Sentences with phrase «urban school systems across»

and impacts under - resourced urban school systems across this country: a veritable «Who's Who?»

In this role, he managed a team of program officers supporting a portfolio of large, multi-year grants designed to support the improvement of teaching effectiveness in eleven urban school systems across the United States.

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

Previously, Sarah was a director at The Broad Center, the mission of which is to raise student achievement by recruiting and supporting leadership talent to transform urban school systems across the country.

SDP developed these indicators through a series of studies conducted in partnership with eight large urban school systems across the United States.

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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.

In education, she studies the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in large urban school districts across the United States and the conditions that enhance organizational learning in public school systems.

There were about 400 test titles being used in the nation's largest urban school systems in the 2014 - 15 school year, and students sat over 6,500 times for tests across the 66 school systems studied, the research found.

Aspire is also one of the highest - performing public school systems in California, operating public charter schools across the state with one specific goal - preparing urban students for college - encapsulated by its motto of «College for Certain.»

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Research Design: Sources of data in this study consist of student demographic variables and reading achievement for 995 students and classroom observation data using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System collected across 46 classrooms in an urban school district in Wisconsin.