Mind the gap: Learning, trust, and relationships in
an underperforming urban system.
Not exact matches
An initiative aimed at helping
urban and
underperforming school
systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallace...
An initiative aimed at helping
urban and
underperforming school
systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallace Foundation.
While I see glimmers of hope in persistently
underperforming cities like Detroit and Cleveland, I don't see the same for Philadelphia, which may now, sadly, have the most distressing American
urban system of schools.
The unfortunate answer is that too many
urban school
systems preemptively declare
underperforming students to be failures, a practice that fosters dysfunctional classrooms that fail to motivate, engage, and inspire students to succeed.
If New Orleans stalled today, the city would land squarely in the middle ranks of our country's
underperforming urban school
systems.
This report takes a look at whether the
underperforming Camden Public School
System can set an example for effective
urban school reform for the country.