Sentences with phrase «better than some private schools»

Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of the university admissions service, has said research shows that state schools are better than private schools at preparing preparing students for the «new economy».

A new study confirms earlier ones finding that public schools are not better than private schools at fostering civic values.

In 2006, the National Center for Education Statistics found that public school students do as well as or better than their private school and charter school counterparts.

They may be better than some private schools for the reasons you mention, but they are not better than ALL public schools.

Not exact matches

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

One of the officers is heard commenting that students at the private school were driving «better cars than you do.»

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

I've never heard of a selective private school, secular or religious, that didn't do better than a public school.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

If you can afford Private School, secular or not, it is usually a better choice than the lowest common denominator.

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

The school offers a high quality education at a more affordable price than comparable Princeton private schools, as well as generous tuition assistance to qualified applicants.

Good schools — private and public — also attract and keep families, while a wealth of community services allows residents to look no further than their back yard for help and fun.

Quite often a parent will assume that a private school is better than a public school.

Title III of the ADAAA requires that private, non-religious schools take necessary steps to make sure that no child, due to his disability, is «excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the good, service, facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden.

There are plenty of private schools that are no better than good state schools.

Cuomo's proposal is more restrictive than the legislation, which is designed to incentivize donations to private school scholarship funds as well as public schools.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

I chose Montessori because I thought it was a better option than private school, but as a Waldorf teacher myself I'd say thru are really wildly different.

According to the official government count, the program now operates in more than 101,000 public and private schools as well as residential childcare facilities across the nation.

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

But if the public thinks better of local public schools than it does of those in the nation as a whole, it is definitely more satisfied with local private schools than with public ones.

The unions recognize that they have less control over private contractors than over the districts, and that the success of private contractors could well promote the flow of jobs, money, and control from public to private schools.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

Charters are not producing better results than private school choice.

In summary, based on 1) no evidence of a salary penalty when controlling for AFQT rather than years of education, 2) job switchers receiving higher salaries as teachers than as nonteachers, and 3) public school teachers receiving higher salaries than private school teachers, we conclude that the standard regression is, at best, highly misleading.

Although the federal government, states, school districts, and private foundations already have invested nearly $ 200 million in producing and rewarding National Board - certified teachers, this is the first study assessing whether the National Board has actually succeeded in identifying «expert» or «master» teachers who perform better than their uncertified peers.

Research on private school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.

One chapter, by Ludger Woessmann (coauthor of «School Choice International,» research, page 54) uses international data to show that systems that make greater use of public - private partnerships (ideally combining public funding with private operation) perform better than systems that do not.

Taken together, these results give no reason to suspect that private schools do a worse job of providing a civic education than assigned public schools and some reason to think they do a better job.

More broadly, Harvard University professor Robert Putnam's research on civic participation provides reason to think that private schools should be better able to deliver civic education than are public schools.

Because good private schools have discovered this secret, African - American students who attend them are much more likely to complete college than are comparable students from public schools.

It's no secret that the HR practices of private and charter schools — neither of which typically practices tenure — work far better than those of district schools from the standpoint of both school leaders and their students.

* Non-white and non-Asian parents were more likely than white and Asian parents both to choose «better education» as their top reason for choosing a private school (40.5 percent versus 23.7 percent) and to place high school graduation rates and postsecondary information in their top two pieces of important decision - making information (54.1 percent compared to 27 percent).

The state still sends plenty of money to the public schools on Long Island, including some that are better than private academies, thanks to the rich communities around them.

Even if a charter or private school were no better than a traditional forced - choice public school, the fact that parents and students themselves choose the school may mean they perceive distinct advantages in it, real or not.

To date, VHS includes nearly 300 public and private high schools in 27 states, as well as 24 international schools, and offers more than 200 Internet - based courses.

These schools might be better or worse than existing private schools.

But the fact that attending a private school worked for the average low - income student in the FTC program does not mean it will work for everyone, nor that all private schools are better than all public schools.

We have come to see schooling «less as a public good, like a strong military or a noncorrupt judiciary, than as a private consumable,» she writes in The Atlantic, and here Christakis is unimpeachably correct.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

The report cited that private school students may have lower incentives to perform well at university and therefore are more likely to invest more effort in social life rather than academic work.

New analysis of MySchool data and 2017 Victorian Certificate of Education year 12 results shows that public schools with similar Index of Community Socio - Educational Advantage (ICSEA) rankings or Socio - Economic Status have very similar or even better VCE results than private schools.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

Since the private school teachers tend to have a year or so more formal education than free schools provided by NGOs, there is some community perception that they are better, although this may not be the case at all, he notes.