[PDF][PDF] How to manage urban school districts

S Childress, R Elmore… - Harvard Business …, 2006 - clevelandmetroschools.org
… Because the current achievement levels of students are so low, it will probably take decades
to transform our urban school districts. All the more reason district leadership teams should …

Cultural resources and school success: Gender, ethnicity, and poverty groups within an urban school district

G Farkas, RP Grobe, D Sheehan, Y Shuan - American sociological review, 1990 - JSTOR
This paper tests a cultural resources/social interaction model of gatekeeping by school
teachers using data for seventh- and eighth-grade students in a city school district. Where …

Disparities within: Unequal spending and achievement in an urban school district

DJ Condron, VJ Roscigno - Sociology of education, 2003 - JSTOR
school-level data used in this analysis represent 89 public elementary schools in the Columbus
(Ohio) Public School District… relatively generalizable to other urban areas of the United …

Within-school segregation in an urban school district

D Conger - Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
… Carolina districts increased slightly over the 6-year period. … and most ethnically diverse
school district in the country. In … to the next largest urban school districts, including Los Angeles, …

Student attendance, mobility, and mathematics achievement in an urban school district

CS Parke, GY Kanyongo - The Journal of Educational Research, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… northeastern urban school district in ways that would be meaningful and useful to schools
and … The research stems from a collaborative effort between the school district, a community …

The distribution and mobility of effective teachers: Evidence from a large, urban school district

JL Steele, MJ Pepper, MG Springer… - Economics of Education …, 2015 - Elsevier
… data from a large urban school district in the south, this study … We find that students in schools
in the highest quartile of … lower than their peers in schools in the lowest minority quartile. …

Prevalence of gender-diverse youth in an urban school district

KM Kidd, GM Sequeira, C Douglas, T Paglisotti… - …, 2021 - publications.aap.org
… from a study involving 10 states and 9 urban school districts. Although these data were
collected from a single urban school district, the findings may approximate a less biased estimate …

Architectures for learning: A comparative analysis of two urban school districts

MK Stein, CE Coburn - American Journal of Education, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
… We now turn to our second district, Greene School District. As with Region Z, we begin by
describing the communities of practice that existed in the schools. We highlight the shared …

Implementing and maintaining school‐based mental health services in a large, urban school district

J Jennings, G Pearson, M Harris - Journal of School Health, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… interested in programs to support schools, students, and families. The panel proposed a
partnership among the CMHC, the hospital district, and the school district to provide health, …

Balanced literacy in an urban school district

BB Frey, SW Lee, N Tollefson, L Pass… - The Journal of …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… We describe how a large urban school district implemented the first complete year of
participation in a mandated balanced literacy program in all 32 elementary schools in the district. …