Sentences with phrase «in urban districts»

About 38 percent of seniors in charters had met state standards in math last year, for example, compared with about 31 percent of students in urban districts.

We seldom see the neighborhood school in an urban district as being as vital to a community as the school to a small town.

However, recruiting, selecting, and hiring highly effective principals is difficult, especially in urban districts.

I'm a reading teacher in an urban district.

I have worked in an urban district for the last 24 years, and spent the last four years running a program to try to retain science teachers.

A similar pattern was seen among Latino and white students, particularly in urban districts with charter schools.

And there are a lot of talented educators who have given their hearts and souls to their kids in urban districts.

Networking hundreds of educators in urban districts to improve math achievement for African American and Latino youth.

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.

It is for this reason that the leadership takes hold and stays in place where many of the leaders in urban districts are gone before any of their efforts take hold.

Across the country, children in urban districts are being denied rich, rigorous educational opportunities.

The experiences in urban districts, and I've worked in 2 different ones, are very different.

Two years later, scores in the urban districts showed only glacial improvement.

After graduation, he plans to return to the classroom, teaching social studies in an urban district secondary school, preferably, he says, in a warmer climate.

Her work centers on education reform in urban districts, school organization, and social network analysis.

Other scores showed improvement in urban districts and in narrowing the gap between whites and minority children.

The achievement gap in urban districts is larger than the achievement gap in the rest of the nation.

As with fourth grade, in eighth grade the lack of educational opportunities for African - American students is especially acute in the urban districts.

A high proportion of minority students taking part in school - choice programs isn't a surprise, given that many are located in urban districts with stressed public schools.

Closing underperforming schools is a popular strategy in urban districts.

The same old story emerges in how certain education reformers paint pictures of corrupt, black school boards in urban districts that teach out - of - control students.

The organization conducts research and provides advocacy support and hands - on technical assistance to its members to help advance academic achievement, leadership, and operational management in urban districts.

That's exactly what a study of high - stakes accountability in an urban district found.

I wanted to gain the confidence, capacity, and connections to challenge the status quo and transform schools into learning organizations that truly change the odds for students in urban districts.

Some of us are college professors, others are teachers in urban districts.

Third, particularly in urban districts, shifting authority from school boards to an elected mayor may be a more effective reform strategy than trying to get school boards to step up.

Private and religious schools in urban districts are also losing students to suburban public schools.

Since most parents in urban districts are poor, we need a plentiful supply of well - funded vouchers, education tax credits, and tuition - free charter schools.

Vancouver, British Columbia About Blog I am a science teacher in an urban district in NY State.

Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras says that can be a big issue, especially in an urban district like Syracuse.

«What a principal would wish for in my daughter's school in our nice suburb would be so different from what a principal in the urban district where I work would wish for,» said Lyn McCarty, a special education administrator in an urban California public school district.

Inland Empire School District Repeats as Finalist for Academic Prize The Corona - Norco Unified School District was named as a finalist Thursday for the prestigious Broad Prize, which honors academic excellence by minority and low - income students in urban districts across the nation.

The program has been used in urban districts in Connecticut and Florida.

Discussing a Wall Street Journal editorial that pointed this out, Kozol writes, in Inequalities, «What the Journal does not add is that per - pupil spending grew at the same rate in the suburbs as it did in urban districts... thereby preventing any catch - up by the urban schools.»

The reason that scores and achievement are so low in urban districts is due to many factors: transient leadership, unqualified administrators, lack of curricula, poverty and transient students, lack of parental and community support, politicians posturing at the expense of poor and urban communities, and yes - ineffective teachers who often get in to urban school districts because they lack the skill set and content knowledge to get in to other districts.

Carrie brings a unique perspective to her work through her experiences as a special educator in urban districts as well as an international educator in Asia and Europe.

Democrats are successful in urban districts because their policies accept a variety different social groups (GLBT rights, pathways to citizenship for immigrants, etc.).

And for children particularly in urban districts such as Milwaukee, the results overall are dismal.

As often the case in urban districts, the strength of New Bedford Public Schools has seemed inexorably linked to the ebbs and flows of the local economy.

The plan also asks for funding to put laptop computers in each ninth - and tenth - grade English and social studies classroom in urban districts, and funding to provide technology training to teachers.

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.

«The most important thing the state could do is recognize the increased need in urban districts,» Mulvey said.

The sheer number of failing and non-failing schools in urban districts increases the likelihood closing a school will happen in a black neighborhood.

It is not white America trying to keep minorities down; rather, it is a situation where unscrupulous people are using minorities in urban districts for their own personal gain and for their agendas.