Sentences with phrase «performing urban charter schools»

Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

Interestingly, today's extraordinarily high - performing urban charter schools — arguably the greatest story in public education in a generation — bear a curious resemblance to the Catholic schools of Baby Boomer memory.

And even as we watch in wonder as high - performing urban charter schools send increasing numbers of low - income minority students to college, it is hard not to be discouraged by the many more who remain trapped in schools that simply do not work, left to wander through the same opportunity void as their parents before them.

Merseth's latest book, Inside Urban Charter Schools, released this week by Harvard Education Press, provides an intimate look into five high - performing urban charter schools in Massachusetts,...

Merseth's latest book, Inside Urban Charter Schools, released this week by Harvard Education Press, provides an intimate look into five high - performing urban charter schools in Massachusetts, including what makes these schools a success.

• Maintaining philanthropic support for high - performing urban charter schools and for enrichment of curriculum and pedagogy in «no excuses» schools.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

A More Perfect Union High School is a small, high - performing urban charter school.

Not exact matches

Mr. de Blasio is a rare big - city critic of charter schools at a time when they are spreading rapidly in low - performing urban school districts.

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.

b. Should states limit charter schools to certain geographic areas, such as urban communities or those with a high concentration of low - performing traditional public schools?

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

• Despite our national struggle to create high - performing nonselective - admissions urban high schools, six D.C. charter high schools made Tier - 1 status.

Author Kay Merseth reads an excerpt from her book Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - Performing Schools

Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - Performing Schools.

Philadelphia Performing Arts Charter School, run by String Theory Schools, is an urban K — 12 campus that leverages technology and an emphasis on entrepreneurship to make learning relevant and real for students.

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.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High - performing Charter Schools

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Peyser notes that political opposition to charters remains even though numerous studies, «regardless of the sponsoring organization or the research design,» show that Boston's charter schools are among the best - performing urban public schools in the country.

He wants to train up super-talented people to be superintendents and turn them loose on urban school systems, to invest in charter school networks that are hitting their numbers and performing miracles regularly.

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A New York Times story looks at Houston public schools experimenting to see if «techniques proven successful in high - performing urban charters can also help raise achievement in regular public schools.

Last time I checked, the highest performing charters were doing better than their district counterparts in urban districts, but very few of these schools have come close to closing the achievement gap when it comes to college and career - readiness.

We operate high - performing urban public charter schools, a unique graduate school of education that trains teachers for high - poverty schools, and a hybrid college and jobs program that seeks unprecedented degree completion rates and employment outcomes.

Typically, they are courted heavily by leaders from the top - performing urban charter and turnaround schools.

Provides high caliber teachers specifically trained to staff urban charters schools and turnaround schools, augmenting the quality of charter school growth and contributing to the success of the critical turnaround efforts taking place within the persistently lowest performing schools, particularly in Greater Boston;

That's why he expanded high - performing charters like Noble Street and Urban Prep and shut down the highest amount of low - performing schools in American history — the majority of which were located in African - American communities.

Aspire is also one of the highest - performing public school systems in California, operating public charter schools across the state with one specific goal - preparing urban students for college - encapsulated by its motto of «College for Certain.»

After three decades of competition, Milwaukee schools — public district, voucher, and charter collectively — perform about as well as similar high - poverty voucher - free urban districts like Detroit, Memphis and Buffalo.

Ben then takes issue with the growing consensus that charters work, by stating that students in urban charter schools «perform just about as well» as students at district schools.

A series of studies from CREDO at Stanford University have found that in the aggregate charter schools don't perform better than traditional public schools but often outperform them in urban areas.

As Connecticut seeks to overhaul its education system so that all children have access to a quality education it is important to determine whether charter schools are the primary reason students score higher or whether charter schools score higher because they are «creaming off the highest performing students» in urban school districts.

Sarah taught high school English and Humanities in both suburban and urban New Jersey public schools for 14 years, including seven years at the high - performing North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 andschool English and Humanities in both suburban and urban New Jersey public schools for 14 years, including seven years at the high - performing North Star Academy Charter School of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 andSchool of Newark, where she chaired the Humanities Dept. and her students achieved a 100 % passing rate on the Language Arts / Literacy section of the HSPA in 2006 and 2007.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

The San Diego charter school was recognized for being one of the highest performing urban schools in the nation based on their work serving a diverse student population in grades kindergarten through 11th grade with a high percentage of low - income students.

She said as long as urban schools have low - performing students, charters will be lured to them.

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Increase the number of proven, high - performing public charter schools by recruiting charter management organizations and leaders from across the country who have demonstrated a proven record of success educating children and teens in economically challenged urban neighborhoods.

An analysis of 2011 - 12 MEAP results by the Michigan Association of Public School Academies concludes that black urban students perform better in charter schools than in traditional public schools in both math and reading...

Founded in 2006 by John Danner and Preston Smith in San Jose, Calif., Rocketship Education is building a national network of high - performing urban college preparatory elementary charter schools whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap.

And though the district's schools are considered high - performing, concerns about the success rate of minorities have prompted the Urban League to press for a charter school geared toward closing the achievement gap.

Preston Green of the University of Connecticut says multiple authorizers and a lack of oversight is creating a «bubble» of poor performing charter schools in urban communities.