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Direct linkBarr, Jason M.; Sadovnik, Alan R.; Visconti, Louisa – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2006
This article compares student achievement of fourth graders in charter schools and district public schools in Newark, New Jersey. We find that Newark and New Jersey's charter schools mirror the educational inequalities of the state as a whole, as well as its Abbott Districts. The data indicate that charter schools are similar to district urban…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Student Characteristics, Equal Education, Urban Education
Download full textBroad Foundation, 2006
The $1 million Broad Prize in Urban Education is the nation's largest award in K-12 public education. The Broad Prize is given annually by The Broad Foundation in the form of scholarships to urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among ethnic…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
Gappert, Gary – 1978
New Jersey is unique as a State in that it has developed a set of objective criteria for defining its urban districts. The State Education Department has used these criteria to focus on the educational needs of urban districts. Organizational planning of educational aid to urban districts is taking place through three new initiatives: the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 2000
This guide's 11 sections are: "Evolution of Whole School Reform (WSR) in New Jersey"; "Department of Education Organizational Structure in Support of Urban Education Reform"; "Whole School Reform Regulations"; "School Management Teams: Leading the Process"; "Becoming a Whole School Reform School";…
Descriptors: Budgets, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
Central New Jersey Urban Schools Improvement Council. – 1977
The purpose of this report is to examine the need for integration of various basic skills resources. The report concentrates on the comparison of data in the areas of policy, program integration, attitude and planning, student achievement, and cost effectiveness of the categorically-funded programs. Federal and local studies on compensatory…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Romeo, Lynn; Young, Susan A. – 1996
A study examined whether a field placement in a preschool program enhanced preservice teachers' understanding of the emerging literacy process. The study was conducted in two preschool classrooms in an urban school district in central New Jersey during the spring semester of 1996. Subjects were 26 graduate and undergraduate preservice teachers who…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Emergent Literacy, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Austin, Susan; And Others – 1989
This paper presents a set of general observations about state-sponsored school improvement initiatives with data from several sources. One major source is the Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), implementation study, "Facing the Challenge: Selected Programs and Practices of the Urban Initiative's Operation School…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
