Sentences with phrase «impact differences between the school»

The bill's language also stipulates that «any possible educaitonal impact differences between the school environment and the child's home environment and family background» also be used as a factor in seeking tuition reimbursement.

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In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

«The verdict is still out on the seriousness of subconcussions, but we've got to learn more since we're seeing a real difference between people who participate in sports with higher risk for these impacts,» said Port, an associate professor in the IU School of Optometry.

Our beliefs about differences between the sexes have an impact on society vastly out of proportion to the magnitude of those differences, from female scientists defending their mathematical and technical expertise to boys accused of lacking the communication and emotional skills to succeed at school.

Muralidharan evaluated four different facets of the program including the impact of performance pay on learning, whether it led to any negative consequences on the teachers, the difference between group incentives and individual, and the relative effectiveness of teacher performance pay versus spending the same money on additional school inputs.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

The net impact on taxpayers, then, is 1) the savings that come from the difference between the voucher and the per - pupil revenue at district schools, for those who would have attended them in the absence of the voucher program, minus 2) the voucher costs for students who would have attended private schools anyway.

In the second year, as Cohort 2 schools implemented EITP, we might have expected the difference between the two groups of schools to shrink or even disappear as the Cohort 2 schools benefited from the same program that had a positive impact on Cohort 1 schools the prior year.

Although between - school differences in student performance are closely associated with socioeconomic status in all OECD countries, some countries have been more successful than others in reducing the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage.

«Studying multiple rounds of mailings over a longer time period could improve understanding of the impact of messaging content on student absences, of any cumulative effect of multiple messaging, and of differences between the effects of messages on elementary and secondary school students, if any.»

In math, the five for - profits had strongly positive impacts in all years, while the nonprofits had decidedly negative ones, leading to very large, statistically significant differences between the two groups of schools in all years.

GLSEN's research brief Laws that Prohibit the «Promotion of Homosexuality»: Impacts and Implications provides an examination of the differences in the school environment for LGBTQ students between states with laws that prohibit the positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such laws.

The overall net fiscal impact will be defined completely by the difference between the amount of financial assistance afforded by the program to participating Nevada families and the cost to educate students in public schools.

Assessment decisions will have a big impact on principals, who know the difference between leading a school constrained by punitively used tests that fail to measure many of the most important learning goals, and a school that uses thoughtful assessments to measure what matters and inform instruction.

We say that the difference between effective and ineffective teachers, at least in terms of raising test scores, isn't so wide since out of school factors dominate in terms of impacting achievement.

In addition, they measured the impact of the school by looking at the difference between the learning rates of students in first grade versus their learning rate during the previous summer.

There's a stark difference between the city's overall opt out numbers and the state's, and it's certainly true that parents at some schools in wealthier neighborhoods, whose schools can count on high test scores (as they are largely correlated with socioeconomic status), may have more time, a bigger platform to speak up, and, above all, more access to accurate information about the tests, their impacts and the right to refuse them.

This identification strategy allows us to disentangle the impact of school finance reforms from other contemporaneous changes in school funding and from other differences between states that did and did not implement finance reforms.

All analyses were stratified by gender and cohort («younger cohort» refers to those transitioning from junior high / middle school to high school and «older cohort» refers to those transitioning from high school to young adulthood) to assess the differential impact of mothers and fathers on children of the same or opposite sex, and potential differences in the relationship between parental influence and behavioral outcomes for the younger versus older cohort.

The main difference, and this primarily impacts what marriage and family therapists study in school and in supervised work situations, is that instead of dealing with emotions and behaviors between one individual and his or her relation to a social group, marriage and family counselors have to take into account the dynamic interplay between two or more people in a relationship.