Sentences with phrase «urban schools today»

This should all sound familiar to education reformers because these are the market conditions faced by the administrators running urban schools today.

What are your thoughts on teaching in an urban school today?

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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina today will meet behind closed doors with staff at the Urban Assembly for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx, where a deadly stabbing took place yesterday.

Together, we will push our graduation rate from just over 60 percent today to 70 percent, then 80 percent and beyond until we can be counted among the best urban school districts in America.

Today's generation of education reformers exhibit something more akin to diffidence, even cowardice, and not without cause: After decades of dominance and setting the agenda for American education, we should have a few more successes to point to than a relative handful of successful urban charter schools.

Today's youth hostels are helping school children from all backgrounds to participate in a range of different activities in rural and urban areas across the country.

Our faculty is studying the most pressing issues facing our educational system today — the achievement gap, language and literacy, urban school reform, new leadership models, testing and accountability, to name just a few.

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

In our new study, published today in Education Next, my colleagues and I found that only 22 percent of teachers were evaluated based on test score gains in the four urban school districts we studied.

Offering accredited courses with titles such as Architectural Design and Urban Sociology, today's Build SF is the offshoot of an after - school and summer program launched 13 years ago.

Today he remains devoted to supporting many education initiatives, including the Ed School's Urban Scholars Fellowship program.

«Even though there are countless obstacles confronting today's urban schools, I firmly believe that parents and community members can have a profound impact on meeting the needs of children if schools engage them in the right way,» she says.

I am an Instructional Coach / Reading Specialist at a large, urban high school and I am a different teacher today.

The image of today's public schools as violence - ridden creates a big challenge for public - relations professionals, top communications specialists from two urban districts say.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

But time has proven them wrong — today, 98 percent of Urban Scholars have enrolled in college and 86 percent have either graduated or are still in school.

Today, Midford operates school shops on behalf of schools in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia in both urban and rural areas.

79, president of the foundation, «when we developed the conviction that dramatic structural change was going to be necessary in Boston and other urban public school systems in order to generate broad improvement in the academic achievement of the mostly low - income, minority students who populate these districts today.»

No reform short of unloading a dump - truck filled with hundred - dollar bills on the campus of each urban public school will solve today's education ills.

Interestingly, today's extraordinarily high - performing urban charter schools — arguably the greatest story in public education in a generation — bear a curious resemblance to the Catholic schools of Baby Boomer memory.

Boston Public Schools wins Broad Prize for Urban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couUrban Education Fifth time the charm for national recognition as most improved urban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couurban school district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coschool district; $ 1 million in total scholarship money awarded to students Mayor Thomas M. Menino, School Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the coSchool Committee Chair Elizabeth Reilinger and Interim Superintendent Michael Contompasis today accepted the Broad Prize for Urban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couUrban Education from Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation as the most improved urban school district in the couurban school district in the coschool district in the country.

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.

Today, however, nearly all urban singletons stay in school.

In an era when education leaders are held accountable for raising the academic performance of all students, the job of leading today's schools has seriously outpaced the available training, especially for state and district leaders who set policy for and lead complex urban districts.

Today the average tenure for urban superintendents is only two and a half years, according to a Council of the Great City Schools report that surveyed big - city school leaders.

The Tribune reports today that Urban Prep Charter High School is about to send 100 % of its graduating class to college.

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

Today, researchers from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University will release findings from their study of the third year of results from the Louisiana Scholarship Program at the Urban Institute in Washington.

Today, 50 years after the report was issued, that prediction characterizes most of our large urban areas, where intensifying segregation and concentrated poverty have collided with disparities in school funding to reinforce educational inequality (see Figure 1).

Three of the educators being honored today are advancing urban education in CUBE member school districts of Georgia's Fulton County School, New York's Rochester City School District, and Virginia's Alexandria City Public Scschool districts of Georgia's Fulton County School, New York's Rochester City School District, and Virginia's Alexandria City Public ScSchool, New York's Rochester City School District, and Virginia's Alexandria City Public ScSchool District, and Virginia's Alexandria City Public Schools.

Today, Henderson's biography on the district website says that the D.C. system became the «the fastest - improving urban school district in the country» under her leadership.

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One can make a strong case that the reason there's such a push for school choice today, especially from urban parents, is from the now generation or so of students being dumped into classes without their consent, or even worse into schools implementing the latest education fad without parents having any options for their children.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

Most urban Catholic schools were originally built to educate the children of European immigrants; today, they mostly serve poor African American and Latino students.

We selected the cities based on their size and because they reflect the complexity of urban public education today, where a single school district is often no longer the only education game in town.

But the violence that today's students fear, particularly in urban schools such as Philadelphia's, far exceeds the bullying their parents may have endured.

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As social pressures on cities mount and the Federal financing share of urban education drops (from 12 percent in 1980 to 9 percent today), many parents say their search for a trustworthy city school is growing more frantic.

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«If Albert Shanker were alive today, he'd still be an education reformer and would support NJ's efforts to expand school choice for poor urban students.»

Our network has grown to 150 innovative public schools, district and charter, K - 12, in urban and rural communities across 30 states, and today, we also partner directly with school districts to transform teaching through our open - source EL Education Language Arts curriculum and coaching.

These cities reflect rapidly changing student demographics and the complexity of today's urban public education landscape, where multiple agencies oversee public schools and enrollments are spread across a variety of school types.

Today, 15 Latin students have registered for the Matthew Ornstein Summer Debate Institute, the Washington Urban Debate League (WUDL), and debates against schools in DC and Prince George's county.

In most urban school districts today, relations between administrators and teachers still more closely resemble the Bloomberg / Klein reformist model than the de Blasio / Fariña collaborative one.

Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable schools.

If New Orleans stalled today, the city would land squarely in the middle ranks of our country's underperforming urban school systems.

The National School Boards Association's (NSBA) Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) today announced the large district winners of the 2014 Annual Award for Urban School Board Excellence; Georgia's Fulton County Schools and Tennessee's Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.