Sentences with phrase «on urban public education»

These students are drawn to TEP for its focus on urban public education and its commitment to creating a more just and equitable society through better teachers and better schools.

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This article provides an overview of the principles of Public Waldorf Education, with a focus on urban schools.

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

The forthcoming second edition of Education Week's 50 - state report card on public education finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school dEducation Week's 50 - state report card on public education finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school deducation finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school districts.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

For a century, we relied on the district system to deliver urban public education.

Thomas J. Kane, Peter R. Orszag and Emil Apostolov «Higher Education Appropriations and Public Universities: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle» Brookings - Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2005 pp. 99 - 127., (2005)

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 eEducation Next's annual survey of public opinion on educationeducation.

Her research focuses on leadership development and organizational change, particularly in higher education and urban public schools.

The project, which he calls, The Chastened Dream, will look at how publicly - oriented professional schools, including those focused on education, public health, public policy, and urban planning and design, develop knowledge that they hope will be useful for ameliorating poverty, curing disease, improving education, and increasing the quality of life for us all.

This study will shed light on this issue in a large urban school district and reinforce the importance of partnerships between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston Public Schools.»

Brian Jacob is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Center on Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Based on a year of self - examination by 44 of the largest urban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessmurban districts, «Challenges to Urban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessmUrban Education: Results in the Making,» casts the future of inner - city public schools in terms far more optimistic than other recent assessments.

No reform short of unloading a dump - truck filled with hundred - dollar bills on the campus of each urban public school will solve today's education ills.

«My hope was to use this year to really explore and integrate the literature on urban education, science education reform, public understanding of science, and racial / gendered discrimination in science.

As a long - time member of the Public Education Leadership Project, a joint initiative between HBS and HGSE, Higgins co-authored a book with her colleagues on managing central office - school relationships called, Achieving Coherence in District Improvement; this book is based upon their work with large urban districts over a ten - year time period.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

He is the faculty methodologist for the Penn IES Pre-Doctoral Training Program, a faculty fellow with the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a faculty affiliate with the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative, a senior researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, and an affiliated researcher with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

In addition to her work in the arts, Ewing is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research focuses on race, social inequality, urban policy, and public schools.

Offering a counter-narrative to the school improvement prescriptions that dominate national education debates, a new book based on 15 years of data on public elementary schools in Chicago identifies five tried - and - true ingredients that work, in combination with one another, to spur success in urban schools.

LFC president Ann Duplessis and the Urban League of Greater New Orleans» Ethan Ashley discuss public education issues on «Urban Speaks».

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards and fosters effective leadership for excellence and equity in public education, with a specific focus on underrepresented studUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards and fosters effective leadership for excellence and equity in public education, with a specific focus on underrepresented Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards and fosters effective leadership for excellence and equity in public education, with a specific focus on underrepresented studurban school boards and fosters effective leadership for excellence and equity in public education, with a specific focus on underrepresented education, with a specific focus on underrepresented students.

McIntyre has served on numerous state - level working groups aimed at enhancing public education, and was also selected as a fellow in the prestigious Broad Foundation Superintendent's Academy, an intensive ten month fellowship in the urban public school superintendency.

Brass City Charter School depends on the generosity of foundations, corporations, public agencies, and individuals to realize its mission of providing our students a rigorous, well - rounded and emotionally supportive education that will eliminate the achievement gap characteristic of urban underserved students and enable them to lead meaningful and productive lives both for themselves and for their community.

Last month, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), the nation's foremost independent analyst of charter public school effectiveness, released a comprehensive Urban Charter Schools Report and offers unprecedented insight into the effectiveness of charter public schools.

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An alumna of New York City public schools, Cheyenne graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Communication Studies, and later graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education with an EdM in education policy and management with a focus on urban eEducation with an EdM in education policy and management with a focus on urban eeducation policy and management with a focus on urban educationeducation.

UNCF's Vice President Sekou Biddle, who has worked in urban public education reform for almost two decades and served on the District of Columbia State Board of Education, helps facilitate these conveeducation reform for almost two decades and served on the District of Columbia State Board of Education, helps facilitate these conveEducation, helps facilitate these conversations.

Before joining Boston Public Schools, Dr. Santelises lectured on urban education for two years at Harvard University and spent six years as a senior associate with Focus on Results Inc..

Both have solid records as urban education reformers, particularly with regard to charter schools, which are built on the belief that parents need sound education options and that the common good is well served by schools run under various auspices, not just by large public - sector bureaucracies.

We selected the cities based on their size and because they reflect the complexity of urban public education today, where a single school district is often no longer the only education game in town.

