She retired as a School Psychologist from
a large urban public school system in New Jersey where she was employed as an elementary school teacher and worked with special needs students as a Learning Disabilities Teacher - Consultant.
The Council is a coalition of 67 of the nation's
largest urban public school systems.
The Council of the Great City Schools is a coalition of 67 of the nation's
largest urban public school systems.
Michael Casserly, who has spent nearly two decades as executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of 66 of the nation's
largest urban public school systems, says that superintendents need to focus on their instructional programs to move things forward.
Not exact matches
First Lady Michelle Obama is slated Friday to give the commencement speech at City College of New York, the flagship
school of the CUNY
system and the nation's
largest urban public university.
She has spent her career building alternative
schools entirely within
large,
urban public systems.
But in areas where parents are not empowered vis - à - vis
large institutions, as in
urban public schools, this accountability
system can't even guarantee access.
Because of the size of city
school districts — New York City is the nation's
largest school system with 1,189
public schools and 78,100 teachers —
urban educators often teach
large numbers of at - risk students.
Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City
Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
Schools (the nations 66
largest urban public -
school systems).
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.
But parochial
schools are one of the
largest (if not the
largest) alternatives to the American
public - education
system, and their steady decline inordinately affects
urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of
public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.
The district in 2014 was one of two nationwide awarded the annual Broad Prize for
Urban Education, then considered by some to be the Nobel Prize for
large public school systems.
Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be
large and
urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a
school district or charter
school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment
system — representing about 8 percent of total
public school enrollment.76
The Senior
Urban Education Research Fellowship Series By: Martha Abele Mac Iver & Matthew Messel Summer 2012 Large urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education sy
Urban Education Research Fellowship Series By: Martha Abele Mac Iver & Matthew Messel Summer 2012
Large urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education sy
urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education
system.
How does this gentrification of
urban landscapes, as it's commonly referred to, alter not only individual neighborhoods and
schools, but the
public education
system at
large?
New York City's
public school system, the
largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an
urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority students.
Large urban public school districts play a significant role in the American education
system.
However, AUSL recognized that transforming teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization in the country to contract with a
large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing
schools from inside the
public school system.
Prior to her current position at AIR, Dr. Gandhi spent five years as an independent consultant, providing research and evaluation services to local
school districts, including the New York City
public school system, the District of Columbia
public schools, Ithaca and New York
public schools, and several
large urban districts in Massachusetts.
A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20
large established
urban charter
school systems and found that YES Prep
Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.