Sentences with phrase «difference at the school level»

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Walliyulla showed that these differences were trivial and at a deeper level there was much in common between the two schools.

Your participation at any level is appreciated and makes a difference to the health of our school.

Your participation at any level is appreciated and will make a difference to the health of the School.

During the same school year in New York City, the differences at the same two grade levels were about 4 and 7 percentage points, respectively (see Figure 1a).

Not sure many understand the difference, even at the high school level.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

We know that education at the middle school level can make a huge difference.

This study introduces two empirical strategies that circumvent these obstacles by examining differences in cohorts of students - a school's group of 3rd graders in one year versus the next year's group of 3rd graders - rather than cross-sections of classrooms at the same grade level.

We know that differences can be made at the high school level from a stand and deliver experiment...» Nisbett said.

At the high school level, educators can empower immigrant students to facilitate conversations across difference with native - speaking peers and staff.

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Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

If a school leader balances the teaching talent on each team so that there are no discernable differences between teams at different grade levels, then parents don't worry so much about «poor» teachers, because they know that there will be strong and less - strong teachers on every team that their child could be on.

There are real differences in performance at the school level.

Sonnemann says that, while the aim is to influence change at a broader policymaking level, there is plenty that schools, principals and teachers can do now to make a difference.

The Coleman team reported that sophomores and seniors at Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by roughly a full grade level after adjusting for differences in an extensive set of family background measures.

The results of the pilot showed that SMART Squad made a significant difference to primary school pupils» knowledge of energy efficiency, bringing them closer to the level of understanding that secondary school pupils already have and leading to a direct change in their energy efficient behaviours both in school and at home.

A short - term objective should be to reduce between - school differences to levels that existed at the turn of the century.

With around 50 % of mental health difficulties occurring before the age of 14, North Woodvale realised that we have the opportunity to make a difference by building positive mental health at a primary school level.

The expansion of the learning material is down to the success of the previous trial, which made a significant difference to primary school pupils» knowledge of energy efficiency, bringing them closer to the level of understanding that secondary school pupils already have and leading to a direct change in their energy efficient behaviours both in school and at home.

Comparing levels of satisfaction among charter - school parents to parents at district schools of choice, there are no significant differences by race or ethnicity.

The difference between the percentage of National School Lunch Program eligible White students scoring Proficient and Above on the NAEP mathematics assessment and those from more prosperous families scoring at that level was 31 points.

Such efforts share a single set of beliefs: Low - income kids are capable of achieving at the highest levels; great schools can make a world of difference; the traditional urban school district is not the only path to great schools.

For the class of 2006, the difference was quite large — 21 percent of black high school graduates completed college, but just 16 percent left high school at a college - ready level in reading (almost exactly the inverse of the numbers for Hispanic students).

Commenting on the small differences in satisfaction levels among parents with children in the charter and chosen district sectors, Paul E. Peterson, professor of government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, notes that «chosen district schools serve a smaller percentage of students of color than charters do, and they are more likely to use examinations as entry requirements, while most charter schools must accept all applicants or use a lottery to select among them.»

While data may show economic integration at the school level, segregation can still take place at the classroom level due to tracking or differences in treatment, supports, and services students receive.

When mathematics proficiency for school year 2005 - 06 is used as a final sorting mechanism (independent variable) for the high - vs. low - scoring principals, the greatest differences, once again, appear at the secondary level.

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

Despite little or no difference in performance at the elementary - school level, girls assume that math is for boys as early as second grade.

There were larger differences among students from low income and higher income high schools, however, when looking at enrollment rates by the institution level.

Students in CAPE schools performed better in reading and mathematics than students from comparison schools, however, the difference was statistically significant only at the elementary school level and not at the high school level.

The Index accounts for differences in state exams and poverty concentration at the school level.

At all levels, undergraduate to doctoral, we prepare educators to make a difference in schools and in the lives of students.

But unlike Connecticut's statewide data and the results from other urban school distrticts, the SBAC achievement results at Achievement First charter schools had incredible fluctuations between grade levels — differences that suggest that students in some grades may of had some «assistance» filling in the answers.

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.

The difference between MATs and local authority schools was more pronounced at secondary school level, with a # 49 saving on running expenses for those in MATs compared to in a local authority school.

ERIC JENSEN is a former teacher who has taught at all levels, from elementary school through university, and who is deeply committed to making a positive, significant, and lasting difference in the way we learn.

Much, but not all, of the racial and socioeconomic sorting we document is accounted for by differences in achievement, particularly at the high school level.

Mutual respect for individual differences at all levels of the school — student - student; adult - student; adult - adult.

The second essay leverages the recent implementation of CR options in North Carolina high schools for a difference - in - differences approach to explore the impact of adding CR options at the school level on graduation and dropout rates.

«Continued inaction by Congress to resolve sequestration, to complete annual appropriations and to reconcile differences between House and Senate budget proposals means that the nation's public schools are funded at pre-2004 levels — at a time when they are educating an additional five million - plus students.

In light of recent research by Sean Reardon and associates at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis that achievement / opportunity gaps are due primarily to differences that occur before third grade, it is significant that school effectiveness can move the needle at the third - grade level.

The overall goal is to create schools where more students across more differences are achieving at a higher level and engaging deeply, without giving up who they are.

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.

Notable Quotable: «When districts pay for teachers using average salaries, it creates a loophole that allows for vast differences in dollars spent per student at the school level.

In particular, focusing on college - bound high school students, we use a difference - in - difference methodology to analyze the impact of the end of race - based affirmative action at the University of California in 1998 on both the overall level of SAT scores and high school GPA, and the racial gap in SAT scores and high school GPA.

One teacher submitted data on 54 fourth - graders (fifth year of school), demonstrating no difference at all in the median alphabet - printing rates between children who had been formally identified as reading below grade level, and the other students.5

No differences were found at the high school level.

Discrimination and difference at the high school level will never end until the adults running these schools can go about their own lives without judging others for their race, religion, sexual orientation, etc..

This level helps young students consider the difference between something that is essential for a school day, versus other things that are not needed (either because they are not required for the activities at the user's school, or because they are wants not needs).