Sentences with phrase «comparison schools led»

Not exact matches

As lead author of the article, Dr Anna Mazenod from the UCL Institute of Education in the UK, explains: «Our findings suggest that secondary school students in the so - called bottom sets may be unintentionally encouraged to remain more dependent on their teachers in comparison with their peers in higher sets.

Stylianos Antonarakis of the University of Geneva Medical School led the Swiss team that discovered these «conserved» regions through comparison of mice DNA with human chromosome 21.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock and other domesticated mammals, wildlife and humans.

Some of the international comparisons in the report will truly shock people who assume that we lead the world in education and youth development,» adds Pathways co-chair Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.

Note also that most virtual schools receive significantly less funding than conventional schools — often 20 to 30 percent less (though there are no systematic and reliable data on funding rates or comparisons nationally)-- leading to interesting questions about equity, parity, and productivity.

Please read «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation: Flawed comparisons lead to overstated conclusions,» by Gary Ritter, Nathan Jensen, Brian Kisida, and Joshua McGee, available online at EducationNext.org.

The worksheet is a starter activity (based on types of words); the presentation contains a starter on «denn / weil», and the lesson leads towards students» writing their own school reports for their teachers using comparisons.

Comparisons were made with results in five other local schools identified by the project lead; therefore the results must not be mistaken for those of a trial.

In a comparison of highly successful middle schools (as measured by student achievement scores) to a national sample, Petzko (2004) found that the highly successful schools were more likely to have grade - level or content - area teams that were led by designated teacher leaders.

Despite these challenges, the students in schools led by NISL - trained leaders caught up to and surpassed the students in comparison schools as a result of the NISL EDP.

By eviscerating No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration also takes away real data on school performance, making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and complicating the activities of researchers (including those doing state - by - state comparisons).

NISL - trained principals led schools with more challenged student populations than the comparison schools including higher percentages of English Language Learners, students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and students with special needs.

Most striking, NISL - trained principals led schools whose students started with lower levels of proficiency in both math and reading prior to the training their principals received from NISL, but caught up to and surpassed the comparison schools as a result of the NISL EDP.

Dariush Mozaffarian, lead study author and professor at Harvard Medical School, says, «This price difference is very small in comparison to the economic costs of diet - related chronic diseases, which would be dramatically reduced by healthy diets.»

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