We estimate that
the average difference between a school within two miles and a school within two to five miles is roughly six additional driving minutes for families in both rural and urban areas.
Not exact matches
When talking about
average income, it is important to go back to middle
school math and remember about the
differences between medians and
averages.
While the overall employer contribution rate for public
school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group
average may mask
differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.
We first examine the
differences between schools in noncategorical resources by comparing each
school's per - pupil funding to the
average per - pupil funding in the district.
Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the
average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter
school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.
Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on
average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority
schools, the
difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.
Moreover, there are often large
differences between the most - requested and least - requested teacher within the same
school, grade, and year: The
average difference is 7.4, and in 10 percent of grades, the
difference is larger than 17.
In making our estimates, we take into account
differences between countries in their level of income, the
average number of years students are in
school, and population growth rates.
The «burden» on NYC DOE from paying private
school tuition is the
difference between the
average tuition and legal costs associated with private placement ($ 28,571) and the
average cost for a disabled student in the traditional public
schools ($ 24,773), which works out to $ 3,798 per student.
But OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where
differences in learning mathematics
between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship
between students» achievement in
school and their family background is weaker than
average.
He said equity in the Australian
school system is above the OECD
average, but OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where
differences in learning mathematics
between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship
between students» achievement in
school and their family background is weaker than
average.
Nor has the compensation of
school principals much improved; indeed, the annual
average salary
difference in 2011 — 12
between what veteran high -
school teachers (eleven to twenty years) and their principals get paid was roughly $ 40,000.
The graph shows that students in these three ICSEA - based groupings of
schools have different
average reading levels and gives some indication of the influence of socioeconomic factors on
between -
school differences in student performance.
The
difference between the
average reading literacy score for the highest - performing state or territory (ACT) and the lowest - performing (NT) was the equivalent of around one - and - a-half years of
schooling.
Average Year 9 reading results for
schools in three ICSEA groups (2009 to 2013) Of particular concern is the observation that, since 2000,
between -
school differences in student performance in PISA have been increasing.
In PISA 2015, the
difference between the
average scientific literacy score for the highest - performing state or territory (ACT) and the lowest - performing (Tasmania), was the equivalent of around one - and - a-half years of
schooling.
In Australia in 2012, 55 per cent of the observed
between -
school variance in PISA mathematics was associated with
differences between schools in
average socioeconomic background.
In Australia, in scientific literacy the gap
between the
average score of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students is equivalent to around two - and - a-half years of
schooling; in reading literacy the gap equates to around three years of
schooling; and in mathematical literacy the
difference in
average scores is equivalent to more than two - and - a-third years of
schooling.
The
difference between the
average score for the highest - performing state or territory (ACT), and the lowest - performing (Tasmania), was the equivalent of more than one year of
schooling.
The researchers also point out there were 1290 unique
school and grade combinations in the study sample — an
average of 40 students per combination — which meant it «lacked statistical power to find significant
differences between treatment conditions or grade levels».
Percentage point
difference between the
average annual student academic performance growth in PowerMyLearning partner
schools and comparison
schools
For instance, there seems to be little
difference between the
average class sizes, teachers» levels of education, number of computers in the classroom, and Internet connections in
schools attended by blacks versus those attended by whites.
Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little
difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good»
schools (wealthy, suburban
schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad»
schools (inner - city
schools with low scores) when the results are
averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.
«On
average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement
between students from low - and middle - income families... even small
differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high
school.»
Charter
schools have higher normalized SAT scores than traditional
schools: With respect to SAT scores, when we normalized the comparison
between the LAUSD Alliance charter and LAUSD traditional
schools under consideration to equalize the rate of test participation, we found that the Alliance charter students outperformed the LAUSD traditional students with
average scores of 1417 vs. 1299 — a significant
difference.
Sir David Carter, the national
schools commissioner, warned of a «stark»
difference in achievement
between better - off pupils and their poorer peers, who were shown to be on
average 18 months behind in last year's GCSE results.
Average daily attendance won't tell you which students or subgroups miss class regularly and are in need of intervention, and truancy numbers often hinge on the nebulous
difference between what
schools consider to be «excused» or «unexcused» absences, they argue.
On
average, the
difference between the 25 % most advantaged and the 25 % least advantaged students within each country is 88 score points, the equivalent of roughly 2 years
schooling.
The
differences in
school performance levels were pronounced in many cases: The
difference in performance
between a closed and newly assigned
school's policy points — the district's
school accountability policy — was 21 percentage points, on
average.
A recent analysis of 30 states and the District of Columbia found that funding disparities
between charter and district
schools grew more than 54 percent
between 2003 and 2011.72 In FY 2011, charter
schools on
average received $ 3,500 less per pupil than district
schools, a
difference of 28 percent.
At any rate, the
average difference between private and public
schools is so small that they are close to be irrelevant.
Because the students who win charter
school lotteries are the same, on
average, as the students who don't, we can be confident that any
differences in outcomes
between the two groups are the result of gaining access to a charter
school, and not the other factors that influence a student's educational experience.
Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The
average tuition of private
schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious
schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the
difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.
Since the primary
difference between a comedy traffic
school and the
average traffic
school is the material, it is important that you consume all the material provided by the comedy traffic
school courses to get the most of your education.
On
average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this
difference accounted for about half the gap
between the two sets of children in high
school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31