Sentences with phrase «for school demographics»

This data was for school demographics.

Not exact matches

To control for demographic effects, we take out groups that are often still in school (24 years and younger) or can potentially enter early retirement (55 and up).

This demographic turns their nose up at traditional marketing tactics and steering clear of old - school advertising mediums like cable TV, which makes it hard for businesses to find a way in.

After that, students will complete an online application which asks for demographic, financial, and school information.

In those schools, a greater number of suspensions corresponded to lower end - of - semester math and reading scores for the students who were never suspended — even after correcting for various demographic indicators.

Publicity about latchkey kids has been plentiful in recent years, but the number of young children who must care for themselves after school because their parents work is relatively small, according to American Demographics magazine.

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In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

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The phase - in factor varies from 0.47 percent to 13.6 percent, with specific rates for the five largest city school districts (New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers) and more general rates for other districts based on district demographics.14

The Center for Urban Research at CUNY has also published new online maps showcasing New York City voting patterns and demographics, in partnership with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

They analyzed nearly 70,000 school records for students in district - based traditional public kindergarten in New York City in 2009, and linked the records to demographic information and neighborhood characteristics.

«This could have significant implications for both understanding inequality [in immigration], and also how to think about testing solutions that will mitigate some of these demographic biases,» says Emilio J. Castilla, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

They then conducted a series of logistic regression models that included fixed effects for year and state, and adjusted for demographic characteristics, school characteristics, and other state alcohol policies.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Yeah, we're not the target demographic for Old School but, as is our choice, we sat in a theater stuffed with the target.

Reformers have spent years haranguing public schools for their failure to educate poor kids and touting the success that «no excuses» charter schools can have with similar demographic groups.

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Despite different histories and demographics, there have been similarities among school districts in the district - level strategies for implementation that are important to study to take the kind of courses developed in the Knowledge in Action research to scale.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

We begin by using the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) data (see sidebar for a description of the datasets on which we rely) to provide an overview of demographic changes to the teacher workforce since the late 1980s.

Though some middle - class families did leave because of the influx of poorer students, she said the school's demographics had been changing for years.

These are vital skills for 21st century citizens and workers, and are among the reasons that it is critical to consider not just whether families have access to schools, but also the demographic composition of students in those schools.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus ruled this month that the education department failed to conduct legally required hearings before implementing the Educational Management Information System, which was designed to gather demographic data and achievement scores for individual districts and schools.

«But students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.»

Head teacher Alan Gray said: «The funding for additional accommodation provided by Hertfordshire County Council has allowed the school to successfully admit students and meet local demographic pressures to the north of St Albans.

The report found that students who use computers moderately at school tended to have better learning outcomes than students who rarely used them, but the worrying discovery was that students who use computers «very frequently» at school do much worse, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.

This school year, America's schools are projected to reach a demographic milestone: For the first time, a majority of students in K - 12 schools will be children of color.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

«The Shape of the U» showed that in the 2007 - 08 school year, controlling for demographics of students served, approximately 21 % of California charter schools were performing in the bottom tenth of all public schools in the state, with another 21 % in the top tenth, and strikingly few «in the middle.»

Because magnet and charter schools draw more heavily from urban areas that have distinct demographics, it is important to account for these geographic differences.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parents.

In light of this concern, depending on their goals, states may wish to adjust schools» scores on these indicators by controlling for demographics, geography, and other factors, much as they already do when estimating student growth.

• After adjusting for prior test scores and demographics, the school a student attends explains 34 percent of the variation in their math test scores and 24 percent of the variation in their reading test scores, but just 2 percent of the variation in their fluid cognitive skills.

However, this analysis does not account for the possible sorting of students into particular schools based on characteristics not captured by their prior achievement and demographic characteristics.

When schools with the same demographics get the same amount of money, some achieve better outcomes for students than others.

In the 2012 - 2013 school year, for the demographic profile of our school, our students would be expected to be at about the 47th percentile in the top - to - bottom ranking of all schools in the state of Michigan.

In contrast, after accounting for prior achievement and demographics, the school attended explains just 2.3 percent of our summary measure of fluid cognitive ability.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of HispSchool of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispschool organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Controlling for student demographics, 8th - grade test scores, English language skills, special education program participation, free or reduced - price lunch status (a measure of family income), and mobility during middle school does not alter the basic patterns of graduation and college attendance seen in the descriptive comparisons.

Though loss of nuns, changing demographics, and lack of funds are the most common explanations for the Catholic school system's dissolution, and are important to consider, I think we can also find answers to the current crisis by understanding the lessons of 1884.

Controlling for key student characteristics (including demographics, prior test scores, and the prior choice to enroll in a charter middle school), students who attend a charter high school are 7 to 15 percentage points more likely to earn a standard diploma than students who attend a traditional public high school.

And they're upset that demographic changes underway in various D.C. neighborhoods — gentrification, for the most part — are causing schools in those places to lose their previous ethnic and economic profiles.

After adjusting for student demographics and other school characteristics, schools with 25 percentage points more proficient students are rated 22 percent of a letter grade higher.

These shifting demographics pose unique challenges for rural and suburban schools, many of which are unaccustomed to educating English learners and recent immigrants — or indeed to living in diverse communities.