Sentences with phrase «urban education reform»

His commitment to social justice drives his passion for urban education reform.

Into the 1970s, urban education reform focused predominantly on making sure that African American students had the opportunity to attend school with their white peers.

We'll need to be very careful to evaluate what worked and what didn't in the process, and then we could try to impact urban education reform elsewhere.

She also worked in K - 12 school reform as the founding Executive Director of what is now called The Philadelphia Education Fund and, on behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation, a national network of urban education reform projects.

«Over the past 11 years, Tom Payzant has provided unparalleled leadership in turning around the BPS, to the point that it is recognized as a national model for urban education reform in this country,» said Boston School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger.

In the Missouri House of Representatives, Hoskins now chairs the Special Committee on Urban Education Reform.

The MPCP was established in 1990 as the first urban education reform in the U.S. built around the idea of permitting parents to enroll their children in private schools of their choosing at government expense.

Uncommon Schools» Summer Teaching Fellowship Program, for example, is designed to bring college students from underrepresented backgrounds into the teaching and urban education reform fields.

[Review of the book Meaningful urban education reform: Confronting the learning crisis in mathematics and science].

STF was the first time I had been around so many people who were as passionate as I was about urban education reform.

Yet the fates of urban schools and the surrounding neighborhoods are inextricably linked, as Mark R. Warren compellingly explains in «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform» in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.

Vouchers should not be the panacea for urban education reform, especially in Missouri.

It was launched in 2004 as part of a three - sector strategy for urban education reform that also included increased funding for public charter - school facilities and added funds for educational improvements in District of Columbia public schools.

Warren's article, «Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform,» was published in the Summer 2005 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.

But before we anoint New Orleans as the beau ideal for urban education reform, let me pose this question: If you're a low - income person of color who wants a great public education for your child, is New Orleans where you want to be right now?

Don't Shoot provides an invaluable frame for the work of urban education reform: There is an important distinction between the slow, gradual systems reform that results in tiny bits of progress in lots of places, and a targeted, surgical - strike approach that is highly successful against a very specific problem.

So sure are New Orleans officials of the work being done to turn around schools that they think they can become a model for urban education reform, proof that students of any color, income level or social background can achieve if schools do their job.

Communities and schools: A new view of urban education reform.

JB: I'm here to talk to you because New Orleans is sort of an experiment in urban education reform.

Passionate about social justice and urban education reform, Nyissia was excited and honored to have the opportunity to return to the Bronx to teach after graduating Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University with majors in American Studies and Spanish and minors in Latin American Studies and Law and Society.