Sentences with phrase «performing urban high school»

I taught for 10 years at an average - performing urban high school in San Mateo County, Calif..

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After the dresses have been collected and cleaned, Legislator Dixon, Urban Valet and Performing Arts Dance Academy will host a «Free Shopping Day,» inviting area high school girls to choose one free dress from the collection that features a variety of styles, colors and sizes.

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.

In just two years, Revere High School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San Diego.

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.

For example, it is possible that the oft - discussed challenges some students from high - performing urban schools experience in college (see ««No Excuses» Kids Go to College,» features, Spring 2013) stem in part from deficits in fluid cognitive skills.

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.

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.

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.

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

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Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

One case in point is Cincinnati's W. E. B. Du Bois school, which was among the highest - performing urban schools in the state — before its founder and leader, Wilson Willard III, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft and records tampering, and was sent to prison for four years.

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

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Whitman's book profiles six high performing urban schools across the country, including University Park Campus School, and offers insight into their success.

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).

At the highest performing urban school in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, the mantra when it comes to education is «children always come first.»

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

San Diego's Hoover High wins plaudits for its innovative programs, but shows up on a list of the city's low - performing schools — a revealing tale of the crisis in urban high schoHigh wins plaudits for its innovative programs, but shows up on a list of the city's low - performing schools — a revealing tale of the crisis in urban high schohigh schools.

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.

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.

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.

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

«It is absurd that Connecticut's current funding system severely underfunds urban schools and keeps high performing schools of choice, like the one my children attend, in a separate and unequal system,» she said.

The story of Dunbar reminds us that often, in the fervor to raise up the lowest - performing students in urban schools, reformers neglect the high - performing students.

Moreover, it can lead to unintended consequences such as shutting schools that are actually benefitting students (as measured by growth), discouraging new - school startups in needy communities (if social entrepreneurs believe that «failure» is inevitable), or thwarting the replication of high - performing urban schools.

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.

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.

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).

Don't forget that in many urban areas there are clusters of affluent families able to access high performing schools, while others» student bodies include concentrations of the poorest families, for example.

Archdiocese of Milwaukee Announces New High - Performing Educational System Designed to Strengthen Urban Milwaukee Catholic Schools

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.

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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 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 schools operating in low - income communities, profiles Brooke 7th graders» record breaking composition scores.

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.

Most choose to take teaching jobs in the Greater Boston area, but some others teach in high - performing urban public schools elsewhere in the country, e.g. New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles.

Urban Prep is not exactly the high performing school this post makes it out to be.

Smarick's «urban school system of the future» would be structured to ensure that high - performing schools are continually replicated, new schools with a diverse array of program offerings are continually opened, persistently failing schools are closed, and family choice is maximized.

The program is mapped backwards from the demands of working in the highest performing urban public schools in America.

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.