Sentences with phrase «actual impact of schools»

Growth measures at least attempt to estimate the actual impact of schools on students; status measures do not.

Not exact matches

«By now it's a familiar pas de deux in the public schools,» wrote New York magazine columnist Robert Kolker about the early months of retention and the relatively small actual impact on retention figures.

To solve this problem, we used as an instrumental variable whether or not a student was offered a voucher to predict the probability that she attended a private school; with these predicted values, we can provide an unbiased estimate of the actual impact of switching from a public - to a private - school.

Ullman says: «If we keep making curricular decisions that impact hundreds of thousands of kids, if we're making these decisions that impact huge groups of the school community based on assumptions, based on ideas with no actual research backing them up, based on fear — that's just curricularly - irresponsible.»

Participating in the voucher program * had a substantial positive impact on parents» views of school safety but not on students» actual school experiences with dangerous activities.

Given the state of our understanding about distributed leadership, therefore, policymakers and leadership developers would do well to adopt a more conservative attitude toward the concept until more evidence is developed to move the term beyond the obvious and provide a clearer understanding of its actual impact on schools and students.

To the contrary, the 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2017 Department of Education Reports all found that although participation in the voucher program had a substantial impact on parents» views of school safety, it did not have any impact on a students» actual school experience with dangerous activities.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.