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Lessons from high-performing districts

  • 10-26-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Impressive things are happening in little known districts like Sanger (10,000 students) and Hawthorne (9,000) as well as in bigger districts like Long Beach (the state’s third largest, with 88,000), Fresno (fourth largest), and Garden Grove (eleventh largest). Significant numbers of English learners and minority students are becoming proficient on state tests in each of the districts. The progress has been consistent and impressive. And it’s been largely under the radar. True, two of the districts have won the Broad Prize honoring the best in urban education (Long Beach in 2003 and Garden Grove in 2004), and three (Long Beach, Sanger, and Fresno) drew attention this year as leaders in the state’s second-round Race to the Top application. But the districts have progressed by focusing inward, ignoring fads and avoiding controversies, board infighting, and labor strife that have beset large districts like Los Angeles, San Diego, and Capistrano. (more…)

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