Mutual respect for individual
differences at all levels of the school — student - student; adult - student; adult - adult.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
At their most elegant, they can responsibly test only a modest number of interactions between different treatments or between any one treatment and individual differences at the school, classroom, or individual leve
At their most elegant, they can responsibly test only a modest number
of interactions between different treatments or between any one treatment and individual
differences at the school, classroom, or individual leve
at the
school, classroom, or individual
level.
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).
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.»
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Children enter
school with different
levels of skill, and these initial
differences often affect children's subsequent language growth, cognitive development, literacy and academic achievement.6, 7,8 Children who exhibit delays
at the onset
of schooling are
at risk for early academic difficulties and are also more likely to experience grade retention, special education placement, and failure to complete high
school.9, 10,11