Sentences with phrase «urban charters»

Students in urban charter schools gained an additional 40 days in math and 28 days in reading per year compared to their district school peers.

These academic benefits of urban charter schools are quite large.

• Maintaining philanthropic support for high - performing urban charter schools and for enrichment of curriculum and pedagogy in «no excuses» schools.

When you cut the data to look just at urban charters, the percentage beating the surrounding neighborhood schools rises to 40 percent.

For urban charter schools, however, the evidence suggests a more promising story.

It is not an easy or natural transition to college for the students urban charters serve.

Part of the problem is that many urban charter schools ignored this student population for years.

The best urban charter schools often have large waiting lists of students who would like to attend.

Kids in urban charters learn more in math and reading, and the benefits are being realized most by disadvantaged students.

During this same period, high - performing urban charters grew rapidly and produced exceptional gains in test scores and college enrollment rates for black and Latino students.

The idea of middle - class parents tapping into urban charters is unsettling.

But remember: funding interventions will cost us billions of dollars more than expanding urban charter schools.

Because charter schools are concentrated in cities, often in poor neighborhoods, the researchers also compared urban charters to traditional schools in cities.

This study found that both moral and performance character strengths are important and unique predictors of the academic achievement and conduct of a sample of 500 early adolescents attending several urban charter schools.

In public education, it is unfortunately rare to find something that truly helps children in need, and in urban charter schools we have found something that works at basically no additional cost.

While both these charter studies roughly track the effects found in the school funding study, I don't think we know enough about adult outcomes for urban charters.

Against that backdrop, I was asked by four urban charter school networks to create interventions for all of their outgoing seniors in the hopes of increasing their college persistence.

Like fine Swiss watches exhibiting a symphony of wheels, dials, gears, levers, and springs, the schools profiled in Inside Urban Charter Schools operate with astonishing coherences and coordination across multiple levels, each part working in harmony with others to achieve clear, widely embraced goals related to academic achievement.

The CREDO study on urban chartering found that most city - based charter school sectors are producing substantially more academic growth than comparable district - run schools (others» take on the report here, here, and here).

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.

So even if SIG achieved the same effects as urban charter schools the study may not have been able to detect these effects.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

BES says it «trains high - capacity individuals to take on the demanding and urgent work of leading high - achieving, college preparatory urban charter schools.»

A study released in March by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO, found that most urban charter students in the Bay Area outperformed traditional district students in both English and math.

Massachusetts students are meeting the same high standards, with more than 60 percent of urban charters outperforming their traditional counterparts.

However, Ms. Hoxby's research has shown that «creaming» can't explain the academic success of charter schools given that the typical urban charter student is a poor black or Hispanic kid living in a home with adults who possess below - average education credentials.

Experience: High school chemistry and physics teacher at Blackstone Academy Charter School, a small urban charter school in Pawtucket that focuses on service learning and civic engagement Future plans: 7th - and 8th - grade math and science teacher at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Dorchester, Massachusetts

They also find that while over-subscribed urban charter schools that admit students by lottery have produced the largest improvement in student achievement, non-urban charter schools are uniformly ineffective in raising measured achievement.

Elite charter - school operator Uncommon Schools says its mission is running «outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low - income students to graduate from college.»

At Uncommon Schools, a network of urban charter public schools in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, these pillars shape curriculum and school cultures, says Jackson.

She has served as a teacher, Mathematics Department Chair, Assistant Principal, and Dean of Curriculum at a highly - effective urban charter high school in New Jersey.

A 14 - member review board of prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from around the country evaluated publicly available student achievement data on 20 large established urban charter school systems and found that YES Prep Public Schools had the best overall student academic performance between 2007 and 2011.

He said nationally known charter organizations, such as KIPP and Green Dot, are known for operating urban charters.

D.C.'s charter school sector stands as a shining example of what urban chartering can accomplish for kids in need.

Even worse, NCLB, far from unleashing major new choice initiatives as was originally hoped, is instead threatening the future of many struggling urban charter schools.

The effect of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on students» mathematics achievement documented by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob and confirmed by Manyee Wong and colleagues is equivalent to the gain from spending three or four years in an average urban charter school, according to the latest data from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes.

Likewise, the 2015 CREDO report concluded that Detroit's charter sector was one of only four urban charter communities that «provide essential examples of school - level and system - level commitments to quality that can serve as models to other communities.»

Two recent studies, one by Joshua Angrist and colleagues and another by Matthew Johnson and colleagues, found that attendance at urban charter middle schools with high behavioral expectations is associated with a higher number of days suspended relative to attendance at traditional schools in the same districts.

For low - income students enrolled in No Excuses charter schools (which are admittedly more effective than the median urban charter school) the authors found a statistically insignificant 1 % in earnings increase for every year of attendance, or roughly 12 % for a child enrolled throughout their K - 12 career.

Our networks tend to be homegrown from urban charters that have had success and have been asked by the Department of Education to grow.

While charter schools differ widely in philosophy and pedagogical views, the United States's most famous urban charter schools typically use the No Excuses approach.

Over time, political debating points have pigeonholed urban charter schools, especially those run by for - profits and charter management organizations, as an industrialized sector bent on homogenization.

Democracy Prep's results are incomparable: 100 percent of graduates are college - bound (two college acceptances are required for graduation); 95 percent pass the Regents exams; and the schools are leaders in urban charter turnaround (with Harlem Prep skyrocketing from the third to the 96th percentile from one school year to the next).