Sentences with phrase «urban school systems with»

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

Not exact matches

In addition to the Metro rail system, he said, Prince George's is sandwiched between major airports in Baltimore and D.C., features an urban area with ample space to build, and is surrounded by several universities, particularly Maryland's flagship school.

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

Qing Li and his colleagues from Nippon Medical School found that visits to the forest (compared with urban trips) can have a long - lasting influence on immune system markers, increasing the activity of antiviral cells and intracellular anti-cancer proteins — and these changes remained significant for a full week after the visit.

The market for administrators in urban school districts is increasingly becoming national in scope, yet for mobile administrators retirement benefit systems with 5 - to 10 - year vesting systems can have a devastating effect on retirement savings.

In October 2001, Henry became the new executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school sSchool Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school sschool 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.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

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.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

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.

It will be a state - led initiative to replace the urban district as the delivery system for public schooling, thereby breaking with 100 years of history.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

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.

Using a 1995 survey of 4,700 adults (with an over-sample of urban adults), Moe finds that Americans like the public school system but think that private schools are better.

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.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

Now in its fourth year, the Urban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school sysUrban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school sysurban school systems.

An initiative aimed at helping urban and underperforming school systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallschool systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the WallSchool, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the WallSchool (HKS), in association with the Wallace...

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

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.

An initiative aimed at helping urban and underperforming school systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallace Foundschool systems, ExEl is a collaborative effort of HGSE, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallace FoundSchool, and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), in association with the Wallace FoundSchool (HKS), in association with the Wallace Foundation.

And far too many school systems, especially urban districts with the most urgent need for dynamic competence in this crucial role, haven't yet figured out the best way to find the strongest candidates in the land and induce them to move into the principal's office.

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The unique doctorate in education leadership, offered in partnership with faculty from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state sySchool and Harvard Kennedy School, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state sySchool, prepares students to lead large and influential organizations, from urban school districts to charter networks to state syschool districts to charter networks to state systems.

His solution: dissolve the urban school district as we know it and replace it with a system of chartered schools.

Even those who don't like my left - right combination — bring it to an end and replace it with a true system of schools — never counterpunch with, «The urban district is doing great!»

A unique blend of education - savvy business leaders, a superintendent with stamina, and a mature accountability system has made Houston into the darling of urban school reform.

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?»

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.

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

From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

The Urban Institute data indicate the lack of an incentive to open a new private school with the anticipation of voucher funding in preference to a charter school in DC under this system of finance.

The issue has raised arguments about equity for urban and «property - poor» school districts, about Missouri's ability to compete for business with neighboring states, and about the entire system of distributing state aid to education.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

In a national landscape dotted with dysfunctional urban school systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stanschool systems and short - lived superintendencies, the Boston Public School district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stanSchool district (BPS) and its superintendent, Tom Payzant, both stand out.

These schools — among the district's most challenging — have kept pace with a district achieving the highest gains among America's major urban systems.

Any doubt about the progress being made by the public school system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nschool system — and the efficacy of its hard - won reforms — was erased last week by new data showing D.C. Public School (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nSchool (DCPS) to be the system with the greatest improvement of any urban district in the nation.

The three-fold increase nationally in the growth of independently managed public schools has been driven by the frustration of parents with the generally substandard level of education to be found in poor, urban public school systems.

The public school system has mostly failed to provide those urban minority communities with the same quality of educational opportunities as their white peers, and in the early 90s policy leaders of both parties said enough was enough and began to support the charter school concept: public schools that would be independent from school district bureaucracies, free to innovate and more accountable for results.

As a product of the urban, local public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, Artesius has first hand experience with the academic disparities and challenges that affect our youth.

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.

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 competiUrban 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 competiurban public education has failed, and that it must be replaced with an entirely new one defined by choice and competition.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuSchools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 stuschools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

Once predominantly white and affluent suburban school systems, for example, are increasingly confronted with a host of demographic issues formerly associated primarily with urban districts.

Excerpt: In this soon to be printed Local Government Commission report entitled «New Schools In Older Neighborhoods» principal writer Ann Kauth juxtaposes the unprecedented need our state's school system will face with the equally needed amount of revitalization our urban neighborhoods will need.

Public charter schools, funded with public dollars and tuition - free, are off - shoots of traditional public school systems and been glorified recently in critically - acclaimed documentaries like «The Lottery» and «Waiting for Superman,» which portray the schools as last hopes for parents raising children in urban areas with sub-standard schools.