The prize, which gives the winning district $ 500,000 for student scholarships for college, is being touted
as urban public education's most prestigious award.
It is telling that the 1990s and 2000s saw a proliferation of civil - society activity associated more
with urban public education than with urban private education.
Despite a few bright spots, the results paint a sobering picture of the state
of urban public education today, especially for students from low - income households and students of color.
UNCF's Vice President Sekou Biddle, who has worked
in urban public education reform for almost two decades and served on the District of Columbia State Board of Education, helps facilitate these conversations.
It's clear that we need a new type of system
for urban public education, one that is able to respond nimbly to great school success, chronic school failure, and everything in between.
These students are drawn to TEP for its focus
on urban public education and its commitment to creating a more just and equitable society through better teachers and better schools.
We selected the cities based on their size and because they reflect the complexity of
urban public education today, where a single school district is often no longer the only education game in town.
These principles can be translated easily
into urban public education via tools already at our fingertips thanks to chartering: start - ups, replications, and expansions.
M - cubed (M3) is a collaboration between Milwaukee's three
urban public education institutions, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM).
The paradox that is neither addressed nor resolved in Guggenheim's film is that if unions are truly the source of all that
ails urban public education, as the movie seems to claim, why aren't the predominantly non-union charter schools performing better?
All Mays Award winners, with Ford and Gallon joining them, have strived to
advance urban public education and close achievement and access gaps for our most vulnerable students,» continued Gentzel.
These cities reflect rapidly changing student demographics and the complexity of today's
urban public education landscape, where multiple agencies oversee public schools and enrollments are spread across a variety of school types.
Chicago International Charter School is addressing the problems of
urban public education by making sure that every dollar is used both effectively and efficiently, and running CICS schools with the freedom and flexibly to develop curricula that works.
A dedicated advocate
of urban public education and an outspoken champion of educational opportunities for urban students throughout Rhode Island, Keith stepped into this role in June 2017.
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.
Credibility comes not only from the film's unwavering lens
on urban public education but from its maker, Oscar - winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim, who exposed climate change with Al Gore for «An Inconvenient Truth» and delved into the world of three legendary guitarists in «It Might Get Loud.»
You can support the students, families, and teachers of the UChicago Charter School and in doing so, help create the programs, tools, and knowledge needed to
improve urban public education.
Hess is hardly a defender of
urban public education's failures.
The surprise and shame is that
urban public education, unlike nearly every other industry, profession, and field, has never developed a sensible solution to its continuous failures.
Serving in that role through 2005 exposed Bersin to the interaction among administrators, teachers, and students as well as to the theory, policy, and practice of
urban public education.
At TEP, we are looking for individuals with strong academic backgrounds who are deeply committed to
urban public education.
The Broad Academy brings together game - changing system leaders who develop innovative strategies to tackle some of
urban public education's greatest needs.
«Market - Based Reforms in Urban Education» By Helen F. Ladd Paper presented at the Seminar on Creating Change in
Urban Public Education, December 7 - 8, 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Perhaps the major unanswered question is whether the marketplace will become a dominant force in the structure and operation of
urban public education, supplanting the principles and governance arrangements that have organized urban school systems for nearly a century.
In 2002 the foundation launched the Broad Superintendents Academy, a 10 - month management training program to prepare people from business, nonprofits, the military and government backgrounds to take leadership positions in
urban public education.
The Broad Center, an organization at the forefront of expanding excellence and equity in
urban public education, has recognized our CEO Ana Ponce as a leader who is working to produce real results for students and families.
Charter school opponents need to stop romanticizing the good ol' days of
urban public education and start working to build a new system of public education that meets the needs of all children in the 21st Century.
Urban public education is not about the «chicken and egg education problem.»
It was a chance conversation with a fellow law student that introduced her to the idea of shifting her career to
urban public education.
In the post-civil rights era, the number of blacks sharing power and responsibility for
urban public education has grown dramatically.
I joined the Residency because I knew that I wanted to work in
urban public education.