Sentences with phrase «school time analysis»

As a first step to find out, use the School Time Analysis Tool from the National Center on Time and Learning.

The School Time Analysis Tool (STAT) is a web - based application hosted by the National Center on Time & Learning to assist schools better understand how they are currently using time across a typical week and school year.

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The pair's solutions to the alleged problems of CEO - speak are greater government control of markets, more bureaucracy in the private and public sectors, an end to CEOs» duty of care to shareholders and — get this — more snore - inducing courses on critical textual analysis in business schools so students can know exactly how many times a CEO says «our company» versus «the company.»

Teachers in business school spend a lot of time explaining cash flow statements and analyses to students, but usually from a larger corporate perspective.

Thanks to the leadership of the Dept. and the relevance of it in our time, the concern for social analysis has taken root as an essential aspect of the Christian theological enterprise, not only in the TTS but also in most other Indian theological schools and in the Serampore University curriculum itself.

Most of our nonconservative theological schools have responded to time symptoms of these problems by way of technical analyses and solutions.

But even putting aside concerns about sugar, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow (of PEACHSF.org) recently undertook a careful economic analysis of school bake sales, looking at the cost of ingredients and parent time / labor and questioning whether it's an effective school fundraiser in the first place.

Through working with partners and collaborators such as Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Northwest Community Healthcare, Arlington Heights Park District Parks Foundation, Wheeling Community Consolidated School District # 21, Prospect Heights School District # 23, Arlington Heights School District # 25, Village of Arlington Heights and the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce Wellness Committee, the process creates analysis, and then moves to creating strategic concepts for improvement, future modeling and surveillance of outcomes over time.

Let's remember that current school meal nutrition standards were established not by the Obama administration but by the non-partisan Institute of Medicine — and they were hailed at the time as the «gold standard for evidence - based health analysis.»

WHEREAS, the suspension rates at Success Academy are almost three times higher than in the city's district schools, according to an analysis by Chalkbeat;

The City of Buffalo says testing of water sources in common use areas of the City's 27 community centers, prioritized by where young children attend daycare and spend time after school and on weekends, is nearing completion, while the analysis for lead and copper at more than 150 city - owned buildings by the end of the year is on track.

An analysis of local news reports and school district data by The New York Times found that at least one out of every six students eligible to take the third - through eighth - grade tests in New York State sat at least one of them out this past school year, part of the so - called opt out movement.

For their analyses, the researchers used combined data from the 1991 - 2015 waves of the federal «Youth Risk Behavior Surveys,» a school - based cross-sectional survey designed to capture the prevalence of health - risk behaviors for the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality across time and racial / ethnic populations.

Co-author Dr Andrew Phillips said: «The most interesting part of this analysis for me was the counter-intuitive finding that the most extreme evening types are predicted to derive the least benefit from a delay in school start times, because they tend to use evening artificial light for a longer interval of time.

Associate professor Patricio Vela and graduate student Miguel Serrano, both from Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, developed software algorithms that allowed detailed analysis of the wave - forms seen on the X-ray movies as a function of time.

The timing of a girl's first menstruation may affect her first sexual encounter, first pregnancy, and her vulnerability to some sexually transmitted infections, according to a meta - analysis by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

According to this new analysis, school - age children accelerated the spread of the pandemic, which was transmitted over short distances, in contrast with widespread reports at the time linking the pandemic to international air travel and population density.

The study consisted of an analysis of the Association of American Medical Colleges Faculty Roster, a database of U.S. medical school faculty, and included full - time faculty at schools located in the 50 U.S. states or District of Columbia and reporting data from 2000 - 2010.

Through genetic analysis of a family with a history of thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD), investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified mutations in the LOX gene, a gene associated with the integrity of the arterial wall, in human subjects for the first time.

The research offers support for the recommendations of organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control, Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, all of which have advocated increasing the amount of time that elementary school children spend in gym class, says lead researcher and Cornell professor of policy analysis and management, John Cawley, who conducted the study with Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University (Cornell Ph.D. 2002) and David Frisvold of Emory University.

«Time is truly of the essence when it comes to certain kinds of injuries and our analysis suggests that, for penetrating injuries such as knife and gun wounds, it might be better to just get to a trauma center as soon as possible in whatever way possible,» says Elliott Haut, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of surgery and emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's senior author.

However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and $ 9.5 billion ($ 13.4 billion) over the next 10 years, which represents 20 times the number of animals and six times the cost anticipated in previous estimates, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«Our analysis also shows that over time heavy Americans become heavier,» says May A. Beydoun, a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In any event, few teacher - education schools include data - analysis training, so many teachers don't know how to read the data, or don't have the time to use the information to rethink their lesson plans.