Academy of Notre Dame Algonquin Regional High School Annie Sullivan Middle School Another Course to College Ansin Religious School Arlington High School Ashland High School Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School Auburn High School Austin Preparatory School Baker School Beacon Academy Beaver Country Day School Belmont Day School Belmont High School Belmont Hill School Bernard Mcnally Beverly High School Bigelow Middle School Bishop Fenwick High School Blessed Sacrament School Boston Adult Technical Academy Boston Arts Academy Boston College Boston College High School Boston Community Leadership Academy Boston Latin Academy Boston Latin School Boston Middle School Academy Boston Preparatory Charter Public School Boston Public Schools Boston's Jewish Community Day School Brandeis Jewish Education Program Bridgewater Raynham Regional High School Brighton High School Brimmer and May School Briscoe Middle School Broad Meadows Middle School Brook Farm Business and Service Career Academy Brookline High School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School Burlington High School Burlington Middle School Cambridge Family and Children's Service Cambridge Friends School Cambridge Montessori School Cambridge Public Schools Cambridge Rindge & Latin School Cambridge School of Weston Cameron Middle School Cathedral High School (Boston) Cathedral High School (Springfield) Center for Collaborative Education Central Catholic High School (Lawrence) Central Tree Middle School Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School Charlestown High School Chatham High School Chelsea High School City On A Hill Charter High School Codman Academy Charter Public School Cohen Hillel Academy Community Academy of Science and Health Concord Carlisle High School Concord Middle School Congregation Beth El Congregation Beth Israel Hebrew School Congregation B'nai Shalom Congregation Shalom Curley K - 8 School Curry College Dana Hall School Dean Junior College Dearborn Middle School Dedham Country Day School Derby Academy Diploma Plus Commonwealth Corporation Dorchester Academy Dorchester Community Center for the Visual Arts Dorchester Youth Alternative Academy Dorshei Tzedek Religious School Douglas High School Dover - Sherborn High School Driscoll School Duxbury High School East Boston Catholic East Boston High School East Bridgewater Gordon Mitchel Middle School Easton Junior High School Edgartown School Edison K - 8 School Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers Edwards Middle School Elizabeth Seton Academy English High School Excel High School F.A. Day Middle School Fay School Fayerweather Street School Fenn School Fenway High School Fessenden School Fitchburg High School Fletcher Maynard Academy Framingham High School Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School Frederick Douglass Charter School Full Circle High School Fuller Middle School Galvin Middle School (Canton, MA) Galvin Middle School (Wakefield, MA) Gann Academy: The New Jewish High School of Greater Boston Gateway Regional High School Goss II Secure Treatment DYS Graham and Parks School Greater Egleston Community High School Grover Cleveland Middle School Hamilton - Wenham Regional High School Hanson Middle School Harbor School Harvard Graduate School of Education Harwich High School Heath School Heritage Academy Hernandez K - 8 School Higgenson / Lewis K - 8 School Hillside Treatment Program Holy Name Parish School Hopkinton High School Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Hudson High School Hyde Park High School Immaculate Conception School Immaculate Conception School (Newburyport) Inly School International School of Boston Ipswich High School Ipswich Middle School Jackson Mann K - 8 School Jeremiah E. Burke High School John F. Kennedy Middle School (Natick) Josiah Quincy Upper School (Washington St) Kilmer K - 8 Upper School King Middle School (Dorchester) Knesset Israel Hebrew School Lawrence Public Schools Lawrence School (Brookline) Lesley College Lexington High School Lexington Montessori School Lilla Frederick Pilot Middle School Lillian Kessel Religious School at Temple Emanuel Lincoln School (Brookline) Lincoln School (Lincoln) Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Littleton High School Lowell High School Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School Lyndon Pilot School (West Roxbury) Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Maimonides High School Malden High School Marblehead Middle School Marblehead Public Schools Marlborough High School Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Martin Luther King Open School Mary Lyon School Massachusetts Department of Corrections MATCH School Matignon High School McCall Middle School McCormack Middle School McKay K - 8 School McKinley Middle School McKinley South End Academy Medford High School Media Communications Technology High School Melrose Junior High School Meridian Academy Middlesex Community College Mildred Avenue School Miles River Middle School Milton Academy Mission Hill School Mitchell Middle School Monument High School Mother Caroline Academy Mount Alvernia Elementary School Mount Alvernia High School Mystic Valley Regional Charter School Nashoba Brooks School of Concord Nashoba Valley Technical High School (Westford) Nauset Regional High School Needham High School New Mission High School Newton Country Day School Newton North High School Noble & Greenough School North Shore Christian School North Shore Community College Northbridge Middle School Northeastern University Norwell High School Notre Dame Academy (Hingham) Oak Hill Middle School O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science Office of Curriculum and Instruction Ottoson Middle School Our Lady of Perpetual Help / Mission Grammar School Parkway Academy of Technology and Health Pathfinder Regional High School Pembroke Community Middle School Phillips Academy Andover Pierce School Pike School Plymouth South Middle School Pollard Middle School Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy (Neponset, Lower Mills, Columbia, and Mattapan) Prospect Hill Charter Academy Prozdor Hebrew College Public Service And Civic Engagement Academy (Lowell High School) Quincy Public Schools Randolph High School Reading Memorial High School River Valley Charter School Rogers Middle School (Hyde Park) Roxbury Latin Roxbury Preparatory Charter School Runkle School Sacred Heart School Saint Agatha School Sarah Greenwood K - 8 School Shady Hill School Sharon High School Sharon Middle School Shore Country Day School Shrewsbury Middle School Snowden International High School Social Justice Academy Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston Somerset High School Somerville High School South Area Solomon Schechter Day School South Boston Catholic Academy St. Brendan's School (Dorcester) St. Columbkille School St. John's Preparatory School St. John School St. Mary of the Assumption School (Brookline) St. Patrick School St. Paul's Catholic Church St. Peter Academy (South Boston) St. Theresa St. Thomas Aquinas High School Stoneham High School Striar Hebrew Academy Swampscott High School TechBoston Academy TechBoston Lower Academy Temple Beth David Religious School Temple Beth Shalom Temple Emanu - El Temple Etz Chaim Temple Isaiah Temple Israel Temple Israel Religious School Temple Sinai The Accelerated Learning Laboratory The Carroll School The Engineering School The Governor's Academy The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University The Meadowbrook School of Weston The New Boston Pilot Middle School The Park School (MA) The Rashi School, the Boston Area Reform Jewish Day School The Rivers School Thomas Blake Middle School Thurston Middle School Timilty Middle School Tobin K - 8 School Trinity Catholic Academy Tufts University Umana Middle School Academy University of Massachusetts, Boston College of Community Service University Park Campus School Urban Science Academy Ursuline Academy Waltham High School Washington Irving Middle School Watertown High School Watertown Middle School Wayland Middle School Wellesley Middle School Wentworth Institute of Technology Westborough High School Weston Middle School WGBH Whitman Middle School Whitman - Hanson Regional High School Wilbraham & Monson Academy Wilmington High School Wilson Middle School (Natick) Winsor School Winthrop High School Worcester North High School Worker Education Program Young Achievers Science and Math K - 8 School

