Not exact matches
A small number of progressive leaders of major
urban school systems are using
school closure and replacement to transform their long - broken districts: Under Chancellor Joel Klein, New York City has closed nearly 100
traditional public schools and opened more than 300 new
schools.
As the
traditional urban school district is slowly replaced by a
system marked by an array of nongovernmental
school providers, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in
public schooling) are needed.
But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated
public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the
traditional, parish - based Catholic
school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled
urban public -
school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter
school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and
public sectors.
For years, conservatives properly accused
traditional urban school systems of being stubbornly resistant to change, but recent years have seen far more innovation in
urban public education than in
urban Catholic education.
The pockets of what Green, citing David Cohen, refers to as «coherent» teacher preparation initiatives are small and scattered, serving a small fraction of U.S.
schools and teachers, and operating largely outside of the
traditional public schooling system built to serve the
urban poor and their suburban and rural neighbors.
In The
Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competi
Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the
traditional structure of
urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competi
urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.
Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
Public charter
schools, funded with
public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of
traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the
schools as last hopes for parents raising children in
urban areas with sub-standard
schools.
Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
Public charter
schools, funded with
public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of
traditional public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard sc
public school systems recently glorified in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the
schools as last hopes for parents raising children in
urban areas with sub-standard
schools.