Sentences with phrase «different than in traditional public schools»

Third, there are important descriptive questions to understand what goes on in themed magnets — are curricula and instruction different than in traditional public schools, for instance?

Not exact matches

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

At charter schools, however, race matching appears unrelated to student discipline across all groups, suggesting that discipline dynamics may have been different in charters than in traditional public schools during the period we studied.

Charter schools have greater autonomy than traditional public schools when it comes to programming, and they can appeal to families of different income levels through innovation in curriculum, teaching, and learning methods.

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

The NEA believes all charters should fall under the same rules as traditional public schools, which, in effect, would make them no different than traditional schools.

They are founded on a variety of different ideas, have different locations, different student populations, differing state charter laws governing them, and school - specific cultures that can differ more than the cultures found in traditional public schools.

Most district administrators have the mentality that charters are taking students, money and facilities from the districts and therefore fight charters rather than appreciate that they serve students that need a different environment from what is offered in traditional public schools.

By teaching civics in tandem with experiential learning, YES Prep teachers, more often than traditional public or private school teachers, were «very confident» that their students learned «[t] o be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves,» «[t] o understand concepts such as federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances,» and «[t] o develop habits of community service such as volunteering and raising money for causes,» according to 2010 American Enterprise Institute Program on American Citizenship survey.30 As a charter network serving low - income students, its service - centered mission serves both the students and their communities.

The fraud - prevention mechanisms work exactly the same for traditional public schools as for charters - neither the safeguards nor the outcomes are unique to charters - why charters are being singled out here belies a different motivation than more accurately representing the challenges of fraud prevention in the public school SECTOR.

This is particularly different from the demographics of most charter schools, which generally have more students of color than traditional public schools in the same area.

«I don't think there's any question based on the numbers that the charter school population is different than your traditional district population,» said Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raschool population is different than your traditional district population,» said Keith Poston, president and executive director of the Public School Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in RaSchool Forum of N.C., a nonpartisan policy group in Raleigh.