Sentences with phrase «performing urban school systems»

During Dr. McIntyre's tenure, the Boston Public Schools was named one of the top performing urban school systems in the nation.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their 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.

Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these institutions are denied any direct public support.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.