Sentences with phrase «differences between the school environments»

The bill's language also stipulates that «any possible educaitonal impact differences between the school environment and the child's home environment and family background» also be used as a factor in seeking tuition reimbursement.

As a result, he concluded, the report «may have missed the most important differences between the school environments in which black and white children found themselves.»

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One of the differences between the two educational environments is the flexibility in the staff that independent schools are able to hire.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

The authors found some differences between the genders in graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work with women faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.

According to Crawford - Brown and Ken Reckhow, a colleague at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, thinking about how a model might be used, and its overall utility, is a critical difference between a decision scientist and an environmental modeler.

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

GLSEN's research brief Laws that Prohibit the «Promotion of Homosexuality»: Impacts and Implications provides an examination of the differences in the school environment for LGBTQ students between states with laws that prohibit the positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such laws.

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?