Sentences with phrase «school reform efforts»

The report touched off a wave of school reform efforts focused on setting new expectations — or standards — for what students should learn in school.

The issue of adolescent literacy is, therefore central to the success of any middle and high school reform effort.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

Three studies reported on the effects of comprehensive school reform efforts, which included a teacher leadership component, on student learning outcomes.

But for much less than school reform efforts such as reduced class size or extended school day, «high - dosage,» integrated tutoring produces substantially better results.

Few urban school reform efforts ever survive a change at the top.

This often drives school reform efforts, and it also drives the revolving door of the «newest, greatest» trends.

Unfortunately, that's been a recurrent theme in 40 years of school reform efforts across the country.

Many school systems initiate site - based school reform efforts without any serious discussion about goals.

I'm looking forward to working within a district currently in the process of so many innovative and exciting school reform efforts.

Over the past 25 years, high - profile school reform efforts have addressed false problems with flawed solutions.

The issue of national standards raises numerous questions: Will having one common set of standards aid school reform efforts and promote student achievement?

Support research on collaborative school reform efforts that have produced results, and share the findings widely.

Without comprehensive and sustained efforts to improve teacher working conditions, many promising school reform efforts will likely fail.

All current school reform efforts aim to improve teaching and learning.

When teacher leaders and principals collaborate, it allows principals to have access to the specialized knowledge of teacher leaders to inform leadership decisions, which can support the implementation of school reform efforts.

He joined the Center in 2009, after leading high school reform efforts in the Highline Public Schools for the previous nine years.

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.

The most - successful school reform efforts undertaken by philanthropists have not been ones that attempted to focus on school district bureaucracies, but on expanding opportunities for high - quality education for children and families.

And to be sure, there have been lots of school reform efforts over the years — most well - meaning, and some even effective, like raising standards, publishing test results, creating charter schools, and offering vouchers for poor kids to attend private schools.

In a recent interview in The Seventy Four, former mayoral candidate Shavar Jeffries described how woefully insufficient the communications and engagement effort was behind the Newark school reform effort: «There was absolutely not an infrastructure to communicate to parents... voters [and] the community.»

With their commitment to new approaches to teaching and learning, charters were initially seen as potential informants and inspirations for public school reform efforts.

The now - stillborn school reform effort undertaken by the Los Angeles Unified School District, for example, flourished under reform - minded California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose state board backed charter school chain Green Dot's successful move to force the district into a corner) and a state legislature that was seeking a share of Race to the Top dollars.

[3] The name given to the administration's signature school reform effort, the Race to the Top program (RttT), reflects this belief.

Given their convictions about the severity of the constraints facing schools, both Murray and Rothstein have a defeatist attitude about school reform efforts.

Aided by $ 200 million in private philanthropy, city and state leaders launched a major school reform effort in Newark, New Jersey.

«This report is meant to be guide for the Denver community to see trends and focus school reform effort where they are most needed.»

If we can shed light on those, we can both inform school reform efforts around the country and provide feedback to Newark leadership to guide modifications to the plan.

All three studies described school reform efforts that utilized teacher leaders in addition to other strategies, such as the use of a new curriculum (Balfanz et al., 2006), professional development workshops for teachers and changes in the structure of the school day (Ruby, 2006), or a training program for school administrators (Weaver & Dick, 2009).

Essentially it is another white flag declaring an unwillingness to pursue strong vigorous school reform efforts from the federal level.

that we can close the achievement gap with the right school reform efforts.

High School SLC and Small School Reform Efforts Vol.

She has been chronicling botched school reform efforts in her state for years.

A Bit of Progress (USA Today) Newark Students See Modest Gains From Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100M Gift (EdSurge) Did Newark's School Reform Efforts Work?

The institute was begun in 2007 to assess the effects of the post-Katrina school reform efforts, including the takeover of most New Orleans public schools by the state's Recovery School District and the widespread use of independently run charter schools.

Rep. Tim Ackert is among those who will be more closely scrutinizing school reform efforts when the next legislative session convenes.

He took issue with both charter school reform efforts and the state's approach of sending in special masters to troubled districts such as New London and «offering their solution» with a «certain degree of abrogating the rights and responsibilities of local boards of educations.»

The testing infrastructure on which so many school reform efforts rest, and in which so much confidence has been vested, is unreliable — at best.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

Given the current political climate and the limited discretionary resources available to the Secretary of Education, it is unrealistic to imagine that the DoED would play an active role in state - level school reform efforts.

These results show that an intensive, sustained school reform effort can lead to significant change in learning and work environments, including both the intended benefits asserted by reform advocates and the unintended consequences of concern to reform critics.

Also, representatives from two influential local foundations that had long been involved in Cleveland's school reform efforts shared their expertise, created opportunities for the mayor and others to learn from other cities, and helped frame the legislative debate.

The message from Executive Director Scott Pearson and board Chairman John «Skip» McKoy was met with relief by advocates of neighborhood schools and disbelief from some who want to see more aggressive charter school growth in one of the most closely watched school reform efforts in the nation.

In its current incarnation, NAS is almost indistinguishable from the foundations and government agencies that have dominated school reform efforts for decades.

4) The preponderance of school reform efforts since Risk has concentrated on augmenting the system's resources, widening its services, and tightening its regulation of school practices.