Sentences with phrase «at weaker schools»

It also claims that children from poorer families are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.

On Top of the News Cincinnati Public Schools to put top teachers at weak schools 06/14/10 Cincinnati.com Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Cincinnati teachers who receive special training to serve as «lead teachers» will no longer be able to return to their home schools, but -LSB-...]

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No, the life - comparison danger comes from the weak ties; from those people you met at a conference, or the friends from High School that you haven't interacted with since they friended you last year.

They schooled me according to a black folk tradition that taught that trouble doesn't last always, that the weak can gain victory over the strong (given the right planning), that God is at the helm of human history and that the best standard of excellence is a spiritual relation to life obtained in one's prayerful relation to God.

Catholics really are the weak kid at school when it comes to silly superst.itions.

Although a number of studies have investigated the evidence for anti-obesity programmes at school, the results have been mixed and the studies weak.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

Today, I call on you, our leading women, to reach out to the young ones, and to the men I say, take a stance to commit towards parity at the work place, home and school, because «a stronger woman does not make a weaker man but a better home, workplace and school.»

Together with her brother, who works in logistics software, and her husband, a professor at George Washington University Medical School, she developed a mobile app to collect all of the data on the supply chain to expose weak points that can be improved.

The lab, at times, feels like a seething primordial soup of Darwinian selection, where only the strongest survive (i.e., publish papers in Science, Cell, or Nature), and the weak fade into oblivion (i.e., become anorexic, turn into technical sales reps, or go to law school).

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weak.

i am asking because i am much weaker than anybody at my school it's so strange cause i started working out and i am 6» 3» feet tall my weight is 95 kg that means i am much bigger than anyone at my school and my muscle mass is bigger i went to a doctor and he said that so why i am so weak.For me i think it's genetics my father and his ancestors never lift weights they are so weak and also my mother's family so if you know how pls tell me.THX

What teaching techniques does Randall employ to weed out the weaker candidates at the training school?

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

His advice for further improvement in Poland and abroad — «We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.»

The central idea here is that teachers could face relatively strong or weak incentives under the same merit pay program as a result of the number of teachers at their school.

I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.

For women entering the labor market directly after graduation from high school in 1972, those with mastery of basic mathematical skills earned $ 0.78 per hour ($ 1,560 per year) more at age 24 than did those with weak math skills.

States with higher - than - expected SAT scores were less likely to pass charter school legislation; tended to adopt such legislation later, if at all; and passed weaker laws.

For males who entered the labor market directly after high school graduation in 1972, the difference between mastery of basic mathematical skills (fractions, decimals, and line graphs) and weak understanding of these concepts translated into an hourly wage differential at age 24 of $ 0.48 per hour (or $ 960 per year for year - round, full - time workers).

But I've learned from Michael Stone, the Chief External Relations Officer at New Schools for New Orleans, that in fact data from CREDO showed the school's gains to be among the weakest in the RSD.

It's important for policymakers to know that graduate school enrollment is exacerbating the black - white debt gap, but there is at best a weak case for calling out for - profit schools in that trend.

The nation must avoid a polarised education system where good schools get better at the expense of weaker schools.»

· Student performance at charter schools is showing signs of improvement over time (mainly because of the closing of weak charter schools).

For instance, one study of the 345,000 - student Miami - Dade County, Fla., school system finds that the most effective principals appear to be particularly adept at weeding out weak teachers and keeping strong ones.

There are at least three plausible hypotheses about a closure's potential impact on outcomes for these students: that they would do better, because a closure eliminates their weakest educational option; that their outcomes would be the same, because they would likely transfer to a similarly low - performing school nearby; or that their outcomes would be the same or worse, because even if they transferred to higher - performing schools, the schools may not be well - suited to meet their needs.

Driven by the need to find someone of the right race or ethnicity, or to hire someone who in no way resembles the previous superintendent, school boards draw at random from a weak pool of itinerant school administrators.

