"Urban schooling" refers to education that takes place in cities or urban areas, where there is typically a high population density. It highlights the specific challenges and opportunities that exist within these urban environments for both students and educators.
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This program takes a look at the specific hurdles faced by leaders in
urban school districts and presents equally nuanced strategies to addressing these challenges.
The book tails off a bit at the end, but still a very good read for anyone who is passionate about education reform
in urban school districts.
In the long run, this strategy was meant to «tip» a certain number
of urban school systems to all - charter.
But some education specialists say that elected school boards in general pose problems
for urban school districts with challenges related to poverty.
The majority of them are residents of
large urban school districts where the cap has been hit.
At the district and school levels, it is helpful for
urban school leaders to wisely use data to inform their work.
The students in
urban schools with whom I have worked display extraordinary persistence, desire, and drive to balance educational goals with personal responsibilities.
The focus of this task force is to identify school board development opportunities that support characteristics of effective school boards and to share the best practices of
urban school boards that demonstrate effective habits.
The need for a more robust safety net for these students is a key systemic challenge for
many urban school districts.
It is an outrage that they are trying to force these charter schools
on urban school districts.
The result, unlike many in - the - trenches accounts of high -
performing urban schools, will not be confused with an advertising brochure.
The decline came
as urban school districts and private donors lost interest in funding small schools, amid concerns they were not living up to their potential.
Some of the nation's educators, doctors, lawyers and activist come
from urban school districts.
But a small number of
other urban school districts are much further along, and they're beginning to show results that ought to persuade many others to follow suit.
But as I point out, the
best urban schools in operation today are either schools that were started new or have long been excellent.
Parents in
most urban school communities remain highly dependent on the good intentions of teachers.
On one hand, I agree with many who say that these five
major urban school districts deserve praise rather than criticism for their courage in submitting to the testing.
It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in
urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates various components of turnover effects.
This is an ambitious and important goal, but it addresses only one aspect of the teacher - quality problem
facing urban school districts.
Currently reading: I'm planning a course
about urban school reform in the spring, so I am reading a lot of books on education reform.
Although most teachers in high -
poverty urban schools struggle to meet the needs of their students, some gifted educators achieve consistent success.
But most of these efforts don't address the fundamental
challenge urban schools face: The diversity of their student population.
Leaders must have relevant experience in
urban school settings, preferably with students with a wide range of learning, behavioral and emotional challenges.
The arrival of charter schools in 1996 offered parents another way out of a
failing urban school system.
The relative lack of resources in many
urban schools does not mean that ambitious instruction with technology can not be realized there.
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.
Those top charters have also demonstrated an ability to team up with troubled
traditional urban school districts — a role that probably represents the best shot for providing better schools for all.
Becoming a principal: Case studies of the evolution of role conception and leader identity development among
urban school principals in training.
Unfortunately, though, half of the young people who go
into urban schools will leave them within their first three years.
Part of my fellowship was to look at how a
big urban school system tries to make sense of reform.
Simply put, suburban schools and
urban schools often do not resemble one another, so we do not see ourselves in one another.
This should all sound familiar to education reformers because these are the market conditions faced by the administrators
running urban schools today.
No one says it's going to be easy, but here are a dozen ideas that many educators and policymakers believe are the solutions that will
help urban schools turn the corner.
Recruitment is often informal or passive, and
urban schools experience a distinct shortage of high - quality candidates in principal candidate pools.
Maybe he wants to consider how faith -
based urban schools contribute to social capital or how choice empowers low - income families.