Sentences with phrase «analysis of last school year»

According to the district analysis of last school year's test scores, 83 percent of students at charter schools are economically disadvantaged and 19 percent are English learners.

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There have been lapses in this program, most notably last year when Facebook market research in Australia engaged in sentiment analysis of more than 6.4 million Australian youth, including 1.9 million high schoolers as young as 14 years old, to estimate when those children were at their most vulnerable, experiencing feelings of being «worthless» or a «failure» as part of research conducted for marketers.

The NRA has given more than $ 7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years, according to an AP analysis, but few have shown any indication that they'll follow the lead of businesses that are cutting ties with the group following last month's massacre at a Florida high school.

However, analysis of Ofsted inspections last year found one in three free schools failing to meet required standards compared to just 19 % of all schools.

The main findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of U.S. adults (age 18 years and older) and oversamples of Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks, public school teachers, and residents of Florida (the last group for supplemental analyses not reported here).

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) information by the Press Association shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 per cent) witnessed a decline in the number of children given their first choice secondary school in comparison to the year before.

Analyses from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center estimate that over 120,000 public high school students in the state of Texas failed to graduate with a regular diploma last school year.

New analysis of trends in GCSE entries over the last five years released today by New Schools Network shows that, contrary to popular belief, the introduction of the EBacc has had no discernible impact on the popularity of the arts at GCSE.

New Schools Network analysis of trends in GCSE entries over the last five years shows that the introduction of the EBacc has had no discernible impact on the popularity of the arts at GCSE.

A StateImpact analysis of Indiana school letter grades shows that the grades of 165 schools went up last year when Tony Bennett, the state schools chief at the time, ordered a change in how the grades are calculated.

There were about 36,000 students in the boundaries of the schools last school year; about 92 percent of them opted to go somewhere else, Tribune analysis of student assignment data shows.

So are some leading education traditionalists: Parents Across America co-founder) Leonie Haimson's Class Size Matters picked up $ 25,000 from the union last fiscal year, while Western Michigan's Gary Miron (whose rather flawed study on KIPP's charter schools earlier this year was the subject of Dropout Nation «s analysis) picked up $ 5,000.

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

The New York - based AUSSIE, which was recently acquired by an Australian company, Editure, took in more than $ 15 million of that amount last year, making it the system's top provider of professional development, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report of a decade's worth of school spending data obtained from the city education department.

In contrast, low monitoring scores are associated with schools that engage in the futile exercise of the educational autopsy — an analysis of last year's scores long after it's too late to do anything about them.

Last year, the middle and high school worked with Education Northwest coaches on a change cycle process that focused the energies of both schools on one strand of literacy instruction that had been a challenge area for Mary Walker students: reading analysis.

Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are «a rare, and largely urban phenomenon,» and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years.

According to an analysis by the Connecticut Conference of municipalities done last year, CT's ECS (school funding) formula is underfunded by $ 763 million.

The district released its own analysis last week of this year's state standardized test scores, showing that for the third year in a row, student performance at magnets topped those at charters, all LA Unified schools, and the state average.

So far, eight states have policies requiring them to do a similar analysis, most of them adopted in the last few years, according to the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group that supports higher standards for schools of education.

Research and analysis of federal data show that our schools have become more segregated, not less, over the last 20 years and «choice» is a big part of that.

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data by the Press Association suggests that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 %) saw a drop in the proportion of children given their first choice of secondary school compared with the year before.

Based on internal analysis of its success data, MTDA has rolled out several new design enhancements in the last two school years, including a simplified course organization, increased access to live tutoring for students struggling on particular assignments or concepts, and an increased expectation of local schools to build a supportive environment around credit recovery students.

According to analysis from legislative staff, the state currently requires that a charter school must meet at least one of five criteria to receive renewal, including having attained its Academic Performance Index growth target in the prior year or in two of the last three years or in the aggregate for the prior three years.

Press Association analysis of Department for Education (DfE) data, shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 %) saw a drop in the proportion of pupils given their first choice of secondary school, compared with the year before, while 68 authorities (45 %) saw a fall in the percentage given one of their overall preferences.

Together, the two companies received at least $ 6.9 million from charter schools last year, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of charter - school expense reports.

In the latest analysis we've produced in partnership with our good friend, Professor Tammy Kolbe of the University of Vermont, we found on these two basic questions that, among non-charter schools, the length of the school day has increased slightly over the last few years to 6.8 daily hours — and a bit more among charters — while the duration of the school year has remained consistent at 179 days.

During the last school year in Boston, English - language learners made up 13 percent of the combined enrollments at 19 independently run charter schools, the analysis of state enrollment data found.

The analysis included results from 48 traditional CPS schools — almost all of them neighborhood schools — that the city closed after the last school year, citing poor academic performance, declining enrollment and the costs of maintaining aging buildings.

Last week wrote about the New Jersey Charter School Association's new analysis, «20 Years of New Jersey Charter Schools: A State of the Sector Report,» from the perspective of the struggles of Paterson's traditional school sSchool Association's new analysis, «20 Years of New Jersey Charter Schools: A State of the Sector Report,» from the perspective of the struggles of Paterson's traditional school sschool sector.

The designation and related sanctions, which cost the Madison School District nearly $ 300,000 this year, were imposed despite a UW - Madison analysis showing Leopold students made some of the biggest improvements in the district on state test scores last year.

While long - term trends demonstrate a decline in walking and bicycling to school, preliminary analysis of 2009 NHTS travel data reveals the percent of five - through 14 - year olds walking and bicycling to school in the U.S. has remained stable at about 12 percent over the last 15 years.

Last year, more than twice as much money was put into new capacity for renewables such as solar and wind power than into new power stations burning fossil fuels, according to a new analysis by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.