Sentences with phrase «performing systems of great schools»

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While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

One chapter, by Ludger Woessmann (coauthor of «School Choice International,» research, page 54) uses international data to show that systems that make greater use of public - private partnerships (ideally combining public funding with private operation) perform better than systems that do not.

We seek to become the first great urban public school system in the country — one whose schools perform on par with the best suburban districts in America, one that personalizes the student experience for all children and one that provides multiple rigorous pathways through and beyond high school to help every child, regardless of background, live up to their potential.

And, of course, given that these are comparative measures, even a charter sector that isn't doing a great job can look good against the background of a low - performing traditional school system.

Following last year's $ 200,000 payment to Cambridge Education, the SRC has paid the company an additional $ 100,000 to perform a «School Quality Review» at the six schools now designated part of the district's «System of Great Schools (SGS)&schools now designated part of the district's «System of Great Schools (SGS)&Schools (SGS)».

Ben Jensen, CEO of Learning First in Australia, is leading an international study of how high - performing systems develop great school leaders.