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Perhaps the most famous locales where achievement school districts have been tried are New Orleans and Tennessee — and with mixed results.

Not exact matches

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

He flew to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to consult with faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and learned of Tony Alvarado, the former New York City schools chancellor and head of District 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority sDistrict 4 on the East Side of Manhattan, where he had had remarkable success in raising achievement in a district dominated by minority sdistrict dominated by minority students.

For example, in a forthcoming analysis in three school districts where it was possible to track teachers» student achievement growth over many years, Doug Staiger and I found that of those teachers who were in the bottom quartile of value - added in a single year, 55 to 65 percent were in the bottom quartile over their careers and 82 to 87 percent were in the bottom half.

Innovative and effective practices at Cleveland's MC2 STEM High School are driving learning and higher achievement for students in a district where every student qualifies for free or reduced - price meals.

This year the case study focused on the Aldine Independent School District located in Houston, where student achievement was declining.

And Massachusetts's charter schools do this much better than its district schools, where achievement gaps still yawn, despite the commonwealth's strong average achievement.

A study of a representative sample of schools in California shows that schools where the principal and the district extensively used test data to improve instruction and student learning had the highest achievement for English - language learners.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

In many school districts, fewer than one - quarter of teachers work in grades and subjects where student achievement gains are tracked with state assessments.

The American Enterprise Institute turns its lens on Mooresville, N.C., where a once - struggling school district righted itself and closed an enormous achievement gap in just a few years.

Cordes analyzed 14 years of student achievement data for 876,731 3rd — through 5th - graders attending 584 district elementary schools located in the same community school district within New York City where at least one charter school served students in the same grades.

Or maybe it's a return to the lamentable pre-NCLB era, where a paucity of assessments and interventions allowed states, districts, and schools to hide achievement gaps and do little in response when they were revealed.

in Pennsylvania that have created Achievement School District laws, as well as NJ, MA, and IN where there are direct state takeovers.

He also has been the research director of the Minority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minoritAchievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minoritachievement is generally solid, but not always for minority students.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

Raymond came to Sacramento from Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, a high - achieving district, where he was chief accountability officer in charge of data, innovation, school performance reviews and measures of student achievement.

Just a little incremental change every year on the part of the teacher, over time, you know, would have this cumulative effect on student achievement where you'd say that, «Hey, in this district, in this school, we know that our teachers are getting better every year.

He is currently in his seventh year as principal of Ronald W. Reagan Elementary in Sanger Unified School District, where under his leadership has earned California State Distinguished School, California Title I Academic Achievement Award for closing the achievement gap by the California Department of Education; a 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 California Honor Roll school by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and SupSchool District, where under his leadership has earned California State Distinguished School, California Title I Academic Achievement Award for closing the achievement gap by the California Department of Education; a 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 California Honor Roll school by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and SupSchool, California Title I Academic Achievement Award for closing the achievement gap by the California Department of Education; a 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 California Honor Roll school by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions anAchievement Award for closing the achievement gap by the California Department of Education; a 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 California Honor Roll school by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions anachievement gap by the California Department of Education; a 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 California Honor Roll school by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supschool by California Business for Educational Excellence; a 10 out of 10 similar school statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supschool statewide ranking; 2008, 2010, 2012 winner of the Bonner Award for Character Education; 2013 Silver Level Model School recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and SupSchool recognition, and 2014 and 2015 Gold Level Model School recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and SupSchool recognition from Fresno County Office of Education for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.

[25] When a district uses value - added measures, some teachers might try to «game the system» and get assigned to students who are most likely to make achievement gains or to move to schools where the biases seem to give teachers an advantage.

Prior to Teach Plus, Candace was the assistant director for pre-K-12 school and district assistance at the Education Trust, where she worked with schools and districts to improve student assignments and provide coaching and professional development on practices to close achievement gaps.

TRP teachers who moved to different schools in the same district tended to join ones where a similar proportion of students were from low - income families, a lower percentage were black, and achievement was higher.

In Washington, D.C., where I was chancellor, IMPACT teacher evaluations are among the strongest in the country and have helped that school district go from the worst urban district in the country to the one making the biggest gains in student achievement.

The GT label fixation appears similarly useless these days in the District, where the most successful schools try to raise the achievement of all students, no matter how high or low they start the year.

High school graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps peschool graduation rates, child poverty and juvenile arrests are among the areas where blacks struggle in Dane County, and state test results show Madison School District achievement gaps peSchool District achievement gaps persist.

They are blamed when achievement scores are down and ignored when test scores are up; even in New York City, the nation's largest school district, where classes begin on Sept. 8.

Because of this, Indianapolis is one of the few big cities in the nation where charter school students are progressing enough on standardized tests to close the achievement gap between urban districts and the state average.

Two of their initial successes — Rhode Island (RI - CAN) and New York (NY - CAN), both states where Achievement First is aggressively trying to expand so that they can meet their goal of having 35 schools in the next few years so that they organization will be larger than 95 % of the school districts in the nation.

After the Leaders» Meeting where the Hi - FIVE announcement was made and we celebrated the achievement of the Level 5 schools, Dr. Plummer from Progress Charter School wanted to meet with several members of the district leadership team about his quandary.

