Sentences with phrase «less than other schools»

The lower - spending half of successful districts spent 50 percent less than the higher - spending districts, proving that many good schools do quite well with much less than other schools.

Not exact matches

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

I'm on record as predicting the iPad and other e-readers will benefit old - school publishers less than they would like, even as they create vast new opportunities for non-traditional media creators.

«Mr. Speaker, today in First Nations communities across the country, the unemployment rate can reach 80 %, half of the housing units are in a pitiful state and schools and students receive 30 % less funding than others,» Thomas Mulcair reported.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Curtis Berger shocked his Columbia University Law School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&School associates at a convocation for the opening of the school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&school year by saying, «I do not assert that legal education makes our graduates evil, but I do believe that [it makes them] less feeling, less caring, less sensitive to the needs of others,... even less alarmed about the injustices of our society than they were when they entered law school.&school.»

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

In a piece for the Washington Post entitled «Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,» Chua explains how her children were never allowed to attend a sleepover, have a play date, be in a school play, watch TV, choose any of their own extracurricular activities, get any grade less than an A, or play any instrument other than piano or violin.

Access to public schools and to other institutions from which they had previously been largely excluded turns out to be less beneficial than they had expected.

Other schools have abolished a major sport for far less cause than you have to do so right now.

At the other end of FBS, 35 public schools spent less than $ 2 million each.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

N.J.S.A. 18A: 40 - 41.5 (2010) provides immunity from liability for school districts for the death or injury of a person due to the action or inaction of persons employed by or under contract with a youth sports team, provided there is an insurance policy of not less than $ 50,000 per person per incident, and a statement of compliance with the school district or nonpublic school's policies for the management of concussions and other head injuries.

(And these donuts actually have less sugar than a lot of other sweetened grain items served for breakfast by schools around the country, at least before the frosting and sprinkles are added by the district.)

Two other Buffalo Grove High School students also aced the exam, which is a feat less than one percent of all students nationwide can claim.

But dual enrollment courses can be less structured than other college - level curricula offered in high school, such as Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) classes.

While less than 50 percent of U.S. high schools have athletic trainers, «this data shows the valuable role that they can play in preventing, diagnosing and managing concussions and other injuries,» said Cynthia LaBella, MD, FAAP.

«Historically» the product is less expensive than other products... For that reason it's been part of the school lunch program.»

If an athlete eats fatty hamburgers and fries or other less than healthy and nutritious food on the way home from sports practice, it is unlikely that a school lunch will save the day and correct her nutrition infractions.

«Some may be OK until school starts up again... but we know many others are missing meals and getting far less food than they should.»

Now, one year on, we see a thriving school kitchen (opened by Raymond Blanc, no less) producing more than 300 tasty meals a day — with 200 meals rushing out at lunchtime to four other schools in the local area.

County leaders are feeling the squeeze this year, as are other local government and school district officials, given the allowable growth in the state's cap on property taxes is less than 1 percentage point.

«And we're hearing that those proposals may end up containing significantly less than the $ 2.2 billion required to fully fund all of New York's public schools and provide our kids with the small class sizes, full curricula, and other resources they need to succeed.»

The Education Select Committee recently concluded that there is no basis for telling whether free schools are more or less effective than other similar schools.

That means districts will be almost entirely dependent on the state to cover rising salaries and other education costs, school administrators said, and Cuomo's budget provides less than half the financial aid needed.

As you may already be aware, social interventions which hitherto were funded by donors in the NPP era such as the School Feeding Programme (for less than 500,000 pupils) and other social protection interventions, are now fully funded by our Government,» he said.

However, the public are generally pessimistic about its ability to deliver in other areas — less than half have confidence in its ability to improve the NHS (32 %) and schools (32 %), cut crime (33 %) or immigration (39 %) and to protect the country against terrorism (42 %).

Right now, 12,700 Bronx families are still on waiting lists for seats in public charter schools, and the Bronx has fewer gifted and talented programs than any of the other boroughs, with less than four seats for every 1,000 students.Two of our school districts — District 7 in the South Bronx and District 12 in the central Bronx — don't have a single gifted and talented program, and together they educate more than 45,000 students.

In 1992, among the high - scoring high school seniors (those with test scores in the top tenth of the class), black and Hispanic youth were three times as likely to be from families with incomes less than $ 20,000 than white and other non-Hispanic youth (12)(see figure, below).

The professors sticking around into their 70s and beyond, on the other hand, tend to be on the arts and science faculty and have fewer outside employment opportunities and earn less throughout their careers — and therefore have smaller pensions — than professional school faculty members.

However, a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business titled «Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinThan You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinthan others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinthan others or lesslike a sinner?

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

They were less likely to school and swim along with other tadpoles (a tadpole proxy for socialization, which is impaired in autism); they weren't as good at avoiding contact with animated images projected on to the bottom of their petri dishes; they didn't habituate to startling noises (another analog to autism in people); and induced seizures were more frequent and shorter than in normal tadpoles.

«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»

New research has found seven out of 10 Australian adults are unable to concentrate on one task for more than half an hour at a time — less than the length of an average school period — while over half confessed to being distracted by other thoughts and losing concentration within just 15 minutes of starting a task.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

He is less concerned here, unlike, say, «Secrets & Lies» and «Vera Drake», with following a driving narrative than with minutely observing Poppy through her relationships with others, whether it's the kids she teaches at her primary school, her repressed driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, excellently playing a heavy - duty bag of hang - ups), her close friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) or her older, more settled colleague Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel), whom she joins at flamenco lessons after work.

Instead, the special education gap begins in kindergarten, when students classified at a young age as having a speech or language disorder are less likely than other students to apply to charter schools.

Interestingly, even the average Christian schooler is not much less likely than other churchgoers to think that a top priority in education is teaching children about diverse races, religions, and cultures (67 percent versus 73 percent).

Another theory is that California's elementary school teachers feel less well prepared and well qualified to teach science than any other subject and believe they have few opportunities to improve their preparation.

«There are over 100,000 students with disability whose schools receive no support funding — one third of the total number of students with disability — and many others who get less than they need,» Ms Haythorpe said.

The free school programme has delivered new schools faster than any other school building programme and, according to the National Audit Office, at significantly less cost to the taxpayer than previous initiatives.

Teachers in these schools had slightly less experience and slightly more absences than teachers in other schools.

But controlling for other factors that might put students at risk for problems at school, Paul Morgan and George Farkas find that minority students are actually less likely to receive special ed services than similarly situated white students.

Under the new legislation, however, it's less a matter of if than of how: How far must schools go to ensure that boys» and girls» educations mirror each other exactly?

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

The data also showed that instances of victimization were less common at school than elsewhere; in other words, teenagers were safer at school.

The AFT report states that charter schools do spend less money than other public schools.

In the real world, even if everyone had the right to choose their schools, parents who are educated and financially well off are likely to be more motivated than other parents, to have better information about their alternatives, to have more resources at their disposal for getting their way, to have better social connections and more attractive opportunities, and to have children who are easier and less costly to teach.

While the composite of other occupations gained 1.5 years of schooling, teachers gained slightly less than 1 year.