Sentences with phrase «demographic differences between schools»

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The biggest demographic difference between BPS and charter schools involves students whose first language is not English.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

«Overall,» the study said, «demographic differences between students in public and private schools more than account for the relatively high raw scores of private schools.

Differences between high and low boundary participation neighborhoods in terms of demographic characteristics, indicators of economic opportunity, and neighborhood characteristics are not significant at middle and high school levels.

[19] The difference between the demographics of schools and neighborhoods is not statistically significant for schools that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students.

Rankings revealed the differences in achievement gains between schools within the same districts, regions, and demographic groupings.

The results indicate, for both primary and secondary schools, that there were marginal positive differences in performance between Local Authority schools and «sponsored» and «converter» academies with comparable demographics and starting points.

Rutgers doctoral student Mark Weber and I recently released a study examining demographic differences between New Jersey charter schools and local district public schools.

Other demographic factors also show major differences between Green Dot Schools and their surrounding district.

However, the socioeconomic and racial differences between families are coming to a head in the classroom as demographics of the schools begin to change along with the neighborhoods.