Sentences with phrase «many urban school systems»

Geoffrey Canada, having grown up in an urban school system himself, had a vision for the city of Harlem and the children that resided there.

The struggling urban school system continues to look for dramatic fixes.

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

The Conference is a membership organization advocating for New York's urban school systems, including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Yonkers and New York City, which make up 45 percent of the state's public schoolchildren.

The conference represents New York's urban school systems including the Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers districts.

year who are working in urban school systems.

Try something really prosaic: improve the financial management staff of urban school systems.

DCPS» reputation as a rising urban school system depends on it.

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.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

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.

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school systems.

«Leading and managing in the multifaceted and dynamic environment of an urban school system is an incredible challenge that is complicated further by the heavy day - to - day demands of the job,» says Kim Clark, dean of HBS.

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

But suffice it to say, I believe Washington, D.C. is on track to become the second city (following New Orleans) to develop the urban school system of the future.

I also think that your book doesn't deal sufficiently with how the urban school system of the future will ensure that all students are served equitably.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

In a total of 156 issues over the years, the «Oakes Newsletter» — researched, written, edited, and published by Ms. Oakes — earned a solid reputation as a source of information and insight into the workings of a major urban school system.

This is the first step toward building healthy urban school systems — systems that are dynamic, responsive, and self - improving.

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).

Their urban school systems don't offer (or greatly restrict) gifted - and - talented programs; they mandate «heterogeneous» groupings of students and tell teachers to do their best meeting a panoply of diverse needs using «differentiated instruction.»

The time we spent in Detroit left us with the view that the city has the potential to be the next great example of urban school system renewal, as soon as civic and state leaders are ready to step up.

Smarick tackles this issue and more in his new book, The Urban School System of the Future.

Moreover, and most importantly, continuing to pursue turnarounds actually inhibits our ability to build healthy urban school systems.

In 1990, the school created the Urban Superintendents Program, the only comprehensive doctoral program preparing school leaders for the challenges of urban school system administration.

This marks DISD's fourth leadership change in 11 years — a rate that's actually pretty typical for America's urban school systems, and that illuminates why it can be so hard for districts to make sustained progress.

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.

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

Since Teach For America and the KIPP Academies haven't yet saved the world, 5,000 charter schools have not prompted the remaking of urban school systems, and we're saddled with the disappointing legacy of NCLB, maybe what we've been missing all along is a sufficiently sentimental, gut - wrenching presence in the nation's cinemas.

The unprecedented management plan, which the school committee may vote on next week, has been hailed as a bold step to help solve the problems of a troubled urban school system.

All of the factors facing Cleveland — low academic performance, financial strain, enrollment loss, charter school competition — are familiar to many urban school systems.

When I started writing The Urban School System of the Future in 2009, I didn't foresee the extent of the complications associated with parental choice in cities with expansive networks of accessible schools.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

Chapter Five of my book The Urban School System of the Future chronicles the intellectual history of chartering, which includes motivations well beyond district R&D.

The Green Award emphasizes the need for continuing efforts to improve urban school systems, he said.

Robin J. Lake has studied public charter schools and urban school system reforms since 1993.

Now in its fourth year, the Urban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school systems.

Wilson and others say that having effective leadership in urban school systems is important, regardless of where that leadership is located.

The Urban Scholars Program, which offers its recipients tuition - free enrollment in their selected master's programs, was started in part due to Dean Kathleen McCartney's vision of creating a prestigious fellowship for educators in urban school systems.

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.

He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

Quite simply, turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems.

He is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907 — 81, and, with David Angus, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890 — 1995.

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...

Andy Smarick opens The Urban School System of the Future with a depressing realization; «The traditional urban school system is broken, and it can not be fixed.»

If choice through vouchers can create conditions that promote academic achievement, and if it can put political pressure on what are often intractable urban school systems, it merits serious consideration.

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.

«In the dismal gallery of failing urban school systems,» wrote Associated Press reporter Adam Nossiter in April of 2005, several months before Katrina, «New Orleans may be the biggest horror of them all.»

The Urban School System of the Future offers a compelling vision that school reformers should take seriously.