Sentence examples for uncommon network from inspiring English sources

Teachers and administrators within the Uncommon network are confident that they will eventually crack the nut in reading.

Already, students at high school campuses in the Uncommon network in Brooklyn and Newark post average scores on SAT reading tests that exceed some national averages.

Barbara Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Uncommon Schools network, said that some of the schools' teachers were matched to the wrong students in their reports.

BRETT PEISER, chief executive of the Uncommon Schools network, on the difficulty of teaching reading comprehension as compared to teaching math.

The results are similar across the 31 other schools in the Uncommon Schools network, which enrolls low-income students in Boston, New York City, Rochester and Newark.

The article also misstated, in some editions, the percentages of children who scored at a proficient or advanced level in math and reading after attending a school in the Uncommon Schools network for two years.

Paul Bambrick-Santoyo is managing director of North Star Academies in Newark, an Uncommon Schools network of nine low-income charter schools that took part and cracked the world's Top 10. "We have always had state tests and SATs," he told me, "but we never had an international metric.

It's not uncommon for networks to diversify their offerings in an attempt to reach a broader audience.

Stunt scheduling, as this activity is known in TV, is not uncommon as networks try to discourage viewers from sampling shows on other channels by enticing them with specials or programs shown at different times.

(Toward this end, Doug Lemov of the Uncommon Schools charter network has promisingly begun videotaping and analyzing top teachers to identify concrete tools educators can use to improve).

Then he helped start Uncommon Schools, a network of charters based in New York, before joining the State Education Department in 2009 as a deputy commissioner.