Sentences with phrase «better than their public school counterparts»

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

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.

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

For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling.

To quote from a famous interview given by James Coleman, cited in this book, «Catholic high schools educate students better than public schools do... students drop out four times more often than their Catholic school counterparts.»

In general, charter schools that serve low - income and minority students in urban areas are doing a better job than their traditional public - school counterparts in raising student achievement, whereas that is not true of charter schools in suburban areas.

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.

In fact, public charters are doing better than their district school counterparts at getting these at - risk students to graduate, as can be seen in data from the 2008 high school cohort (students graduating four years later and released in 2013).

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

, found that for every charter performing better than the traditional public schools in its area, there are two charters either at or below or the performance of their public school counterparts.

But the most extensive survey of student performance at charter schools, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that, of the 2,403 charter schools tracked from 2006 to 2008, only 17 percent had better math test results than the public schools in their area, while 37 percent had results that were «significantly below» those of the public schools and 46 percent had results that were «statistically indistinguishable» from their public - school counterparts.

For example, the NAEP data reveal that charter fourth - graders in California and Arizona, representing fully a third of all charter schools, do better than their traditional public school counterparts in reading performance.

While the report recognized a robust national demand for more charter schools from parents and local communities, it found that 17 percent of charter schools reported academic gains that were significantly better than traditional public schools, while 37 percent of charter schools showed gains that were worse than their traditional public school counterparts, with 46 percent of charter schools demonstrating no significant difference.

You can also do a curriculum check yourself, to ensure that the independent schools you're considering follow courses of study that are the same or better than their public counterparts in your province.

On the contrary, a study of midcareer lawyers, surveyed five years and 15 years after graduating from the same school, showed that better - looking attorneys often chose a specialty that involved more contact with the public, and they earned more money, billing at higher rates than their counterparts.