Sentences with phrase «district level analysis»

Ahmad, Munir and Siftain, Hassan and Iqbal, Muhammad (2014): Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Productivity in Pakistan: A District Level Analysis.

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This monthly update on the Fifth District economy includes timely analysis of labor market, household, business, and real estate conditions at both the state and metro area level.

The so - called «Consensus» study by an independent commission was designed to be a data - rich analysis of government at every level, including towns, villages and school districts, he said.

In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an Education Week Research Center analysis from January found.

An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.

Researchers studying spending differences between districts have established 0.1 as an acceptable level of equity, and we follow this convention in our analysis of between - school spending differences.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Candidate Putting the Horse before the Cart: A County Office of Education's Journey to Support School Districts in System - Level Problem Analysis Monday, April 10, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 1

I performed the analysis at the level of the individual student (not the class, school, district, or country) because this directly links student performance to the teaching environment.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an Education Week Research Center analysis finds.

Professor Simon, in his thoughtful analysis of the political ramifications of this case, states that one of the most likely consequences of the District Court's decision would be an increase in the centralization of school finance and an increase in the extent of collective bargaining by teacher unions at the state level.

For the present analysis, I aggregate to the district level the data on racial imbalance at individual schools from the SRI and link it to the ECCI data on the choice systems of large districts.

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

While state education agency specialists had made tools available for trend analysis in one of the states we sampled, the shift toward assembling and making trend data available to district and school personnel has been largely a district - level initiative.

In these analyses we used site council diversity, district support, and principals» openness to community involvement as independent variables; again, we used poverty and school level as control variables.

Our case analysis is also consistent with our quantitative finding that district culture has only a limited influence on community involvement at the school level.

While our analysis of principal survey data suggests a loose - linkage explanation for the relationship between state leadership and building - level leadership, it also indicates the need to explore the role of districts as moderators of state - leadership effects.

They then tailored district support for improvement to the analysis of schoolspecific needs, rather than relying primarily on centrally determined interventions based on categorical differences among schools and their students (e.g., size, SES, ELL, facilities) or set performance cut - off levels.

In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had led to the identification of early indicators of students academically at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.

Study methods included on - site interviews with district - level staff, teachers» association or union representatives, and principals, as well as analysis of district documents and materials.

The quasi-experimental analysis used student - level participation and state assessment data from nine large urban districts for 2000 - 01 through 2004 - 05.

He trains on data analysis, social media and PLNs at the school, district, and conference level.

This study — through surveys and interviews of state and school district officials, as well as collection and analysis of school - level spending data — explores the feasibility of improving the collection of school - level expenditure data by examining the nature and quality of school - level fiscal data collection in five states and four school districts that had developed their own systems for collecting and reporting school - level expenditures: Florida, Hawaii, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Baltimore City, Hillsborough County, Houston, and Los Angeles.

And while I may disagree with some very smart people (and yes this makes me nervous) about how they should be used (I lean towards principals using them on a micro level, districts and beyond using them at the macro, ie not to evaluate individual teachers, but schools, districts, etc) I don't think anyone can disagree on this hard fact: not every K - 12 classroom will be tested every year in a way that is rigorous or consistent enough for value - added analysis.

The district leadership established and trained district - and school - level data teams, allotted time to engage in collaborative analysis, and made available meaningful data displays driven by essential questions.

The analysis is based on state - level data that are not intended to provide specific classroom, school, or district interpretations.

More recently, Aaron has worked as a consultant to multiple schools in the design and implementation of innovative initiatives, as well as in research and analysis to inform school -, network -, and district - level planning.

Encourage the National Center for Education Statistics to collect data on teacher recruitment and retention that would allow for a comparative analysis of the teacher shortage in states and districts by school level (elementary, middle, high); subject area; geographic region (rural, suburban, urban); gender; and race.

Part two includes an extensive analysis of the state's most recent school finance data and the impact an SBB model could have on district - level funding.

However, districts could lose all that additional funding if any particular school site exceeds the required class size, unless school officials have negotiated a collective bargaining agreement with their teachers» union that sets class sizes at a different level, according to the analysis.

A district - level analysis of academic trends revealed that, for students such as those at Cool Spring, second grade is a particularly important step on the ladder to long - range academic success.

School districts in rural areas and districts with low spending levels locked in by state law would receive millions more in funding under a pair of bills championed by Rep. John Nygren, R - Marinette, and Sen. Howard Marklein, R - Spring Green, a nonpartisan analysis found.

The report identifies state -, district -, and school - level levers including transcript analysis, master schedule, credit policies and graduation requirements.

This descriptive, mixed - methods analysis uses survey data from state - level turnaround leaders in all 50 states and interviews with eight intentionally selected state leaders to launch a discussion about how states support districts in school - turnaround efforts.

A 2007 study by the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, found that from 2001 to 2006, more of Oakland's public school children were excelling each year, at about every grade level, in reading and math (the math analysis didn't include high schools).

District, campus, feeder pattern and student level data are all considered during data analysis (TEC § 39.106 (b)-RRB- and are critical to any improvement effort.

This analysis on which this article is based was undertaken as part of a larger project called Mathematics and the Institutional Settings of Teaching (MIST) that investigated how district - level systems support teachers» professional learning.

Districts will then have the opportunity to report school and district level results and to use the data for research and policy analysis to improve student achievement.137

Reports from observations as well as statistics make analysis possible at an individual, school and school district level.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

More detailed analysis of state - and district - level performance finds that a very small proportion of school districts perform well relative to other countries.

Meta - analysis of research on the impact of site - based management (SBM) on student outcomes and teaching quality found little evidence that SBM produces much if any improvement in the quality of education in the absence of both pressure and support from district and state levels of education (Leithwood and Menziers, 1998).

Districts that do get flagged qualify for increasing levels of state intervention — starting with a data analysis conducted by a county office of education that's aimed at understanding the root causes of poor performance, and escalating up to possible state takeover if a district fails to improve.

Extending this line of inquiry, Marzano et al. (2005) provide a comparable analysis of research on district - level leadership, identifying five broad categories of superintendent leadership.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

A district - level multi stakeholder workshop on driver and solution analysis was conducted and potential interventions for District REDD + Action Plan (DRAP) district - level multi stakeholder workshop on driver and solution analysis was conducted and potential interventions for District REDD + Action Plan (DRAP) District REDD + Action Plan (DRAP) drafted.

In the coming days, I will offer a critique of the data set used in the authors» analysis of sentencing at the district court level.

The ideological influence is modest, however, consistent with the overall result of the analysis in this chapter that ideology plays only a small role at the district court level, even though district judges have considerable discretionary authority.