By James Deneen

Colleges That be triumphant, scholars Who in attaining compares the tutorial achievements of scholars within the usa to these of scholars in different international locations. analyzing primary questions and academic concerns, James Deneen identifies what all scholars may still research and discusses what American scholars presently examine. Deneen argues that failing colleges can turn into profitable via learning examples of winning faculties with comparable demographic gains. for this reason, he offers profiles of ten winning uncomplicated faculties, seven center colleges, ten excessive faculties, and 3 hugely varied yet profitable institution districts. The examples include a sampling of economically deprived in addition to prosperous and financially typical institution groups. This publication presents demographic information, proof of scholar fulfillment, and outlines of courses that give a contribution to every college and district's luck, illuminating what profitable colleges do to enhance scholar success regardless of_or occasionally simply because of_their socioeconomic prestige. within the ultimate chapters of this booklet, Deneen describes the evaluation and evaluate of curricular adjustments and summarizes the rules and practices that paintings to create profitable faculties.

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An administrator may then say, “I’m glad to hear of School X’s success, but my community, my families and students aren’t like those in School X. ” That judgment may sound like an excuse for inertia, and perhaps occasionally it is. But significant differences do exist in student populations and 21 22 Chapter 3 resources among schools; some of these variations are real impediments to students’ academic achievement and resist easy change. Let’s consider these factors and try to gauge the extent to which they inhibit transferring successful curricula from one school to another.

These subjects are integrated with each other, and with courses in other academic areas. Additional time is allocated for the visual arts, and GRES has a weekly Art Integration Program for grades four and five, which art and science or social studies instructors teach jointly. The Reading Recovery Program is an intensive effort to help first graders become independent readers and quickly reach their grade level in achievement. The Title I reading teacher at GRES works with struggling students, but also with her colleagues to integrate good reading practices into all classes.

The school has no entrance requirements or selection criteria. Most entering students perform far below their academic grade level. The KIPP Ujima Village Academy has met all state standards every year of its operation. In 2006, on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) the school’s sixth, seventh, and eighth graders achieved the highest math scores in the state, with passing rates of 100 percent. In reading, sixth graders also achieved the highest reading scores in the city, and outperformed the state average by 20 percent.

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