Sentences with phrase «conventional public student»

The year's math results on the standardized test indicate that the average charter student scored 232, while the average conventional public student scored 236.

Not exact matches

After all, charters are public schools too — and their students have as strong a moral claim on the public fisc as conventional pupils.

To address the issue of student self - selection into charter schools, the researchers compared high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered charter high schools with outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered conventional public high schools, ensuring that both the comparison group and the treatment group of students were once charter choosers.

According to conventional wisdom, the students Match serves struggle to succeed in public schools.

That is, we compare high school and postsecondary outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered charter high schools (the treatment group) with outcomes for 8th - grade charter students who entered conventional public high schools (the comparison group).

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

In this report, I provide descriptive information about the private, non-profit sector overall in each state, and show how it is more similar to the public sector on many dimensions (including the enrollment and economic success of low - income students) than conventional wisdom might suggest.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

Charters have more flexibility than conventional public schools in exchange for being held to additional standards to make sure they are meeting their student goals.

Charter opponents used to claim, without much in the way of evidence, that these schools would harm conventional public schools by «cherry - picking» white, high - achieving students and leaving poor, struggling minority students behind.

Defenders of the status quo fear charter schools because they see them as a threat to funding for conventional public schools, even ones that fail to educate students.

Every student deserves a quality elementary, middle and high school learning experience, but conventional public schooling isn't always a good fit.

Specifically, students enrolled in charters in the state - run district made learning gains, on average, almost twice those of their peers in conventional public schools.

The scores of conventional public school students have largely been static since 2009.

At the same time, the scores of students at conventional public schools have remained roughly the same.

In math, the average score of a charter student was 272, while the average score of a conventional public school student was 280.

The same can be said of a student moving from a conventional public school to a charter school.

Notice that this figure conveys conversational spaces that can be public and social, where conventional knowledge can be introduced and explained, as well as private and individual (such as occurs when students read independently or record their thoughts in reading logs, appropriating and transforming what they have learned).

He specializes in structuring student housing deals that include private, off - campus transactions and public / private partnerships with colleges and universities via both conventional finance and taxable / tax - exempt bond financing.