Sentences with phrase «compare schools and school systems»

Finally, the «common» in «Common Core» was supposed to equip policymakers and policy wonks alike to compare schools and school systems nationwide.

Not exact matches

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaSchool Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaschool completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

Compared to other forms of education and schooling systems, the British private schools in Dubai enjoy a wealth of advantages.

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, includnig student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

Senate Republicans plan to cover a range of issues with mayoral control, including student performance, graduation rates, and «the effectiveness of having a single person accountable for the public school system as compared to the previous community board system.»

«We found that in young healthy mice the immune system overreacted to the influenza virus, which led to more inflammation, greater lung damage and increased mortality compared to healthy adults exposed to the virus,» says lead author Bria Coates, MD, Critical Care physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Professor Mark Viney and colleagues from the University of Bristol and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine studied the immune systems of 460 wild mice taken from 12 sites in the UK and compared them with mice bred in captivity.

Qing Li and his colleagues from Nippon Medical School found that visits to the forest (compared with urban trips) can have a long - lasting influence on immune system markers, increasing the activity of antiviral cells and intracellular anti-cancer proteins — and these changes remained significant for a full week after the visit.

The fact that schools engaging with the Naace Self Review Framework (SRF) have performed significantly better when measured by Ofsted, compared with other schools, puts Naace in a strong position to influence the UK government to ensure that education technology is at the heart of the nation's education system and enables Naace to reach out internationally to build partnerships with likeminded organisations who share Naace's principles.

In their article, «The Relative Equitability of High - Stakes Testing versus Teacher - Assigned Grades: An Analysis of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS),» Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers Robert T. Brennan and James S. Kim, and UMass Boston researchers Melodie Wenz - Gross and Gary N. Siperstein compared 736 student results on the MCAS with teacher - assigned grades in order to analyze the relative equitability of the two measures across three subject areas — math, English, and science.

We got away from that philosophy because we are primarily concerned to measure and compare kids, teachers, schools and systems, as if education was the Olympics or the World Cup.

And while the state does have a tool that allows for some comparisons within school districts, it is clunky and cumbersome compared to information systems in other states and districts available todAnd while the state does have a tool that allows for some comparisons within school districts, it is clunky and cumbersome compared to information systems in other states and districts available todand cumbersome compared to information systems in other states and districts available todand districts available today.

The researchers compared disadvantaged Texas students from successive cohorts within the same school between 1995 and 2000 in order to identify effects when a school encountered a risk point in mathematics under the accountability system.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

This compares to US schools where — 80 % are using the cloud to improve student performance, 60 % to help improve the quality of teaching, 0 % to reduce costs and 20 % to manage their systems more efficiently.

Is there sufficient accountability in those systems to ensure teacher quality and student growth are adequate, compared with the oversight of government schools?

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

During the 2000 - 2001 school year, Jason XII will explore Hawaii and compare volcanic events on Earth with those throughout the solar system.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

Despite the demise of the Building Schools for the Future programme, the use of heat pumps in schools offer a number of advantages: • a simple and cost effective installation compared to some alternative technologies • ongoing schools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable obliSchools for the Future programme, the use of heat pumps in schools offer a number of advantages: • a simple and cost effective installation compared to some alternative technologies • ongoing schools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable oblischools offer a number of advantages: • a simple and cost effective installation compared to some alternative technologies • ongoing schools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable oblischools building programmes can benefit from heat pump systems that improve the environmental footprint and reduce running and operational costs • a low carbon technology that helps to reduce CO2 emissions • a renewable heat technology to satisfy the UK's renewable obligation.

Wilshaw said that he would rate British schools as 6.5 out of 10 compared with education systems in South Korea and some European countries.

As an example of the worth of heat pumps, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, ground source heat pump systems in schools in the USA reduce energy use by 25 per cent to 50 per cent compared to traditional systems and although no such similar study is available for the UK, the expectation is the same.

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

The school's building level academic score — a system used in Pennsylvania to compare schools — rose between 2015 and 2017.

With nothing but financial hardship on the immediate horizon, many districts are taking new approaches to scouring their budgets for potential savings — and, in some cases, also comparing their performance against that of other school systems.

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

Prof. Hattie's hierarchies are an extremely helpful guide, and checklist, against which to compare the Parent, Teacher and Child based items of the school entry screening system.

This information should be provided in forms and formats that enable users to easily compare one school, system, or state with the next.

I can imagine why the private schools in the D.C. program might struggle to improve test scores, especially when compared to highly effective (and highly accountable) D.C. charter schools and an improving public school system.

To test the hypothesis that publicly available information has an impact over and above direct observation of school performance, we can compare the ratings given by respondents whose schools were very close to the cutoffs in the point system used by Florida to assign school grades.

The information components of school choice systems, e.g., the ability to compare schools online and to see side - by - side information on school performance, do not appear to have much influence on school choices that generate racial imbalance.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

A 2009 literature review of the within - country studies comparing outcomes among different types of school systems worldwide revealed that the most market - like and least regulated education systems tended to produce student outcomes superior to more heavily regulated systems, including those with a substantial number state - funded and regulated private schools.

To parents choosing among schools, to families deciding where to live, to taxpayers attempting to gauge the ROI on schools they're supporting, and to policy makers concerned with big - picture questions such as how their education system is doing when compared with those in another city, state, or country, that information is only marginally helpful — and potentially quite misleading.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

A recent pilot program, run by the OECD and administered by CTB - McGraw Hill, promises local schools the possibility of comparing themselves against top performing educational systems like Finland and Singapore.

Each State approved to use a differentiated accountability model must agree to provide data to the Department comparing its model to its existing accountability system, the impact of the interventions applied to schools and districts, and the effects of differentiating accountability on student achievement and school reform.

«We should question the relevance of comparing so - called U.S. national student performance with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems run by states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government,» said Carnoy.

The use of the system across our academies allows Trustees to compare effectively and efficiently, and also facilitates the strategic decision making required to secure improvements at school, cluster and Trust level.

These changes mean this year's results can not be compared with previous years, as this is the first year that schools and pupils have been assessed under the new system.

Hayes compares traditional school design — both the physical spaces and systems — to an egg crate.

A study released today by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. shows no evidence that the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program improved student math and reading tests when compared with a group of similar schools that did not use the system, Education Week reported.

This year's budget season was largely drama - free compared to last year, when schools CEO Sonja Santelises revealed that the school system faced a massive shortfall and the threat of up to 1,000 layoffs.

How do students in your child's school compare with students in other school systems in your state and across the country?

The pass mark will be pushed higher, with claims it will compare with the highest - performing school systems, such as Finland and Shanghai.

Her research (funded by the U.S. Department of Education) on the proficiency of their district - and school - level integrated management systems was used to provide recommendations to the districts and compared with student achievement outcomes and organizational values.

But why compare national student performance in the United States with average scores in other countries, when U.S. students attend schools in 51 separate education systems responsible to states and the District of Columbia, not the federal government?