Sentences with phrase «school district in the country showed»

Covering the third largest school district in the country showed me the brokenness and inequity of the traditional public school system.

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We believe these «new designs for new schools» will produce a set of schools that show districts across the country that high schools can provide underprepared young people with the supports they need to graduate from high school, go to college, place out of remedial courses, and stay in college for at least two semesters at substantially higher rates than are commonly achieved today.

Suburban areas with high - performing school districts have shown little support for vouchers, so it was surprising to have the first locally enacted voucher program come from Douglas County, a Denver suburb with one of the highest median incomes in the country.

There are public school districts across the country that have engaged in innovative contracts between teachers and the central office, and there are multiple models of educational interventions, including at the curricular level, that show real promise and do not depend on wholesale structural reform.

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

Charter schools have created high - performing options for millions of families across the country, and initiatives such as New York City's small high schools of choice have shown that public - school choice in large districts can significantly improve graduation rates.

A prior study in Maine — showing ASSISTments provided nearly a year of additional gains for seventh grade math students — will be replicated in other school districts across the country

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

Last year's high - profile flop of a $ 1.3 billion iPad program in the Los Angeles Unified School District, the country's second largest, showed that failures can be expensive and time - consuming.

Late last year, Stanford released research which showed that elementary Chicago Public School students were achieving faster learning gains than almost any other large public school district in the coSchool students were achieving faster learning gains than almost any other large public school district in the coschool district in the country.

What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting public is that corporate reform and privatization of our schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.

Rather, the constellation of leadership, reforms, and multi-sector efforts at state, district, and school levels drove this progress, and shows that with focus, graduation rates can be increased for all students in every part of the country Read the full report here.

Coastal California showed the biggest differences in home prices in the country based on school districts.