Sentences with phrase «comparison to other schools»

Independent evaluators have found that schools embracing EL Education programs significantly advance students» reading and math abilities in comparison to other schools.

Not exact matches

We noted that no other major institution in American society» notably the public school system, social workers, Boy Scouts, athletic associations» has been subjected to similar scrutiny, and that some experts believe that the incidence of sex abuse by priests and bishops is relatively small by comparison.

Each year public school children are subjected to standardized tests to measure their achievements in comparison to all other public - schooled kids.

In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

The comparison was to observe how school lunch worked in other countries, France in particular, which has a well - known and respected school lunch program.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

Schools were matched and paired for analysis, with one school teaching the curriculum and the other school not teaching it, to serve as a control group for comparison.

Our methodological approach allows for an «apples - to - apples» comparison and allows us to disentangle the effects of school spending from that of all these other countervailing forces.

The most appropriate comparison tool might be a sort of similar - schools index that compares each school to other schools with similar demographics (the state used to have this).

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 today.

These data are a useful starting point, but may be confounded by comparisons to statewide averages instead of to the other schools in these students» neighborhoods as well as the differences in program participation discussed earlier.

... But we also would like to take the research further, beyond UNE researchers, to see [if] other researchers across Australia or maybe even the world would like to do a bit of comparison of the use of disappearing media in schools Australia - wide, New Zealand, or beyond.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Supporters and critics, in their various approaches to discerning NCLB's impact, share a significant problem: because NCLB applies to all public school students, researchers lack a suitable comparison group and so have been unable to distinguish the law's effects from the myriad other factors at work over the past eight years.

As CFE v. New York shows, the easiest way to gauge «essential resources» is by comparison with other school districts.

This depends on how schools assign students to such programs, in particular, whether a child's eligibility is based on a comparison to other children in his grade or to other children his age.

In other words, citizens appear to be evaluating schools based on local comparisons or on information provided by their state testing system without taking into account the relative rigor of state standards.

It is even more difficult to make comparisons within the private sector, which comprises Catholic schools, religious schools sponsored by other faiths, and secular schools.

According to the report, TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results, released by the Australian Council for Educational Research, average achievement levels in secondary schools continue to slide in comparison with performances in many other countries.

• In - depth view on what the industries really want from graduates • The support of each education tiers — Early, primary, seconday and higher learning in shaping holistic graduates • Asessing the quality and cost of Malaysia's education in comparison to other ASEAN countries • Gaining insights on new teaching methods — Outdoor learning and trust schools • Transforming education system to cater new generation

Restricting the comparisons to students attending the same school ensures that any effects we observe reflect the impact of troubled students and not the fact that schools with more such students differ in unobserved ways from other schools.

These sites all offer users the ability to compare their school with others in the same school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons across districts in different states), and a few rank schools based on test performance or other factors.

Whereas the schools identified for closure experienced an increase of 6.5 percentage points relative to their projected graduation rate, the other low - performing comparison schools experienced an increase of 1.4 percentage points.

The upshot: Even as they write «college and career readiness» rates into their ESSA plans, many states have no reliable way to determine how many of their high school seniors are reaching that point and, regardless of what they use for standards and tests, practically none will be able to make valid comparisons with other states.

The second article offers a more direct comparison of charters to other public schools, using a random lottery design.

Yes, America's schools are often outscored by other nations on international exams, but to what extent do those comparisons measure schools and to what extent are they reflections of cultural attitudes over which schools have little control?

It is early to make comparisons, not even 50 free school inspection reports have been published to date, however, when compared to all schools inspected during the same period, under the new, more rigorous Ofsted framework, free schools are performing well: 73 per cent have been judged as «outstanding» or «good», compared with 63 per cent of other schools.

Our database also includes a «comparison clipboard» that allows users to easily click on a school or district and paste it onto an online clipboard, then add more schools or districts to see how they stack up next to each other.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendTo argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agendto which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

In a briefing paper prepared for the National Academy of Education (NAE) and the American Educational Research Association, Linda Darling - Hammond and three other distinguished authors reached the following conclusion: «With respect to value - added measures of student achievement tied to individual teachers, current research suggests that high - stakes, individual - level decisions, as well as comparisons across highly dissimilar schools or student populations should be avoided.»

Ed - Data comparisons enable users to view test results for multiple schools or districts, along with other data, in one place.

To understand what nonsense this is, see the comparison of Ravenswood to other schools with comparable percentages of low - income and ELL students in Andy Rotherham's blog post..To understand what nonsense this is, see the comparison of Ravenswood to other schools with comparable percentages of low - income and ELL students in Andy Rotherham's blog post..to other schools with comparable percentages of low - income and ELL students in Andy Rotherham's blog post....

All of this is meant to say that using blunt comparisons of test results does not prove that charter schools or public schools are any better or worse than each other in terms of academic performance, or any other characteristic.

She also claimed that Ofsted's focus on schools may be due to the larger amount of control government has over them in comparison to other early years providers — including powers over place supply.

No matter what label is stuck on University Technology Colleges and Studio Schools — there are far too few of them to make a meaningful comparison with other types of school.

Parents will now see an explanation of the skills being tested and how their child compared to the school average, state average, district average and PARCC average, a comparison to students in other states taking the same test.

It does say their math scores lag behind other schools, but that's not a fair comparison unless New Orleans schools used to be better than average, which I highly doubt.

There's no way now to make the comparison perfect, but one preferred method would be comparing the choice payment to what public schools get from local property taxes and general state aids, we heard from researchers or other officials at DPI, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance and School Choice Wisconsin.

An additional comparison school sample of 13 small schools of choice with a focus other than STEM is being used to help disentangle the effects of a STEM - focused program from those of small school size and school choice.

There are many ways of assessing student performance, but only standardized tests permit an accurate comparison of teachers, schools, and school systems to each other and to norms or established standards.

Another interesting comparison: Over five years, state regulators removed 18 schools from scholarship programs, denying participation to 18 applicants, with sanctions on many others — a stark contrast to public school districts, which rarely (if ever) shut down poorly performing schools.

The Equity Rating measures how well a school serves the academic development of all students, looking specifically at: 1) the performance level of disadvantaged students on state tests in comparison to the state average for all students, and 2) in - school performance gaps between disadvantaged students and other students.

This was followed in July 2017, by new evidence of learning gains in a midline - assessment demonstrating Bridge PSL public schools experiencing accelerated learning in comparison to their peers in other public schools.

After seeing triple - digit math gains in comparison to other Texas schools on STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) coming out of Willow Springs, KISD rolled out ST Math to all 32 of its elementary schools, with funding support from Toyota USA Foundation and Xerox.

The data demonstrates that students in Bridge PSL public schools are experiencing accelerated learning in comparison to their peers in other schools.

In a «competitive marketplace» of schooling within a geographic space, under this incentive structure, the goal is to be that school which most effectively cream skims — without regard for who you are leaving behind for district schools or other charters to serve — while best concealing the cream - skimming — and while ensuring lack of financial transparency for making legitimate resource comparisons.»

Public schools are asked to be competitive and act more like private entities, but there is little comparison to the flexibility of the private sector in forcing public schools to furlough teachers based on seniority rather than performance or other important educational considerations.

Along with adjustments to the ECS grant funding level, the budget adjustment agreement also alters the funding levels — in comparison to the FY 2019 appropriated amounts contained in the biennial budget — for some other state education grants, including the Excess Cost grant and grants for the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, vocational agriculture programs, Priority School Districts, and the Open Choice program.

Figure 5: Performance of students in the Branford School District in comparison to students from other districts on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC).