Sentences with phrase «magnet school effect»

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The scant magnet school literature is largely focused on two issues: a) their achievement effects [2] and b) their effects on socioeconomic or racial segregation [3](by far the largest focus of the extant research).

Since the launch of school desegregation policies in the 1960s, magnet schools have demonstrated the effect of incentivizing voluntary integration, both in terms of socioeconomic status and race, among families.

In describing the effect of a Houston Performing and Visual Arts School, an educator said it worked like a «magnet» in attracting students.

Waldrip explains that around the same time in Houston, Texas, when describing the effect of its Performing and Visual Arts School, «said that it worked like a «magnet» in attracting students.»

John Witte, a UW - Madison professor emeritus who was the principal researcher on a long - term study of Milwaukee's voucher school program, said studies in Milwaukee «found that competition from charter, magnet and voucher schools has had beneficial effects on the public schools.»

This report looks at the policy effects of neglecting magnet schools.

The effect of school culture on science education at an ideologically innovative elementary magnet school: An ethnographic case study.

«Greenwich has grappled with this issue for years,» Mr. Pryor said, «undertaking, for example, efforts regarding magnet schools and facility upgrades, with limited effect to date.»

Not wanting to stir up tensions created in Boston and other cities over forced busing of white students, then - MPS Superintendent Lee McMurrin developed a plan to integrate schools via «choice,» specialty magnet schools and a busing scheme that once again disrupted black students» lives, but had little effect on white students.

But even if you can find diverse magnets, that does not distract from the damaging effect they have on traditional public schools.