Serving as NSBA ex-officio directors on the NSBA Board for 2014 - 2015 will be: Van Henri White of New York's Rochester City School District as the Chair of the Council of Urban Boards of Education; Ellis A. Alexander of Louisiana's St. Charles Parish Public Schools as Chair of the National Black Caucus of School Boards; Guillermo Z. Lopez of Michigan's Lansing Public School District as Chair of the National Hispanic Caucus of School Board Members; Gregory J. Guercio of New York's Law Offices of Guercio & Guercio, LLP as the Chair of the Council of School Attorneys; Karen Echeverria of the Idaho School Boards Association as the Chair of the Organization of State Association Executive Directors» Liaison Committee; and NSBA's Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

The Wallace Foundation published a four - part video series on «A Bold Move to Better Prepare Principals: The Illinois Story,» featuring the Center for Urban Education Leadership's partnership with Chicago Public Schools in developing transformational urban school leaUrban Education Leadership's partnership with Chicago Public Schools in developing transformational urban school leaurban school leaders.

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But he has recently spoken out on overhauling the state's public education system, beginning in poor, urban areas.

Most recently, she has been studying teacher education programs that focus on preparing teachers for particular contexts, such as urban public schools, and exploring the advantages of such focused preparation for new teachers, and their students — work that is...

David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, a Newark - based school advocacy group, noted that many traditional urban public schools are older and in worse condition, and have to wait for the state Schools Development Authority to take any action on facilities.

Through two programs — The Broad Academy and The Broad Residency in Urban Education — The Broad Center is building a growing network of experienced leaders and managers who have a laser focus on improving America's public schools.

Katie went on to earn her PhD in urban education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she studied outcomes for African American students in public Montessori schools.

A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.

This article reports on pilot research involving collaboration among faculty from a public university's college of education, educational researchers from a nonprofit research organization, and school district leadership from a large, urban school district.

A 2015 study on urban charter schools by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that D.C. charter students are learning the equivalent of 96 more days in math and 70 more days in reading than their peers in traditional public schools.

Although there were times where I disagreed with CABE positions on a specific topic there was never a moment when I doubted their dedication to promoting public education in every community — large and small, urban and suburban, rich and poor.

CUBE supports urban school boards and fosters effective leadership for excellence and equity in public education, with a specific focus on underrepresented students.

The event, sponsored by the National School Boards Association (NSBA), National Council of American Indian / Alaska Native School Board (AIAN), Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE), National Black Council (NBC), and National Hispanic Council (NHC), is focusing on building the capacity, knowledge, and skills of school board members around issues of access, equity, and diversity in public eEducation (CUBE), National Black Council (NBC), and National Hispanic Council (NHC), is focusing on building the capacity, knowledge, and skills of school board members around issues of access, equity, and diversity in public educationeducation.