Sentences with phrase «urban school systems»

Meeting the significant demand for outstanding teachers and principals is a persistent challenge in many urban school systems.

You might not have heard about it, but urban school systems across the country are posting gains in student achievement that deserve our attention.

They also represent a mix of large and mid-size urban school systems with diverse populations.

This is because many teachers recruited for urban school systems come from alternative teaching programs and many of the veterans are in the system due to political connections.

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

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.

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

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

This is the first step toward building healthy urban school systems — systems that are dynamic, responsive, and self - improving.

Too often urban school systems begin initiatives and never perfect them, preferring new initiatives that attract publicity and give the appearance of doing something.

But shame on all of us if we can't find a solution for our most dismal urban school systems.

The school - choice movement, of which charter - schools and the authors are a part, is having a distinct effect on sluggish urban school systems and how we think about reform.

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.

The annual award, announced today, honors large urban school systems that demonstrate the strongest student achievement and improvement while narrowing performance gaps between different groups based on family income and ethnicity.

We need teachers who are better prepared to teach in urban school systems, and who have a good grasp of their content areas.

Around the country, we see that many urban school systems that are improving are the responsibility of the mayor.

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.

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.

Chicago is probably the only other urban school system with an explicit set of goals and a plan to attain them.

During Dr. McIntyre's tenure, the Boston Public Schools was named one of the top performing urban school systems in the nation.

In the book, Smarick argues that the traditional urban school system is broken and can not be fixed.

Billionaire Eli Broad has suspended a coveted, $ 1 - million prize to honor the best urban school systems out of concern that they are failing to improve quickly enough.

Revolution at the Margins: The Impact of Competition on Urban School Systems By Frederick M. Hess Brookings Institution, 2002, $ 45.95; 268 pages.

The Green Award emphasizes the need for continuing efforts to improve urban school systems, he said.

Foundations for success: Case studies of how urban school systems improve student achievement.

He went in early November, joining school construction experts from urban school systems in Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Miami, New Mexico, and Fresno, Calif..

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

Fourth - grade students recorded the highest gain — four points — among 21 urban school systems since 2011; fourth - graders also scored higher in math, and eighth - graders scored higher in reading.

Under his leadership, this 9,000 student urban school system increased its graduation rates by 171 % and post-secondary acceptances by 419 %, while reducing dropouts by 53 % and doubling the percentage of students passing state tests.

The conference represents New York's urban school systems including the Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers districts.

Paladino stirred controversy with the council last year when he represented President - elect Donald J. Trump in a mock debate on education issues, during which he referred to the «corrupted, incompetent urban school systems» and said «our minorities need to be brought along.»

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

Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program (USP) at HGSE for 15 years, has mentored a number of USP graduates who are currently in high - profile urban school systems.

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 short, unlike the corporate or military leaders normally envisioned as candidates to head urban school systems, Vallas was neither an outsider to Chicago nor unfamiliar with schools and large public agencies.

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.

Struggling urban school systems rarely get credit for their successes.

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.

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

If choice through vouchers can create conditions that promote academic achievement, and if it can put political pressure on what are often intractable urban school systems, it merits serious consideration.

In the years to come, I expect urban school systems to be comprised of more and more independent schools and the traditional urban district — and its locally elected board — to have diminished authority.

Only half of students in large urban school systems graduate from high school, US students lag behind their international counterparts, and racial - ethnic gaps in achievement are large by kindergarten and continue to grow thereafter, she said.

Urban school systems hardwire the inequalities that Nate talks about and create conditions that make it extremely difficult to attract, retain, and develop the teachers our kids need.