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- Foundations for Success: Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement - Executive Summary on 2009-11-02
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Desegregating urban schools on 2009-11-02
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Specifically, research shows African-American students in diverse schools tend
to have a lower high school drop-out rate, set higher career goals and,
eventually, attain higher salaries in the workplace compared with
African-American students from mostly black schools, Hausmann said.
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Communities and Schools: A New View of Urban Education Reform on 2009-11-02
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What sense does it make to try to
reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or
collapse?1 Conversely, can community-building and
development efforts succeed in revitalizing inner-city neighborhoods if the
public schools within them continue to fail their students? The fates of urban
schools and communities are linked, yet school reformers and community-builders
typically act as if they are not.
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Educational Leadership:Learning From Urban Schools:Positive Culture in Urban Schools on 2009-11-02
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Urban schools often face such challenges as high student
poverty and mobility rates, large numbers of English language learners, and
unsafe neighborhoods. Yet even in the face of these challenges, many urban
schools provide a high-quality education and produce high-achieving students.
Research has identified three ways in which successful urban schools support
positive behavior and learning.
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- A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School Family Community Connections on Student Achievement on 2009-11-02
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The vision behind the High Tech High journey on 2009-11-01
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“The civic community and the business community in San Diego were frustrated
because of its lack of return on investment in the traditional system,” said Jed
Wallace, former chief operating officer of High Tech High who now heads the
California Charter Schools Association. “So they decided in the late ‘90s - way
ahead of other communities, by the way - to make a different kind of school.
That’s how High Tech High got started.”The group tackled such thorny questions as identifying the kinds of skill
sets students needed, what qualities were missing in high school graduates, and
what could be done to make learning more relevant for future careers and
21st-century jobs.Project-based learning would put students into real-life scenarios that
applied learning directly to workplace skills, advisers would counsel students
in small groups of mixed grade levels to prepare for college and beyond,
expectations for success would be raised, and all students would be actively
engaged in their own education.
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- Families and Schools Partner for Student Success on 2009-11-01
- Transforming Urban Schools Through Investments in Social Capital by Pedro Noguera - Education Rights / In Motion Magazine on 2009-11-01
- Redefining an Urban School - Great Expectations - PDF document on 2009-11-01
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Educational Leadership:School Reform: What We've Learned:On Lasting School Reform: A Conversation with Ted Sizer on 2009-10-04
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In order to be good, a school has to reflect its own community.
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