Sentences with phrase «few education indicators»

On a few education indicators, Native Americans are performing better than some other minority groups tracked by the federal government, a report concludes.

Not exact matches

For instance, in terms of «tertiary efficiency,» a measure that combines several individual indicators related to post-secondary education, Canada crashes in at number 45, just a few spots ahead of South Africa and Morocco.

While the education oversight committee offered relatively few recommendations for the 2015 General Assembly, that's not necessarily an indicator of how active lawmakers will be when it comes to education this year.

Using nine specific quality benchmarks, including things like whether teachers had specialized training in early childhood education, if the maximum class size was 20 students or fewer and what the student to staff ratio was, Erin Baumgartner found that none of the 50 campuses included in the study met all nine of the quality benchmarks and that students of limited English proficiency were less likely to be enrolled in pre-kindergarten programs with six or more quality indicators.

But Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, questioned whether there were other factors that might explain the higher graduation rate in the small schools, like fewer special education students or better attendance records for those entering the small schools, since attendance rates have been shown to be an indicator of on - time graduation.