Sentences with phrase «of high school reform efforts»

This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (see «A Foundation Goes to School»), has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and our fantasy of them as extensions of the family.

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While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has a high number of failing schools in his Bronx district, responds to Cuomo's recent highlighting of that fact in an effort to push his education reform agenda.

Despite decades of educational reform and legal efforts, many U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation, with 16 percent of public schools serving both minority and high poverty students.

In Massachusetts, writes Georgia Alexakis in the Washington Monthly, the paradox of these reform efforts is, «The schools most likely to do poorly on the MCAS [the state test in Massachusetts] have also been most likely to embrace it, while those districts whose scores are already quite high are fighting hardest to get rid of it.»

It argues that while members of the reform community continue to advance district and charter efforts, they should also support initiatives that make high - quality private schools accessible to low - income families.

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.

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, CalifSchool of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, Califschool in Novato, California.

• Neither the dispersiveness of soft skill reform efforts nor the high genetic loading of abstract soft skills argues against the importance of incorporating soft skills into the intentional mission of schools and classrooms.

New York has proved that high school reform is possible; that boosting graduation rates of the poor and unprepared, even if the effort is begun in high school, is possible; that small alone is not enough; that choice alone is not enough.

Famed business - school thinker Clayton Christensen was splendidly profiled in The New Yorker a few weeks back, which set me to reflecting on his influential meditation on K - 12 education, Disrupting Class, the 2008 book (co-authored with Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) that startled the edu - cracy with its bold prediction that half of all high school courses will be delivered online by 2019 and its explanation that technology will produce the «disruptive innovation» in education that previous reform efforts have failed to bring about.

After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

The XQ Super School Project is not an effort to look at the failures of education reform, said Ali, but to help motivate students, educators, and thinkers to reimagine what American high school couSchool Project is not an effort to look at the failures of education reform, said Ali, but to help motivate students, educators, and thinkers to reimagine what American high school couschool could be.

First, House Education Committee chairman John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio and longtime proponent of education reform, expressed doubts about the federal government's role in leading the high - school reform effort.

Making high - quality books and professional development available to schools — including but not limited to Core Knowledge Language Arts — could transform America's elementary schools, and without the controversy that follows most of today's reform efforts.

For all the activity and buzz in and around new small schools, only 10 percent of all high school students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School Alliahigh school students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School Allschool students in the country have been affected by the reform efforts, according to Naomi Housman, executive director of the National High School AlliaHigh School AllSchool Alliance.

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).

Pereira — and hundreds of thousands of teenagers like her throughout the country — are at the vortex of the most far - reaching high school reform effort in a half - century.

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locSchools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to locschools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

The current study can not draw causal conclusions, but altering the structural characteristics of schools associated with higher suspension rates should be considered in future reform efforts.

Since the Milliken ruling, there has been a vast effort to improve public education for students from kindergarten through high school with an extensive range of reforms.

Some of her projects have included: «Improving Access to College Information and Financial Aid,» a study on the effects of simplifying the financial aid application process; «Understanding Barriers and Examining Interventions,» a series of research studies focused on college enrollment and completion for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and «Addressing the Problem of Insufficient High School Preparation,» which focuses on state efforts to regulate college remedial programs and reforms that attempt to reduce the need for remediation.

According to Ravitch, writing in a recent New York Times op - ed essay, titled, of course, Waiting for a School Miracle, all these high - powered education reformers, from President Obama to Arne Duncan to Jeb Bush to Michael Bloomberg, are claiming «miracles» for their reform efforts; and Ravitch is there, a one - woman Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Devil's Advocate, to throw some almighty holy water on the hype fires.

Chief in these efforts is the Smart Arkansas suite, a series of programs that deal with elementary, middle and high school reform, professional development, and that combine for a more strategic and systemic way to support low - performing students.

Talent Development Secondary, a comprehensive school reform effort, has emerged after over 20 years of research, applications and practices, well equipped to respond effectively to the needs of schools and districts seeking the strategies, tools, materials, supports and personnel needed to dramatically improve middle and high schools marked by low achievement and low graduation rates.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

We've created a system that allows them to validate that,» says Gene Bottoms, executive director of High Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 Schools That Work, a reform effort now in about 1,000 schools in 30 schools in 30 states.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Gist's efforts to reform education prompted the mass firings earlier this year at Central Falls High School, where just 7 percent of 11th - graders tested proficient in math last fall.

The American Statistical Association — the largest organization in the United States representing statisticians and related professionals — that blasted the high - stakes «value - added method» (VAM) of evaluating teachers that has been increasingly embraced in states as part of school - reform efforts.

The issue of adolescent literacy is, therefore central to the success of any middle and high school reform effort.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.

Gray described the initiative he is leading, CEE - Trust, a network of 18 city - based organizations that support education innovation and reform, and discussed the efforts of a CEE - Trust working group that is exploring innovative ways to rapidly expand the supply of high - quality charter schools in seven CEE - Trust cities.

Starting in the 2012 - 13 school year, Project LIFT operates as a semi-autonomous Learning Community within CMS, providing the initiative with CMS infrastructural support and access to an initial $ 55 Million investment of private resources to drive a multifaceted reform effort in Charlotte's highest poverty schools.

Paula White, NJ State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, added: «Democrats for Education Reform understands that the fight for high - quality public school choice is a crucial part of a larger, comprehensive effort to champion ALL of America's public school children, irrespective of their background or circumstance.

Some of the most ambitious efforts to address the underachievement of African - American boys and young men have involved broad, systemic reforms — carefully conceived and clearly articulated transformations of entire school districts that are designed to run seamlessly from pre-kindergarten through high school.

Recommendations include the need to: 1) consider school closure in the context of a larger reform effort; 2) develop a supply of higher - performing school options; 3) clearly explain to the public how current students will benefit; 4) provide support to families and students during the transition; and 5) provide staff members with clear information about next steps.

As 1991 New Hampshire Teacher of the Year and 1996 New Hampshire Media Educator of the Year, Kim has been actively involved in local, state, and national education reform efforts for over two decades, including Souhegan High School, Monadnock Community Connections School, Five Freedoms Project, and most recently, the Q.E.D. Foundation.

The survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states are now actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind.

This survey updates the efforts of all 50 states to align their high school standards, graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability systems with the demands of college and work, and finds that at least 48 states were actively engaged in reform efforts of some kind at that time.

If test results show significant widespread gains in student results temporally associated with district reform plans, if these trends are generalized across all or most schools, and if the performance gaps between previous groups of low and high performing students and schools are seen to be diminishing over time, the argument is made that district reform efforts are having a positive impact on student learning.

Project LIFT (Leadership and Investment for Transformation) is a multifaceted reform effort designed to turn around nine of Charlotte's highest - poverty schools.