Citywide Education Progress Report: Memphis

Institution	Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE)
Titel	Citywide Education Progress Report: Memphis
Quelle	(2018), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Urban Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Public Schools; Achievement Gap; Academic Achievement; Graduation Rate; Socioeconomic Influences; Family Involvement; Accountability; At Risk Students; Educational Quality; Educational Change; Systems Approach; Enrollment; Transportation; Community Involvement; Charter Schools; Administrator Role; Teacher Competencies; Educational Finance; School Choice; Educational Improvement; School Districts; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Tennessee (Memphis) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schulleistung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Verantwortung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsreform; Systemischer Ansatz; Einschulung; Verkehrswesen; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Lehrkunst; Bildungsfonds; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; School district; Schulbezirk; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität
Abstract	The Citywide Education Progress Report looks at how a city is doing across three goals: (1) The education system is continuously improving; (2) All students have access to a high-quality education; and (3) The education strategy is rooted in the community. Across each goal it presents indicators of what the city is doing and how it is doing. The reports focus on education strategies for the 2017-18 school year. The analyses reflect developments through June 2018. These are updates to the original reports from the 2016-17 school year. Memphis is a city with two education systems: Shelby County Schools (SCS) and the charters it authorizes, and the mostly charter Achievement School District (ASD). Both systems are turning around low-performing schools, but over the past year community members report that these efforts may be slowing. Improving education must include a citywide vision and commitment to addressing the challenges that students in poverty bring with them to school. Other critical next steps for education leaders are making the choice process easier to navigate and developing skilled teachers and leaders in high-poverty schools. Many organizations in Memphis are trying to improve educational opportunities for students, and both SCS and the state-run ASD are better engaging families around school closures and restarts. However, the lack of a unified enrollment system or an up-to-date school information guide remain barriers to the choice process in a city where 47 schools have opened in the last four years. The performance of low-income students in Memphis has been improving at a rapid rate, and student sub-groups are also proportionately enrolled in high school advanced coursework. However, graduation rates have not been improving relative to the state. [For the main report, "Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?," see ED578178.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01