Sentences with phrase «average school systems»

But Ledbetter said he thinks that because Dublin is an average school system, its successes can be easily replicated elsewhere.

Not exact matches

We don't believe everyone deserves a trophy, but we have seen the problems associated with a ranking system, and have urged schools to consider other ways to honor their top students — ways that rely less on a grade point average and that are more similar to the MVP status on a sports team - where multiple skills and traits are valued.

In fact, most homeschool parents pay even more on average for their student's education than those subsidized within the public school system.

Nearly 750 pupils signed up for free or reduced - price meals, the district reported, and now the district serves an average of only two alternate lunches a day at each of the system's 87 schools.

The School District's Class of 2016 earned an average total score of 1577, up from 1560 last school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College School District's Class of 2016 earned an average total score of 1577, up from 1560 last school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College school year, which is the 3rd - highest score out of 180 school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College school systems in the State of Georgia, according to data released today by the College Board.

If your toddlers seem to have above - average abilities, it might be a good idea to begin research into home - based learning at once rather than have them suffer years of boredom, being held back in the school system.

Numerical scores in this analysis place the average performance of Waldorf students above that of students in OECD countries, and above 2 of the 3 high school systems in Austria.

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

Maximum pension benefits averaged $ 68,676 for the 2,495 members of the New York State Teachers Retirement System who retired in school year 2016 - 17 with at least 30 years of credited service time, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center's transparency website.

Worldwide, according to a calculation provided for this article by demographers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, women with no schooling have an average of 4.5 children, whereas those with a few years of primary school have just three.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

The ASG Planning for Education Index showed that Sydney ($ 547,414) is the most expensive city in Australia to educate a child in the private school system, 15 per cent above the national metropolitan average.

«But the uncertain future of the system - weighted average, as well as radical changes to the fee expectations for Catholic primary schools, means principals and families are increasingly worried about the affordability of Catholic schools in coming years.»

Regional Queensland has Australia's most expensive faith - based regional school system, with parents forecast to spend $ 198,012 or $ 21,458 more than the national regional average of $ 176,554.

True, middle and upper income schools in the US do significantly better than low income schools, but even the average suburben upper income school has still a long way to go to catch up with the average school of the world's best performing education systems.

We use our methodology to measure the impact of ERI on the number of experienced teachers who exit the school system, average teacher - experience level, the proportion of new teachers, and student - teacher ratios.

«The retention of the system - weighted average approach to funding non-government school systems for another year does not go far enough.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

When it comes to school systems, Rose says it's no accident how we got here: Schools were designed during the industrial age by people who were «absolutely obsessed» with averages because averages worked so well in managing factories.

School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&School systems would have to raise their annual budgets by an average of about 20 percent in order to respond to three of the major recommendations of the National Commission on Excellence in Education: extending the school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school day to seven hours, extending the school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.&school year to 200 days, and making teachers» starting salaries «market sensitive.»

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

There will not be enough information about teachers who are new to a school system to obtain reliable estimates of their effectiveness based on past performance — they will simply be deemed «average.»

Their statement, issued April 30, the first day of testing in the 432,000 - student system, argues that this spring's test results can not be used fairly to judge whether students should be promoted or sent to summer school, and whether schools should be penalized for year - to - year variations in test averages.

The vast majority of state accountability systems simply report the average scores for each school, sometimes disaggregating by racial and ethnic groups.

In addition, school systems may direct students into schools with different average class sizes on the basis of their performance.

This school system is comprised of 38 schools with an average daily attendance of approximately 30,000 students.

An average of three quarters of students feel they belong at school, and in some of the highest performing education systems, including Chinese Taipei, Japan, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Finland, Korea, Estonia and Singapore that share is even higher.

But the South African school system under apartheid was obviously unique; in some districts, the average class size reached 80 students.

But the absence of a relationship between average school test scores and incumbents» electoral fortunes in the 2002 and 2004 school board elections raises important questions about the assumptions underlying accountability systems.

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.

Equity in the Australian school system is still a bit above the OECD average.

Today, America's public education system gets a «gentleman's C.» Our public school students consistently rank average or below average in international comparisons of student achievement.

The district's passing rate of 31.2 percent for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test was, according to the state's Education Department, «exceptionally below» the state average of 59 percent in 2002.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school syschools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sySchools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Our results show that private school competition, in addition to raising student achievement, substantially reduced the average spending level of the educational system.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, whose private school system is expected to provide the bulk of the seats for new voucher students and which was involved in passing and developing the program, is seeking additional money, noting that their tuition rates on average cover only about 50 percent of the system's costs to educate each child.

The Polish education system includes comprehensive secondary schooling and an above - average proportion of students enrolled in vocational education and training (VET) programmes.

Of course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each year).

This may sound like an average correctional facility, but it's actually the newest addition to the Dallas public school system.

For its part, the school system has churned through a new superintendent every two years on average since 1994.

Starting with the 2008 - 09 school year, individual districts must meet new size caps in each classroom, robbing school officials of the wiggle room they enjoyed during the phase - in period, when school systems were allowed to use districtwide and then schoolwide averages in calculating class sizes.

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

«While our school systems remain above average among developed economies we must acknowledge the reality that our performance is slipping.

The figure also shows how schools serving low - income students are punished by accountability systems based on average test scores.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.