In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for
Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.
Not exact matches
In fact, several
urban union locals, in Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to
reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and
public school choice.
Robin J. Lake has studied
public charter
schools and
urban school system
reforms since 1993.
A behavioral argument could also be made: that the state's
reform policies, its
public shaming and sanctions for low - performing
schools, would most strongly influence the behavior of
urban districts, which tend to have a history of low performance and mismanagement.
In Free
Schools, Kozol wrote that
urban parents should exit the
public school system because
reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of
public school.»
, Kozol wrote that
urban parents should exit the
public school system because
reforms within the system, «no matter how inventive or how passionate or how immediately provocative,» are simply an «extension of the ideology of
public school.»
No
reform short of unloading a dump - truck filled with hundred - dollar bills on the campus of each
urban public school will solve today's education ills.
He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following:
School Choice International: Exploring
public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti)
School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West)
Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and
Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?
Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston
Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school dist
School's autonomous hiring policy
reform on student, teacher, and
school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school dist
school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large
urban school dist
school districts.
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.
Despite years of education
reform efforts, many
urban public schools are falling short, unable to raise student achievement.
A 2003 survey of
urban public -
school superintendents that one of us (Fuller) conducted for the University of Washington found that more than two - thirds of the administrators in states with collective bargaining said union contracts impede
reform.
The author of this paper investigates the relevance of Waldorf education for
public urban school reform.
Changing governance arrangements clearly can make a difference in the way
urban public school systems function, but such a strategy requires the right combination of ingredients - committed and skilled leadership by the mayor, willingness to use scarce resources, a stable coalition of supporters, appropriate education policies, and a cadre of competent, committed professionals to implement the
reforms.
PN: While many
public schools, especially in
urban areas, are in dire need of
reform, I am concerned that there is a lack of clarity about why past
reforms have failed and insufficient understanding about the direction change must take if we are to obtain better results.
Any doubt about the progress being made by the
public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the n
public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the n
school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won
reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C.
Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the n
Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the n
School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any
urban district in the nation.
, A decade of
urban school reform: Persistence and progress in the Boston
Public Schools (pp. 219 — 242).
Clearly, a major centerpiece of George W. Bush's success as Governor of Texas and a significant plank in the platform for his Presidential candidacy was his leadership of the Texas
public education
reforms in accountability and standards of the mid to late 1990's, and nowhere were these
reforms in more evidence than in Houston, which was recognized as the best
urban school district in America in 2002.
Academy of Notre Dame Algonquin Regional High
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School Bigelow Middle
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School Boston Middle
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Public School Boston
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School Brook Farm Business and Service Career Academy Brookline High
School Buckingham Browne & Nichols
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School Greater Egleston Community High
School Grover Cleveland Middle
School Hamilton - Wenham Regional High
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School Harbor
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School of Education Harwich High
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School Higgenson / Lewis K - 8
School Hillside Treatment Program Holy Name Parish
School Hopkinton High
School Horace Mann
School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Hudson High
School Hyde Park High
School Immaculate Conception
School Immaculate Conception
School (Newburyport) Inly
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Public Schools Marlborough High
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School Martin Luther King Open
School Mary Lyon
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School Media Communications Technology High
School Melrose Junior High
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School Miles River Middle
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School Mitchell Middle
School Monument High
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School Mount Alvernia High
School Mystic Valley Regional Charter
School Nashoba Brooks
School of Concord Nashoba Valley Technical High
School (Westford) Nauset Regional High
School Needham High
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School Newton North High
School Noble & Greenough
School North Shore Christian
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School Northeastern University Norwell High
School Notre Dame Academy (Hingham) Oak Hill Middle
School O'Bryant
School of Mathematics and Science Office of Curriculum and Instruction Ottoson Middle
School Our Lady of Perpetual Help / Mission Grammar
School Parkway Academy of Technology and Health Pathfinder Regional High
School Pembroke Community Middle
School Phillips Academy Andover Pierce
School Pike
School Plymouth South Middle
School Pollard Middle
School Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy (Neponset, Lower Mills, Columbia, and Mattapan) Prospect Hill Charter Academy Prozdor Hebrew College
Public Service And Civic Engagement Academy (Lowell High
School) Quincy
Public Schools Randolph High
School Reading Memorial High
School River Valley Charter
School Rogers Middle
School (Hyde Park) Roxbury Latin Roxbury Preparatory Charter
School Runkle
School Sacred Heart
School Saint Agatha
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School Sharon Middle
School Shore Country Day
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School Snowden International High
School Social Justice Academy Solomon Schechter Day
School of Greater Boston Somerset High
School Somerville High
School South Area Solomon Schechter Day
School South Boston Catholic Academy St. Brendan's
School (Dorcester) St. Columbkille
School St. John's Preparatory
School St. John
School St. Mary of the Assumption
School (Brookline) St. Patrick
School St. Paul's Catholic Church St. Peter Academy (South Boston) St. Theresa St. Thomas Aquinas High
School Stoneham High
School Striar Hebrew Academy Swampscott High
School TechBoston Academy TechBoston Lower Academy Temple Beth David Religious
School Temple Beth Shalom Temple Emanu - El Temple Etz Chaim Temple Isaiah Temple Israel Temple Israel Religious
School Temple Sinai The Accelerated Learning Laboratory The Carroll
School The Engineering
School The Governor's Academy The Heller
School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University The Meadowbrook
School of Weston The New Boston Pilot Middle
School The Park
School (MA) The Rashi
School, the Boston Area
Reform Jewish Day
School The Rivers
School Thomas Blake Middle
School Thurston Middle
School Timilty Middle
School Tobin K - 8
School Trinity Catholic Academy Tufts University Umana Middle
School Academy University of Massachusetts, Boston College of Community Service University Park Campus
School Urban Science Academy Ursuline Academy Waltham High
School Washington Irving Middle
School Watertown High
School Watertown Middle
School Wayland Middle
School Wellesley Middle
School Wentworth Institute of Technology Westborough High
School Weston Middle
School WGBH Whitman Middle
School Whitman - Hanson Regional High
School Wilbraham & Monson Academy Wilmington High
School Wilson Middle
School (Natick) Winsor
School Winthrop High
School Worcester North High
School Worker Education Program Young Achievers Science and Math K - 8
School
What Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and governors across the country want to show the voting
public is that corporate
reform and privatization of our
schools is the answer to the achievement gap between children living in
urban and suburban districts, as well as between the US and the rest of the world.
Co-hosted by the Indianapolis
Urban League, 100 Black Men,
School Choice Indiana, Stand for Children, La Plaza, Education
Reform Now, Lacy Leadership Association and UNCF, the event attracted stakeholders from across the community to hear Dr. Fuller's ideas and observations about
public education in the U.S.
(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in
urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of
urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for
urban education and
school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.
According to a published report in the Connecticut Post, the «Education
Reform Plan» that Governor Malloy will announce later this week will include Commissioner of Education Stephan Pryor's plan to give charter
schools more
public funds including money that will be shifted from helping Connecticut's poorest
urban districts.
In 1999, Pete established Excellent Education for Everyone, to
reform urban public schools in New Jersey through parental
school choice.
This report takes a look at whether the underperforming Camden
Public School System can set an example for effective urban school reform for the co
School System can set an example for effective
urban school reform for the co
school reform for the country.
The college utilizes its Teaching &
Urban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environ
Urban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing
urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environ
urban schools throughout the Tulsa
Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an
urban environ
urban environment.
What evidence do we have that the CommPACT model (a
reform model that is supported by the American Federation of Teachers - Connecticut, the Connecticut Education Association, the Connecticut Association of
Public School Superintendents, the Connecticut Association of
Urban Superintendents, and the Connecticut Federation of
School Administrators, in addition to UConn's Neag
School of Education) is turning
schools around?
These results are highlighted in CCSA's Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing
Reform: The Success of California Charter
Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public s
Schools in Promoting African American Achievement, which shows that, overall, charter
schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional public s
schools in California are effectively accelerating the performance of African American
public school students, and are earning higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores and proficiency rates statewide, in many
urban districts and across all subjects when compared with traditional
public schoolsschools.
CHICAGO — Chicago teachers stayed away from
public schools for a third day on Wednesday in a strike over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for tough teacher evaluations that U.S. education
reform advocates see as crucial to fixing
urban schools.
-LSB-...] Curator and writer Carla Acevedo - Yates reviews an
urban art project by Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio, «
reForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in
reForm» (August 28, 2015 - May 20, 2016, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, Tyler
School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in
School of Art in Philadelphia), a two - year installation and
public engagement project exploring the loss experienced by a Puerto Rican community with the closing of Fairhill Middle
School in North Philadelphia, a public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in
School in North Philadelphia, a
public school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia School Reform Commission in
school established in 1887 and then shut by the Philadelphia
School Reform Commission in
School Reform Commission in
Reform Commission in 2013.