The school leaders emphasized that the proposed $ 93 million cut to the Geographic Cost of Education Index — the component of the state's funding formula that gives more money to school districts where the cost of educating students is higher — would disproportionaly impact their students, and thwart their efforts to close the achievement gap for their poorest and academically challenged students.

In the North Hills School District (NHSD), where 96 % of students go on to attend college, the challenge is to steadily advance student achievement with district - built «bookless» digital curricula, while keeping a future eye toward a full 1 - to - 1 personalized learning environment implemeDistrict (NHSD), where 96 % of students go on to attend college, the challenge is to steadily advance student achievement with district - built «bookless» digital curricula, while keeping a future eye toward a full 1 - to - 1 personalized learning environment implemedistrict - built «bookless» digital curricula, while keeping a future eye toward a full 1 - to - 1 personalized learning environment implementation.

Earl has also worked as a policy analyst for LAUSD's school board president where he made key recommendations for the district Superintendent's 2016 — 2019 Strategic Plan, analyzed expenditures for the districts $ 7.6 billion budget, and drafted a report evaluating factors affecting student achievement in mathematics.

Dan Rossmiller, government affairs director for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, said districts are concerned the one - size - fits - all system for measuring schools doesn't make sense for certain schools, such as K - 2 schools where students are too young to take the WKCE, schools with high student turnover or schools that don't have achievement gaps to close.

The conversions would be reserved to districts where the existing public schools have low achievement levels.

The Madison School District, where President Barack Obama announced his signature education reform program at Wright Middle School in 2009, won't apply for the latest round of the grant competition geared toward districts trying to close achievement gaps.

«The sharp falloff in mathematics achievement in the U.s. begins as students reach late middle school, where, for more and more stu - District implementation changing instructional practice requires extensive supports for teachers.

Schools and districts that receive an «F» grade two years in a row or twice in the past three years, and districts where 50 percent of the schools are rated «F» or where half the students attend «F» - rated schools are all eligible for the state's second takeover option: the Achievement School DiSchools and districts that receive an «F» grade two years in a row or twice in the past three years, and districts where 50 percent of the schools are rated «F» or where half the students attend «F» - rated schools are all eligible for the state's second takeover option: the Achievement School Dischools are rated «F» or where half the students attend «F» - rated schools are all eligible for the state's second takeover option: the Achievement School Dischools are all eligible for the state's second takeover option: the Achievement School District.

«What's truly noteworthy about Santa Ana students» math proficiency is that we're seeing remarkable results at the scale of a large urban district — not just one high - achieving class or school — where the predominantly Hispanic student body has closed the achievement gap,» said Andrew R. Coulson, President of the MIND Education Division in a written statement.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis announced that in the 101 school districts where principals completed the Pennsylvania Inspired Leadership (PIL) program, researchers found evidence of achievement at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

Recently, Barbara held a position at Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, where she was the Project Manager of an $ 11.5 million NSF grant to improve student achievement in science and engineering in 14 NJ school districts.

From where EdTrust sits, the uproar over the Florida plan (and similar plans like it) also ignores its contention that Cut the Gap in Half actually forces states, districts, and schools to work harder because they must improve achievement for poor and minority students at annual clips greater than the average rate.

When Stefan Pryor, the co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. became Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Pryor hired Barth to play the key role in the SDE's «turnaround office» where he has spent his time getting Alliance Districts to turn over their schools to charter companies, most notably, to the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain.

In terms of achievement, charter schools do not serve similar proportions of students living in poverty, bilingual children, and children with disabilities when compared to the local districts where they are located.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) Award for Urban School Board Excellence was created in 2004 to recognize the leadership of urban school districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its stuSchool Board Excellence was created in 2004 to recognize the leadership of urban school districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its stuschool districts where effective school board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its stuschool board governance has an impact on student achievement, and this year's winner has more than demonstrated its leadership in reshaping the academic program and the success of its students.

Previously, he served as Chief of Staff for Tennessee's Achievement School District (ASD) from 2012 to 2015, where he led the ASD's communications and outreach efforts and played a key role in developing the ASD's start - up and long - term strategy.

Welcome to Denver Public Schools» annual checkup, where A + Colorado (formerly A + Denver) takes an in - depth look at student achievement in our state's largest district.

Malika Anderson is the Chief Portfolio Officer of the Achievement School District (ASD), where she leads the authorization and start - up support of charter school operators and the assessment and accountability system for all ASD scSchool District (ASD), where she leads the authorization and start - up support of charter school operators and the assessment and accountability system for all ASD scschool operators and the assessment and accountability system for all ASD schools.

In Ohio for example, where the charter sector has been struggling with poor student achievement results for over a decade, charter schools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools in Cleveland are producing positive learning gains for their students in both reading and math, compared to students attending traditional district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality district schools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools in the city.22 In Ohio in particular, the Cleveland School District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality reSchool District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality District has been a willing participant in partnering with a high - performing charter management organization, Breakthrough Schools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rSchools, to ensure that these charter schools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality rschools have the autonomy and accountability, as well as the access to financial resources and school facilities, necessary to produce high - quality reschool facilities, necessary to produce high - quality results.

``... students» achievement will not improve unless and until we create schools and districts where all educators are learning how to significantly improve their skills as teachers and as instructional leaders» (Wagner et al, 2006, pg.