Sentences with phrase «affecting student choice»

If you could reduce your classes by one or more, without affecting student choice, how much could this save your school?

Then, it linked the students» decisions with data on macroeconomic trends to examine how business cycles affect student choices.

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«It definitely will affect my choices,» said Wang Xiaoyu, a 20 - year - old student in Beijing.

For several years I have asked students in introductory theology classes to make a list of the half dozen most important and foundational things they believe about them - selves, the universe and their place in it — convictions that clearly affect the choices they make and the ways they choose to live.

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

Historically, student assignment policies were meant to reduce segregation and enhance diversity; however, current student choice policies and how they affect diversity in an era of increasing segregation haven't been analyzed.

This is the first study to investigate how personality differences affect students» subject choices, according to Korpershoek.

Korpershoek analysed data from nearly 4000 students and found that their subject choices at age 15 were affected by personality.

«Lifestyle choices» is a self - contained classroom topic that introduces the idea of self - regulation or applying limits to your own behaviour and asks students to consider how some poor lifestyle choices could affect their ability to work.

Florida and Milwaukee compared private choice participants with similar students in public schools, but the possibility remains that unmeasured differences could affect results.

School choice will ultimately prevail or disappear based on how it affects entire urban populations, not just the small group of students who benefit directly from being able to attend private schools tuition - free.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

Using the compelling and gruesome moment that Aron Ralston chose to sever his own arm and free himself from certain death, students are asked to analyse language and structure choices and explore affects on the reader.

Given the sizable shift of students toward recruiting institutions, the primary mechanism by which NHRP affects students» initial college choices appears to be a combination of direct college outreach and financial aid.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Choices along all these dimensions affect the extent to which charters can be a positive choice for students whose options are otherwise limited.

The best of this work has taken advantage of the lottery - based admissions processes used by many school - choice programs, enabling researchers to draw far stronger conclusions about how schools affect student outcomes than the methods Coleman employed, which relied on simple regression techniques to adjust for differences in students» family background.

The study, part of a larger examination of how school - choice programs affect disabled students, looks specifically at the state's postsecondary enrollment - options program.

Three new studies released by the Urban Institute look at how private school choice has affected nearly 13,000 students in three different states.

Lesli A. Maxwell is an assistant managing editor for Education Week who oversees coverage of school district news and leadership, English - language learners, charter schools and school choice issues, and school climate, discipline, and nonacademic factors that affect students.

Linking Healthful Eating to Sustainable Living Educating young people about how their eating habits affect not just their own health, but other people's too, as well as the health of the environment, can help improve student food choices and cut obesity rates, according to the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Our research focuses on how private school choice programs affect students, families, schools and communities.

Educating young people about how their eating habits affect not just their own health, but other people's too, as well as the health of the environment, can help improve student food choices and cut obesity rates, according to the Center for Ecoliteracy.

She has studied how college access and outreach programs affect low income students» social capital and social contexts of choice, and is currently working on philosophical / empirical research into the moral tensions around movements to opt out of different aspects of public education, and on philosophical work on what makes a disagreement «reasonable.»

Students learn to appreciate that differences in beliefs and perspectives affect how people make food and health choices, and how they participate in physical activities.

While the introduction of choice affected all public high school students, most of the school closings and openings were concentrated in low - income, nonwhite areas of the Bronx and Brooklyn.

In this article, Nat Malkus and Tim Keller outline the federal laws that protect students with disabilities, give an overview of school choice programs, and explain how participating in school choice programs affects the rights of students with disabilities.

Students will explore how where you live affects your diet, who is responsible for the diet and lifestyle choices we make and what can be done to ensure everyone has a balanced diet.

The key assumption for identification underlying all of our estimates is the conditional independence assumption (CIA), which assumes that there are no variables omitted from our matching process that affect both the choice of textbook and the outcome (student achievement).

Some people may be wondering why a researcher like me, who has always been interested in school choice, would develop an interest in studying how the arts and humanities affect students.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

In Part Two we examined district leaders «choices and behaviors as they affect school leadership and student learning.

The available empirical evidence on these private school choice programs makes it clear they positively affect the academic performance of participating students, while doing so at a lower cost than public schools and benefitting public school students, decreasing segregation, and improving civic values and practices.

Dr. Frankenberg's research has examined how the design of school choice policy affects racial and economic student stratification.

University has launched a new A-level Explorer tool which has been designed to help GCSE students choose and explore how their choices will affect their degree options at university.

The city's plan is to diversify the New York school population by bringing in students who have been affected by the city's school choice policies.

Coordinated school health can positively affect student academic achievement and empower students with the knowledge, skills, and judgment essential to help them make healthy and responsible choices in life.

Instead, students need to understand that their voice happens in a context of something larger than themselves, and that their choices affect more than themselves alone.

Search our library for state and national research on how school choice affects students, parents, schools, taxpayers and voters.

Of these, 11 find that choice improves student outcomes — six that all students benefit and five that some benefit and some are not affected.

Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school cChoice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choicechoice.

The school's guiding Habits of Heart and Mind emphasize the value of collaboration and remind students to always be aware of how one's actions affect others; these tenets resonate with Facing History's exploration of «universe of responsibility» and choice - making.

What they found out was that choice affected each student in different ways.

If their current school isn't the best fit, it affects that student's learning,» said Senator Matt Huffman, a strong champion for school choice who emceed the Rally.

For example, although there are no longer laws that allow racial segregation, a state's housing and school choice laws affect the student demographics of schools.

But the reasons for this have long been far more complex than claimed many reformers claim; they consistently refuse to acknowledge the importance of factors outside school that affect students and use choice as a cover to try to destroy teachers unions and privatize education.

The May 1 analysis explores a host of factors to guide those choices, such as how changing those designations would affect transportation options and the proximity of Spanish - language programs to Spanish - speaking students.

Peer pressure appears to be a powerful force affecting educational choices and whether students undertake important investments that could improve academic performance or outcomes.

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.