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School & District Management It's No Secret: Progress Prized In Brownsville
A Texas border district sees teacher training and data-based instruction as paths to learning gains—and the $1 million Broad award adds validation.
Mary Ann Zehr, December 1, 2008
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11 min read
BRIC ARCHIVE
Mathematics A School Where STEM Is King
A selective, specialized high school in Baltimore uses an interdisciplinary approach that enables students to experience the subjects as a way of life.
Andrew Trotter, March 21, 2008
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11 min read
Assessment Opinion When Rankings Go Wrong
When it comes to where to go to college, Top 10 lists can do more harm than good, Marty Elkins writes.
Marty Elkins, March 13, 2008
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4 min read
SUSTAINING IMPROVEMENT: Christopher Steinhauser, right, the superintendent of the Long Beach Unified School District, listens to a presentation last month. The district, a previous winner, is a finalist for the prestigious Broad Prize this month.
SUSTAINING IMPROVEMENT: Christopher Steinhauser, right, the superintendent of the Long Beach Unified School District, listens to a presentation last month. The district, a previous winner, is a finalist for the prestigious Broad Prize this month.
Ringo H.W. Chiu for Education Week
School & District Management Inside the ‘Long Beach Way’
The 2003 winner of the prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education is in the running again, showing how a district can build on its reform efforts.
Lynn Olson, September 4, 2007
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11 min read
Sylvie Bizimungu, left, and Olivia Cox listen to a question during a match at the National Science Bowl, held last month at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md. The all-girls team is an inspiration to other Buffalo Prep Students.
Sylvie Bizimungu, left, and Olivia Cox listen to a question during a match at the National Science Bowl, held last month at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md. The all-girls team is an inspiration to other Buffalo Prep Students.
Bill Crandall for Education Week
School Choice & Charters In Buffalo, Opening Doors for the Overlooked
The Buffalo Prep program seeks out talented minority students from disadvantaged backgrounds, places them in academic-enrichment classes, and then finds them spots at selective public and private high schools.
Vaishali Honawar, May 22, 2007
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8 min read
School & District Management On the Road for Better Ideas
Seven cities in 2½ weeks. Sound like a touring schedule for a rock band? Nope. Try a high school reform task force from Pittsburgh.
Catherine Gewertz, October 17, 2006
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1 min read
Curriculum Rising Up
Eight years ago, a California school district abolished a two-tiered system for academic haves and have-nots and replaced it with one pointing all students toward college. It's paying off.
Lesli A. Maxwell, August 12, 2006
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3 min read
Teachers at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Poway, Calif., work on plans for team-teaching students based on the analysis of testing data.
Teachers at Shoal Creek Elementary School in Poway, Calif., work on plans for team-teaching students based on the analysis of testing data.
Sandy Huffaker for Education Week
School & District Management District Initiative
Drawing on lessons from the corporate arena, a school district in California consolidated and made accessible its trove of data well ahead of the curve.
Rhea R. Borja, May 2, 2006
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9 min read
BRIC ARCHIVE
School & District Management Upward Journey
The schools in Hidalgo used to be among the worst in Texas. But now, the low-income Latino children who fill its classrooms are outperforming students in wealthier, whiter communities.
Catherine Gewertz, March 28, 2006
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9 min read
BRIC ARCHIVE
Steve Dininno
School & District Management Opinion High-Performance Schools
Education advocate John Simmons wants more urban districts and schools to adopt those reform practices that have been so successful in the commercial sector, what he terms "high-performance model for change."
John Simmons, October 25, 2005
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8 min read
School & District Management Struggling Schools Get Lessons in Benchmarking
Michigan educators recently got a lesson in how to benchmark their work against promising practices in higher-performing schools with similar socioeconomic profiles. Michael Stewart and Larry Fieber of Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services led the first of several two-day workshops, March 21-22. The second took place April 11-12.
Lynn Olson, May 3, 2005
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2 min read
Principal Ryan Boike, center, leads NCEA field investigators on a tour of Central Junior High School. At left, the team visits a computer lab where students work on a research project.
Principal Ryan Boike, center, leads NCEA field investigators on a tour of Central Junior High School.
Photo by Mark Buckner
School & District Management Sleuths Seek Secrets of High-Flying Schools
Over the past decade, an explosion of data on student performance has generated increasing attempts to identify what have been dubbed high-flying schools and learn from them.
Lynn Olson, May 3, 2005
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11 min read
John MacDonald
John MacDonald
Standards & Accountability Opinion Beyond Good and Evil
A once-skeptical consultant argues that standards can actually inspire teachers.
Tim Deroche, February 18, 2005
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5 min read
Headmaster Vuong Thuy
"Our discipline is not stricter than other schools. The difference is, we enforce the rules strictly," says Thuy, who makes sure each morning that the uniformed teenagers are shuffled into Multi-Cultural Academy in a timely fashion.
David Kidd
School Climate & Safety The Lord of Discipline
Vuong Thuy's Philadelphia charter school sends all of its graduates to college—and raises eyebrows—by being tough.
Brett Schaeffer, October 7, 2004
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19 min read
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