Sentences with phrase «in traditional public schools»

The researchers used a rigorous research design that compares learning gains for students enrolled in charter schools to those of similar students in traditional public schools in their districts.

As a result, our scholars spend approximately 25 percent more time at school than their peers in traditional public schools.

Most charter schools have been successful because their leaders have had the ability to innovate in ways their counterparts in traditional public schools systems can not.

The researchers found 28 percent of teachers in traditional public schools, more than one in four, were chronically absent.

More than three - quarters of American children and youth are enrolled in traditional public schools.

Students in publicly funded and independently managed online charters across the country made far less progress than their counterparts in traditional public schools.

Because these charters held a lottery to select their students, the research team could compare the achievement of applicants who were admitted with a similar group who remained in a traditional public school.

Around 50 to 60 percent of traditional charter school students are Black, compared to approximately 10 percent in online charters and 12 percent in traditional public schools.

Many of our students are classroom teachers working in traditional public schools, progressive charter schools, and independent schools.

That is, charters have students with almost the same distribution of true disabilities as found in traditional public schools, they just don't put labels on as many of them.

«We make the same guarantee to children in traditional public schools,» he says.

All teachers must comply with state certification laws, just as in traditional public schools.

There was a character education movement in traditional public schools for years, but, apparently, that kind of curriculum didn't seem to change the dynamic that it was intended to improve.

There are approximately 3.4 million public school teachers in the country, and 97 percent of them teach in traditional public schools.

It matched «virtual twins,» students with similar backgrounds and test scores, some of whom went to charters and some of whom stayed in the traditional public school system.

We address three main questions: Do students attending charter schools in these grades make larger or smaller gains in achievement than they would have made in traditional public schools?

We recognize that students who have struggled to succeed in traditional public school settings need non-traditional supports.

Those schools are trying to educate children who did not do well in the traditional public school system in the first place.

Finally, charter schools can complement the public school system by supporting students not typically well - served in traditional public schools.

Keep in mind that charter schools often strive to meet the needs of students who struggled in traditional public schools.

Many children do not thrive in traditional public schools and now have a choice to «move» to one that might be a better fit.

Moreover, there's research showing that competition from charter schools helps improve — or at least does not harm — academic performance in traditional public schools.

That exposes pupils to 60 percent more instructional time than they would receive in a traditional public school.

They are supposed to serve a niche that may not be available in the traditional public schools.

Whether competition from charter schools can eventually spur academic improvements in traditional public schools also depends on the academic performance of the charter schools themselves.

Whether these practices can be replicated in traditional public schools or raise academic achievement across the full range of traditional public - school students remains to be seen.

Second, students who choose to remain in charter schools do not continue to make smaller gains than students in traditional public schools after their initial year in a charter school.

This is at least in part because many charter schools attract students who performed poorly in traditional public schools.

How many other students are missing out on the critical knowledge young people have always learned in traditional public schools?

And our assessment results were among the highest in both traditional public schools and public charter schools.

The push to extend both the 6.5 - hour day and the 180 - day year began with the charter school movement in the 1990s and has become increasingly popular in traditional public schools.

I feel more focused on the importance of school principals and teachers creating an example of excellence in traditional public schools.

Under emergency management, we worked to ensure that the legislator accepted the debt that they created in our traditional public schools.

We stand ready to fight for the right of every child to access an excellent public education, whether in a traditional public school or a public charter school.

Opening more competent charter schools would help students, especially those left behind in traditional public schools.

But what if we just look at progress in traditional public schools?

By comparison, just 38 percent of students in traditional public schools met state reading standards this year, and 36 percent did so in math.

But they won't keep their children in charters unless those schools are offering something students aren't getting in traditional public schools.

She also argues that while the student population has not grown to the projected size, it is serving a group of students with few options in the traditional public school model.

It's also worth pointing out that many criticisms of charter schools are equally if not more true in traditional public schools.

By comparison, researchers found, only 36 percent of black students in traditional public school attended schools where at least 90 percent of students were of color.

The extended school year and day afford them the equivalent of 5.5 years of instruction in a traditional public school.

Students in charter schools generally perform better and have higher graduation rates than their peers in traditional public schools.

The charter school movement continues to gain momentum as the poll also showed that the public believe students in charter schools receive a better education than those enrolled in traditional public schools.

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used school vouchers performed much worse on standardized tests than those who remained in traditional public schools.

Roughly 40 percent of charter school students in grades 3 — 8 were black, compared with 31 percent in traditional public schools.

In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower — and better — for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools.

Are teachers working in charter schools more effective in improving student outcomes compared to teachers working in traditional public schools?