Sentences with phrase «performing urban districts»

In some low - performing urban districts, between 20 and 30 percent of principals leave each year, researchers estimate.

Poor - performing urban districts, more than suburban and rural schools, often are targeted for takeover by their respective states, as documented in some recent cases:

In one of the large, low - performing urban districts in our sample, district administrators expressed the belief that principals were essentially born, not made.

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

Michelle Rhee, for example, first used her TFA experience to develop The New Teacher Project in a parallel attempt to increase teacher quality in urban areas by recruiting new types of teachers, and now to help improve one of the nation's worst - performing urban districts.

Among the 21 mostly low - performing urban districts participating in the urban NAEP test in recent years, Detroit experienced growth that was below the group average growth, even though many of these districts were not undergoing any major governance reforms.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens last month, will provide state - financed vouchers of up to $ 5,000 to low - income students in low - performing urban districts to pay for tuition at religious or other private schools.

Meanwhile, two - thirds of CPS schools failed to meet state proficiency standards under Illinois's accountability system, and Chicago remained among the nation's lowest - performing urban districts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

It was certainly unusual for an affluent, high - performing suburban district like Douglas County to aggressively pursue a mix of policies mix primarily designed for poor, low - performing urban districts.

To this day we have not a single high - performing urban district.

But to this day, there is not a single high - performing urban district in this country.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

Not exact matches

The Miami - Dade schools website says the district has become one of the nation's highest - performing urban school systems, receiving systemwide accreditation from AdvancEd in 2014.

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.

Houston's schools, which are equally minority and poor, perform well relative to other urban school districts.

The lab set up four different models in four cities with low - performing urban school districts — Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C. — and over two school years, handed out a total of $ 6.3 million to 38,000 students.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

In addition, as a result of its reputation within the educational consulting sector, the organization has also developed a relationship with the prestigious Broad Prize, which annually awards one million dollars to the top performing urban school districts in the United States.

At the same time, participating faculty will conduct research aimed at measuring the effectiveness of the program, identifying the key underlying forces that are shaping educational leadership in urban school systems, and developing a set of powerful ideas to enable district leadership teams to create high performing systems.

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 education.

NAEP's Trial Urban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reaUrban District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in District Assessment, which measured the performance of 11 large urban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reaurban systems in 2005, provides compelling evidence of the futility of district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in district - based reforms: even the highest - performing district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in district studied (Charlotte) had only 29 percent of its 8th graders at or above proficient in reading.

Fagen implemented an aggressive mix of reforms typically associated with low - performing, poor urban districts in this high - performing, affluent Denver suburb.

A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's reform policies, its public shaming and sanctions for low - performing schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.

Leaders of urban school districts are telling the Obama administration that efforts to turn around low - performing schools via the $ 5.5 billion School Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

Urban school districts in particular have begun to show considerable progress in raising test scores and turning around low - performing schools.»

New Jersey's Abbott Districts,» on Thursday, March 16, Gordon MacInnes, assistant commissioner for Abbott implementation, and Fred Carrigg, special assistant to the commissioner for urban literacy, discussed how they helped move Union City from the second lowest - performing system in New Jersey to the highest among the state's larger systems.

In School Breakfast in America's Big Cities, a January 2011 report released by the Food Research and Action Center, 16 of the 29 urban districts examined in the study «performed above the national average in reaching low - income students with breakfast.

In a ranking of 30 American urban school districts, 18 others performed better in math than Dallas, including Houston and New York City.

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.

But in some urban districts, all racial groups are poor and tragically low - performing.

We first define equity in terms of how New Orleans, as an urban district, performed relative to districts serving more - advantaged students.

In one high - performing midwestern urban district, for example, two schools became a focus for district intervention during the final year of our study because they failed to meet AYP targets (the first two schools to be designated in that status).

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

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.

This, of course, is quite notable because of the district's profile as one of the highest - performing districts in the nation and, now, for its status as one of five finalists for the Broad Prize in Urban Education.

Adamowski's dissertation, which exists only in one copy, apparently, is about teacher compensation... you know, those princely salaries teachers get, unlike special masters (150 - 225K + + + plus pensions never earned and platinum health benefits) or superintendent / CEOs of urban districts (with no CT state certification) $ 230K + + plus bonuses for every decimal place attained by test score percentages once the «lowest performing» students are removed from the pool.

BCS 7th Graders Rank # 1 in MCAS English and Composition Statewide Schools That Can, a national nonprofit network of high - performing, urban, faith - based, charter and district schools operating in low - income communities, profiles Brooke 7th graders» record breaking composition scores.

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.

One specific study, which examined five low - performing, high - poverty urban high schools in three districts and their use of data to inform school improvement, concluded that the more school staff worked collaboratively to discuss and analyze student performance the more likely staff members were to use data to inform curriculum decisions (Lachat & Smith, 2005).

SFUSD performs at the level of other urban districts, and significantly lags suburban ones.

The study looked at charters in 41 urban districts and how they perform.

In a high - needs urban public school district, the focus and resources are often directed toward lower - performing students.

Students living in rural districts also have performed more poorly than students living in urban and suburban areas.

Its study of more than 90,000 teachers in four urban school districts finds that most schools retain their highest - and lowest - performing teachers at strikingly similar rates.

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.

But in scores of urban districts such as Baltimore, St. Louis and L.A. there's little hope of turning any corners without high performing charters playing a role.

However, AUSL recognized that transforming teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization in the country to contract with a large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing schools from inside the public school system.

By 2004, the Council of the Great City Schools, a national nonprofit, published its own report, noting that D.C. remained one of the lowest - performing urban school districts in the nation.

A large percentage of students in inner - city urban school districts are SELs and perform in the low and far below basic range on standardized achievement tests.