Sentences with phrase «urban school system»

Some don't, but there is a percentage for which it works, and it seems to me that given the dynamics of an urban school system, if you can find something that works for some people, it's at least worth keeping around.»

Charter supporters say the system meets demand for high - quality education that regularly arises in economically distressed parts of the city, paving the way for innovation in a struggling urban school system.

«Long Beach USD had already earned a reputation for excellence: The district received the second ever Broad Prize in 2003 as the nation's best urban school system.

And on top of all that, he's the head of a struggling urban school system that many argue has been hurt even more by a fast - growing charter sector.

Perhaps the strongest model in the United States of a collaborative urban school system, Cincinnati has a long history dating back to the mid-1980s of experimenting with team - based instructional approaches, using innovative compensation systems to reward excellence, and providing career ladders to enable the most effective teachers to coach their colleagues.

In short, one could argue that New Orleans had the worst urban school system in the country before Hurricane Katrina.

The Broad Academy is a leadership development program for urban school system superintendents.

That's a potential liability in a city looking to change the narrative of an urban school system that persistently lags behind statewide averages in academic proficiency.

The incident stunned parents who received word at afternoon pickup and jolted officials accustomed to dealing with an urban school system's usual array of crime and other emergencies.

Part of my fellowship was to look at how a big urban school system tries to make sense of reform.

Being chief executive of a large urban school system is known to be one of the hardest jobs on the planet.

Even Andy Smarick, a fervent charter advocate who authored the provocative book The Urban School System of the Future: Applying Principles and Lessons of Chartering, recognizes that closing a neighborhood school can have negative and unintended consequences.

In The Urban School System of the Future, Andy Smarick contends that the traditional structure of urban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

Smarick's «urban school system of the future» would be structured to ensure that high - performing schools are continually replicated, new schools with a diverse array of program offerings are continually opened, persistently failing schools are closed, and family choice is maximized.

There is no question that running an urban school system is one of the most difficult jobs in the country — and Henderson has made some progress during her tenure.

This is the ultimate task of the leader of the urban school system of the future: properly managing a city's portfolio of schools.

One of the most important and interesting questions I get about my book, The Urban School System of the Future, is whether I think its analysis and recommendations apply to non-urban districts.

I first wrote about it in «Wave of the Future,» extended the idea in «The Turnaround Fallacy,» and filled out the argument in The Urban School System of the Future.

I first argued for private - school authorizers in my book The Urban School System of the Future.

This faith - based charter compromise could lead to a renewed urban school system — one based on equitable funding, more diverse options, parental choice, and comprehensive transparency and accountability.

New Orleans presents the opportunity to study an urban school system where charter schools comprise more than 90 percent of school campuses and total student enrollment.

The story of New Orleans» success entails two parts: a disaster that created room to reinvent a deeply troubled urban school system and an energetic commitment to seize that opportunity.

The arrival of charter schools in 1996 offered parents another way out of a failing urban school system.

D.C. has recently undertaken two invaluable reforms that, when combined with the city's other systemic features, place D.C. on the brink of becoming the urban school system of the future.

Focusing on college prep classes when many minority children are trapped in dysfunctional and failing urban school system will likely be met with a giant «huh?»

If you're interested in chartering, school - level accountability, or The Urban School System of the Future, you definitely want to check it out.

According to the Times, Cami Anderson, all of 39 years old, «faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system [Newark] that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

This is the heart of my book, The Urban School System of the Future.

The Urban School System of the Future offers a compelling vision that school reformers should take seriously.

Andy Smarick opens The Urban School System of the Future with a depressing realization; «The traditional urban school system is broken, and it can not be fixed.»

At its heart, the law reflects a belief that is radical and unproven in a large urban school system: that parents will make better decisions for the schools than a central bureaucracy widely perceived to be too large and remote to...

He is the author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907 — 81, and, with David Angus, The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890 — 1995.

He imagines an urban school system organized around five pillars: first, that great schools from all sectors are expanded and replicated; second, that persistently failing schools are closed; third, that new schools are continuously started; fourth, that there is a wide variety of schools and entities to authorize and oversee them; and finally, that families have choice between these schools.

Robin J. Lake has studied public charter schools and urban school system reforms since 1993.

Chapter Five of my book The Urban School System of the Future chronicles the intellectual history of chartering, which includes motivations well beyond district R&D.

When I started writing The Urban School System of the Future in 2009, I didn't foresee the extent of the complications associated with parental choice in cities with expansive networks of accessible schools.

The unprecedented management plan, which the school committee may vote on next week, has been hailed as a bold step to help solve the problems of a troubled urban school system.

Ms. House, the 1999 National Superintendent of the Year and one of the few women to lead a major urban school system, will leave the 112,000 - student district April 3.

In 1990, the school created the Urban Superintendents Program, the only comprehensive doctoral program preparing school leaders for the challenges of urban school system administration.

Smarick tackles this issue and more in his new book, The Urban School System of the Future.

The time we spent in Detroit left us with the view that the city has the potential to be the next great example of urban school system renewal, as soon as civic and state leaders are ready to step up.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

In a total of 156 issues over the years, the «Oakes Newsletter» — researched, written, edited, and published by Ms. Oakes — earned a solid reputation as a source of information and insight into the workings of a major urban school system.

I also think that your book doesn't deal sufficiently with how the urban school system of the future will ensure that all students are served equitably.

But suffice it to say, I believe Washington, D.C. is on track to become the second city (following New Orleans) to develop the urban school system of the future.

«Leading and managing in the multifaceted and dynamic environment of an urban school system is an incredible challenge that is complicated further by the heavy day - to - day demands of the job,» says Kim Clark, dean of HBS.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

As the New York Times reported when Anderson took over, in June of 2011, «Cami Anderson faces the monumental task of rescuing an urban school system that has long been mired in low achievement, high turnover and a culture of failure, despite decades of state intervention.»

DCPS» reputation as a rising urban school system depends on it.

The struggling urban school system continues to look for dramatic fixes.