Forty - seven percent of
assigned public school students perform community service, compared with 64 percent of students in other religious schools and 71 percent of students in Catholic schools.
Students in magnet public schools have slightly higher scores than
assigned public school students, although the difference does not approach statistical significance.
Students in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among
assigned public school students.
Not exact matches
J.O. then finds one LAUSD
school to let him on campus with cameras — West Adams Prep, a
public charter
school — but he still isn't allowed to go into the
school kitchen and instead is
assigned to work with a group of culinary
students.
NYC workers
assigned to help homeless
students are desperately overwhelmed, leaving many of those children, among the most vulnerable in the
public school system, to miss enormous amounts of
school and fall far behind their classmates, two reports say.
March 5: DNAinfo's Heather Holland reported on a
public elementary
school, P.S. 116, that stopped
assigning traditional homework to its
students and encouraged them to play, read and socialize with family instead, sparking outrage among some parents.
Each
public school is
assigned a grade based on the performance of its
students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.
Two of the six sites — Somers Elementary and the Hudson district — are
public schools to which
students are
assigned, while the other four are
schools of choice.
(In 2012 — 13, there were twenty - six
public schools in Montgomery County whose
assigned students qualified for a voucher.
Open Enrollment: allows
students to transfer to districts or
public schools other than the one to which they are
assigned by address.
Employing this method, we could compare the levels of segregation for the
students in charter
schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially
assigned public schools.
Differ from other neighborhood
public schools in that
students are not
assigned to them based on address.
The only way to know with confidence whether charters cause better outcomes is to look at randomized control trials (RCTs) in which
students are
assigned by lottery to attending a charter
school or a traditional
public school.
And lest it be thought that there is something inherent in religious education that breeds intolerance, remember that Catholic -
school students show higher levels of tolerance than
students in
assigned public schools.
Even within the
public sector, there are
schools to which
students are
assigned based on geography and
schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter
schools, for example).
Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon t
Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious
schools are more likely than
students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon t
students in
assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.
There is no statistically significant difference between
students in
assigned public schools and those in secular private, magnet
public, or religious / non-Catholic
schools.
This compares with 16 percent of
students in
assigned public schools, 22 percent in magnet
public schools, 28 percent in other religious
schools, and 38 percent in secular private
schools.
Once the statistical adjustments are made for all the factors that can influence
students» political knowledge except the type of
school they attend, only
students in Catholic
schools still perform better than do
students in
assigned public schools.
Students in assigned public schools got an average of 2.4 questions out of five correct, while students in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respe
Students in
assigned public schools got an average of 2.4 questions out of five correct, while
students in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respe
students in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private
schools scored an average of 3.2, 3.4, and 3.2 respectively.
Before making any adjustments, the average scores of
students in
assigned public schools are lower than those in Catholic, religious / non-Catholic, and secular private
schools.
While
students in Catholic
schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private
schools are more politically tolerant than
students in
assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's
students in other religious
schools - an amalgam of
schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.
After again making the statistical adjustments listed above,
students in secular private
schools scored substantially higher on the political tolerance index than
students in
assigned public schools, while
students in religious / non-Catholic
schools scored substantially lower (see Figure 2).
However,
students in both Catholic and other religious
schools are more likely to engage in community service than are
students in
assigned public schools.
Whittle's prime example of
assigning students to peer tutoring is already used widely in
public schools.
The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high
school student, and eight other
public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers
assigned to working with low - income, minority children.
Over the past several decades, we have eroded
student accountability,
assigning it as a matter of
public policy to
schools and teachers.
Ritter continues, «Instead of asking whether all
students in charter
schools are more likely to attend segregated
schools than are all
students in traditional
public schools, we should be comparing the levels of segregation for the
students in charter
schools to what they would have experienced had they remained in their residentially
assigned public schools.»
A federal appellate court has struck down a system for
assigning students to
public high
schools in Seattle that uses race and ethnicity as a factor.
The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which
students were
assigned randomly to both
public and private
schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of
public and private
schools.
The survey reveals that the idea of allowing parents to choose which
public school their child should attend, rather than
assigning students to a
school based on where they live, has taken hold.
Schools in Louisiana accepting large numbers of vouchers, which are worth up to the equivalent of the state's per capita public school funding, must admit all students assigned to their s
Schools in Louisiana accepting large numbers of vouchers, which are worth up to the equivalent of the state's per capita
public school funding, must admit all
students assigned to their
schoolsschools.
Assigning homework to
students is a given in most American
public schools.
The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of
public school students to transfer out of their residentially
assigned schools and into private
schools of their choosing.
School choice is a term for K — 12
public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering
students and their families alternatives to publicly provided
schools, to which
students are generally
assigned by the location of their family residence.
Because of the entrenched practice of
assigning students to
public schools based on their neighborhood of residence, urban
public schools tend to concentrate highly disadvantaged
students in
schools characterized by low levels of safety and achievement.
To explore the issue of
public funding, we randomly
assigned respondents to one of four questions that identified different targets of online education: rural residents, advanced
students,
students who dropped out of
school, and home -
schooled children (Q. 9).
To investigate the
public's views about race - and income - based enrollment programs, we asked Americans one of two variations of the following question: «In order to promote diversity, should
public school districts be allowed to take the racial background [family income] of
students into account when
assigning students to
schools?»
Petitioners, an organization of Seattle parents (Parents Involved) and the mother of a Jefferson County
student (Joshua), whose children were or could be
assigned under the foregoing plans, filed these suits contending, inter alia, that allocating children to different
public schools based solely on their race violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.
Assigning students to classrooms based on performance and ability gained popularity in the mid-19th century, when
public schools began enrolling large numbers of immigrant children with limited preparation or capacity for
schooling compared with native children.
Mayor Richard M. Daley has made the key appointments in his state - mandated takeover of the Chicago
public schools — 13 people
assigned to plug the system's $ 150 million deficit and improve education for its 410,000
students.
Today, convoluted Title I formulas coupled with policies in some states that
assign students to
public schools based on their parents» zip code, do not make Title I a vehicle conducive to achieving its primary purpose of «provid [ing] a good education for every boy and girl — no matter where he lives.»
For two decades, education reform in America has focused on giving
students choices beyond being
assigned by home address to a single traditional district - run
public school.
61 percent oppose closing down low - performing
public schools and
assigning students to other
schools.
After all, if
students are
assigned to the
public school that is closest to where they live there can not be a meaningful imbalance between the demographics of the
student population of a
school and that of the catchment area for that
school (other than as a result of differential use of private
schools and quirks in how the catchment area is identified).
Raising
student achievement, of course, is not the only task we
assign to the
public schools.
Thirteen states enacted new programs that allow K — 12
students to choose a
public or private
school instead of attending their
assigned school, and similar bills were under consideration in more than two dozen states.
Most Brazilian
students, however, are still
assigned to a
public school based on their place of residence.
«
Public schools are intractably segregated by race, mostly because
students are
assigned to
schools based on where....
Open Enrollment: Allows parents to choose which district
public school their child attends instead of being
assigned to a specific
school (provided the
school has not reached maximum capacity number for
students).