A follow - up analysis, released in February 2008, showed that 16 percent of districts had reduced elementary school class time for music and art — and had done so by an average of 35 percent, or fifty - seven minutes a week.

And third, higher education, which has long been spared critical analysis by outsiders, is increasingly considered fair game (Murphy cites a July 2005 New York Times article titled «Who Needs Education Schools?»).

Analysis of Year 3, 5 and 7 test data across almost 3000 Australian schools show «single - sex schools on average provide no better value - add over time than coeducational schools».

Testing impresario W. James Popham has penned a volume, Unlearned Lessons: Six Stumbling Blocks to Our Schools» Success, that mixes anecdote, personal experience, and scholarly analysis to ask why American schooling has had such a terrible time designing, adopting, or employing good assessment.

These supports include additional funding of $ 20,000 per school (up to a maximum of $ 170,000 per district) for superintendent and principal mentoring and monitoring; $ 15,000 for teacher release time for job - embedded professional learning; 2 provincial professional learning sessions for principal and teacher teams from all schools involved; and Ministry developed documents, resources and facilitation, including tracking templates for the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.

On Sunday, the L.A. Times ran its controversial analysis of teacher value - added scores in L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD).

A 2013 quasi-experimental analysis found that, «on average, extended learning time (ELT) tutorials at Match Charter Public High School raised student achievement on the 10th grade English language arts examination between.15 and.25 standard deviations per year.»

When was the last time you conducted an analysis of your existing strategies to shed light on what your school could do to offer more support for students who are being bullied?

The negative effects of attending a charter school, on average, for the students in grades 4 through 8 included in our analysis, are roughly three times this large.

Although some have argued that a renewed emphasis on desegregation could help narrow the gap, a new EdNext analysis shows that over this same time period, schools have continued to become more, not less, diverse.

Well, in addition to using a much cruder measure of school performance, the earlier analysis by the Times ignored the fact that the schools in which APP graduates were placed were much lower performing before the new principals arrived — a fact that is clearly documented in the NYU study.

When the staff of Saint Michaels Middle / High School (Saint Michaels, Maryland) considered the impact of that requirement, they determined that they needed to adapt their block schedule to increase the amount of time students spent in subjects that were directly tested: Algebra / Data Analysis, English, Biology, and Government.

Juriaan said she teaches the standard literature curriculum, but that her Davidson classes focus on analysis; in her public - school classes, she spent her time helping students comprehend the plot.

Extra exam time to finish GCSE and A Level tests was given to one in five independent school pupils last year, analysis shows.

New technologies might make it possible for stand - alone charter schools to «plug in» to remote services that provide CMO - like supports, such as data analysis or real - time teacher coaching.

I spend much of my time thinking about schools, and 2016 was rich with such ideas and analysis.

Given the specialized nature of this kind of quantitative analysis, we also recommend that schools identify a «data specialist» in the faculty who can support his or her colleagues in using data in real - time.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

States can now focus most of their analysis on individual student progress over time — the fairest way to assess the value that schools add to student learning and the best way to disentangle school grades from demographics over which they have scant control.

As Heather Staker and I write in our new book Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools, the same analysis in Disrupting Class that shows that 50 percent of all high school classes will be delivered online in some form by 2019 also reveals that homeschooling and full - time virtual schooling will not substitute for brick - and - mortar schooling, as their growth flattens out at just under 10 percent of the U.S. K — 12 student population.

The results of this analysis show that, after only one year's time, attending a private - school improved student performance on standardized tests in math and reading by between 5.4 and 7.7 percentile points.

On the importance of setting high expectations, analysis shows students in schools where teachers have low expectations are 1.2 times more likely to perform poorly in mathematics, after accounting for socioeconomic status.

The day - to - day running of a school often takes up a lot of time, with data gathering, monitoring and analysis being a significant part of this; it's crucial that this process is as streamlined as possible.

The EPI's analysis used data from from inspections that took place from 2005/06 to 2014/15 and found that secondary schools with up to five per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) are over three times as likely to be rated «outstanding» as schools with at least 23 per cent FSM (48 per cent compared with 14 per cent).

The appropriate use of resources and applications, such as data management systems, enable schools to streamline this process, reducing the time spent on entry, analysis and sharing of data and reports, and support learning in the classroom.

Download «Out - of - School Time and Youth Development: A School - Community Analysis»: a research report cosponsored by the United Way and Providence Public Schools (2.1 MB)