Sentences with phrase «high school counterparts»

NACEP advocates having college faculty members teach professional development to their high school counterparts in the same subject area.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.

Colorado: Elementary school teachers have a significant advantage over their high school counterparts

The findings, which will be published in the spring issue of Education Next and are now online at www.EducationNext.org, show that students attending charter high schools in Florida and Chicago have an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and college enrollment when compared with their traditional public high school counterparts.

Subsequently, elementary school teachers, seeing the financial benefits of holding such a degree, have caught up, and they are just about as likely to hold that advanced degree as their high school counterparts.

We use the Responsive Classroom Model ® and its Middle / High School counterpart, Developmental Designs, which provide an array of strategies designed to foster safe and positive learning communities where students are connected, responsible and engaged in learning.

Not exact matches

Male MBAs are hired into higher - level positions right out of school and earn, on average, $ 4,600 more per year in their first job than their female counterparts.

While she was a 17 - year - old high school senior, her fake counterpart frequently promoted graphic pornography, retweeting accounts called Squirtamania and Porno Dan.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

The comprehensive schools (and their counterparts in higher education, the comprehensive universities) recognize the necessity for educational differentiation but, by keeping the students together in some classes and in the student activities program, minimize social class divisions.

Even though he's handsome, his affinity for comic books, video games and Death Cab For Cutie have landed him an outside seat to the goings - on of his rich counterparts in his high school.

«I reckoned that if I could get some guys together from our «Glory Days» and swim them against our counterparts on the same high school's team of today,» he said, «then even if we lost, which we surely would, we'd at least know the measure of our decline.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

High school courses, of course, advance in difficulty from their elementary counterparts.

Those from non-traditional education environments matriculate in colleges and attain a four - year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from public and even private schools.

When compared to control group counterparts in randomized trials, infants and toddlers who participated in high - quality home visiting programs were shown to have more favorable scores for cognitive development and behavior, higher IQs and language scores, higher grade point averages and math and reading achievement test scores at age 9, and higher graduation rates from high school.

For instance, white and Latino fathers with bachelor's degrees earned more than twice as much as their counterparts with only a high school degree.

By contrast, in Japan, 85 % of students achieve the equivalent of maths A-level, and Indian students study maths and science for twice as long each week at high school as their British counterparts.

The U.F.T. held three «emergency» meetings with its members and parents on Thursday, ran a full - page anti-Cuomo advertisement in the Daily News, and released an extensive report claiming, among other things, that charter schools don't enroll enough high - needs students compared to their district school counterparts.

On the nineteenth anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting, students in Florida's capital joined their counterparts across the nation in a school walkout calling for gun rSchool shooting, students in Florida's capital joined their counterparts across the nation in a school walkout calling for gun rschool walkout calling for gun reform.

On average, girls on job training programmes had sex for the first time when they were 17 years and 1 month, 7 months earlier than their high - school counterparts.

A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that female students, racial / ethnic minorities, and students of lower socioeconomic status are particularly affected, with teens in these categories less likely to report regularly getting seven or more hours of sleep each night compared with their male counterparts, non-Hispanic white teenagers, and students of higher socioeconomic status, respectively.

The survey reports that high school seniors in states with medical marijuana laws are more likely to have vaped marijuana and consumed marijuana edibles than their counterparts without such laws.

«When you consider that, overall, high school athletes have been shown to score higher on quality of life than their non-athlete counterparts, the risk of not playing sports could lead to lower quality of life than playing sports and sustaining concussion,» he theorized.

The fact of the matter is, those who do not eat breakfast tend to exhibit lower productivity, they have poorer grades in school and ultimately end up experiencing higher unemployment rates than their breakfast noshing counterparts (fastcoexist.com).

But in general, Chinese students leave high school with a lot less romantic experience than their American counterparts.

Yet, given the state of what our culture thinks about math right now, in all of our school systems, I can't risk the possibility that our lowest - income schools don't have access to the same knowledge that their higher - income - level counterparts do.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Nevertheless, high - scoring F schools did experience gains larger than their low - scoring D counterparts.

Living below the poverty line, Brittany is six times more likely to drop out of high school than her counterparts in suburban and wealthy districts.

With the proliferation of AP calculus in high school, one might think that the good students of 2006 place out of calculus I more frequently than did their 1989 counterparts.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private schools quit teaching at a much higher rate than their counterparts in public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.

Federal data from NCES offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.

While the achievement gap between white students and their low - income, minority counterparts on tests has received a great deal of attention, the gap in high - school graduation rates is even more critical.

As in most other school districts, the teachers in higher - poverty schools in our sample have fewer years of experience than their counterparts in lower - poverty schools (11.8 years vs. 14.0 years).

In the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

In Chicago, students who attended a charter high school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular high school diploma than their counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a traditional public high school.

An important aspect of the system is that, rather than being «taken over», lower - performing twinned schools form joint management and teaching teams with their higher - performing counterparts.

The situation would be even worse in high - and moderate - poverty schools, which tend to have lower levels of teacher quality to start with than their more advantaged counterparts.

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Students from the 420 - student Hewitt School in Manhattan, where the yearly tuition is $ 20,000, collected nearly 450 new and used dresses — as well as shoes, jewelry, purses, and makeup kits — so that their counterparts at Clay County High School in Clay, W.Va., could celebrate...

To that end, wired schools are using high - tech tools — mostly free, like Skype and Google Talk — that make it easy to connect students with their counterparts in other countries.

To quote from a famous interview given by James Coleman, cited in this book, «Catholic high schools educate students better than public schools do... students drop out four times more often than their Catholic school counterparts.»

Take this striking finding: 43 % of private school teachers say that most students in their high school graduate having learned «to be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves» compared with just 19 % of their public school counterparts.

The authors found that in the specific year when students move to a middle school (or to a junior high), their academic achievement, as measured by standardized tests, falls substantially in both math and English relative to that of their counterparts who continue to attend a K — 8 elementary school.

That's how the governor of Tennessee can compare his state's high - school students with their counterparts in Wisconsin or Kentucky.

His high school is now engaged in a battle over whether students who attend Christian high schools will be given the same opportunity as their public school counterparts to attend California's state universities.

Terry Acena is principal of Seattle's Hamilton International Middle School, which is molding itself into a higher - grades counterpart of the John Stanford International School.