Students in the United States' urban districts lag students in the nation as a whole  in .... Stop and think how difficult it is to create high-performing businesses where  ... Now imagine leading a public school system, where forces just as powerful as  the .... We've developed a framework to help district managers understand how ...
Jun 22, 2016 ... To compare the performance of different urban districts, we must first ... district  size, percentage of African American or Hispanic students, and ... shifts in the  demographics of the student population in most TUDA districts over time. .... “ Small Gains for the Cleveland Schools Stand Out, as NAEP Scores Fall ...
Jul 27, 2018 ... America's schools are being left behind, but it doesn't have to be this ... education  system – once considered the best in the world but now is at ... And I think the  politics of the left and the right stand in the way of ... we should see what works  best in rural communities and in urban ..... Urban, High-Performing.
Effective Teaching Strategies for High Performing African American Students in  an Urban District. ... Characteristics of Improved School Districts: Themes from ....  Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching.
Sep 5, 2008 ... It's this system that causes the most dramatic differences between ... in his 1992  book Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. ... Until we have  equitable funding for our urban schools, there's no ... In the past decade, the  debate over school finance has grown as states have adopted performance ...
Today we stand as the highest-performing urban school district in America.