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Direct linkGewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2007
In this article, the author discusses the intensive support given to some of the lowest-performing schools in the Miami-Dade County, Florida. One of these schools is Miami Jackson High School, one of Florida's worst-performing schools. For two of the last three years, it has brought its state grade up from an F to a D. But now the initiative,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
Honawar, Vaishali – Education Week, 2007
The school district in Anne Arundel County, Md., this spring entered into what appears to be a unique contract with the local teachers' union over struggling Annapolis High School: Teachers will work year-round and make a commitment to stay at the school for three years. Designed by Superintendent Kevin Maxwell to fend off a state takeover, the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, School Districts, Unions
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2005
In this article, the author discusses a partnership between Baylor University and the Waco public schools that embeds every teacher-candidate--from the freshman year on--into the K-12 system. To test whether professional-development schools, modeled after teaching hospitals, can be scaled up so that all of a college's teaching candidates--not just…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Education, Urban Schools
