Sentences with phrase «compared than private schools»

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As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

Students in Catholic and secular private schools have higher tolerance scores than students in assigned public schools, averaging 1.6 and 1.8 tolerant responses respectively, compared with 1.4 tolerant responses among assigned public school students.

After again controlling for factors other than competition that might affect a private school's demand for certain teachers, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among private schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

For example, 95 percent of California and Massachusetts families live within five miles of a private school, compared to less than 60 percent of Montana and West Virginia families.

Fully 58 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools said that they would rather send their child to a private school than their current public school (see Figure 2), compared with 39 percent of parents with children in schools that made adequate progress.

* Non-white and non-Asian parents were more likely than white and Asian parents both to choose «better education» as their top reason for choosing a private school (40.5 percent versus 23.7 percent) and to place high school graduation rates and postsecondary information in their top two pieces of important decision - making information (54.1 percent compared to 27 percent).

New analysis of the Year 12 results «school ladder» compares 455 private and public schools (schools with fewer than 20 students at year 12 were excluded) based on their VCE ranking and then compares both their VCE results and school based data including funding available from MySchool website.

Comparing the college enrollment rates of students who were offered a scholarship to attend private school through the OSP lottery with those of students who applied for but did not win a scholarship, we find that students who won the scholarship were neither more nor less likely to enroll in college than students who did not win the scholarship.

Unsubsidized private schooling remains legal, but has been reduced to a statistical asterisk — now making up less than one percent of enrollment, compared to roughly 70 percent for subsidized private schools.

To measure the effects of private school choice, we compare the long - term outcomes of more than 10,000 low - income students who first used FTC vouchers between 2004 and 2010 with outcomes of students with similar characteristics who never participated.

The study, by Christopher Lubianski and Sarah Theule Lubianski of the University of Illinois, compared fourth - and eighth - grade math scores of more than 340,000 students in 13,000 regular public, charter and private schools on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Sen. Paul Farrow, R - Pewaukee, who is crafting a Senate version, said the bill would likely allow public and private voucher schools to choose from more than one test that could be accurately compared.

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.

The TABS study surveyed more than 1,000 boarding school students and alumni and compared them to 1,100 public school students and 600 private day school students.

In a 2014 meta - analysis, Pahlke and her colleagues reviewed the studies and found when examining schools with the same type of students and same level of resources — rather than «comparing [those at] the public co-ed school to [their counterparts at] the fancy private school that's single - sex down the road» — there isn't any difference in how the students perform academically.

It then compared the averages of private and religious voucher schools, charter schools and public schools and encouraged readers to draw the conclusion that voucher and charter schools are better than Milwaukee's public schools because their averaged scores are better.

A federal program that pays private - school tuition for poor DC families, for instance, has been shown to raise students» reading performance by more than two grade levels after just three years, compared to a control group of students who stayed in public schools.

Using results from the math portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, the Lubienskis compared scores from more than 13,000 public, private and charter schools.