Sentences with phrase «selected urban districts»

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The research team — led by professor Jeannette Ickovics, director of CARE (Community Alliance for Research and Engagement) at the School of Public Health — surveyed 1,649 middle - school students randomly selected from a single urban school district in Connecticut.

More recently, we drew heavily on those experiences to create Opportunity by Design, an initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York that is enabling a select group of urban districts to design new secondary schools that serve all students, particularly those who are underprepared and need to accelerate and recuperate their learning.

Movement strategists consider five factors when selecting battlegrounds, she said, and the District met each condition: a legislative and an executive branch controlled by supporters, local political champions for education or urban renewal, local business support, a weakened teacher union, and grassroots backing.

To highlight the funding disparities in urban centers, Kozol produces an appendix in both Shame of the Nation and Savage Inequalities with tables comparing per pupil spending in several cities, including New York, Chicago, and urban New Jersey, with that in select surrounding suburban districts.

Insight in action As part of collaborative reform efforts to improve K - 6 science education across multiple urban school districts, a teacher leader was selected from each participating elementary school based on his / her knowledge of science.

«We have now selected exemplary urban districts that are well on their way to putting in place the training and support necessary to have enough effective principals for all of their schools.

Principal hiring practices across the country often lack the rigor, thoughtfulness, and data needed to hire the right talent, and according to a study from TNTP — formerly called The New Teacher Project — hiring practices can result in districts, particularly urban districts, «not selecting the best candidates from [their] limited pool.»

However, recruiting, selecting, and hiring highly effective principals is difficult, especially in urban districts.

Also during his term, the district was selected by Harvard Business School for the Public Education Leadership Project as one of nine urban districts in America that demonstrated national level improvement and the preschool — implemented under the Kohn Administration — was recognized nationally and served as the basis of state legislation to support preschool for at - risk children statewide.

The Trial Urban District Assessment, or TUDA, focuses on urban education and measures educational progress within selected large urban distrUrban District Assessment, or TUDA, focuses on urban education and measures educational progress within selected large urban distrurban education and measures educational progress within selected large urban distrurban districts.

We selected the cities based on their size and because they reflect the complexity of urban public education today, where a single school district is often no longer the only education game in town.

«The candidate [Mayor Bowser] has selected appears by résumé and reputation to have the same kind of forward - thinking passion for excellence that has helped make D.C. schools the fastest - improving urban school district in the country,» The Washington Post editorial board said in November.

In some assessments, samples are chosen to report on states or selected large urban districts and as a result, more students must participate.

This initiative is noteworthy among the nation's large urban school districts, where fewer dual and concurrent enrollment opportunities exist, and those tend to be available only to select students in relatively well - off schools.