Sentences with phrase «many urban charter schools»

But if there's one clear, unambiguous victory that reformers can rightly claim, it's urban charter schools, which have generally served low - income kids of color very well.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

One outstanding example of NNSP's vision in action is found in Roland Park Country School's (RPCS) commitment to opening an urban charter school for middle school girls in Baltimore in 2015.

Efforts to bring the academic results of some of the nation's best urban charter schools to a far larger scale are «sharply constrained» by limits on the supply of talent willing and able to undertake the highly demanding work, argues a new working paper by Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at Education Sector, a Washington think tank.

Urban charter schools are another exception: They yield strongly positive outcomes for low - income and minority students despite high rates of teacher and principal turnover.

• Maintaining philanthropic support for high - performing urban charter schools and for enrichment of curriculum and pedagogy in «no excuses» schools.

Included: A description of an urban charter school program.

Merseth's latest book, Inside Urban Charter Schools, released this week by Harvard Education Press, provides an intimate look into five high - performing urban charter schools in Massachusetts, including what makes these schools a success.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

These academic benefits of urban charter schools are quite large.

We found several elements were important to the success of these schools specifically, these successful urban charter schools including:

Author Kay Merseth reads an excerpt from her book Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - Performing Schools

Even worse, NCLB, far from unleashing major new choice initiatives as was originally hoped, is instead threatening the future of many struggling urban charter schools.

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Merseth's latest book, Inside Urban Charter Schools, released this week by Harvard Education Press, provides an intimate look into five high - performing urban charter schools in Massachusetts,...

As Elissa begins her year at HGSE, Joe is continuing to look for leadership opportunities in an urban charter school — one that he hopes may lead to future work together.

Patterson now works with an urban charter school in Sacramento.

So even if SIG achieved the same effects as urban charter schools the study may not have been able to detect these effects.

It seems pretty unfair for charter (or voucher) champions to call SIG a failure when SIG might have very well achieved near the same results as urban charter schools.

We have rigorous statistical evidence from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) that urban charter schools outperform traditional schools (the table below comes from their 2015 study of charters in 41 urban regions), and I believe this should be our nation's preferred school improvement strategy.

For urban charter schools, however, the evidence suggests a more promising story.

Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - Performing Schools.

Last fall, Ed Next published a short review of a new book, Inside Urban Charter Schools, by Kay Merseth of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Nascent research on the effects of urban charter schools on other outcomes also shows promising results.

In particular, urban charter schools seem to be much more effective than non-urban charter schools.

According to a 2015 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, students enrolled in urban charter schools gained 40 additional days of learning in math per year and 28 additional days in reading compared to students in district schools.

Those programs include early - childhood programs for the state's 16 largest and neediest cities, school library improvements, 16 urban charter schools, and additional funding for magnet schools to attract students from surrounding school districts.

The problem is that often the forest gets lost because the leaves aren't counted: the authors describe a CREDO report's conclusions on the cumulative advantage of urban charter schools for poor African American students but give the reader no sense of how trustworthy they deem the report to be nor how significant the purported charter - school impact is — compared, for example, to results of any other major school - reform strategy.

In Massachusetts, strong authorizing policies and a healthy supply of teacher talent have combined to produce a set of urban charter schools with stellar track records.

Even if the impacts end up being roughly the same, urban charter schools achieve these results at a small fraction of the cost.

Now compare this to CREDO's urban charter school study, which found that urban students enrolled in charter schools gained.07 standard deviations relative to their peers in district schools in one year.

But these children will also need great schools led by amazing educators, and urban charter schools are among the most cost - effective way to provide these children the schools that they deserve.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Recent studies have cast doubt on the value of charter schools in DeVos» home state of Michigan, but an earlier study by Brookings found urban charter schools across the country succeeding even as suburban ones have not.

In public education, it is unfortunately rare to find something that truly helps children in need, and in urban charter schools we have found something that works at basically no additional cost.

Urban charter schools have an incredible track record of increasing student achievement, while increasing school funding by as much as 10 % yields very modest test score effects, and these effects come at a very high cost.

Urban charter schools in Massachusetts are delivering for minority, economically disadvantaged, special education and ELL students in a way that is historically unprecedented in the long struggle for equitable education in the United States.

Comparisons of those who did and did not win charter school admissions lotteries in Massachusetts suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

Interestingly, today's extraordinarily high - performing urban charter schools — arguably the greatest story in public education in a generation — bear a curious resemblance to the Catholic schools of Baby Boomer memory.

Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - performing Charter Schools

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

Massachusetts» urban charter school students are drawn from a population in which middle school students generally score below the average on state - wide math and English tests.

Given these results, and given that there have yet to be long - term studies on impacts on later - life outcomes for our state's urban charter schools, caution is warranted.

Question 2 is about urban charter schools.

America's outstanding urban charter schools shed light on the subject in a way both vexing and encouraging to Catholic education's biggest champions.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

Over-subscribed urban charter schools that admit students by lottery have produced the largest improvement in student achievement.

«We are pleased that our findings about what makes these urban charter schools successful and the challenges that remain have the potential to inform the work of many who seek to improve on educational outcomes for children.»