Sentences with phrase «after adjusting for»

Known as the Local Control Funding Formula, California's approach would allocate each district around $ 7,600 per student, on average, almost certainly putting a great many of the state's districts above the $ 7,500 threshold after adjusting for differences in cost of living.

From 1996 to 2008, spending per student, on average, steadily climbed at least 1 percent a year, after adjusting for inflation, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

Over the decade preceding fiscal 2002, Oregon raised its spending by an average of 1.2 percent annually, after adjusting for inflation.

Parents were 50 percent more likely to assign a grade of B or below to a tough teacher than to a relatively easy teacher, after adjusting for the same controls as above.

Between 1961 and 2000, spending on education tripled after adjusting for inflation, from $ 2,360 to $ 7,086 per pupil.

It ranks fourth for the average annual rate of change in education expenditures from 1992 to 2002, with an average annual increase of 3.2 percent over that period, after adjusting for inflation.

Elementary and high schools nationally cut capital spending by $ 28 billion or 37 percent between fiscal years 2008 and 2013 (the latest year available), after adjusting for inflation.

This survey (with data from 45 states [5]-RRB- finds that, after adjusting for inflation:

Formula funding in Kansas was down 14.6 percent per student between 2008 and 2014, after adjusting for inflation.

Our survey, the most up - to - date data available on state and local funding for schools, indicates that, after adjusting for inflation:

This survey finds that, after adjusting for inflation:

Despite some drawbacks, demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school performance, and show that there are substantial differences across states, even after adjusting for demographics.

To see this effect, consider that families in the second income group had a median EFC of $ 3,059 in 1995 - 96, after adjusting for inflation.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

The Coleman team reported that sophomores and seniors at Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by roughly a full grade level after adjusting for differences in an extensive set of family background measures.

As a result, simple comparisons of student outcomes in municipal, stand - alone, and network schools might give misleading estimates of the impact of schools on student achievement, even after adjusting for the measured characteristics of the students who attend each type of school.

The horizontal axis in turn shows the performance pay variable, also after adjusting for those same control variables.

For instance, University of Wisconsin economist Derek Neal's analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that, even after adjusting for family background characteristics, students from Catholic schools were 16 percentage points more likely to go to college than were public - school students.

Research from the RAND Corporation, among others, shows that, after adjusting for student background, Texas and North Carolina made greater leaps on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 1990 to 1997 than any other states.

The study also found that teachers» average hourly pay (in real terms, after adjusting for inflation) has decreased by 15 per cent since 2009/10.

* I was surprised to learn from the chart above that, after adjusting for cost of living, Massachusetts and New York don't actually spend all that much money, and Texas is far from stingy.

At the state level, Michigan schools frequently score at the bottom of the table on NAEP, even after adjusting for student demographics.

Studies show that after adjusting for student characteristics, the for - profit schools achieve at a slightly lower level in Spanish and mathematics than both the municipal and Catholic schools.

After adjusting for student demographics and other school characteristics, schools with 25 percentage points more proficient students are rated 22 percent of a letter grade higher.

After adjusting for pensions and other benefits, teacher compensation is neither low nor falling

We have doubled per - pupil spending (after adjusting for inflation) over the past three decades.

Each of these differences is statistically significant after adjusting for differences in the background characteristics of parents using district and charter schools.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

Only the difference with respect to communications about schoolwork or homework is statistically significant after adjusting for differences in background characteristics.

Yet it's hard to square these jeremiads with the simple fact that, after adjusting for inflation, per - pupil spending today is nearly three times what it was in 1960 - and that spending jumps were higher in the 1990s than ever before.

From 1992 to 2002, the state increased spending on education an average of 2.6 percent annually, after adjusting for inflation.

• After adjusting for prior test scores and demographics, the school a student attends explains 34 percent of the variation in their math test scores and 24 percent of the variation in their reading test scores, but just 2 percent of the variation in their fluid cognitive skills.

girls, we can assess whether gender interactions matter after adjusting for the teacher's unobserved traits.

March 17, 2014 • After adjusting for inflation, the cost of tuition more than tripled between 1973 and 2013.

We're the Millers has earned $ 91.7 million in nineteen days: putting it ahead of 2008's Tropic Thunder and 2011's Horrible Bosses even after adjusting for inflation.

Our data demonstrate that cardiovascular fitness and cognitive performance at age 18 y are positively associated, even after adjusting for relevant confounders.

After adjusting for major lifestyle and dietary risk factors, the HR per 10 % increment of animal protein intake from total energy intake was 1.02 (95 % CI, 0.98 - 1.05; P for trend =.33) for all - cause mortality and 1.08 (95 % CI, 1.01 - 1.16; P for trend =.04) for CVD mortality.

In the present study, the positive association between added sugar intake and CVD mortality remained significant after adjusting for the conventional CVD risk factors, such as blood pressure and total serum cholesterol.

After adjusting for other dietary and lifestyle factors, animal protein intake was associated with a higher risk for CVD mortality, whereas higher plant protein intake was associated with lower all - cause and cardiovascular mortality.

After adjusting for self - reported changes in other lifestyle factors likely to affect weight, such as smoking status and physical activity, an increased intake of fruits and of several vegetables was inversely associated with 4 - y weight change.

In the Framingham Offspring Study (McKeown et al., 2002), whole - grain consumption in the highest quintile (13 to 64 servings per week) was associated with a significant decrease in fasting insulin compared to the lowest whole - grain consumption (0 to 1.5 servings per week) after adjusting for known confounders (P = 0.01).

This relationship was no longer significant after adjusting for total fiber.

However, the inverse relationship between whole - grain consumption remained after adjusting for bran intake.

After adjusting for other risk factors, the researchers found that a daily serving of red meat no larger than a deck of cards increased the risk of adult - onset diabetes by 19 percent.

After adjusting for age, medical history, lifestyle and other variables, they found that participants who had consumed five or more servings of nuts per week had lower levels of CRP and IL6 than those who never or almost never ate nuts.

The authors didn't report how much food the turkey poults ate, but they estimated that the high vitamin A group consumed 15,000 IU per day, which is, after adjusting for body weight, equivalent to a human taking in over 3,500,000 IU per day.

After adjusting for confounding factors, hose who ate the highest levels of whole foods were the least likely to report symptoms of depression, while those who ate the highest levels of highly processed foods were most likely to report depression.

After adjusting for lifestyle and dietary risk factors, a major study involving 131,342 participants found that for every 3 - percent increase in plant protein the participants worked into their diets, they saw their risk for death from causes including heart disease drop by 10 percent over a 32 - year period.

After adjusting for cholesterol and saturated fat intake they found that mono unsaturated was negatively associated with CHD mortality, meaning mono unsaturated fat appeared beneficial when saturated fat and cholesterol consumption was low.

After adjusting for age, those who consumed more than three eggs per week had more atherosclerosis than those who consumed less than two eggs per week.