

Two weeks ago, American children in large urban school districts did not produce the higher test scores hoped for by adults.

Female teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.

American education has problems, almost everyone is willing to concede, but many think those problems are mostly concentrated in our large urban school districts.

Even in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.

This paper examines data from a four - year study of a comprehensive incentives program for school improvement in 12 charter schools in a large urban school district.

Our research begins to fill this gap with two studies of the G&T programs available to high - achieving middle - school students in a large urban school district in the southwestern United States which, to preserve anonymity we shall refer to as LUSD.

A team of scholars from the University of Houston — Sa Bui, Steven Craig, and Scott Imberman — studied programs in a large urban school district with a substantial minority and low - income population in the southwestern United States, where since 2007 all 5th - grade students have been tested for eligibility to participate in GT programming.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

To investigate the issue, Goddard and colleagues conducted a study in a large urban school district in the Midwest.

Magnet schools only exist in large urban school districts were there are poor neighborhoods and under resourced schools.

The authors of the study, Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell, and Isaac McFarlin Jr., focus their analysis on 17,057 graduates from the 2002 through 2008 graduating classes in a large urban school district in Texas that historically has sent few students to college.

This study will shed light on this issue in a large urban school district and reinforce the importance of partnerships between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston Public Schools.»

We compare students in a large urban school district who just made it into their high - school's top 10 percent to students who just missed the cutoff.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

Two weeks ago, American children in large urban school districts did not produce the higher test...

Even so, Duncan has been a champion of charter schools, noting that the best are known for creativity, flexibility and making a measurable difference for kids in large urban school districts.

Bob Delaporte, an aide to Joint Finance Committee co-chairwoman Sen. Alberta Darling, R - River Hills, said the intent behind the proposal is «to leverage change in large urban school districts with systemic rates of failure.»

Sustainability of Dropout Prevention Efforts in a Large Urban School District: Teaming, Action Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, and Celebration!

Many studies have shown an «inequitable distribution of teacher quality, which disadvantages poor, non-white, and low - achieving students,» according to one research article, whose authors go on to find evidence of a similar «inequitable distribution» of principal quality in a large urban school district they examined.23

This study evaluated 4 years of real - world implementation of the Safe & Civil Schools PBIS Model in a large urban school district.

She directs a study of the implementation and effects of the Principal Pipeline Initiative in large urban school districts with support from The Wallace Foundation.

He found that the studies show that while there are some examples of success, particularly in large urban school districts that primarily serve students of color like those in New York City and Boston, they also show that across the nation, there is little evidence that charters do better than traditional public schools when it comes to student test scores.

This research brief examines differences in teacher effectiveness by school transition status and school characteristics in a large urban school district in Texas, using estimates of teacher effectiveness based on teacher contributions to student learning outcomes across classrooms.

We have no idea what these private philanthropic endeavors are teaching, but the country's education system certainly is suffering under their leadership especially in the large urban school districts that they have taken over (last full paragraph is telling).

Four years of Safe & Civil Schools implementation in a large urban school district resulted in steady improvements in school discipline, student safety policy and training, staff perceptions of student behavior, and suspension and chronic tardiness rates.

In addition, she is co-principal investigator on the ED - funded efficacy trial of Foundations, a positive and proactive approach to schoolwide discipline, and of the National Institute of Justice - funded implementation and evaluation study of positive discipline and trauma - informed services in a large urban school district.

Data were collected from 230 students and 20 teachers in two high - poverty, low - performing schools in a large urban school district in the Midwest Students were 93 % African American.

Whatever the reasons, in large urban school districts, which encompassed an ever - larger proportion of black children, the only way to achieve desegregation was through busing away from neighborhood schools, a remedy approved by the Supreme Court in 1971, unpopular almost everywhere, and often ineffective as white schoolchildren could move to private schools or to the suburbs.

In this randomized evaluation of the Safe & Civil Schools PBIS (positive behavioral interventions and supports) Model, 32 elementary schools in a large urban school district were randomly assigned to either an initial training cohort or a wait - list control group.

We are in a large urban school district and the number of «gifted» students that are identified in our school district exceeds 15 %.

With the Eli Broad Foundation and Michigan Governor John Engler starting the ball rolling in 2002, the BROAD CENTER leadership development program was launched and their graduates landed (or were strategically placed) in our largest urban school districts to lead school turnarounds.