The Great Stagnation of American Education New York Times, 9/7/13» [Professor] Richard J. Murnane, an educational economist at Harvard, has found evidence that high school and college completion rates have begun to rise again, although part of this may be a result of weak labor markets that induce students to stay in school rather than face unemployment.»

As the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has noted, studies «that look back at factors that may have contributed to [a] school's success» are «particularly weak in determining causal validity for several reasons, including the fact that there is no way to be confident that the features common to successful turnaround schools are not also common to schools that fail.»

The Jacob - Lefgren study also shows that school principals are good at identifying the very best teachers as well as the weakest ones, exactly the capability needed to reward the topflyers while weeding out those who belong in another profession.

We'd moved him from a school where communities were weak, a vision was non-existent, and where I regularly observed the principal screaming at kids.

If the marginal costs of improving are also higher at large schools, the problem of weak incentives for large schools would only be compounded.

We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.

«Teachers love the idea of teaming, but it is very important to remember that any team is only as strong as its weakest link,» warned Dr. Layne Hunt, principal at Monroe (Michigan) High School.

There is plenty of demand for school support services at the moment and some existing school chains are extremely weak; Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector, has recently started to worry more about them.

We found that newsprint is much too weak to last the entire school year, so opt for a thicker roll of craft paper which can be found at an office supply, school supply, or paper supply store.

One in five teenagers had very weak academic skills and / or behavioral tendencies not attractive to employers and therefore would not benefit much from a high school diploma, at least given the then - prevalent «shopping mall» structure of most American public high schools.

Charter critics have argued that large achievement gains at No Excuses charter schools are driven in part by efforts to encourage weaker or less committed students to leave.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

Their conclusion: «at least for school choice programs, there is a weak relationship between impacts on test scores and later - life outcomes.»

At those good schools, she said, the state teacher evaluation system could actually get in the way of getting rid of weak teachers.

Thus, grade 6 — 8 pilot schools appear to be weaker than K — 8 schools, at least as measured by their impact on math scores.

Graduation rates, Regents test scores, drop - out rates, the progress of minority students, the performance of the weakest 9th grade students — you name it, and the results, as evaluated and tabulated by the respected university - based scholars at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, were very strong, even remarkable.

The year prior to Dr. Cruz «s appointment, the district entered into a multi-year contract with a commercial mathematics program developer, but it terminated the contract for materials and professional development after several years, at the point of renewal, because of the cost, concerns among the elementary schools regarding the program «s effectiveness, and the program «s weak program fit with a state mathematics textbook adoption.

At a cost of just # 9 per pupil, the findings show that Accelerated Reader could be a particularly cost - effective method of improving the reading ability of weaker and low - income pupils at the important transition from primary to secondary schooAt a cost of just # 9 per pupil, the findings show that Accelerated Reader could be a particularly cost - effective method of improving the reading ability of weaker and low - income pupils at the important transition from primary to secondary schooat the important transition from primary to secondary school.

On the East Coast, Washington, D.C., has become the new darling of the school choice movement, thanks in part to pro-reform leadership (and a weak union) that has delivered an evaluation and merit pay system much like the one New York's reformers once hoped to implement at home.

«Unfortunately, an independent peer review of state education accountability plans (published at Check State Plans) reveals that Texas» plan is weak in holding schools accountable for the success of all English learners.»

Affluent parents still fight for the few slots at elite private schools, but many day schools outside the New York area face weaker demand.

For example, a part of the resolution informs us that charter schools «have contributed to the increased segregation rather than diverse integration of our public school system» and that weak oversight of charters «puts students and communities at risk of harm, public funds at risk of being wasted, and further erodes local control of public education.»

«Kids who are strong in these areas tend to do better in school, and kids who are weak in these areas tend not to do as well in school,» said Melissa Schlinger, vice president of national accounts at ScholarCentric, during a recent webinar.