Sentences with phrase «traditional urban school system»

Andy Smarick opens The Urban School System of the Future with a depressing realization; «The traditional urban school system is broken, and it can not be fixed.»

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.

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3) Superintendents like Paul Vallas, Joel Klein, and Tom Boasberg and a fast - growing number of urban districts understand that the traditional district system is broken, have closed ineffective schools and opened effective ones, and have committed to legal autonomy at the school level and a bare - bones central office.

While Baltimore provides a cautionary tale for urban district leaders implementing the portfolio strategy, it should not be seen as the death knell for reform within a traditional school system.

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.

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 competiUrban 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 competiurban 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 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 schools.

An early 2017 piece by freelancer George Joseph blamed charter schools for fueling urban school resegregation, downplaying the enormous role of the traditional education system (and belittling the decisions of black and brown parents who choose charter schools).