Sentences with phrase «difference between schools doing»

The findings showed that there is a stark difference between schools doing a great job at delivering strong food education and others struggling with a lack of time, resource and support.

The teachers union president says when it comes to her thoughts on the system as a whole, the differences between schools doesn't just come down to parity in funding, but parity in opportunity.

The differences between schools don't amount to a great deal in educational terms.

Not exact matches

The main difference between this type is that the government does not pay the accrued interest while you are in school and during periods of deferment.

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

The difference in understanding and behaviour between those who went to Catholic schools and those who did not does not seem that large.

I would say that if you don't know the difference between natural death and murder, you missed too many days of school.

This brings us back to our point: the differences and relation between a theological school and Christian congregations in regard to doing theology.

Viladesau does not shirk the important differences between various schools of Christian theology in understanding of the place and function of art and beauty in relation to God.

Second, my account does little justice to the differences between individuals, programs and types of schools.

What they don't need to worry about is what to feed their kids after school to keep them powered through soccer practice or debate team or a night of trying to remember the difference between Chester A. Arthur and Rutherford B. Hayes (seriously, who were those guys??).

The thread starts with someone talking about Zeller was polished so IU didn't deserve credit for «developing» him, as opposed to Purdue with -LCB- JJ, Hammons, Haas, Biggie -RCB-(the implicit message is that there's clearly a difference in talent level between Zeller and the Purdue quartet coming out of high school, just like there is a difference in talent level between Ben Simmons and Cody Zeller coming out of high school).

Does that mean high school coaches are idiots who couldn't organize a two - car parade and can't tell the difference between a 2 - 3 and a 3 - 2 zone?

Because of differences in high school requirements between Canada and The United States, St - Juste doesn't yet know which class he will be in

That's one difference between pro and college — now he doesn't have to worry about classes and going to school and all that stuff.

Beyond the school successes, do you see differences between the parts of the city within the Children's Zone and nearby neighborhoods where the program hasn't expanded yet?

Despite the differences between the food in America and in other foreign nations, school lunches across the world do share one thing in common.

You do not seem to know the difference a between infant and neonatal mortality, something that I find strange in people that attend medical school.

Jorvelyn says one difference between herself and her friends who are still in public school, - they aren't encouraged to do things like apply to Ivy League colleges, even if their grades are high.

Zimet did attack Cahill's stand on sales - tax policy, but on other issues, including school aid, women's reproductive rights, ethics and legislative misfeasance, gay rights, local hospitals and campaign finance reform, there wasn't much difference between these two liberal Democrats.

To make sure that the closeness rankings didn't reflect a fundamental difference between types of friendships at large and small schools, Bahns and her colleagues adjusted for a number of other variables, including how long friends had known each other and how much time they spent together.

Schools, teacher quality and family income all play a large role in student success, but these factors do not fully explain the academic differences seen in the U.S. between whites and disadvantaged racial / ethnic minorities, including blacks and Hispanics.

You're correct in one of your comparisons, at least, which is that there's no difference between what Heartland does and the attempts to get creationism taught in public schools.

It doesn't matter if you have graduated from the traditional Street Fighter - school or if you don't know the difference between a Hadoken and a Dragon Punch.

Likewise, in a September 3, 2003, column examining the differences between state and federal accountability systems, Winerip looked at North Carolina, where, he said, some schools that were doing just fine under the state's previous accountability system were now being flagged as needing improvement under NCLB.

We do not find noteworthy differences between the two sectors with respect to satisfaction with the school building and facilities (4 points) or with ethnic and racial diversity (2 points).

New York — On a recent Friday morning, while legislators and other state officials were making financial decisions that would make the difference between retaining and immediately laying off 1,000 of New York City's public - school teachers, Frank J. Macchiarola did what, in almost any other case, would be described as switching hats a few times.

But getting all of this done will be the difference between MET having a transformational effect on K — 12 schooling and MET retiring to a dusty shelf alongside other once - promising studies.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

We do not find a consistent pattern of differences in attrition rates between KIPP and district schools (see Figure 2).

There do not appear to be any notable differences between KIPP and comparison middle schools in attrition rates for students eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

When asked, many kids, and even adults, might tell you the main difference between «school» writing and real - life writing is that the latter has an audience and the other does not.

Look at it this way: your teaching every year is like a narrative, and... if the A-story is the standards - based content, then the B - story is the tween - based content, and there is a huge difference between a middle - school classroom run by a teacher who takes on this added curriculum and a middle - school classroom that doesn't.

[16] In 537 out of 560 schools, high - SES students have higher kindergarten readiness rates than do low - SES students, and the differences between their kindergarten readiness rates are often very high.

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.

The summary can be this: Huge differences from one community to another, and huge differences between schools that are bouncing and are doing really nice things and those which can not take off.»

If the critics were correct, the introduction of these background characteristics into the analysis should have diminished the estimated effect of attending a private school, because only after these adjustments were made would the analysis have adjusted for the background differences between those who used the voucher and those who did not.

Diane Ravitch's claim that school voucher programs have failed is based on ignoring much of the scientific evidence of their success, misreporting the facts regarding the studies that she does discuss, and the 1 percent difference between 95 % confidence and 94 % confidence.

Often, the difference between a student who graduates from high school and goes on to college and one who does not is a relationship with a caring adult at school who knows him well, believes in his ability to succeed, and will not let him fail.

Now when you've got children who come to school and clearly have had very little exposure to print, if they don't know the difference between letters and numbers, they are starting from so far back and I don't think that there's enough recognition of that.

b. Availability of counselors, measured as the percent difference between the percent of alternative schools in the district that had a counselor and the percent of regular schools that did.

Still, it's helpful to measure schools» progress against a common metric and terms to allow people to understand the similarities and differences between what different schools are doing.

The most notable finding is that there is very little difference between the goings - on of SIG schools and similarly low - performing schools that didn't receive SIG funding.

This suggests that citizen ratings do reflect differences in the growth in student achievement across schools, but that this is primarily because of the correlation between achievement levels and achievement growth.

To my mind, the failure to find meaningful differences in student performance between charter schools that do and don't use computerized learning is significant.

If he doesn't see a difference between the schools in our richest areas and the schools in our poorest areas, then Mayor de Blasio is living in a Gracie Mansion fantasy land.

If you were to design a comparative study of differences in student achievement between school environments that use annual standardized tests and those that do not, what measures of achievement or other outcomes would you examine to reveal differences, and why?

Because I actually think most parents don't understand the difference necessarily between charters and district schools.