Sentences with phrase «performing urban school districts»

D.C. Public Schools was once among the nation's lowest - performing urban school districts, but in recent years has won widespread attention for making rapid progress as judged by scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In addition to the annual monitoring by the Chamber's Report Card committee, the success of MNPS» strategic plan, Education 2018, a plan to become the highest performing urban school district in the United States, will be dependent on the support of all of Nashville, especially its students, teachers, and leaders.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 Maschool 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 MaSchool Improvement Grant (SIG) program are unlikely to have much impact, writes Lesli Maxwell.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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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).

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, even if most CT districts do well, even excellently, 40 % of school children are in the failing or low performing districts (there are fewer urban districts but they are very large).

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.

Structural issues in the ECS formula need to be solved, urban schools need more money and wrap - around services, and something needs to be done to attract the best teachers to the lowest - performing districts.

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.

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.

An educator I'll call Cathy assumed the principalship of a large, chaotic, low - performing elementary school in the urban district where she'd spent her career.

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.

The college utilizes its Teaching & Urban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environUrban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environurban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environurban environment.

Ranging from urban to suburban school districts, our passion is to serve district leadership teams to have more effective leaders leading high performing districts.

Under her leadership, the district's lowest - performing elementary schools have made significant academic gains, and the Cincinnati school system became Ohio's first and only urban school district to earn an «effective» rating on the Ohio Report Card for school years 2009 - 10 and 2010 - 11.

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.

Data were collected from 230 students and 20 teachers in two high - poverty, low - performing schools in a large urban school district in the Midwest Students were 93 % African American.