Sentences with phrase «less impact on achievement»

In effect, he devotes this book to affirming James Coleman's 1966 finding that school differences have far less impact on achievement differences than do family characteristics, the mightiest of which, Rothstein says, is socioeconomic status.

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With one exception (immigrants benefited less than native - born students from a performance pay regime), I found only small differences in the impact of performance pay on the math achievement of subgroups in the population.

The U.S. Department of Education and numerous other researchers have sought continually to assess the effectiveness of the federal role in education in terms of its impact on the academic achievement of the targeted populations, but much less attention has been given to the effectiveness of the funding approach.

Lottery - winning voucher users had statistically significant large negative impacts on math achievement in their first year of the program that were less negative in their second year of participation.

Schools leaders have an impact on student achievement primarily through their influence on teachers «motivation and working conditions; their influence on teachers «knowledge and skills produces less impact on student achievement.

But his question wasn't wrong per se — it just didn't have much to do with the achievement of his exhibition, which takes a more interesting, less expected tack: Garrels asked six abstract painters working in the United States to «select one or two of their own recent paintings to be shown with works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their own work.»

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