Sentences with phrase «major urban school districts»

They used data from six major urban school districts to examine correlations between student survey responses and value - added scores computed both from state tests and from higher - order tests of conceptual understanding.

The MET report uses data from six major urban school districts to, among other things, compare two different value - added scores for teachers: one computed from official state tests, and another from a test designed to measure higher - order, conceptual understanding.

Putting SEL into practice in such a widespread manner, especially in major urban school districts, will allow CASEL to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach in creating better learning environments, helping kids succeed in a variety of ways, and reducing problem behaviors.

This report highlights growth in U.S. Latino students» reading scores over the last decade, using scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment to compare progress across states and major cities, and for some major urban school districts.

The AFT is the nation's second - largest teachers union and represents school employees in most of the major urban school districts.

Across the nation, the leaders of major urban school districts recognize that lessons in creativity and imaginative problem solving must begin at an early age if our children are to thrive in school and in a global economy.

Why is it that major urban school districts are unable to improve student learning at scale?

L.A. Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Teresa Watanabe Los Angeles Times Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday to ban the purchase of chickens that have been raised with antibiotics.

Last year, DCPS was the fastest - improving major urban school district in the country.

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

Every major urban school district from New York to Seattle has, or is developing, a plan for Arts Education.

The Quality Schools Compact effort is an outgrowth of a roundtable discussion that occurred last February between 13 major urban school district superintendents matched with charter leaders from each of those cities.

Not exact matches

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Ms. House, the 1999 National Superintendent of the Year and one of the few women to lead a major urban school system, will leave the 112,000 - student district April 3.

A number of years ago, I studied 57 urban school districts across the U.S. and found that they had launched an average of 13 major reforms in a three - year period — or three to four every year.

A small number of progressive leaders of major urban school systems are using school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100 traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new schools.

While most of Chicago's high school seniors hope to attend college, the school system has a long way to go to make that vision a reality, according to a new report that is among the first to track the post-high-school experiences of graduates from a major urban district on a broad scale.

These schools — among the district's most challenging — have kept pace with a district achieving the highest gains among America's major urban systems.

The appeal around SEL is significant enough that now California's CORE districts, which serve over a million students in major urban areas like Los Angeles and San Francisco, now require social - emotional skills to make up 8 % of a school's evaluation.

Improving students» reading skills was a major issue for three high schools in an urban district in which the majority of students were below grade level in their reading assessment scores.

The Urban Hope Act is just a small piece of what the Christie administration seeks to accomplish in Camden, with the work on the existing district schools a major challenge given the state's track record.

For a long time now, major urban city districts have used «rubber rooms» to oust veteran teachers, minority teachers, political rascals who won't keep their mouths shut about the districts (at both the local / school and central office level.

Back in August, Urban Milwaukee did a story documenting the growing teacher shortage in Wisconsin, which found many school districts were having trouble attracting teacher applicants and many universities were seeing a decline in education majors, led by UW - Milwaukee, with a 23 percent decline.

Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas public education reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which was recognized as the best urban school district in America in 2002.

There is no strong consensus about the best way to serve these students and no major national program of financial aid to the urban school districts most affected by immigration.

As you know, a few years ago Memphis City Schools underwent major surgery as several suburban districts seceded from the large urban district to establish their own school systems.

Charter schools enroll an increasing share of the student body in major urban districts, and in a few, they will soon serve more students than district schools.

But the converse also holds to a remarkable degree: perceived disaster school districts — frequently major urban ones — get the job done just fine, thank you, for their slice of non-poor kids.

The study's sample was a mid-sized urban district that, faced with declining enrollment, chose to make student achievement a major criterion in determining which schools would be closed.

I have the privilege of serving as a school counselor at a Title 1 elementary school in a major urban district in the south.

I have the privilege of serving as a school counselor at a Title 1 elementary school in a major urban district in the south.

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