Sentences with phrase «performing high poverty schools»

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Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

Holyoke Public Schools is the lowest performing school and highest poverty district in Massachusetts.

Two of the network's three schools rank among the 15 top - performing high - poverty schools in the state, and the newest site, opened last year, was the number - one first - year school in the state.

Philanthropies like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation, after giving to urban education for years, have realized that the charter sector disproportionately produces high - performing high - poverty schools.

DCPS also appears to be quite capable of replacing exiting high - performing teachers in low - poverty schools with comparable teachers.

Students in high - poverty, high - minority, and low - performing schools have less access to well - qualified teachers.

In the U.S., for instance, parents without a high school diploma are much more likely to be in poverty than their better - educated peers, and their children are much more likely than their peers to be low - performing and to drop out of school themselves.

Importantly, more than 90 percent of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools, which constitute 75 percent of all schools.

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PBL students in moderately achieving to poverty - impacted schools have performed as well as non-PBL students in high - achieving schools in both dimensions of deeper understanding within the discipline (content and reasoning).

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«Incentives to work in low - performing schools are not the sole answer — too often, it's large class sizes, poor working conditions, and a lack of support from administrators that drives teachers away from high - poverty rural and inner - city schools,» she said.

Both America and Britain have outstanding universities — Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, Oxford — but behind those high - performing institutions (and there are some amazingly good schools for children five to 18) there is a long history of underachievement that has correlated with poverty.

21st Century Community Learning Center grant: A grant provided by the U.S Department of Education to community learning centers that provide academic - enrichment opportunities during nonschool hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

Editor's note: This piece was adapted from Turning High - Poverty Schools into High - Performing Schools by William H. Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge.

Leaders in high - performing, high - poverty (HP / HP) schools continually look for ways to provide opportunities for involvement and to gain back their trust.

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Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start - ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high - performing high - poverty urban schools (see sidebar).

D.C.'s high - stakes teacher evaluations raise teacher quality, student achievement 90 % of the turnover of low - performing teachers occurs in high - poverty schools

Principals in high - performing, high - poverty schools ensure that the necessary financial, material, and human resources are available for students and adults to succeed (Ball, 2001; Leader, 2010).

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

Yet this refrain is not heard in high - performing / high - poverty schools, where a premium is placed on relationships.

Like high - poverty, high - performing schools, any school that enrolls students who live in poverty should seek to acquire as much understanding as possible about the life circumstances of their students.

I've made the case that high - performing, high - poverty schools can provide safety, stability, and hope to at - risk kids and their families and that these features have immeasurable value in distressed neighborhoods beset by myriad challenges.

Because high - performing, high - poverty schools are places of reflection and inquiry, leaders» work in these schools is better characterized in the form of questions than in formulaic lists of strategies.

Second only to safety, ensuring that all students develop literacy skills reflects a core priority in high - performing, high - poverty schools.

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Leaders in high - performing, high - poverty schools hold a view similar to this one expressed by a superintendent in a Northwest school district: «There is a bright red thread running from every student - learning problem to a problem of practice for teachers, and finally to a problem of practice for leaders.»

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The program is a hybrid: it gives formula grants to states, but to receive their share of funds (fixed amounts calculated by a formula tied to the states» levels of need) states had to submit applications specifying in detail how they would set up competitive grant programs for their districts aimed at helping low - performing, high - poverty schools improve reading instruction in grades K — 3.

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He has co-authored nine books, the most recent being the 2012 award - winning Turning High - Poverty Schools Into High - Performing Schools, written with Kathleen Budge.

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We encourage you to share any questions or additional action advice you may have found for turning high - poverty schools into high - performing ones.

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

Reed vs. California was filed in February 2010 and essentially argued that low - performing schools in high - poverty areas — already difficult to staff — were so unfairly impacted by teacher layoffs that it compromised the constitutional rights of students to be educated.

Chadwick Elementary is a fascinating case of a high poverty, high ELL school performing at very high levels.

Research suggests that low - income students in mixed - income schools — surrounded by peers who expect to go on to college, parents in the school community who regularly volunteer in class, and strong teachers — perform substantially better than comparable students in high - poverty schools that often lack those ingredients for success.

It wasn't until reformers created nondistrict charter - school sectors — a space for public education outside of the traditional system — that we saw a proliferation of high - performing high - poverty schools.

But thanks to decades of research, we know that there are many, many high - performing, high - poverty schools.

King helped run one of the nation's finest high - performing high - poverty schools.

They rank among the 15 top - performing high - poverty schools statewide, and the site that opened in 2009 was the number - one first - year school in the state in the high - poverty category.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

As the Opportunity Culture initiative was beginning, three principals signed on to lead low - performing, high - poverty schools in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg and Metropolitan Nashville districts.

Charter school operators with good track records would be able to apply to open new schools across the state, although the performance thresholds will be lower in areas where traditional school districts perform poorly and are in high - poverty areas.

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (Title IV, Part B) program supports the creation of opportunities for academic enrichment during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high - poverty and low - performing schools.

We provide coaching for district and school leaders on how to improve literacy programs in low - performing, high - poverty schools.

According to data from the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics, high poverty, high minority schools and low performing schools employ a higher percentage of new teachers.

We heard similar criticisms about the effectiveness of state support - system interventions for low - performing schools in one of our large, high - poverty, low - performing urban school districts — where (again) the district developed no plan for systematic intervention to ameliorate the problem.