Sentences with phrase «better than our regular schools»

The controversial WBD movie promotes charter takeovers of schools, yet charter schools are no better than our regular schools.

Academies may not, on average, be better than regular schools, but the best ones are doing astonishing things.

Not exact matches

Having said that, I think these are probably better for you than most of the regular muffins that one might get at a grocery store, school / office cafeteria or at a coffee - shop.

At 196 centimeters, Artyom is even taller than Zlatan, and his technical abilities are much better than those of a regular old - school centre - forward.

In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math school than a regular school.

I just love a good towel that makes pool pictures better, folds up thinner than your typical old school towel, and is usually much larger than a regular towel.

Whether charter schools do a better job than regular schools in closing the achievement gap between English - learners and students who already have a command of the language is expected to be a thread in testimony at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 17 before...

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

«It's better than a regular public school,» says 4th - grade teacher Tina Corsby.

On the NAEP exams in reading and mathematics, students in charter schools perform no better than those in regular public schools, whether one looks at black, Hispanic or low - income students, or students in urban districts.

Arne Duncan thinks that magnet schools are the answer, yet there is absolutely no evidence that they succeed better than regular public school despite the inherit advantage of having students of parents interested enough in their children's education to enroll them in one.

Disadvantaged, disabled, and limited - English - proficiency pupils should carry with them substantially larger amounts of funding than «regular» students, both to make them more attractive to schools and to assist schools with the added costs of teaching them well.

[6] There are more students in these 31 choice districts than are served by magnet and charter schools combined in all 13,000 + regular school districts in the U.S. [7] The best designed of these systems are fair to parents and maximize the likelihood that students will be matched with the school that their parents list as most preferred.

I've never understood how Portfolio Districts are expected to perform these regulatory functions any better than regular old school districts.

ONE OF THE long - standing misperceptions about charter schools is that they cherry - pick the better students from an area, resulting in higher test scores than in comparable regular public schools...

That is the promise of American public education — that all students will be well - educated — not just those chosen by lottery for a charter school that may not turn out to be better than the regular neighborhood school.

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

Wood pointed to research showing that many charters perform no better than regular public schools, and some perform worse.

On average, a new federal study shows, charter schools are no better and in some cases worse than regular public schools, but KIPP's test scores show it to be a glaring exception to that general rule.

But students who use vouchers or attend charter schools generally do no better academically than comparable students who remain in regular public schools.

More than two - thirds of charter students were found to perform better in reading and math and to have a significant achievement advantage over students in the nearest regular public school.

Charter opponents also argue that although some charter schools do well, the majority don't do better than regular public schools.

The WBD movie is produced by the same company that produced the controversial documentary «Waiting for Superman,» which put teachers in a very bad light and presented false and misleading information about charter schools, which overall have not had any better track record in the US than regular schools.

When asked what type of school they would select to obtain the best education for their children, nearly two - thirds of registered voters (66 %) would select something other than a regular public school.

In many subject / grade combinations students in these subgroups in charter schools performed significantly better in 2011 than those in regular public schools.

A large - scale government - financed study has concluded that students in regular public schools do as well or significantly better in math than comparable students in private schools.

AVC: What do you say to people who counter that testing illustrates that charter schools don't do better than regular public schools?

South San Antonio Independent School District superintendent Abelardo Saavedra said ELL funding calculations could better mirror the state's approach to special education students, who receive two to five times more state funding than a regular student.

Despite receiving millions in additional funds from CPS and private entities that regular public schools do not get access to, AUSL «results» are little better than — and in some cases lag behind — district averages.

We should expect regular schools to do better and bring students up to their standards, rather than washing their hands of their charges and sending them to last - chance academies such as Crescent.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

The respected Stanford CREDO study in 2014 found that — nationally — neatly 40 % charters are worse than regular public schools, while fewer than 20 % are any better, and that mainly because they tend to be selective.

Charter school operators, who are in the business because they believe they can do a better job of educating students than the regular public schools, argue they sought to bring the benefits of their schools to the students most in need.

As a «regular public school» teacher, I'm a lot better than the KIPP teachers I've observed (and I've observed in more than one KIPP school).

Most charter schools have done no better for disadvantaged children than the schools from which they came, while stripping regular schools of their most motivated students.

The spokesperson also repeated the government's regular assertion that «there are now 1.9 million more pupils in schools rated good or outstanding than in 2010».

«The vast majority of charter schools get no better and no worse test - based results than comparable regular public schools,» Matthew Di Carlo, a senior fellow at the Albert Shanker Institute, wrote in a recent policy brief that examined a large body of charter - school research.

For example, classroom concentration, attention, and memory immediately increase after physical activity, and student test scores correlate positively with regular participation.122 Research has also shown that elementary school students that perform better in reading, mathematics, and science have higher physical fitness test scores.123 In addition, children who perform below grade level academically and participate in a physical activity program are more likely to improve their performance on standardized tests than are their less active peers.124

Sometimes students in regular, old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.

Critics of charter schools have often pointed to those schools» ability to expel uncooperative and disruptive students, far more readily than regular public schools can, as a reason for some charter schools» far better educational outcomes, as shown on many tests.

A study released last week by the Illinois Policy Institute, which has offices in Springfield and Chicago, and the Lexington Institute, a think tank based in Arlington, Va., shows that both Hispanic students and English - language learners in UNO schools score better on state reading and math tests on average than do those same groups in regular Chicago schools.

But the best evidence we have indicates that most charters are little better than regular public schools, and perhaps slightly worse during their start - up periods (Gleason, Clark, Tuttle, & Dwoyer, 2010).

In another good study, the RAND Corp. found that charter high school graduation rates and college attendance rates were better than regular district school rates by 15 percentage points and eight percentage points respectively.

Within the UNO school community, plenty of parents and students say network schools are a better option than the regular public schools.

Is there new research that shows the charter movement gets better academic results than regular public schools or magnet schools?