Sentences with phrase «affluent districts tend»

District - level data from New York suggest that relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, and that districts with lower test scores have higher opt - out rates after taking socioeconomic status into account

First, relatively affluent districts tend to have higher opt - out rates, with opt - out less common in the disadvantaged districts that are often the target of reform efforts.

Not exact matches

Do opt - outs tend to be concentrated among relatively affluent districts, or are they most common in schools that have historically performed poorly on state tests?

Districts from California to Texas to North Carolina are tapping into these new funds to address two of the thorniest issues in education today: how to develop fair and accurate ways to measure effective teaching, and how to find sustainable strategies to balance the distribution of experienced teachers, who now tend to be disproportionately represented in high - performing (and typically more affluent) schools.

It's unclear whether higher - scoring teachers lead to higher - scoring students or whether affluent districts, which tend to have higher - achieving students, also tend to hire teachers with higher scores.

In a school district, the better - resourced schools tend to serve high - income populations in affluent communities, and the under - funded schools tend to serve low - income populations in disadvantaged communities.

Though she later told JCI she was sympathetic to the idea of the state's need to take additional measures to help teachers rated in less affluent, urban districts such as Jersey City, which tend to have tougher classroom environments, parent Gina Po told the round - table it really can't let them off the hook.

We might not be surprised to find a student newsroom in affluent or resource - rich school districts, where journalism programs tend to be popular.

Jefferson County: Cindy Stevenson, who served as the award - winning superintendent from 2002 - 2012, focused efforts on better supports for teachers, a «strive for greatness,» and more attention towards district managed schools (rather than on charters in the district who tend to serve a more affluent population).

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

But that doesn't mean that districts are spending equally in all schools: The neediest schools tend to employ teachers with less experience than more affluent schools, and less - experienced teachers earn lower salaries.

Ms. Hoxby's study found that the charter - school students, who tend to come from poor and disadvantaged families, scored almost as well as students in the affluent Scarsdale school district in the suburbs north of the city.