Sentences with phrase «between average school»

But the absence of a relationship between average school test scores and incumbents» electoral fortunes in the 2002 and 2004 school board elections raises important questions about the assumptions underlying accountability systems.

Not exact matches

When the team looked at these numbers — average rate of improvement between third and eighth grade in math and reading — many schools that are traditionally thought of as «bad» suddenly seemed good.

When talking about average income, it is important to go back to middle school math and remember about the differences between medians and averages.

Between the 2010 — 2011 and 2011 — 2012 school years, average enrollment in the schools we studied remained stable (381.3 to 379.7 students — Table 1).

Homeschooling statistics show that those who are independently educated typically score between the 65th and 89th percentile on such exams, while those attending traditional schools average on the 50th percentile.

According to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury, 140 football players - from youth to high school, college to pro, died from heat stroke between 1960 and 2014, with an average of 2.6 heat stroke deaths in football for the most recent five year period from 2010 to 2014 (two in 2014).

As with magnitude, the impact frequency reported in the current study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high school players.

Sadly, the fact is that, while they are one of the most - if not, the most - preventable of all catastrophic sports injuries, heat - related deaths among high school and college football players in the United States nearly tripled between 1994 and 2009, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, with an average of nearly three players dying each year during that time period versus about one death per year during the previous 15 years.

So there's a huge gap between what they're getting on an average school night and what they require.

● Based upon parental reports, the average grade point average for high school students is between 3.15 and 3.24.

Yet, according to national transcript data, the average high school grade point average is between 2.95 and 3.0.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

Between 1995 and 2006, the farm program paid out $ 140.2 billion in crop subsidies — an average of $ 12 billion per year, or roughly equal to the annual school - lunch budget.

The Fiscal Equity suit resulted in an agreement between the state and its schools, in which the state committed to a plan to fund high and average need districts.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

The age of single sport specialization significantly differed between groups and occurred at an average age of 12.7 ± 2.4 for high school, 14.8 ± 2.5 for collegiate and 14.1 ± 2.8 for professional athletes.

They add that veterans feel separate from the rest of the student body because of their extended gap between high school and college, older average age, and deployment experiences, thus creating additional challenges for them to integrate with the rest of the classroom.

«For example, we discovered a strong, positive correlation between the average years spent in school and a population / health workforce ratio.

Women put on an average of 2.2 pounds per year between ages 18 and 30, says Penny Gordon - Larsen, PhD, an associate professor of nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A similar study of how growth responds to the percentage change in the labor force's average years of schooling found no relationship between growth in years of schooling and growth in GDP per capita.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

But average effects do not necessarily apply to the 2 percent on the border line between graduating and failing to graduate from high school.

At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.

On average, in each year between 1993 and 1996, more than 18 percent of Texas teachers decided not to remain at the school at which they were teaching.

On average, teachers who move between districts after no more than two years at a school improve their salaries, though just barely.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

While the overall employer contribution rate for public school teachers is higher than for private - sector professionals, the group average may mask differences between teachers who are and are not covered by Social Security.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

Although the results varied considerably between schools, the overall achievement of students across the 28 schools represents an average effect size of 0.6, which can be seen the shift in the relative proportions in each zone of the LAF from August to November shown in Figure 1.

However, although on average they were one term ahead of students in all - girls schools and one year ahead of co-ed students the gap remained the same between the year groups, suggesting there's no value - add over time.

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).

A compelling way to see this is to look at the relationship across schools between the average test - score gain students make between the 4th and 8th grade and our summary measure of their students» fluid cognitive ability at the end of that period (see Figure 2).

In 1890, the average adult had completed about eight years of schooling, and by 1960, it was nearly 14 years (Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology).

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

Houston ranged between 0.2 and 0.25, except for one year, while Dallas had the highest levels of inequality, hovering around 0.3 until the 2000 — 01 school year, when it experienced a dramatic drop in the level of inequality in the district, indicating that a greater percentage of schools were funded at or near the district's average allocation per pupil.

We first examine the differences between schools in noncategorical resources by comparing each school's per - pupil funding to the average per - pupil funding in the district.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

A 2013 quasi-experimental analysis found that, «on average, extended learning time (ELT) tutorials at Match Charter Public High School raised student achievement on the 10th grade English language arts examination between.15 and.25 standard deviations per year.»

Moreover, there are often large differences between the most - requested and least - requested teacher within the same school, grade, and year: The average difference is 7.4, and in 10 percent of grades, the difference is larger than 17.

Solving the Substitute Shortage, Part 1: Four Rules to Keep Your Best Subs Coming Back Between kindergarten and high school graduation, the average student will spend 187 days — more than one full school year — with substitute teachers.

In making our estimates, we take into account differences between countries in their level of income, the average number of years students are in school, and population growth rates.

To put the gains in perspective, it may help to know that 5 to 6 percentile points is just under half of the gap between the average disadvantaged, minority student in Chicago public schools and the average middle - income, nonminority student in a suburban district.»

Using the same statistical method as in the Air Force example — which defined average as being between the 35th and 65th percentiles on all variables — we found that only one out of the 1,142 students in the school was average across all nine SEL measures.

Ironically, there could be a disjunction between that aggregate and the average performance of individuals at the school, for a variety of reasons.

We address this question here by examining the link between the establishment of charter schools in North Carolina and average student proficiency rates at the traditional public schools most affected by the new source of competition.

The «burden» on NYC DOE from paying private school tuition is the difference between the average tuition and legal costs associated with private placement ($ 28,571) and the average cost for a disabled student in the traditional public schools ($ 24,773), which works out to $ 3,798 per student.

A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

The study examined migration between 2000 and 2012 and found that there were no links between the number of migrant pupils and the performance of schools, including the UK, where schools with a high proportion of migrant families did not perform any differently from the average.

Some of the acknowledged limitations of the data used in the Coleman study — the need to focus on the relationship between teacher variables averaged to the school level and student achievement, in particular — have been addressed by more - recent research.