Sentences with phrase «elementary than secondary school»

School level also is a significant moderator of district effects on school - leader efficacy, with districts having larger effects on elementary than secondary school leaders.

Notably, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) places much more emphasis on elementary than secondary schools and has effectively left the «S» out of «ESEA.»

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Conversely, 36 % of Canada's employed labour force falls into the low - risk category, including registered nurses, elementary teachers, early childhood educators, and secondary school teachers — all of which fall within a less than 1 % chance of automation.

«Angle's radical plans to eliminate the Department of Education would cost Nevada college students more than $ 500 million in financial aid like Pell grants, and hundreds of millions for our state's elementary and secondary schools — all at a time when our students can least afford such draconian cuts,» Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said in a statement.

Lander, head of the Harvard - MIT Broad Institute, teamed with physicist James Gates Jr. of the University of Maryland, College Park, to lead a 19 - member panel that spent more than a year examining ways to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.

Federal programs provide less than 10 percent of the $ 500 billion spent each year to educate the nation's 50 million elementary and secondary school students.

I had decided that elementary school was a better fit for me than secondary school, although I still love literature!

A disadvantage, however, is that SAT scores and dropout rates are much more closely aligned to secondary - school performance than to elementary - school performance.

Lovenheim and Willén found that students who spent all 12 years of elementary and secondary school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earn an average of $ 795 less per year as adults than students who were not exposed to collective bargaining laws during the same time period.

As we expected, school districts with only secondary schools or both secondary and elementary schools were more likely to have a charter school in 2003 — 04 than districts with only elementary schools.

In the three cities, the grants will affect a total of almost 300 elementary and secondary schools with a combined enrollment of more than 90,000 students.

Chosen from among the nation's more than 2.5 million elementary and secondary school teachers, Ms. McBrayer received the traditional crystal apple from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at a dinner on April...

New York — Addressing the federal group charged with recommending ways to improve American education, two researchers last week urged that elementary and secondary schools make tougher academic demands of students and experiment with new tracking systems, while another argued that such in - school factors were more important than has been commonly held in recent years.

The teacher and students will have more than enough resources to choose from and with these cutting across elementary and secondary school topics, the STEM Fair will certainly be an amazing day to remember!!!

Sadly, the use of simulation in elementary schools and secondary schools is far more infrequent and unorganized than it could, and should, be.

The number of the nation's 81,506 elementary and secondary schools using at least one microcomputer for instruction more than doubled from 24,690 (30 percent) in the fall of 1982 to 55,765 (68 percent) in the fall of 1983, according to a survey by Market Data Retrieval, a private marketing research firm.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than forty states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools.

Although American Catholic schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?schools have never enrolled more than a small fraction of the national student population, as late as 1980 they accounted for almost 80 percent of enrollment in private elementary and secondary schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?schools (see «Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?Schools Be Saved?»

Being the principal of a large secondary school, for example, requires quite different capacities than serving the same role in a small elementary school.

Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools than before the Great Recession.Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools — in some cases, much less — than before the Great Recession, our survey of state budget documents over the last three months finds.

Specifically, we find that female and elementary school teachers take longer to advance than male and secondary school teachers.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than 40 states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools.

According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary - school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized school districts across the country said they «certainly» or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.

Louisiana's education department has announced more than $ 16 million in budget cuts for programs in elementary and secondary schools.

The study by the National Center for Education Statistics says that more than 80 percent of elementary and secondary school leaders agree that music, the visual arts, and creative writing are «essential» or «very important» relative to other academic subjects.

However, research by economists Stephen Cameron and James Heckman suggests that the real problem may be that poor children simply don't do as well in school, a somewhat discouraging conclusion since sending families bigger checks to help with college is arguably easier than improving academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.

In our sample, students in elementary schools perform better than students in secondary schools on state benchmark tests.

Our results, as we have noted, suggest the need for further inquiry; still, it is clear that the job of fostering student achievement is far easier in elementary schools than in secondary schools.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

If states or districts tested math or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary or in secondary schools, we averaged the percentages across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each school.

It is even more notable that the raw number and relative percent of secondary schools with low ranking and low achievement were significantly higher than for elementary schools.

Furthermore, establishing a culture of professional learning, as identified by the actions in Factor 1, appears to have greater effect on student outcomes in elementary schools than it does in secondary schools.

Given that this study identified a random sample of districts across the United States as participants, and that we have data only for districts that chose to become involved, actual differences between elementary and secondary schools nationwide may be even wider than those we have discovered.

We have been elementary and secondary school teachers as well as professors and researchers of elementary education, teacher education and teacher development for more than 35 years.

In elementary or secondary schools, opportunities to participate in global education programs such as International Baccalaureate or the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education are bleak: Fewer than 2 percent of U.S. public schools offer such programs.

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.

In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.

These factors help develop trusting teacher - student relationships.18 Minority teachers can also serve as cultural ambassadors who help students feel more welcome at school or as role models for the potential of students of color.19 These children now make up more than half of the U.S. student population in public elementary and secondary schools.20

Although less frequently than their secondary school colleagues, elementary preservice teachers in this study used word processing, Internet search tools, graphic organizers, and webquests to maximize student learning.

National University recommends more teachers for credentials than any other single institution in California and holds more K - 12 teacher training contracts with elementary and secondary school districts than any other university in the state.

Today, 23 states are providing less education formula funding — which typically accounts for half of elementary and secondary school budgets — than they did in 2008, according to the CBPP.

Bennett says the changes to the accountability system had no motive other than fairness for «combined» schools that both elementary and secondary grades.

Most states provide less support per student for elementary and secondary schools than they did before the Great Recession.

Higher education institutions in the state are facing different issues than elementary and secondary schools, and UUP president Frederick Kowal said a primary focus has been the financial troubles of Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, which might close.

The state also has more than 120 private elementary and secondary schools that serve as an alternative to the public system.

There were fewer responses from secondary teachers than from primary, elementary, or middle school teachers.

Results indicate that more than 90 % of special education teachers work in regular elementary or secondary schools, though more than 80 % of their instructional time is spent in special education settings.

[19] Harris considers the special problems that arise in studying teacher value - added within secondary schools that use tracking, [20] and reasons that problems of peer composition are more pronounced within high schools than they are within elementary schools.

In contrast, large, comprehensive public secondary schools draw students from multiple elementary schools and thus tend to be internally more heterogeneous than are elementary schools.

This analysis, which includes more than 5,250 charter schools, focuses on out - of - school suspension rates at the elementary and secondary levels.