Sentences with phrase «larger high schools less»

It posed two questions: (1) are larger high schools less costly to build than smaller schools and (2) what contextual variables predict cost?

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Many urban educators complained that the large high school was simply too big to work and too impersonal to reach every child, much less hundreds of children.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

Students from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitive.»

The program had the largest impact in low - poverty and high - achieving schools but little or no impact in less - advantaged schools.

The program increased college enrollment by 20 percent for young adults already out of high school with particularly large results for those with annual incomes less than $ 22,000.

We ask the question: What distinguishes leaders» practices in more effective high schools from those in less effective high schools that serve large proportions of at - risk youth?

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

Low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students in the 50 largest districts in Texas are less likely to attend schools with experienced teachers than high - income and white students in those same districts, concludes a report by the Education Trust, a Washington - based nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

8.4 % more students graduating from SSCs are enrolling in post-secondary programs as compared to students graduating from traditional large high schools, and per pupil costs at SSCs are 14 - 16 % less than large consolidated schools.

North Carolina researchers analyzing another large data set found similar results in 2007.27 More recently, in a study published by the Institute of Labor Economics, researchers and university economists found that low - income black male students in North Carolina who have just one black teacher in third, fourth, or fifth grade are less likely to drop out of high school and more likely to consider attending college.

Schools receive the largest amount of their state funding through a general fund that distributes money through a formula that gives more to districts with more students with challenges, including those who live in poverty, and less state money to districts with high property values.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

Large Student Population District Category (12,000 students or more - in alphabetical order): Bibb County School District, GA Broward County Public Schools, FL Colorado Springs School District 11, CO DeKalb County School District, GA Flagler County Public Schools, FL Forsyth County Schools, GA Fullerton School District, CA Hampton City Schools, VA Northwest Independent School District, TX The School District of Osceola County, FL Richmond County Schools, GA Roanoke County Public Schools, VA Rock Hill Schools, SC Rowan - Salisbury Schools, NC Township High School District 214, IL Wilson County School District, TN Mid-sized Student Population Districts Category (3,000 - 12,000 students - in alphabetical order): Austin Public Schools # 492, MN Bergenfield Public School District, NJ Center Grove Community School Corporation, IN Charlottesville City Schools, VA City Schools of Decatur, GA Encinitas Union School District, CA Henry County Public Schools, VA Jefferson City Schools, GA Monroe County Schools, GA Oconee County Schools, GA Pickerington Local School District, OH Rome City Schools, GA St. Charles Parish Public Schools, LA Tift County Schools, GA Williamsburg - James City County Public Schools, VA Small Student Population Districts Category (3,000 students or less - in alphabetical order): Cedar Bluffs Public School, NE Chickamauga City School District, GA Coxsackie - Athens Central School District, NY Goochland County Public Schools, VA Greeneville City Schools, TN Juab School District, Utah Laguna Beach Unified School District, CA Lenoir City Schools, TN Lindop School District 92, IL Mannheim School District 83, IL Mineola Union Free School District, NY Pewaukee School District, WI Staunton City Schools, VA West Platte School District, MO

In true small schools, students are absent much less, drop out at nearly half the rate, have higher grade - point averages, and improve reading scores by almost a half - year grade equivalency more than large schools, noted Educational Leadership magazine.

As we reported in 2010, a large - scale study painted a mixed picture of charter schools, noting that while low - income students generally learn more at these institutions, higher - income students often learn less.

During the 2015 — 16 school year, 63 % of unified and high school districts supplemented the state minimum with an additional year of math, although larger districts with more than 20,000 students were somewhat less likely to do so.

«We chose to give to the Greater Good fund because we have been so happy with the Great Hearts approach for our daughter, and the idea that the same high - level academic environment and classical education is offered in communities that are less fortunate than ours is very important... I see the Great Hearts schools as a larger community, and it's important to us that this community be diverse and support young people from all socio - economic backgrounds.»

These students perform better in third grade reading and math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to repeat grades, and are more likely to graduate from high school in four years.

Richer, larger and more prestigious independent schools devote a smaller portion of their income to bursaries than their smaller and less high - attaining counterparts, according to new research commissioned by the Sutton Trust.

A first - time visitor might also be struck by what appears to be less structure than larger high schools employ: students and adults may mix more freely; no bells may mark the start and end of classes; courses may break from curricular conventions or may not even exist at all.

Destiny Watford, United States: In a community whose environmental rights had long been sidelined to make room for heavy industry, Destiny Watford inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation's largest trash - burning incinerator less than a mile away from her high school.

Baltimore youth leader, Destiny Watford, is one of the six global winners, for her work to spearhead efforts to stop the nation's largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from her public high school in Curtis Bay.

And we'd have fewer people making stupid comments about lawyers in large firms making less than high - school aged babysitters.

These benefits, which accrue to both individuals and the public at large, are mostly due to improved long - term outcomes among children who participate in high - quality early learning programs: they are more likely to be high school graduates, attend postsecondary education, and own assets (such as a home)-- and they are less likely to be caught up in the cycle of mass incarceration.