Sentences with phrase «between large numbers of schools»

The new research schools - which will each receive # 200,000 in funding over three years — will become focal points of evidence - based practice in their region and build networks between large numbers of schools.

Not exact matches

The company's hope is that a large number of these graduates will be «Opportunity Youth:» young people between the ages of 16 - 24 who are not enrolled in school or are out of the workforce.

To make sure that the closeness rankings didn't reflect a fundamental difference between types of friendships at large and small schools, Bahns and her colleagues adjusted for a number of other variables, including how long friends had known each other and how much time they spent together.

In a collaborative research effort between Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Qi and colleagues analyzed the impact of tooth loss in large studies of adults, aged 45 to 69 years, in which participants had reported on the numbers of natural teeth they had, then in a follow - up questionnaire, reported recent tooth loss.

The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.

A sum of between 14 - 19 would indicate that a limited number of mobile laptop carts and handheld kits would be a choice to consider as an entry - level solution, for the school might not be ready for a large - scale solution in terms of either cost or commitment.

Schools, nurseries and libraries can benefit from the launch of a completely free downloadable Roald Dahl DAY party pack, thanks to a collaboration between YPO, the UK's largest public sector buying organisation, and the Roald Dahl Literary Estate responsible for publishing the world's number one storyteller.

A large number of students pass out every year from school; between 2014 - 2015, the total number of students enrolled in Australian schools grew by approx. 57000 (1.5 %).

After offering substantial financial incentives, they identified a subset of the high value - added teachers willing to move between schools and recruited a larger number of low - income schools willing to hire the high - value - added teachers.

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

The number of black public school teachers in nine cities — including the country's three largest school districts — dropped between 2002 and 2012, raising questions about whether those school systems are doing enough to maintain a diverse teaching corps, according to a new report to be released Wednesday.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Now retired, Holtz says his experiences teaching and working in a number of school districts of various sizes and demographics make him a superior choice to Evers at a time when Wisconsin has been labeled as having the largest gap in academic achievement between black and white students in the nation.

Innovation Schools: Serve large numbers of at - risk students and receive larger investments than Linkage schools (between $ 310,000 and $ 560,000 in the 2014 - 15 schoolSchools: Serve large numbers of at - risk students and receive larger investments than Linkage schools (between $ 310,000 and $ 560,000 in the 2014 - 15 schoolschools (between $ 310,000 and $ 560,000 in the 2014 - 15 school year).

Their work uncovered that turnover and repeated waves of new teachers create several problems for schools and communities: (1) high turnover schools employ a large number of novice teachers; (2) turnover creates unstable teaching assignments; (3) turnover hinders relationships between teachers, students, and families; and (4) turnover disrupts the social capital needed to support expanded leadership opportunities for teachers.

For example, the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is an innovative partnership between ESE, Springfield Public Schools (the state's second largest urban school district), and a number of key school turnaround partners and organizations, all focused on turning around nine struggling middle sSchools (the state's second largest urban school district), and a number of key school turnaround partners and organizations, all focused on turning around nine struggling middle schoolsschools.

Given the relatively small number of students moving back and forth between charter schools and district - managed schools, it is unlikely these students would have a large impact on the overall graduation rate.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

The number of districts and charter schools not capable of giving the Common Core tests could be larger, since only about two - thirds of districts responded to the state survey, which was taken between June and September.

At Brown's urging, the Legislature overhauled state school aid laws to provide more funds to districts with large numbers of poor and / or English - learner students, aimed at closing the academic achievement gap between them and more privileged classmates.

As a recent issue brief on the achievement gap from the Educational Testing Service points out, schools having high numbers of minority students tend to have larger classes of 25 students or more, and the class size gap between high - minority schools and low - minority schools actually worsened between 2000 - 2004.

During the first term of my first year at law school I was somewhat puzzled by how uninterested a large number of the students appeared to be in the lectures — between Facebook, MSN Messenger, and text messaging (and sometimes all at the same time) I couldn't imagine how any of the material was being absorbed.

This week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal heard from Elder Robert Joseph that there is a connection between residential schools and the large number of Indigenous children in child welfare.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

American studies indicate that the frequency is less important for child school success and psychological well - being than the interaction content, i.e. qualitative dimensions like social relations and emotional closeness between parent and child (see Amato and Gilbreth 1999 for a meta - analysis of a large number of studies).