Sentences with phrase «advantaged students»

It is worth noting, however, the more work remains for everyone, as more advantaged students in traditional district settings still have the greatest gains of all.

For economically advantaged students in the state, the average was 62 percent basic or above and 35 percent proficient.

In conversion charters, the type of school with the most advantaged student population, the effects on test score growth were negative and significant for all four cohorts.

But too often, top performing black, Latino and less advantaged students do not get the attention they need in their schools.

They are biased in favor of teachers with advantaged students, and they are biased toward teachers whom the principal likes, or at least has evaluated positively in the past.

A quarter of the least advantaged students who didn't apply to higher tariff universities said they felt the cost of living would be too high.

So a teacher of disadvantaged students could get a higher value - added measure than a teacher of advantaged students even though her class showed less actual growth.

We also found that one type of charter — affiliated conversions — serves a much more advantaged student population than either independent start - ups or independent conversions.

On average, disadvantaged students are almost three times as likely as more advantaged students not to attain the baseline level of proficiency in science.

Others are concerned that only the relatively more economically and academically advantaged students enroll in charters, leaving public schools with more concentrated poverty and students who tend to have more learning difficulties.

So are gap years just another enrichment lever that only highly advantaged students can pull?

«How to Think» focuses on how middle - school chess players from a low - income school manage consistently to beat advantaged students and even high - school chess teams.

More - advantaged students showed no significant benefit in the art museum study in terms of their interest in future museum consumption.

But one initiative that seemed to be helping involved providing funding for extra places for less advantaged students at the best universities.

Since exiting rates are smaller at schools with more advantaged students, these schools also enjoy more experienced teachers.

And small schools work especially well for the least advantaged students.

High expectations for all, including clear and public standards, is one key to closing the achievement gap between advantaged and less advantaged students and for raising the overall achievement of all students.

As gap years become more popular, says Mandy Savitz - Romer, the phenomenon has the potential «to give advantaged students even more advantages.

As I have explored in previous posts, there is evidence of the effects of preschool on more advantaged students from studies that use other rigorous methods, but I have not yet cited a random assignment experiment.

In most cases, he argues, claims of effective reforms are based on either a misanalysis of test scores or the selection of advantaged students into reform programs.

By contrast, 62 percent of economically advantaged students scored above basic (Education Trust, 2008).

The trend is toward voucher programs becoming less well targeted, with funding shifting to socioeconomically advantaged students who already have some degree of choice.

[8] This variation leads us to suspect that there are some schools where relatively advantaged students do well but relatively disadvantaged students do poorly, other schools where the reverse is true, other schools where both relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students do well, and still other schools where both relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students do poorly.

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

The report found that 65 per cent of socio - economically advantaged students reported to have often heard of the concept of quadratic function, on average across OECD countries, compared to just 43 per cent of disadvantaged students.

Skeptics might say, «Charters gain their efficiency advantage by disproportionately admitting advantaged students.»

Setting aside the drama between charters and teachers unions, or complaints that charter schools lead to the privatization of public education, there has been the persistent critique that charters increase inequality by plucking advantaged students out of traditional public schools.

Therefore, the CREATE students exceeded the performance of similar low - income populations and economically advantaged students throughout the state.

Loving High School was awarded a bronze medal in the U.S. News and World Report's 2010 «Best High Schools» rankings, a recognition of the school's success in achieving proficiency and college readiness for less advantaged student groups.

For income mixing, the question of whether, how much, and under what circumstances going to school with more advantaged students benefits low - income or minority students is unsettled, with much ink spilled over conflicting assertions.

On average, the difference between the 25 % most advantaged and the 25 % least advantaged students within each country is 88 score points, the equivalent of roughly 2 years schooling.

According to PISA, advantaged students receive roughly fifty minutes more in science instruction per week in school than their disadvantaged peers.»

Greene demonstrated that students in schools of choice, which received only half the per - student funding of public school students, graduated at a 64 % rate, versus a much lower 41 % rate of a control group of more financially advantaged students in Milwaukee's most selective public schools.

Indeed, in the United States, vouchers tend to benefit the most advantaged students among those eligible, and in other nations, large - scale voucher programs have contributed to school segregation along socio - economic lines.

Indeed, all of the demographic characteristics considered in our report, as well as the lack of pre-primary education, increase the probability of low performance by a larger margin among disadvantaged than among advantaged students, on average across OECD countries.

In many places, students from highly educated families are performing well below the OECD average for similarly advantaged students.

KIPP's success, he argues, is largely attributable to the selection of more advantaged students into their schools, the investment of significantly greater resources, and the unusual motivation of their staff.

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.