Sentences with phrase «successful urban charter school»

She served as a founding teacher, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and School Culture, and Head of School at a successful urban charter school and has coached school staff to achieve an «A» rating on the Ohio Report Card.

She also worked as a founding Director of New Teacher Development and founding Assistant Principal at a successful urban charter school in New Orleans.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

We found several elements were important to the success of these schools specifically, these successful urban charter schools including:

The book offers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of successful urban charter schools by profiling five high - performing urban charter schools serving predominately low - income, minority youth in Massachusetts.

Not exact matches

The one unambiguous, reform - driven victory of the last two decades has been the successful networks of urban charter schools that we used to call «no excuses» schools before the term, which once meant there's no excuse for adults to fail children, fell into disrepute and it became de rigueur within the movement to criticize those schools» discipline practices instead of applauding them for sending tens of thousands of low - income kids of color to college, which not long ago was nearly the entire point of the movement.

For example, while these five urban charter schools offer an existence proof that high standardized test scores are possible and within the grasp of every student in this country, it is equally true that the several practices of successful traditional schools in areas such as special education, the arts, or second language proficiency, offer insights for the charter world.

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«We are pleased that our findings about what makes these urban charter schools successful and the challenges that remain have the potential to inform the work of many who seek to improve on educational outcomes for children.»

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

A New York Times story looks at Houston public schools experimenting to see if «techniques proven successful in high - performing urban charters can also help raise achievement in regular public schools.

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using a «portfolio strategy»: negotiating performance agreements with some mix of traditional, charter and hybrid public schools, allowing them great autonomy, letting them handcraft their schools to fit the needs of their students, giving parents their choice of schools, replicating successful schools and replacing failing schools.

Two California charter school leaders — Yvonne Chan, principal of the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, one of the most successful urban public schools in the U.S., and Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High — participated in a recent summit focusing on innovative solutions to address school improvement nationwide.

As noted, these charter schools may be providing a successful educational experience to some students but they are definitely not serving the broader urban community.

The turnaround effort — dubbed Apollo 20 — is unique in that it's adopting many principles seen in successful charter schools and applying them to this urban district of over 200,000 students.

In response to such concerns, he repeatedly stated that Christel House Academy, which was widely viewed as a successful charter school in an urban environment, would do well under the new system.)

Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, serving a low - income urban minority community, launched a concerted and successful campaign to raise its students» low math scores on standardized tests.