Sentences with phrase «alternative schools than any other»

CPS data show that Marshall sent more students to alternative schools than any other district high school in 2010 - 11.

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The latest contribution to the literature, Race and Bankruptcy, by Ed Morrison (Columbia), Belisa Pang (Columbia), and Antoine Uettwiller (Imperial College Business School), tests an alternative hypothesis that pivots on a selection effect: «Financially distressed African Americans may be more likely to benefit from Chapter 13 than other consumers.»

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Readers may be surprised to learn, as I was, that the AAP really has no formal policy focused on the feeding of flavored milk to children, other than brief mentions in its policy addressing sugar - sweetened beverages in schools, where flavored milk — along with plain milk, fruit and vegetable juices and water — is cited as a «healthful alternative» to sodas, and in the academy's statement on increasing children's bone density and calcium intake.

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

While the vast majority of the 965 candidates seeking certification through the so - called «alternative route» are nonteachers «looking for a career change,» an estimated 25 percent are people «currently teaching in a setting other than the public schools,» said Leo F. Klagholz, director of teacher preparation and certification for the state department of education.

Teacher candidates from alternative route programs like Teach for America and the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) program have much lower three - and five - year retention rates than other routes into North Carolina schools.

In the real world, even if everyone had the right to choose their schools, parents who are educated and financially well off are likely to be more motivated than other parents, to have better information about their alternatives, to have more resources at their disposal for getting their way, to have better social connections and more attractive opportunities, and to have children who are easier and less costly to teach.

This is sometimes because music programs provide an alternative to more traditional forms of school participation, other times it's because the students feel music is more relevant to their everyday lives than other subjects (Karkou & Glasman, 2004).

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

The Urban Academy and more than 30 other alternative high schools that are part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium have adopted these rigorous performance assessments as an alternative to the Regents Exams, which high school students throughout New York State are required to pass in English, math, history, and science in order to earn a diploma.

Students attending schools in states with genuine alternative certification gained more on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) between 2003 and 2007 than did students in the other states.

While suggestive, factors other than these policies may have also influenced enrollment in alternative schools.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

alternative assessments shall be developed by an entity other than a local school or school district;

It is unclear what the overall point of this amendment is other than to allow wealthier families to grow money for private / alternative schooling in a tax - free haven.

The funding crisis has left schools with no alternative other than to reduce staffing levels — meaning larger class sizes and cuts to the curriculum.

As Education Secretary Arne Duncan noted, there are more than 1,400 schools of education in the U.S. plus hundreds of alternative certification paths, and «nobody in this country can tell anybody which one is more effective than the other.»

Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said that he was reassured that there would be alternatives for school improvement, other than becoming academies.

The dropout rate and graduation rate do not total 100 percent because some students complete high school through means other than a high school diploma (e.g., students with a GED, students with disabilities who have participated in alternative assessment, or students who have transferred into higher education or an applied technology college without graduating high school) and some special education students are retained in high school beyond their senior year.

If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

The analysis, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, found the proportion of unqualified teachers at alternative providers has risen by nearly four percentage points over the past four years — more than double the increase in other schools.

Other research shows two in five secondary schools may be commissioning independent alternative provision as part of «off - site alternative provision» and more than one in five may use this for a full academic year or longer for their students.

She's taking on that responsibility at a time when education policy is even more intensely politicized than usual, as President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have sought to promote parents» access to charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to public schools.

NSBA urges Congress to reject the implementation of a federal voucher program or other voucher alternatives and to work with us to improve, not weaken our public schools — which educate more than 50 million students.

This depth of involvement is enabled by the fact that alternative schools for pregnant women have a much higher staff to student ratio than other public schools.

They «were designed to offer parents an alternative to traditional educational programmes with the goal of encouraging families, White families mostly, to allow their children to be bussed to schools, other than their neighbourhood school» (Andre - Bechely, 1359).

Thrivent believes in principled lending and actively encourage their borrowers to borrow as little as possible and to look for alternative solutions other than borrowing money for school such as going to a cheaper school or finding scholarships.