That's why the Urban Learning & Leadership Center's services are custom-tailored to the unique challenges facing schools striving to become places where students and teachers succeed.

The challenge boils down to one thing: improving student learning.
To meet that challenge, schools need solutions that reflect the realities of life in today's cities. They need solutions that...

Across the nation there are rays of hope: Schools that prove that city schools and their students can be successful. The Urban Learning and Leadership Center helps other schools learn the real-world lessons behind these successes and put them to work for their students.

No Child Left Behind is raising the stakes for all schools. The law zeroes in on the very student groups many cities serve — disadvantaged, minority, limited English proficiency and special education students. The requirement that all subgroups make progress toward proficiency — and the threat of sanctions if they don’t — will hit urban schools especially hard.

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