Sentences with phrase «urban school systems since»

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.

Not exact matches

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years ago.

Since Teach For America and the KIPP Academies haven't yet saved the world, 5,000 charter schools have not prompted the remaking of urban school systems, and we're saddled with the disappointing legacy of NCLB, maybe what we've been missing all along is a sufficiently sentimental, gut - wrenching presence in the nation's cinemas.

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

Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance - based assessment in lieu of high - stakes exit exams.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, had been reporting results by state since 1990, but in recent years began isolating test scores from selected urban school systems.