Document Number: 6193
Improving Academic Achievement in Urban Districts: What State Policymakers Can Do - The 100 largest urban school districts serve nearly a quarter of this nation’s students – including 40% of all non-white students and 30% of students from low-income families – and they have historically been at the lowest end of the achievement spectrum. Improving urban education is an imperative for the successful future of the United States. This paper is broken into five chapters: (1) state support to improve student achievement: nine superintendents weigh in; (2) governance reform: freeing urban districts from the ties that bind them; (3) improving urban student achievement through finance reform: what state policymakers can do; (4) increasing urban school teaching quality: a value-added approach; and (5) helping urban districts provide quality instruction to English language learners. (Education Commission of the States, December 2003)...Related Issues
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