Sentences with phrase «of urban school»
Executive Summary A large array of urban school improvement grants, programs, and partnerships enables schools to embrace multiple improvement initiatives in an effort to improve student achievement.
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Although incoming freshmen at the urban school scored significantly lower in mathematics than incoming students at the two suburban schools, by senior year, 41 percent of the urban school's students were taking calculus, compared with approximately 27 percent of students in the other two schools.
Some don't, but there is a percentage for which it works, and it seems to me that given the dynamics of an urban school system, if you can find something that works for some people, it's at least worth keeping around.»
Her desire to broaden her understanding of urban school models led her to serve as a principal within a national charter school network.
on Low - income inner - city achievement gap starts to close, test scores of urban school districts improve faster than nation over past 10 years, Washington D.C. stands out
The Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual who — during his or her lifetime — has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the educational needs of urban school children through his or her service as a local school board member.
For all the discussion of urban school reform, including the planned takeover of Camden schools, there is no additional money for the state satellite centers that are charged with overseeing improvements.
«It is an urban school district, and it has undergone various forms of urban school reform: decentralization, recentralization and now, the new prescription for urban school reform, is to become a charter school,» said Marytza Gawlik, who teaches in Wayne State University's Education Leadership & Policy Studies Department, in Detroit.
Leadership team members have taken ownership in embracing the district's vision (to provide a quality education driven by an unrelenting determination to graduate all students, preparing them for success in higher education) and mission (to transform San Antonio ISD into a national model of an urban school district where every child graduates and is educated and prepared to be a contributing member of the community) to align their work at the campus level.
The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Award for Urban School Board Excellence was created in 2004 to recognize the leadership of urban school districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its students.
National Institute of Urban School Improvement - Inclusive schools e-newsletter.
$ 20 million on the 10 turnarounds, including the 6 contracted to Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), announced earlier in the week.
That's a potential liability in a city looking to change the narrative of an urban school system that persistently lags behind statewide averages in academic proficiency.
NEW YORK (May 12, 2010)-- Central offices of urban school districts have been able to shift their focus from administration and compliance to improvement of teaching and learning district - wide by making five key changes, according to a new report by University of Washington researchers.
If you aren't a subscriber to the print edition of the Chicago Tribune, you may have entirely missed their front - page story on the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), which was pretty hard to find on the internet edition's home page.
The voices of urban school district leaders are also conspicuously absent.
What We Think: Parental Perceptions of Urban School Climate is available at www.nsba.org/SecondaryMenu/CUBE/Publications/CUBEResearchReports.aspx.
The Council's recent report, What We Think: Parental Perceptions of Urban School Climate, is based on the responses of 10,270 parents in 112 schools at all grade levels.
The president discussed education issues with members of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of urban school systems meeting this week in Washington.
For example, after reading Chapter 6, «The Social Cost of Leadership Churn: The Case of an Urban School District,» I wondered about the school district's role in supporting teachers in developing collaborative relationships with their peers in other schools and with central office leaders.
As the evidence of urban school reforms based on the Superman model accumulates, it is becoming clear that most have been unable to turn a single superintendency into a continuing regime: a lasting organization that continues after the high profile superintendent leaves.
Houston also has the highest SAT participation rate of any urban school district in the competition — two - thirds higher than the Texas average — and showed the highest increase in Advanced Placement exam participation for all students.
Cahill, who was in charge of urban school reform at the Carnegie Foundation, came to the nation's largest school district last year to oversee a total revamping of its high school program.
The article mentions that David Vitale, Mayor Emanuel's nominee for CPS Board President, is on the Board of the Academy of Urban School Leadership (known as «AUSL»).
His research includes a longitudinal study of urban school leadership on which his co-edited volume with James Spillane, Distributed Leadership in Practice, is based (Teachers College Press, 2007).
She has held senior policy and communications positions at WestEd, focused especially on issues of urban school systems and their leadership.
However, the nature of urban school districts makes it very difficult to demonstrate concrete short - term improvement.
«The leaders of the Council of Urban Boards of Education have strong experience in advancing urban education, and we are proud of their deep commitment to aiding the work of urban school boards so that all students can succeed,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of NSBA.
Dr. White specializes in the areas of urban school reform, community engagement, organizational change, middle level education, and leadership development.
I also learned that racism and socioeconomics play a large role in the take - over of our urban school systems.
, A decade of urban school reform: Persistence and progress in the Boston Public Schools (pp. 219 — 242).
«I'm proud to serve as chair of the Council of Urban Boards of Education,» said Jacobs, «and I'm committed to working with the Committee in support of urban school boards efforts to close achievement and opportunity gaps so that our children and young people can flourish and have future success.»
After seven years as superintendent, he has been one of the longest serving superintendents of an urban school district with an elected school board in our country's recent memory.
«NSBA presents the Benjamin Elijah Mays Lifetime Achievement Award to individuals who demonstrate long - standing commitment to the educational needs of urban school children,» said Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association.
Still, a majority of urban school district officials think the program has the potential to deliver lasting change to long - foundering schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, an organization in Washington, D.C., that represents the nation's urban school districts.
This is the ultimate task of the leader of the urban school system of the future: properly managing a city's portfolio of schools.
My study eventually led me to conclude that we actually had a system - level problem: The existence of long - failing schools was a symptom of the urban school district.
How the District (and other places) answers it will shape the next decade of urban school reform.
Can the ills of urban school systems be cured by changing the way they are governed?
High rates of student mobility are an ever - present feature of all urban school districts.
In so doing, it followed in the footsteps of urban school districts such as Baltimore, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and New York City, all of which have in the past decade expanded their reliance on the once ubiquitous K — 8 model.
, Where we learn: The CUBE survey of urban school climate (p. 11).
Where we learn: The CUBE survey of urban school climate.
It has frequently been suggested by Texas researchers that the formula be altered in several respects to provide a more accurate reflection of local taxpaying ability, especially of urban school districts.
Poor educational opportunities will remain the norm unless we tackle one remaining issue: the structure of urban school districts.
To provide children with the educational opportunities they deserve, we must tackle the structure of urban school districts.
The structure of urban school systems has made a mess of the relationships between family, educator, and government.
But, contrary to many leading reform voices, progress on the important issues of poverty and talent will not be enough to reverse the dysfunction of urban school districts.
Over the past decade, a growing number of urban school districts have responded to the presence of charter schools by providing some of their own schools the same flexibilities that charters enjoy.
His book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart: One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America, explores questions of school segregation and inequality in the context of an urban school in Richmond, Va., and a nearby suburban school.