Sentences with phrase «as school demographics»

Your school does not assign students based on parental request, but parents are pressuring you to do so as school demographics continue to show more students in poverty and more students of color.

The SARC contains useful and important information about the school, such as school demographics, conditions of learning and standardized testing results, to name a few.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

They are a demographic, in other words, that in many big - city middle and high schools is seen as a behavioral challenge and an academic liability.

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In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

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As I explained in that post, students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet their voices often go unheard in Congressional debates about how the program is funded or should operate.

Gillirband — who attended Dartmouth College and UCLA Law School before spending a decade as a litigator in Manhattan — attributed her more conservative prior positions to the conservative and overwhelmingly white demographic of the 20th Congressional District, which first elected her to the House in 2006.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

The Journal News has reported that parents and other community members are pressing their case that the damaged Congers Elementary School should be reopened as they scrutinized a demographic report that forecasts declining enrollment in Clarkstown's schools.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Although I'm not sure how much the lengths are ridiculous as much as it is that I'm no longer their target demographic — because I know I would have worn this length dress in high school and college (or shorter) and would have turned up my nose at my current requirement that my dresses at least graze the top of my kneecap.

Yeah, we're not the target demographic for Old School but, as is our choice, we sat in a theater stuffed with the target.

A medieval, «Witchfinder General» kind of setting is appealing to us, but can it hit the teen demographic the same way as vampire high schools or futuristic death matches?

The teen demographic is definitely the target of this film, as Beautiful Creatures features typical high school drama, and even extended make - out sessions.

Significantly, neither of them likely views himself as an education reformer since their work is not specific to a particular setting, demographic, or type of school.

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

While some administrators are using the new opportunities to meet leaders throughout the country, others, such as Fleming County Schools Superintendent Brian Creasman, say they prefer to develop connections regionally with districts with similar demographics and needs.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

As PCSB notes in its press release, these schools are located throughout the city, and their racial and income demographics reflect the city as a wholAs PCSB notes in its press release, these schools are located throughout the city, and their racial and income demographics reflect the city as a wholas a whole.

Charter critics point to reports showing differences in the demographic characteristics of charter school students and their counterparts in traditional public schools as evidence that choice leads to segregation.

Finally, we make use of information on the demographics of students in schools as reported to the Illinois State Board of Education.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.

In light of this concern, depending on their goals, states may wish to adjust schools» scores on these indicators by controlling for demographics, geography, and other factors, much as they already do when estimating student growth.

As any graduate student will tell you, those rates mostly reflect a school's demographics.

We also conducted a more sophisticated analysis that measures the relationship between a family's demographic characteristics (such as eligibility for free - or reduced - price lunch, median household income of the student's residential neighborhood, race, and student prior achievement level), a school's poverty level, and the likelihood that the parent makes a request.

As a new crop of teachers age into the workforce, earn higher salaries, and slowly take their place as the dominant group in schools, the trends may reverse, and we may start to see demographics artifically inflating average salarieAs a new crop of teachers age into the workforce, earn higher salaries, and slowly take their place as the dominant group in schools, the trends may reverse, and we may start to see demographics artifically inflating average salarieas the dominant group in schools, the trends may reverse, and we may start to see demographics artifically inflating average salaries.

On the plus side, legalized school segregation disappeared and most school districts have become as integrated as their cities» demographics will allow.

The survey also breaks down the data across various groups, such as traditional public schools and charter schools and principal demographics.

The Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS), TEA's statewide database, reports key demographic data, including race, ethnicity, and gender for students and school personnel, as well as student eligibility for subsidized lunch (a standard indicator of poverty).

Urban school leaders must demonstrate through word and deed that demographic data, such as economic status, primary language and ethnicity and where one lives does not determine one's destiny.

Scope: Geared as much toward educators and policy makers as parents; offers school overview, student performance, community demographics, and financial data.

As a result of shifting demographics, it's important for schools to consider classroom strategies, family engagement practices, and how to best navigate cultural divides, said Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo, program chair for EIS

The demographics for Elk Grove Unified School District are as follows: 26 % Hispanic, 25 % White, 23 % Asian, 18 % Black, 6 % Filipino, 2 % Pacific Islander, 1 % Native American

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

In order to disentangle the influences of poverty from childhood maltreatment, we conducted statistical analyses to control for student demographics as well as school and neighborhood factors.

We also included information from the Common Core of Data (CCD) and the Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which include data about the size, demographics, and geographic location of the high school attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary instituSchool Universe Survey (PSS), which include data about the size, demographics, and geographic location of the high school attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary instituschool attended when each student took the PSAT / NMSQT, as well as the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which includes the characteristics of postsecondary institutions.

Economic, cultural, and demographic factors are all known to affect those outcomes, as are a panoply of educational policies besides school choice, such as curriculum, testing, staffing, discipline, etc..

Viewed as a whole, selective public high schools have a surprising demographic profile.

The AFT correctly reports that most kids in charter schools seem to do about as well as in district schools, controlling for demographic factors.

For example the sample was not representative of the demographics and achievement characteristics of the schools involved nor did it evaluate other variables such as professional development, or literacy coach support, variables which would have influenced the program outcomes.

Advocates of SGPs, and of «sparse» growth models more generally, view this as an advantage; they worry that methods that do take into account student or school - level demographic characteristics effectively set lower expectations for disadvantaged students.

The call for evidence comes as the FE sector is undergoing Area Reviews alongside increased competition from schools and universities, cuts to public funding, and demographic shifts.

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.

We can place each student in a classroom and school so we know about the demographic and educational characteristics of students» schoolmates as well as the size of their class.

In fact, as Duke economist Charles Clotfelter has pointed out, segregation levels within school districts have actually decreased since the 1970s, after allowing for the changing demographic of urban populations.