Author: Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC.Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Council of the Great City Schools, the nation's primary coalition of large urban public school systems, has prepared this report to summarize its recommendations to the District of Columbia about improving student achievement in its public schools. Specifically, the Council was asked to determine why reading and math achievement in the DC Public Schools was not improving, and to propose ways to boost reading and math achievement in the school system. The report begins with an Executive Summary of the issues facing the DC Public Schools as it struggles to boost student achievement and an outline of the proposals the Council and its Strategic Support Team (SST) are making. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of student characteristics and student performance in the DC Public Schools. Chapter 2 summarizes the findings of the Strategic Support Team and its recommendations for improving student achievement. It also contains proposals for bringing the district into greater alignment with the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Chapter 3 provides a synopsis of the report's conclusions and discusses some of the pressures the DC school system will face in making the suggested reforms. The appendices of this report include a number of items that may be of interest to the reader. Appendix A presents the results of the team's comparison of the DC schools with key instructional practices of some of the nation's fastest improving urban school systems. Appendix B lists the people the team talked with during its site visit. Appendix C lists the documents that the team reviewed. Appendix D presents brief biographical sketches of team members. Appendix E presents a brief description of the Council of the Great City Schools and the Strategic Support Teams it has conducted to improve urban education across the country. (Contains 52 footnotes, 7 tables, 8 graphs, and 1 figure.).