Sentences with phrase «from weaker schools»

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The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

No, the life - comparison danger comes from the weak ties; from those people you met at a conference, or the friends from High School that you haven't interacted with since they friended you last year.

Your god must be the weakest and most feeble god ever if a few measly atheists can have him removed from schools.

America takes the good out of schools to keep from offending a few; then fills them with bad science, political trash, and weak discipline.

247sports is reporting that Luiji Vilain, the No. 8 weak side defensive end, will be in Ann Arbor this weekend with one of his coaches from Episcopal High School in Virginia.

Though they never got the respect due from the College Football Playoff committee, which continuously put them low on its rankings because of their weak schedule, the Badgers had one of their most memorable seasons in years, finishing the regular season undefeated for the first time in school history and coming a few plays away from a Big Ten title.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weak.

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Research from inside and outside the ed school consistently shows that teacher education is an extraordinarily weak intervention in the process of socializing teachers, whose main influences are a long apprenticeship of observation as K - 12 students before entering teacher education and the powerful culture of the school in which they begin to teach.

Most significantly, they have transformed teaching in Washington from a low - status occupation marked by weak standards and factory - like work rules into a performance - based profession that provides recognition, responsibility, support, and significant compensation, with some starting salaries now as high as $ 75,000 and top pay climbing from $ 87,000 to $ 134,000 (and higher in the city's year - round schools).

The incentives to adopt good ideas from other schools are weak, and the constraints on change — from policy and culture — are strong.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to e-safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of e-safety policies and practice.

However, evaluation data from the school self - assessment tool 360 Degree Safe finds that while this is improving year on year, it is still one of the weakest areas of e-safety provision in schools.

For women entering the labor market directly after graduation from high school in 1972, those with mastery of basic mathematical skills earned $ 0.78 per hour ($ 1,560 per year) more at age 24 than did those with weak math skills.

But I've learned from Michael Stone, the Chief External Relations Officer at New Schools for New Orleans, that in fact data from CREDO showed the school's gains to be among the weakest in the RSD.

To do that, supporters of charter schools also have to refrain from citing weaker evidence, which only serves to legitimize the use of inferior studies by charter opponents.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

It also claims that children from poorer families are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.

With any luck, it may also start to wean more than a few would - be reformers from their affection for weak brews like mayoral control and merit pay and towards more muscular efforts to dismantle, rethink, or bypass familiar schools and systems.

This approach is good for kids — protecting them from bad schools — and it's also good politics — safeguarding choice programs from criticisms about weak performance and shoddy quality.

Driven by the need to find someone of the right race or ethnicity, or to hire someone who in no way resembles the previous superintendent, school boards draw at random from a weak pool of itinerant school administrators.

There's no denying that a number of that state's schools serving nonpoor communities have weak academic performance records, that some are also mismanaged and fiscally wasteful and that plenty of families don't realize this, and that more than a few real - estate agents benefit from their ignorance.

The recent report of the Council of Chief State School Officers found that state program - approval policies for preparation programs, both those for «traditional higher education programs and for new pathways, suffer from weak and inconsistent regulation.»

We'd moved him from a school where communities were weak, a vision was non-existent, and where I regularly observed the principal screaming at kids.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to online safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of online safety policies and practice.

Or, if they tried to enter the Orlando schools from outside the district, counselors told them they couldn't enroll because their academic records were too weak, and directed them to Sunshine.

One in five teenagers had very weak academic skills and / or behavioral tendencies not attractive to employers and therefore would not benefit much from a high school diploma, at least given the then - prevalent «shopping mall» structure of most American public high schools.

The abundance of stories from teachers about how motivated weak readers have become, and how much better those kids feel about themselves as a result of being included in reading the core texts and doing the work of the unit, is — without question — a summative finding of the Knowledge Matters School Tour.

To give but one of several examples, the authors offer a nuanced discussion of ability grouping in schools that highlights the potential tensions between the value of improving the performance of the weakest students and the consequences of increasing the gap between them and the most gifted, since the latter are likely to reap the greater gains from ability grouping.

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

Similar problems (e.g., declining test scores, weak follow - through with a district professional learning communities initiative) might result from different contributing conditions in different schools.

Priorities there have shifted from providing assistance to schools with weak performance (primarily using retired professionals and teachers on loan) to targeting districts in distress.

But the method and level of financing charter schools varies widely state to state, from «pretty good» to awfully weak.

Sept. 9, 2016, LANSING, Mich. - «The findings from «Back to School Report» from the Michigan League for Public Policy of rising tuition and weak state support that is resulting in an increased financial burden for students are extremely disappointing.

At a cost of just # 9 per pupil, the findings show that Accelerated Reader could be a particularly cost - effective method of improving the reading ability of weaker and low - income pupils at the important transition from primary to secondary school.

David Laws, the Liberal Democrat schools minister, said the financial commitment from David Cameron was «unbelievably weak».

In some schools and districts, test score increases may reflect less an improvement in teaching and learning than a loss of weaker students from the test - taking pool.

But a nationwide moratorium is a blunt instrument that does nothing to distinguish outstanding charter schools from weak ones.

Reducing class size is extremely popular among parents and teachers, though research has shown weak effects from modest class size reductions and schools sometimes struggle to find qualified teachers and classroom space to create new classes.

Or did it admit weaker candidates from the start, or perhaps send them off to schools with less supportive principals?

Withdrawing resources from those rated good or outstanding would also allow a continued greater focus on the weakest schools.

Where governance is weak, it is unlikely to improve if senior leaders do not know what «good» looks like, or simply do not accept its importance, viewing it as a distraction from the task of improving teaching and learning, rather than central to sustained school improvement.

«We are also building Free Schools and letting the most popular schools expand to meet demand from parents and we are intervening to drive up standards in weak primaries across the country which have thousands of empty places simply because parents don't want to send their children to them.Schools and letting the most popular schools expand to meet demand from parents and we are intervening to drive up standards in weak primaries across the country which have thousands of empty places simply because parents don't want to send their children to them.schools expand to meet demand from parents and we are intervening to drive up standards in weak primaries across the country which have thousands of empty places simply because parents don't want to send their children to them.»

The Commission denied five petitions for reasons ranging from a lack of capacity to properly govern a school; weak operational plans; poorly articulated plans for community partnerships, to an incomplete strategy for obtaining a facility in an achievable timeframe.

Critics who have argued that the government's flagship free school policy has suffered from weak oversight have been given further ammunition as an investigation into a pioneering free school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, found an alleged trail of misused funds, unexplained invoices and improper payments.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.