Sentences with phrase «among different schools»

The data can be compared among different schools within a district or a specified radius, and can include up to 20 nearby listings.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

Not exact matches

The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School created such confusion among police that officers stormed a building in a different area of the school expecting to find the gunman, according to a police account released TuSchool created such confusion among police that officers stormed a building in a different area of the school expecting to find the gunman, according to a police account released Tuschool expecting to find the gunman, according to a police account released Tuesday.

Still, his words — intended as a simple statement of fact about the different holidays celebrated among his friends — bring me back to high school history classes, learning how Christians persecuted Jews for centuries.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Or the pattern among contrasting types of community that constitute the school might be very different.

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

The two most recent studies of concussion rates among high school athletes (1,2) report concussion rates in girl's lacrosse essentially tied with girl's soccer for the highest among girl's sports, nearly as high as the concussion rate in boy's lacrosse (not statistically different in terms of rates), and almost double the rate of the girl's sport with the next highest concussion rate (basketball).

While an increase in lunch participation can be attributed to many different factors, there was consensus among Knox County School Nutrition staff that more students enjoying the food at breakfast has been a good marketing tool for eating school School Nutrition staff that more students enjoying the food at breakfast has been a good marketing tool for eating school school lunch.

Circumstances prior to adoption often cause adopted children to experience school, among other things, in a different framework than other kids.

It is almost impossible to write the same letter in two languages without having subtle differences with some semantic relevance and there are different schools of thought among translators over what kind of differences to minimize, and which not to worry about.

Family Health Medical School has modern facilities such as the Tim Johnson Library Complex with a lot of unique tools for learning including; Telemedicine to communicate with USA, Europe and rest of the world, an E-library, spacious hall of Anatomy (among the biggest in the sub region) for the dissection of Cadavers and Computerised Facilities to view different parts of the human body and Cadavers lodge (mortuary).

He also supported a law in which schools have to make detailed plans to address cyberbullying, and backed the 2010 law to combat bullying and discrimination in schools among students with different backgrounds.

He adds that the concept seeks to balance relationships both among different species and among subpopulations of a given species such as age groups, gender groups or regional schools.

Research from the University of Cambridge has revealed that, among schooling fish, groups can have different collective personalities, with some shoals sticking closer together, being better coordinated, and showing clearer leadership than others.

Using a mathematical model, researchers at the University of Bristol and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in collaboration with researchers and clinicians in the UK, Australia and Canada projected the potential impact of these new DAAs treatment among PWID in three cities with similar PWID prevalence (~ 1 per cent among adults) but very different levels of chronic HCV prevalence among PWID.

«Diabetes prevention through lifestyle intervention works among different cultures as shown in many big trials in the US, Europe and Asia,» added Enrique Caballero, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and one of the co-investigators of the Diabetes Prevention Program.

The Vienna Doctoral School «Molecules of Life» fosters education, cooperation and interaction among students and group leaders from different backgrounds and disciplines in an open and creative environment.

Despite different histories and demographics, there have been similarities among school districts in the district - level strategies for implementation that are important to study to take the kind of courses developed in the Knowledge in Action research to scale.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

Attainment in UK schools among disadvantaged pupils varies dramatically between different ethnicities, with white working class boys achieving the lowest GCSE grades, according to new analysis.

There were two major differences among the studies: they used different evaluation methodologies, and they analyzed different sets of charter schools.

Although there is much more to the school curriculum than literacy and numeracy, students» abilities to read and understand different forms of written material and to apply mathematics to everyday problems are among the most important outcomes of an effective curriculum.

Those positive outcomes are not observed, however, among students in schools facing a different kind of accountability pressure.

Given that each school has its own unique interplay among staff, students and the greater communities, how each school chooses to solve problems and maximize outcomes will, and should, look different.

Wise, M., Straker L.M., Mathiassen S., & Pollock C.M. (2006) ITKids: Variation in muscle activity among school children when using different information and communication technologies.

I concluded that these schools were not responding to NCLB by trading off achievement among students with different baseline levels.

Among other findings, they concluded that 1) white enrollment declined much more in the year of plan implementation than in subsequent years, and 2) pairing and clustering, the desegregation technique that involved the joining of schools with initially very different black and white enrollment shares into a single attendance zone, produced the largest average white - enrollment losses surrounding plan implementation in the period of greatest desegregation activity.

Among other findings are that dismissed teachers who were subsequently rehired by a different school are more likely to be dismissed again than other non-tenured teachers in their new school.

Key players in Texas» school - finance debate have offered sharply different views on the need for new state spending to achieve court - ordered equity among rich and poor districts.

Across grades and different student subgroups, the Coleman study found that most of the variation in student achievement is within rather than between schools, but a larger share of the variation is found between schools in earlier grades and among more disadvantaged subgroups.

In one high school we visited, the staff shifted to block schedules, creating longer learning blocks for students; they started shifting students across teachers to accommodate different skill levels, and built more time for collaborative planning among staff.

Disparities of achievement and standards among students from different backgrounds and different schools continue to be my main concern.

Out of Eden Learn is an innovative online learning community developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to promote thoughtful cross-cultural exchange among youth located in different geographic contexts.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

Among different race - ethnic groups, the numbers who complete high school through an alternative means (ie., a GED test) are fairly even (6.9 percent for whites, 8.5 percent for blacks, and 8.6 percent for Hispanics).

As a result, schools in the smallest decile were much more likely to be among the top 25 schools at some point over the period: Even though their mean gains were not statistically different, the smallest schools were 23 times more likely to win a top - 25 award than the largest schools.

Even if the two - step results conceal differences in absolute performance across schools in different contexts, they still facilitate comparisons among schools in similar contexts, which is sufficient to give schools performance signals that can be used to improve instruction.

Within 24 hours of the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. high school, there was a sense among survivors and their families here in this south Florida community that this one might be different, if only because they were determined to make it so.

Six years ago, the Modesto school system sought to foster understanding among students of those different faiths through an unusual step: a mandatory course on world religions.

Engaging the school community Developing a sense of ownership among different user groups is central to our approach as an architecture practice.

Among them include: adapting instruction to different expectations, ensuring academic supports for new pupils, and securing the talent needed to staff an excellent school.

By using a web - based tool like Basecamp, ProofHub, Wrike and the likes, better communication and collaboration can happen among teachers of different countries and they can learn each others» way of teaching without the need to physically visit their schools.

Competition and choice among government - run schools falls far short of what is ordinarily meant by market competition, which requires the free entry of, and choice among, different types of providers.

Like college ratings, they would provide feedback to preparation programs, help prospective teachers choose among programs, and help schools and districts evaluate job applicants from different programs.

Among the advantages of the study circle system is that it involves more and different people in school and community affairs and fosters new relationships, Noucas said.

This past year, boot camp graduation featured competition among different squads of students led by high school students in the ROTC program.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

The term has become popular shorthand among policymakers convinced that schools must do a better job preparing students for an economy that will require different and more technically...

They could also result in new accountability systems that incentivize different behaviors among teachers that change how schools in this country work (for better or worse).