Sentences with phrase «weaker schools»

More and more are working with others to share their expertise to drive improvement in weaker schools.

It also claims that children from poorer families are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.

But closing weak schools is an essential ingredient of the charter model, a point of leverage largely absent in traditional districts.

Of course, it is also possible that good schools are invited to join networks, while weaker schools are left on their own.

This funding is aimed at tackling the divides between the north and south and will be used for support from «proven leaders and outstanding schools» in neighbouring areas to mentor weaker schools.

However, trusts should try to «avoid hospital passes» he said, warning that taking on very weak schools can be a burden.

That is why we are identifying consistently weak schools and allowing experienced academy sponsors to take them over.

In many cases these smaller trusts had started off as a single, very strong school that had been asked to support a second weaker school.

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

But critics, including the Labour party and several teachers» unions, say are divisive, are likely to be centred disproportionately in middle - class neighbourhoods, to weaken already weak schools by attracting the best performing pupils, and will contribute to creating a two - tier system.

In June, we said that all schools would have to demonstrate effective collaboration with weaker schools for them to be rated as outstanding by Ofsted.

Open competition among ideas and methods, with people free to abandon weak schools for stronger ones, is the surest way to make major progress.

The OECD folks offer some explanations, terming Shanghai a «leader in reform» and citing in particular its near - universal education system, its competitiveness (including admission both to universities and to the best secondary schools), a very high level of student engagement, a modernized assessment system, an ambitious new curriculum, and a program of intervention into weak schools.

And students who have been at a good school since early childhood are more likely to be on grade level and better accustomed to a school's behavior code than those arriving later on from weaker schools.

In England, only schools with academy status are allowed to form trusts to sponsor weaker schools.

In the years since, the state has used quantifiable results to identify persistently weak schools, suspending their ability to accept new students.

Rowlands criticised a «marked contrast» between provision in the best and weakest schools across the country, noting that there had been an increase in both the proportion of schools found to be excellent and schools found to be unsatisfactory.

A 10 percent of a standard deviation effect size is equivalent to closing one - quarter to one - half of the performance gap between weak schools (those at the 10th percentile of the achievement distribution) and average schools (those at the 50th percentile) in large urban districts like Chicago.

Families voted with their feet, and weaker schools withered and eventually died.

You will learn to overcome school challenges such as poverty, misbehaviors, cognitive lags, teacher turnover, weak school culture and student effort.

From superintendents such as Eugene White in Indianapolis blaming kids they call «crippled» and «crazy» for failure mills, to administrators looking away as criminal behavior happens in school buildings, the consequences of weak school leaders extend beyond academics.

The education secretary has already indicated he intends to force weak schools to become academies - managed outside local authority control - and will increase the number of top head teachers helping struggling schools from 393 to 1,000 by 2014.

He said «the winning formula» of multi-academy trusts would be used to «change weaker schools» run by local authorities.

They simply can't blame charters for their problems when they offer weak school options and have ballooning staff during shrinking enrollment and out - of - control pension and healthcare costs.»

Weaker schools splashing the cash on sticking plaster services, while stronger schools lease out their best teachers to other schools — their own staff losing PPA time (and sanity) covering lessons for kids who won't sit exams this year (kick that can down the road).

Taxpayers may not realize that, too often, the money they're contributing to fund school facilities is used to protect weak schools, prevent innovation, or settle political scores.

Several House seats, that weak school choice supporters once held, have been replaced with strong allies who will fight for the school choice options parents want and the access to any school an Arizona child needs.

Chicago researchers tracked students from closed schools and found that most ended up in academically weak schools and, except for the few students attending high - scoring schools, were no better off academically one year later (de la Torre & Gwynne, 2009).

«The current government's policy is to turn weak schools into sponsored academies.

Poor whites tend to live in more affluent neighborhoods than do middle - class blacks and Latinos, a situation that leaves those minorities more likely to contend with weaker schools, higher crime and greater social problems, according to a new study.

Yes, one can argue that the cap is what's led to quality control in Massachusetts charters and that loosening it would lead to a flood of weak schools.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

The evidence is that forming a lasting relationship with a weaker school gives the strong school an ideal platform to share its «educational DNA» for success.

The idea is to get charters and district schools, and stronger and weaker schools — schools that don't generally cross paths — to share ideas and goad each other to improve.

The DfE requires schools proposing to form a MAT to provide evidence of how the stronger schools in the trust will help the weaker schools to improve.

The nation must avoid a polarised education system where good schools get better at the expense of weaker schools.»

«Admittedly,» says Carroll, «our decision to locate [KIPP Tech Valley] charter school across the street from their weakest school was not subtle.»

Perhaps the marketplace forces of «creative destruction» will eventually take hold and the weakest schools will disappear, allowing the remaining ones sufficient enrollment to ensure their financial sustainability and a higher level of program quality.

But thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act (the replacement for No Child Left Behind that President Obama signed late last year), they have more latitude to design systems that accurately distinguish between strong and weak schools.

Originally devised to serve youngsters stuck in weak schools, the Recovery School District became the city's main provider of public education, with charters as its delivery vehicle.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

Given that research has shown that a school's early - year performance almost always predicts its future performance, those weak schools are unlikely to improve.

But critics say the Obama administration has encouraged closings through its education policies, which call for states to fix the weakest schools by choosing from among four turnaround methods, one of which is shutting them down.

Mr Hannay says that the academy process seems to make it more likely that weak schools will catch up.