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«My colleagues across the country see achievement school districts as a failure,» Jewell told Policy Watch this week.

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«I want to see our urban school districts and large charter networks play an even greater role in effectively narrowing the achievement gap by reimagining schools in order to create and support equitable learning environments.»

For example, David Sims has shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin law required schools to open after Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the law.

Moreover, their estimates of average math achievement in their school district were highly predictive of the letter grades they assigned to their local schools (see Figure 3).

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

Longer term, I think we will see more districts and states looking at / relaxing / modifying the structure of the school day / calendar, both in response to budgetary restraints and the needs of student achievement.

Students in school districts fully implementing these standards saw impressive gains in student achievement, especially in low - income high English learner populations.

Under NCLB, for the first time, schools were required to measure improvement in student achievement across all groups of students, and each state, district, and school was required to lay the results out on the table for parents and the public to see.

But when Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews took a close look at the study to see which school district had the smallest black - white achievement gap, he was surprised to find that it was Detroit, which he calls «our nation's worst school district, or close to it.

Caroline Hoxby's «remarkable study» of New York City's charters, as John Merrow describes it (see here) would surely suggest that they do: «The lottery winners [those who attended the charters] went to 48 public charter schools, and those who finished 8th grade performed nearly as well as students in affluent suburban districts, closing what the researchers call the «Harlem - Scarsdale achievement gap» by 86 percent in math and about two - thirds in English.»

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Considering Connecticut's biggest corporate executives are determined to see their policies adopted, no matter how wrong that are, it will be interesting to see if the new Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform reverses herself and joins the call for charter schools or if she is able to sit down with her organization's members and explain why shifting scarce public resources from district schools to charter schools is not the solution for closing Connecticut's achievement gap.

Since the creation of the achievement school district, four charter operators have pulled out of Memphis — at least two because they saw troubling enrollment decreases, said Hoyt.

The controversial gutted - and - amended SB95, which has seen 40 + versions behind closed doors and would create a charter - managed Achievement School District comprising some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools, looks to be on the move for public debate in the waning days of the 2015 legislative session.

Rather Attorney General Kamala Harris sees attendance as a critical, foundational aspect of ensuring student achievement, and her staff crafted the sample LCAP to support school districts developing plans.

We are hopeful we will see more progress: The analysis of the three school districts — Pittsburgh, Memphis, and Hillsborough County — indicates an upward trajectory in five of the six achievement areas in the most recent year of the study, which suggests the reforms may be on the way to having a positive impact on student outcomes.

While these districts are not currently P21 Exemplars, it was fascinating to see that their efforts are essentially aligned to implement P21's 5 pillars for school success: student voice, engaged community, distributed leadership, climate of achievement, and evidence and research.

By looking at the achievement level that most closely corresponds to the level of their child, i.e., 25 th, 50 th, or 75 th percentile, they can see whether students in a given school tend to increase, decrease, or maintain their level of achievement (relative to other students within the school district) over their several years of schooling.

By 2007,... «despite additional per - pupil resources,» privately managed schools like Edison's «did not produce average increases in student achievement that were any larger than those seen in the rest of the district,» while «district - managed restructured schools outpaced the gains of the rest of the district in math.»

«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.

A study by the RAND Corporation and Research for Action found that «despite additional per - pupil resources,» privately managed schools like Edison's «did not produce average increases in student achievement that were any larger than those seen in the rest of the district,» while «district - managed restructured schools outpaced the gains of the rest of the district in math.»

The State Board of Education took a small step Thursday toward launching a new agency that will have a pivotal role in seeing that districts and schools meet achievement targets and other goals under the Local Control Funding Formula.

As a result, Emerson Elementary School has seen dramatic improvement in student achievement over the past five years, moving from failure to exemplar among district elementary schools.

In the past five years, the district has seen steady increases in both achievement and growth rates for students with disabilities and ELLs on state tests, and a steady decline in the number of «unsatisfactory» schools on state report cards.

Denver, the largest school district, has seen significant improvement, impacting the state's overall achievement.

The fact is charter schools are not being held accountable in the same way district public schools are and we can be pretty sure that now that one of Achievement First's founders is the Commissioner of Education — we won't be seeing a lot more criticism of Achievement First.

One key finding of the study is that most school districts in central and southern Illinois, which are predominantly white, saw significant drops in achievement as their low - income enrollment rose.

I have seen high - performing schools and districts that are closing achievement gaps, raising graduation rates and shipping off to college kids who never thought it possible.

Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said the district has not seen the achievement gains it had hoped for at Project LIFT sSchools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said the district has not seen the achievement gains it had hoped for at Project LIFT schoolsschools.

In Part Two, our investigation of leadership and student achievement examines in further detail certain characteristics of school districts (some previously identified — see Section 2.3; others introduced here) as they shape the role districts play in initiatives aimed at change.

As leaders and educators, we know that enrollment of minority students is not equally balanced across schools, and that today's children see variations of the segregation their grandparents faced in past decades.1 We know that poverty is becoming more concentrated, and that, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 65 percent of students attending city schools did so in high - poverty or mid-high poverty districts.2 We also know that achievement gaps persist among low income3, special education4 and minority students.5

Districts that implemented these components saw improvements in school climate, behavior, attendance, graduation rate and academic achievement.

«While we often hear that educators feel overwhelmed, we also hear that the schools and districts that take the necessary steps to implement SEL see that it pays off — for student achievement and wellbeing, and for the adult community — in a matter of months, if they focus on climate and practices,» said Rachel Poliner, this year's conference organizer.