Sentences with phrase «elementary school counterparts»

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A 2015 study in Italy involving 147 elementary school kids concluded that normal - weight and overweight children were far less likely to be bullied than their obese or severely obese counterparts.

High school courses, of course, advance in difficulty from their elementary counterparts.

Those who attended large day - care centers after age 2 1/2 did not receive the same protection against illness during their elementary school years as their counterparts who started group day care at younger ages, the new study showed.

Subsequently, elementary school teachers, seeing the financial benefits of holding such a degree, have caught up, and they are just about as likely to hold that advanced degree as their high school counterparts.

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Base salaries in the St. Louis Archdiocese's elementary parochial schools are about 45 percent less than in their public school counterparts.

Introduced in Denver and Des Moines in 1921, the single salary schedule was meant to resolve the inequities of an era when women, minorities, and elementary school teachers were paid less than their counterparts.

The authors found that in the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

Of students who entered FTC in elementary or middle school, 45 percent enrolled in college, compared with 39 percent of their non-FTC counterparts.

By comparing the grade 6 cohorts that were not in a separate middle school to those that were, the researchers found some remarkable results: «students who attend middle school in sixth grade are twice as likely to be disciplined relative to their counterparts in elementary school.»

Commenting on the recent performance of students at the Coweta Charter Academy at Senoia (CCAS), Principal Gene Dunn said CCAS elementary students outpaced their counterparts in other Coweta public schools.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Back in 1993, the typical hire at a private elementary school had SAT scores that were 4 points higher than her or his public school counterpart.

Second, female elementary teachers reported being more likely to stay than male counterparts, except that teachers with a masters or advanced degree leaned toward leaving their present school.

Heads of schools, historically referred to as headmasters when the positions were held primarily by men, at junior schools (middle schools and elementary schools) tend to make significantly less than their secondary school counterparts, and boarding school heads tend to make the most due to the large amount of responsibility the school has in providing an appropropriate homelife for students from around the world.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.

36 • Texas Lone Star • May 2018 • texaslonestaronline.org Anew study from Texas A&M Univer - sity has shown a causal link between grade retention and graduation rates, with students retained in elementary school being almost hree times as likely as their promoted counterparts to drop out before graduation.

For example, AUSL elementary schools receive $ 1.5 million more than their neighborhood counterparts during the first five years of turnaround and an additional $ 420 per pupil each year.

For a variety of reasons, these groups of students are less likely to attend out - of - school time programs than their elementary - school counterparts and more advantaged peers.

However, controlling for pre-existing differences in student demographics and achievement, APP principals bettered their comparison group counterparts in ELA performance in elementary and middle schools.

In an analysis published in May 2011 in the Creativity Research Journal researchers found elementary school children in 2008 were significantly more imaginative and more comfortable playing make - believe than their counterparts in 1985 despite having less time for free play.

While staff turnover was much higher for charter teachers overall, elementary charter teachers under the age of 30 were less likely to move than their counterparts in traditional elementary schools in Los Angeles.

A second MDRC monograph, reviewing and synthesizing the relevant research, focused on how policies directed at increasing employment among low - income parents affected their adolescent children.4 Unlike elementary school - aged children, the teenagers fared worse than their control group counterparts.