High Performing Schools
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School & District Management
With Little Debate, L.A. High School Gets New Charter
A high-performing Los Angeles high school was granted a five-year extension as a charter school with little fanfare last week, after its conversion last year had triggered debates and fear.
School & District Management
Chicago Data Suggest Transfer Students Gain
Chicago students who transferred to higher-performing public schools under a provision in the No Child Left Behind Act saw much stronger achievement gains overall during the first year in their new schools than the year before, according to recent test-score data.
School & District Management
Audit Program Seeks Out Traits Found in Successful Schools
Kentucky’s scholastic audits have grown increasingly popular in the Bluegrass State. Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
School & District Management
Achievement-Gap Study Emphasizes Better Use of Data
It's not whether schools test students but what they do with the results, concludes a study of California schools that are narrowing the racial and ethnic gaps in achievement among their students. Includes a chart, "Mining Data."
School & District Management
Group Launches Database On High-Scoring Schools
In a bid to eradicate the perception that disadvantaged children cannot learn as well as their more advantaged peers, a Washington research group has launched an initiative designed to help struggling schools and districts learn pathways to success from high-performing ones.
School & District Management
Poll Charts Impact Of Good Schools
Americans believe high-quality public schools help build stronger families and improve local economies, according to a poll commissioned by the Public Education Network and Education Week earlier this year.
School & District Management
Mass. Group Shares Models Of School Success
As is common across the nation, some schools in Massachusetts are succeeding while other, often similar schools in the state are struggling.
School & District Management
San Diego High School Granted Special Status
The highest-performing high school in the San Diego district has been granted a charter school's freedom to decide how to teach its students—without converting to charter status.
Education
Group Cites Needy But High-Performing Schools
Poverty and race may still be two of the strongest predictors of a school's performance, but the results of a recent analysis are being used to argue that it doesn't have to be that way.
Education
Financial Awards for High-Performing Schools Are Gaining Favor
This fall, as Indiana begins to dole out $10 million in "rewards" to schools that meet certain goals for student achievement and attendance, Vincent Schrader will be watching anxiously.