Sentences with phrase «large urban systems»

America's broken school systems — its large urban systems in particular — need to improve both infrastructure and product.

There is also evidence that the best beginning teachers make up a substantial proportion of the early leavers: In a 2013 study of teacher attrition in four large urban systems, TNTP, a teacher recruitment and training organization, found that nearly one - third of highly effective teachers left within two years, and almost half left within five.

NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reading.

Not exact matches

Piece by piece, Mneefah is helping lay the backbone for the largest urban mass transit system ever built from scratch.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

The wage increase announced by Cuomo affects workers of the State University of New York (SUNY)-- but not those within the City University of New York (CUNY), the country's largest urban public university system.

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.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«Large urban hospitals disadvantaged by Medicare / Medicaid patient satisfaction rating system.»

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

Astronomers have long known that galaxies cluster together into enormous systems — the urban centers of the cosmos — and that the largest galaxies tend to «point» towards their neighbors.

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

With Native American protagonist Conner Kenway at the helm, Assassin's Creed III rushed into 2012 with a revamped offense - oriented combat system (to help quell complaints of the slower, more reactionary system of past games), a large world featuring both woodland and urban environments, the addition of cooperative multiplayer, and a story that featured many iconic American heroes such as Benjamin Franklin, Sam Adams, and George Washington.

The passing of the torch in Cleveland is imminent: This fall, the beleaguered school district will join the list of large urban school systems — including Boston and Chicago — under mayoral control.

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.

But state accountability systems and the desire to rationalize the lack of quality options have encouraged the elites to compare their affluent suburban districts to the large urban ones in their state.

More than 800 people attended the conference for the advocacy group that represents 61 of the nation's largest urban school systems.

Our best school districts may look excellent alongside large urban districts, the comparison state accountability systems encourage, but that measure provides false comfort.

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

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.

She has spent her career building alternative schools entirely within large, urban public systems.

The council includes superintendents and board members from 28 of the nation's largest urban school 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.

Both entities oversee large urban K — 12 systems that include all (or nearly all) of their cities» charters.

I was contacted early on by a large urban district in New Jersey that... had a horrible evaluation system.

The Council of the Great City Schools, a membership group representing nearly 60 of the nation's large urban school systems, pushed for the money to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare results from city to city on a trial basis.

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.

At its heart, the law reflects a belief that is radical and unproven in a large urban school system: that parents will make better decisions for the schools than a central bureaucracy widely perceived to be too large and remote to...

The CORE Districts are a collaboration of large urban school districts in California that began measuring social - emotional skills, including Growth Mindset, as part of an innovative multiple - measures data system under a No Child Left Behind flexibility request.

The unique doctorate in education leadership, offered in partnership with faculty from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state systems.

New Jersey's Abbott Districts,» on Thursday, March 16, Gordon MacInnes, assistant commissioner for Abbott implementation, and Fred Carrigg, special assistant to the commissioner for urban literacy, discussed how they helped move Union City from the second lowest - performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems.

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 systems).

At the same time, new populations exist in cities, in urban school systems — primarily African American and Latino students, and large numbers of immigrants.

SDP developed these indicators through a series of studies conducted in partnership with eight large urban school systems across the United States.

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.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

As he sees it, urban Catholic - school closures dump students back into a system that is ill - prepared to educate them, a system that in many large U.S. cities awards diplomas to only half its high school students.

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.

And New York's NAEP scores place it only in the middle of the pack among large urban school systems.

They also represent a mix of large and mid-size urban school systems with diverse populations.

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.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

Just as I reached the conclusion that urban districts can't be fixed and, therefore, we need to create a new delivery system for public education in America's cities, a large and growing number of reformers interested in teacher preparation believe that we can't trust the old system to change adequately and that, instead, we need to create new pathways into the profession.

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

We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one of our large, high - poverty, low - performing urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the problem.

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