Sentences with phrase «in large urban school districts did»

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

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

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The piece doesn't offer much in the way of solutions, but I thought it did a great job of capturing the current, entrenched problems in school food, at least in large, urban districts like L.A. and Houston.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

Recent data from a study we are doing here at Wellesley Centers for Women with a large, racially diverse sample of low - income students in a large urban school district found that 95 percent of students, both boys and girls, aspired to attend college when asked in 9th and 10th grade.

The participation rate is even higher in urban districts where 65 percent of the largest 100 districts participate, covering 40 percent of all urban high school graduates.The National Student Clearinghouse didn't reveal which districts are or are not participating and so it is unclear how the missing high schools might be skewing the data.

Even with 60 new schools, charters would make up a smaller proportion of all schools at CPS than they do at some other large urban districts — in New Orleans, for example, about 70 percent of schoolchildren attend charters.

In most large urban school districts throughout Florida this is also the case — charter Title I schools do not outperform traditional public school Title I schools.

Unfortunately, even if most CT districts do well, even excellently, 40 % of school children are in the failing or low performing districts (there are fewer urban districts but they are very large).

A 2007 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high scSchools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high schoolsschools).

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.

For the last several years, Bobby led one of the largest school improvement collaboratives in the United States for the not - for - profit Battelle for Kids and has done extensive consulting with state departments of education and large urban districts.

When large percentages of minority children do not complete high school and almost half of those in urban districts can not read at grade level, the lucky few who fit into the «diversity» quotas for higher education are insignificant in number compared to those condemned to permanent second class status by failing schools.

Do small schools improve performance in large, urban districts?

A survey released today that ranks Hillsborough County as a top - rated urban school district reflects the good work being done in the country's eighth - largest school system.