Sentences with phrase «classes than their private school»

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

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adolescent homeschooled students slept an average of 90 minutes more per night than public and private school students, who were in class an average of 18 minutes before homeschooled children even awoke.

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.

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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.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

This, of course, begs the question: Why are private schools, despite having far fewer resources, able to provide significantly smaller classes than public schools?

The report notes that while larger public high schools offer more program choices than smaller ones, even small public schools do better compared to private high schools in programs for which data is available: Gifted or Honors classes, Advanced Placement, and distance learning.

In many Pacific Rim countries, attending additional private tuition classes after school is the norm rather than the exception.

In general, private school teachers have more resources than public school teachers do, and they also enjoy smaller class sizes and other benefits.

Because paying for private school imposes a much greater, and sometimes impossible, hardship on middle - class families than it does on the wealthy, middle - class families have a strong incentive to make public schools work.

The magazine is delivered in class sets of at least 30 to more than 5,000 public and private schools nationwide.

More than two dozen public and private schools in a northwestern Montana county canceled classes on Thursday after the school districts received threats via text message.

We wish that our Governor and State Education Department would pay attention to the need for equitable class sizes, rather than their current focus on taking control of our public schools away from our communities and putting them into the hands of private corporations.»

Because of their lower income than other black middle class families, they do not have the extra money to spend on private school if they wish to maintain a middle class life style (Lacy, 2007).

You can expect BASIS teachers to be a lot younger than the teachers at traditional private schools, and class sizes larger (20 to 25 students).

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

I have been teaching children to young adults how to write with clarity and creativity for more than three decades in both public and private schools and through online classes.

Educating them to incur fewer expenses, rather than going to expensive private schools, wasting time on unnecessary classes or goofing off, will help focus their attention on what college means for their future and will have a significant impact.

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