Sentences with phrase «level school reform efforts»

Given the current political climate and the limited discretionary resources available to the Secretary of Education, it is unrealistic to imagine that the DoED would play an active role in state - level school reform efforts.

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Spurred by rapid globalization and a shift toward an increasingly information - driven economy, nations throughout the world are reforming their schools in an effort to educate greater numbers of students to a higher skill level.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Discipline reform efforts are also underway at the state and school - district levels.

Insight in action As part of community - engagement work that accompanied district reform efforts, teacher leaders worked on district mathematics committees, facilitated grade - level meetings, presented at school board meetings, led professional development sessions and took on many other leadership roles.

Insight in Action During one school system's reform efforts, 25 - 30 teacher leaders whose release time from the classroom ranged from no - time to 3 / 4 - time engaged in work at the school and district level.

Essentially it is another white flag declaring an unwillingness to pursue strong vigorous school reform efforts from the federal level.

Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement initiative, OKF increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and policies at the district level and at three partner schools.

A study of how elementary school teachers used social networks during reform efforts (Daly, Moolenaar, Bolivar, & Burke, 2010) found that they interacted primarily with fellow teachers in the same school and grade level; they rarely reached out beyond those groups, not even to their own principals and instructional coaches.

In recent years, we have partnered with an urban school district in a systemic middle level science curriculum reform effort.

California's state - level policies and efforts to support high school reform through its High Performing High School Initiativschool reform through its High Performing High School InitiativSchool Initiative; and

«Only though a clearly defined and appropriate federal role, a willingness to explore a revised charge of the U.S. Department of Education, and placing primary responsibility for education in the hands of locally elected school boards who clearly have the greatest confidence of the public, will school reform efforts thrive at local levels.»

Also critical to sustainable and systemic school improvement efforts is ensuring that individuals across all levels of the system are engaged in reform.

Past efforts to reform the funding formula were short - lived, and the state's «hold - harmless» provision has led to huge disparities in per - pupil funding levels between school districts.

Data from the interviews were used to document the characteristics of various school - level factors at each school site, as well as the extent of the reform effort at that school.

We ran two - level HLM analyses investigating the relationship between students» spring comprehension, fluency, and writing scores and the school reform effort score for the total sample of 877 students in the 11 project schools (with data from three schools included separately across Years 1 and 2).

Rather, the constellation of leadership, reforms, and multi-sector efforts at state, district, and school levels drove this progress, and shows that with focus, graduation rates can be increased for all students in every part of the country Read the full report here.