Sentences with phrase «urban school districts across the country»

As many urban school districts across the country struggled to maintain or substantially increase graduation rates, the Wichita School District saw an unprecedented graduation rate increase of 19.3 %.

Every year, urban school districts across the country release test scores showing dismal student proficiency in math and reading, especially for students in poverty.

In partnership with University of Chicago and Brown University, the Gardner Center has studied the implementation of a CRIS in five urban school districts across the country over a period of three years.

The Teachers on Tour program seeks to offer urban school districts across the country a unique professional development opportunity for their staff that has the potential to improve their classroom instruction, thus helping in the national concern of closing the achievement gap.

Baltimore's scores on a rigorous national math and reading test were in the bottom third of large urban school districts across the country, though educators highlighted some progress in math and a promising trend of better - than - average results among some low - income black students.

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More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coSchool, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the coschool districts from across the country.

The couple hopes that the Ed School will become a laboratory for innovative ideas, which will be tested in Cambridge and then spread to urban areas and school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the School will become a laboratory for innovative ideas, which will be tested in Cambridge and then spread to urban areas and school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the school districts, starting in Boston and eventually expanding across the country and the world.

The annual Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management competition, which typically attracts teams of MBA students from top business schools across the country, puts students to the task of restructuring an urban school disSchool of Management competition, which typically attracts teams of MBA students from top business schools across the country, puts students to the task of restructuring an urban school disschool district.

These districts — ABC Unified School District, Cerritos, California; Hillsborough, Florida; Norfolk, Virginia; Plattsburgh, New York; St. Francis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio — come from across the country, are both urban and rural, large and small.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizSchool Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatizschool leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

Olson is one of 244 principals in Tampa, Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools, one of six large urban districts across the country that since 2011 have been involved in The Wallace Foundation's «principal pipeline» initiative — designed to grow more effective principals.

The tools represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

Our impact will ripple out beyond our 1,600 scholars, impacting policy and school decision - making in low - income urban districts across the state and country.

Prior to EducationSuperHighway, Jeff worked with the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy to develop human capital leaders and implement strategies in large urban districts across the couUrban Schools Human Capital Academy to develop human capital leaders and implement strategies in large urban districts across the couurban districts across the country.

Project ACHIEVE is a comprehensive school transformation and improvement program that has been implemented in thousands of urban, suburban, and rural districts across the country since 1990.

The announced closure of Roseville sparked protests not just within the school's community, but also from activists citywide who saw it as a continuation of a pattern of closures sweeping urban districts across the country.

«Across the country, many urban school districts are recognizing that they need to hire teacher workforces that better reflect the diversity of their students.

not just within the school's community, but also from activists citywide who saw it as a continuation of a pattern of closures sweeping urban districts across the country.

Educators across the country are currently implementing Safe & Civil Schools projects in urban, suburban, and rural districts.

The average tenure of principal supervisors in urban districts across the country is fairly short: about three years, according to a recent Wallace - commissioned report by the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS).

Magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet school.

In 2014, the percentage of students of color exceeded the percentage of white students in U.S. public schools for the first time.13 Meanwhile, 84 percent of all public school teachers identify as white.14 While this disparity occurs in classrooms across the country, the diversity gap is especially pronounced in many urban school districts.15 In Boston, for example, there is one Hispanic teacher for every 52 Hispanic students, and one black teacher for every 22 black students.

These ideas — choice, charter schools, vouchers — have all gained a foothold to one degree or another in struggling urban districts across the country, including in DeVos» own home turf of Detroit, where more than half of public school students now attend charter schools.

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.

However, notwithstanding the growing cadre of exemplars around the country, spanning school size, district, and across both urban and rural settings, the research to explicitly identify and understand the key components of effective implementation is still nascent, especially in demonstrating a causal relationship between implementation of a comprehensive and integrated community school strategy — not just individual program pieces — and increased student achievement.

Dr. Fink's work has spanned large urban, suburban and rural school districts and charter management organizations across the country.