Sentences with phrase «performing urban schools»

Purpose / Focus: The purpose of this study was to investigate what happens when low - performing urban schools bring high - stakes accountability pressures to parent programs, to shed light on possible new directions in family engagement.

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 environment.

The study contributed to the understanding of the transition to reflective use of data to inform instruction in low - performing urban schools.

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.

During the academic year, clusters of fellows will be placed in participating high - performing urban schools nationwide, where they will be paired with a teacher and given a lightened workload, a strategy Star said would be beneficial for the teachers - in - training without compromising instruction for the students.

Since its inception in 2006, Reach has trained over 650 educators, many of whom work in the Bay Area's highest performing urban schools.

Tuck gained prominence as the leader of former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's turnaround of 17 low - performing urban schools beginning in 2007.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Using a very specific turnaround model, my organization, the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), has had success in transforming some of Chicago's poorest - performing schools.

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

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.»

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).

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.

At the end of the selection process, some 80 percent of NLP schools were located in LEAs in inner - city, urban areas, where the most disadvantaged and poorly performing schools in England are concentrated.

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

School2Home partners with low - performing middle schools to support technology integration in both urban and rural areas of California.