Sentences with phrase «better than his small school»

Shepherd is a lot better than his small school would suggest, but he might end up this year's version of Tanoh Kpassagnon: a small school building project with a high upside.

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Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

I was somewhat reassured to see, when visiting some secondary comprehensive schools in the UK, that their science labs were smaller and much less well - equipped than the ones I could remember.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Rather than establishing one small hairdressing salon which sells products from other suppliers, she has established and developed a chain of hairdressing salons with its own label as well as a privately owned hairdressing school.»

In the drive to survive changing climates, larger herbivores may fare slightly better than their smaller competitors, according to new research from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

These small gains are better than what researchers have seen after teachers attend training seminars or summer workshops — which cost school systems millions of dollars every year.

If you wish to have qualitative yoga teacher training then it is a good idea to go to yoga schools that teach yoga in small group sizes rather than yoga learning mills.

Director Jon Watts and his five other screenwriters are better at the small stuff — the jaunty high school scenes — than the kapowie CGI battle sequences.

Tom Welling looked more like a Tiger Beat cover model than a small town farm boy, but his gentle blue eyes and aw - shucks smile made his high school freshman Clark Kent all innocence as his powers emerge as he grew up — not your usual problems with puberty.

In just the D.C. district ANet schools, the increases were smaller — 4 percent in English and 6.6 percent in math — but still better than the improvement of less than 2 percent posted by district schools that didn't partner with ANet.

Larger than that and it starts to be hard to see how well a school, particularly a small school, is doing for all its kids.

While the declines are not good news for schools — it means they're competing for a smaller number of candidates — a recent paper found that teachers hired during the recent recession tended to be stronger than those hired during better economic times.

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For most primary school children the smaller size of the keyboard and closeness of the keyboard and monitor actually gives them a better posture than using a desktop computer setup for a tall child or adult.

When parents see Csar Chvez, they see a small school in good academic standing offering a host of extracurricular activities, and with fewer discipline problems than other public schools.

Yet the most striking result from these questions was the fact that the values current in the well - to - do suburban school... were no more oriented to scholastic success than those in the small - town school or the working - class school.

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

Are small schools better than large schools?

We looked at whether 7th graders in a particular school performed better than the same school's 8th graders (relative to the national average for their respective grades) when, on average, the 7th - grade classes were smaller than the 8th - grade classes.

Dr Timo Hannay, founder of School Dash, said: «On the whole those schools that have large numbers of non-British white pupils tend to do better than schools that have a smaller number of them.»

Such schools are generally perceived to be smaller, safer, friendlier, and, more often than not, a better place to learn than district schools.

Hungry folks in the small town of Filer, Idaho, need to look no further than their local high school for a good meal at a great price.

It could well be that Klein's team did a better job of designing the small school initiative than other cities did.

But it does show that small high schools, if properly designed, work better in big cities than large schools do.

Overall, authorizers» scores improved over last year's, and large authorizers (those with 10 + schools) scored better than small ones.

Economically disadvantaged rural and small - town children do a lot better than their city counterparts in learning what they are taught in school, but schooling is not enough.

During our work with district, charter, and private schools — large, small, urban, rural, as well as progressive and traditional — the master scheduling process tends to be more alike than different.

Teachers often talk to us about the impact on pupils» behaviour when they've had a proper lunch rather than filling up on foods full of empty calories, and smaller studies comparing exam results at schools with breakfast clubs to those at schools without found pupils got better results where healthy breakfasts were on offer.

The reasoning: Better to concentrate tax dollars on a smaller number of massive school transformations than to spread the money across schools that perhaps weren't capable of spending it well.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

The 1966 Coleman Report, named for its principal author, James Samuel Coleman, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, found that school structure, teaching and curriculum had a much smaller impact on how well students do academically than long supposed.

And of course my use of a class - size effect on the larger end and a days - in - school effect on the smaller end means that the total effects may well be larger than my conservative estimates suggest.

Fouts was finding that, indeed, superintendent support is seldom enough and that superintendents are much better at talking as if they were in favor of small schools than at taking steps to make them possible.

Nevertheless, despite our greatly enhanced commitments to public education — and despite the fact that children are growing up in better - educated and smaller families than ever before — student performance during this period, as measured by NAEP test scores for high school seniors in math and reading, moved hardly a hair's breadth.

In essence, the Tennessee study shows that students in substantially smaller classes in their first year of schooling (whether kindergarten or 1st grade) perform better than those remaining in classes of larger size.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

Yet studies show that quality of charters across the nation vary, with just a small percent performing better than traditional public schools.

We'd be remiss if we didn't mention that WNYC recently did its own dive into the data to find out if charters or districts are better at retaining their students — and they found that in NYC, across all grades, a smaller percentage of charter students transferred out of their schools than did students at district schools.

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Small numbers of students tested mean MCAS score gains in award - winning schools may represent little more than good luck.

The report notes that while larger public high schools offer more program choices than smaller ones, even small public schools do better compared to private high schools in programs for which data is available: Gifted or Honors classes, Advanced Placement, and distance learning.

A couple of schools outside the Wilson HS boundary (labeled in the scatterplot below) show a similar pattern of small and growing African American populations as well boundary participation rates that are higher than the city average.

It also runs 1,411 «small» schools of between 111 and 209 pupils, 856 of which are rural, as well as 1,859 schools with more than 210 pupils, where just 321 are in rural areas.

«[A] school would do better to invest in promoting collaboration, learning, and professional accountability among teachers and administrators than to rely on VAMS scores in an effort to reward or penalize a relatively small number of teachers» (p. 122).

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

These small gains are better than what researchers have seen after teachers attend training seminars or summer workshops — which cost school systems millions of dollars every year.

An extra half a million pupils were now being in taught in good or better schools, it said, but almost 2.3 million children were still attending a «small minority» of schools that are less than good.