Sentences with phrase «better than their traditional school»

The program is excellent; the universe is a place where things are followed by other things that both correct and fulfill them; and a logic which gave us something like this movement of fact would express truth far better than the traditional school - logic, which never gets of its own accord from anything to anything else, and registers only predictions and subsumptions, or static resemblances and differences.

The Times editors fault DeVos for supposedly supporting «legislative changes that have reduced oversight and accountability» for charter schools — a charge that treads a thin line between exaggeration and falsehood — and laments that DeVos wants to expand school choice in Detroit, where supposedly «charter schools often perform no better than traditional schools, and sometimes worse» [links in the original].

Whether charter schools are better than traditional schools is still a question that remains very much unanswered in my mind.

Dora posted an analysis of the initiative by local education expert Dr. Wayne Au, who points out that charter schools are undemocratic, take funds away from struggling public school districts, and — contrary to assertions in the initiative's language — are not better than traditional schools.

I had to tweet sharply to ABC News for claiming that Chicago charter schools are better than traditional schools.

The studies come amid a growing debate over the question of whether charter schools are inadequately funded compared with traditional public schools, and if / how they improve student achievement better than the traditional schools.

Charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District on the whole perform better than traditional schools, according to the California Charter Schools Association.

A study at Stanford University last year found that only 25 percent of charter schools fare better than traditional schools in reading.

«But even as many parents have embraced the new schools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University has found.

No doubt because charter schools have not proven to be better than traditional schools, privatization promoters are using the «waiting list» argument to explain the urgent need for Congress to pay for more charter schools seats.

Wisconsin's charter schools are doing better than traditional schools based on the results of state tests in fourth and eighth grade for two academic years.

But Ms. Weingarten, the union leader, cited another study this year from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes — also at Stanford — that looked at charters in 16 states and found that half did no better than traditional schools, and more than a third performed worse.

Nor is it based upon data,» UTLA president A.J. Duffy said, citing studies suggesting that charter schools perform no better than traditional schools.

Are charter schools better than traditional schools?

Some studies suggest that charter schools perform better than traditional schools.

Not exact matches

The good news is: storytelling online is far cheaper, with less risk, than old - school traditional marketing.

There are plenty of non-religious affliated schools that could benefit from, and possibly provide better results than the traditional name - brand schools.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

CEP is a complicated beast, and really a school may be better off serving based on traditional means of identifying eligibility than use the ISP and going toward CEP.

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Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Graduates of career - themed high schools that emphasized the connection between school and getting a good job earned 11 percent more per year, on average, than graduates of traditional high schools eight years after graduating (Stern et al., 2010).

«One major new study shows that 54 of 64 school variables — attendance, grades, discipline, test scores, and so on — are better with a year - round calendar than with traditional calendars.

The results from this study showed a number of charters (17 %) doing significantly better (at the 95 % level) than the traditional public schools that fed the charters, but there was an even larger group of charters (37 %) doing significantly worse in terms of reading and math.

Here is what we know: students in urban areas do significantly better in school if they attend a charter schools than if they attend a traditional public school.

Now, as blended learning continues to improve, it makes an increasingly compelling case to parents, teachers, students, and school leaders that it is better than traditional instruction at addressing their day - to - day challenges.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

That's a grave blow to Carnegie - style professionalism - and becomes more damaging as evidence emerges that such schools perform just as well as, and possibly better than, traditional public schools with all their certified teachers and principals.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

The study, by Jo Boaler, now a professor of education at Stanford University, found that students at the project - based school did better than those at the more traditional school both on math problems requiring analytical or conceptual thought and on those considered rote, that is, those requiring memory of a rule or formula.

The heart of the piece is the claim that Detroit has experienced a dramatic increase in charter schools, but those new schools are no better or often worse than the traditional public schools.

Repeatedly the evidence is showing that schools of choice are compiling a consistently better record than that of traditional public schools.

As the article puts it: «But half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools.»

Like other skeptics, Carter seized on a 2010 report from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes that portrayed many charter schools as doing no better, and indeed sometimes worse, than traditional schools nationwide.

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.

And on the specific claim the article makes that «half the charters perform only as well, or worse than, Detroit's traditional public schools» this is what the Stanford study has to say: «In reading, 47 percent of charter schools perform significantly better than their traditional public school market, which is more positive than the 35 % for Michigan charter schools as a whole.

Today, more schools in each city are doing right by their students so that many kids are better served by today's restructured system than when there was no alternative to the traditional arrangement.

Even 68 percent of present or past school employees endorse funding charter schools at levels equivalent to (or better than) those of traditional public schools (Q. 12).

When educators learn about the work of Envision Schools and the work of our partner schools in the Deeper Learning Network, they almost always ask for evidence or data to show that this approach is better than traditional approaches to leSchools and the work of our partner schools in the Deeper Learning Network, they almost always ask for evidence or data to show that this approach is better than traditional approaches to leschools in the Deeper Learning Network, they almost always ask for evidence or data to show that this approach is better than traditional approaches to learning.

(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.

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.

[1] For a long time, the debate over charter schools has revolved around the simplistic question of whether they are better or worse than traditional public schools.

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.

On average, charter schools in Arizona do no better, and sometimes worse, than the traditional public schools.

These results tell us whether a student attending a randomly selected charter school will perform better, on average, than a similar student attending a traditional public school.

The Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools do a better job teaching low - income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English than traditional schools.

Since 2010, many research studies have found that students in charter schools do better in school than their traditional school peers.

In their new report, they try to argue that traditional defined benefit pension plans are better for charter school teachers than 401k - style plans, but in the process they make some glaringly misleading assumptions.

In light of the seemingly endless civil rights violations in the news daily, I was shocked to see our premier civil rights organization, the NAACP, call for a moratorium on the most effective vehicle for delivering better educational outcomes than our traditional school systems.