Sentences with phrase «largest school system behind»

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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.

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.

And beyond the school and district accountability provisions spawned by No Child Left Behind and its kin, many states have upped the ante to incorporate teachers» contributions to their students» test performance into teacher evaluation systems, and these value - added measures require testing large numbers of students.

A CPS first - year teacher with a master's degree earns $ 54,161, the third - highest salary among the 50 largest school districts, behind the Baltimore City Public School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54school districts, behind the Baltimore City Public School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54School System in Maryland ($ 59,904) and New York City ($ 54,459).

Despite claims by Paul Vallas and his cheerleaders at the Chicago Tribune, Vallas left behind a wreck when he was forced out of his job at the top of the nation's fourth largest schools system...

We can add to this the fact that a good number of larger, old school BlackBerry shops developed in - house, «behind the firewall» apps to expose internal systems data on BlackBerry handsets.