Sentences with phrase «less the school grew»

The residual (predicted score minus actual score) would tell you much more or less the school grew than expected, given all the changes that occurred statewide.

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«In contrast, occupations in the high school category are expected to grow by just 12 percent, while occupations in the less than high school diploma or equivalent category are projected to grow by 14 percent.

They are mostly male, grew up in a farm family, tend to be high school educated and are much less likely to be running a sustainable or organic farm.

Paying three private - school tuitions was crushing, especially as I grew less enchanted with the education, and the public - school options were byzantine and unsure.

Shaken and disillusioned, my parents abandoned the charismatic church, and during my later elementary school years we shuttled between Lutheran and Methodist churches, finally settling for prayer at home as schedules grew busier and church worship less fulfilling.

Now they have much less conflict over schooling than we have grown accustomed to in the U.S.

When young people grow up in a more or less homogeneous society, where parents, religious leaders, and schools all confidently communicate traditional values, they may rebel to some extent, but they are also likely to assimilate much of the tradition.

As your child grows older, less time is spent in school developing good handwriting.

As we grow older, the day of our birthday often becomes less important, but this can be very significant for a school age child.

Perhaps if that resources was tapped, a new paradigm for youth sports can grow: one that will ensure that our children's sports years are more fun, safer, saner, less stressful, and more inclusive from the first day of T - ball to the last high school game.

The number of schools reporting little (less than 20 minutes) or no recess time is growing nationwide, and some of this allotted recess time is spent putting on coats or standing in perfect lines.

Delegates were also told how those children and young people growing up in poverty are less able to concentrate in lessons, more likely to be absent from school and less able to forge relationships with peers.

We have a skills gap that continues to grow; 41 % of New Yorkers have a high school diploma or less and the young adult unemployment rate is more than double the state rate at 10.5 % with New York City at a rate of 14 %.

Conference, it is nothing short of a scandal that as the schools performance gap continues to grow, Labour still spends # 600 less a year educating Welsh children than those living in England.

NY school taxes statewide have grown less than inflation since 2012, after excluding base growth due to property improvement.

Long Island school districts lack a reliable funding stream for public pre-K and serve less than one - third of an estimated 28,000 eligible 4 - year - old children, even as support grows for a universal program available to all children.

Even as a kid, growing up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Sagan realized that the Bible, often advertised as perfect truth, revealed far less about cosmology than any high school geology text.

As with views about the safety of eating GM foods, those with more education are more likely than those with less schooling to say that foods grown with pesticides are safe to eat.

Basically, who you find attractive may be less about where you grew up and where you went to school and more influenced by experiences that are very unique to you.

Children and resources will begin to flow to nonunion schools, and unions will find themselves with fewer members, less money, and a growing number of schools and teachers that are outside the traditional system and difficult to organize.

By contrast, in the less urban area of western Contra Costa County, there are more available facilities and a growing population of students that match most charter schools» target populations — but fewer opportunities to access philanthropic dollars to start up new schools.

Children growing up with a single mother are exposed to more family instability and complexity, have more behavior problems, and are less likely to finish high school or attend college.

These continuing differences are especially worrisome, given the fact that the importance of education for the acquisition of well - paying jobs continues to grow, increasing the disparities in income between those with college degrees and those with less than a high - school diploma.

Just 50 percent of authorizers report having carried out a replication or expansion project, and less than a quarter have differentiated application processes for great schools seeking to grow.

Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 per cent of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.

The city is growing; Grand Rapids Public Schools much less so.

After less than a year in office, President Bush implemented by administrative rule a program called «Good Start, Grow Smart,» the central thrust of which is to instruct Head Start teachers across the nation in methods for improving school readiness.

The result is that as central office budgets and staffing have grown, schools control less and less of the overall district budget, and the district can't respond to new needs because all the money is committed to entrenched activities.

He rejected a measure that would have exempted the state's growing Latino population from testing in English until they had been in California's schools for three years, a proposal he said would give the schools less incentive to teach English quickly.

While overall public - school enrollment grew less than 1 percent in 2016 — 17, charter enrollment grew 8 percent that year and has swelled 200 percent over the last decade.

As the charter school sector grows, there is more emphasis on replicating school models with a track record of success and less emphasis on single - site schools that increase the variety of schooling options.

Yet traditional public schools grew by a far less...

Regardless, Democrats have grown less positive about the quality of education provided by charter schools than they were five years ago, even as Republicans continue to stand by the sector.

Although Heckman and Carneiro devote markedly less space to the public school system than to the failure of job training programs, the potential effectiveness of early - childhood education, and the importance of noncognitive skills, they do document a «growing consensus» that schools» material resources are only weakly related to their students» earnings later in life.

Mrs. Torres builds a strong foundation for her students» elementary school education: This spring her students grew, on average, 1.5 years in reading in less than five months!

This number has grown annually by 7.5 % since 2006 (see chart), but is still tiny: charters enroll less than 4 % of the country's public - school students.

Disadvantaged students generally grow up in less verbal home environments, often with less access to enrichment activities.16 They enter formal schooling academically behind their more affluent peers.

By comparison, year - over-year enrollment in Arizona district schools grew by just 4,000 students — an uptick of less than half a percentage point.

As authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said schools are now less able to give individual support to children, and are seeing class sizes grow.

As charter school authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, «authorizer shopping» has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality.

Looking at students in grades 4 - 8, the researchers found that the regular public school population in North Carolina has become less white over the past 15 years (from 64.1 percent white to 53 percent white), while the charter school population has grown more white (from 58.5 percent white to 62.2 percent white).

Participation in the Louisiana Scholarship Program has grown from less than 1,000 students during the 2008 - 2009 school year to more than 7,300 in 2014 - 2015.

Local school district officials closely monitor the Utah legislative session each year because legislators representing less - affluent school districts inevitably look to the wealthier ones - like Park City - to help fund schools in parts of the state where population is growing.

It also could be related to the less important role that location plays in school choices as students grow older and can travel longer distances on their own to and from school.

The school - age population has grown much less quickly than forecast by the local authority.

Neighborhood characteristics outside of Wilson HS may also be less important as students travel farther as they grow older: the median travel time is 6 minutes for a kindergartener, 9 minutes for a middle school student, and 13 minutes for a high school student (Urban Institute Student Transportation Working Group, 2018).

Program enrollment will be capped at 0.5 percent of current public school enrollment, or less than 2,500 students, the first year, and grow by 1 percent of total public school enrollment each year thereafter.

But a growing number come from programs such as Teach for America, which bypass traditional education schools, in part because of a perception that the standard routes for teacher preparation have become less useful.

Charter schools could be less effective simply because they are newer schools suffering growing pains.