Sentences with phrase «first statewide study»

She was principal investigator and project director of the Texas School Dropout Survey Project, the first statewide study of dropouts in Texas.

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First, the groups contend a statewide public financing system would cost at most $ 40 million, far less than the $ 200 million advocates claim, pointing to a study from SUNY Albany professor Michael Malbin as how the system would also help lesser - known candidates raise cash.

«What's interesting about this study is it's the first time a statewide intervention has improved both public and residential cardiac arrest outcomes.»

According to Aggarwal, the Michigan study is the first to examine in - hospital mortality related to a statewide smoking ban.

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

[4] It is a statewide program and almost 10,000 students applied in its first year, making it considerably larger than the DC program, which averaged about 600 eligible applicants a year during the three years when students were enrolled in the study sample.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

However, case studies and state - level analyses have shown that zero - tolerance policies, for example, are not reducing problem behaviors in schools.4 In fact, an analysis in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementation.

There will be a special panel on charter schools, the first time for a statewide study.

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

One of the most talked - about education studies in recent months is a new working paper on the effects of Louisiana's statewide voucher program during its first year of operation.

VDOE's Share the Skies initiative is the nation's first statewide program enabling students to study astronomy during the day using research - grade telescopes.

For the study, we first interviewed three Oregon Department of Education (ODE) officials about expanded learning time through statewide federal grant programs.

In the first study, I examine the antecedents of racial and special education - based disparities in disciplinary outcomes using statewide, student - level panel data on all students attending pre-kindergarten through 12th grade in Indiana, between 2009 and 2014.

Using data from North Carolina, this study will be the first to utilize statewide administrative data to investigate CR, including courses developed and administered by the state and private entities.

In 2002, under the leadership of Governor Mike Easley, North Carolina became the first state to implement a statewide study of teacher working conditions by surveying teachers and administrators across the state.

This is the first study that has measured the long - term education outcomes for students in a private school choice program at the statewide level.

Recently, I was proud to stand with the School Finance Research Collaborative as a statewide group of business leaders and education experts announced the results of Michigan's first comprehensive school adequacy study.

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However, case studies and state - level analyses have shown that zero - tolerance policies, for example, are not reducing problem behaviors in schools.4 In fact, an analysis in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementation.