Sentences with phrase «little impact on schools»

Officials said the decision will have little impact on schools, since the state can afford to tap its reserves for the funds.

California's ban on affirmative action programs in public education and government agencies has had little impact on school districts since its passage last November in a statewide vote.

The original research found English teachers were visionary «philosophers» who had little impact on school attainment and made up the majority of all headteachers.

Not exact matches

As I pointed out in my previous column about cholesterol, even the Harvard School of Public Health has concluded,»... the amount of cholesterol eaten has little impact on the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood.»

I won't ramble on about the impact that would have on children (if it's even meant for children as young as mine) but what I will say is, yesterday I saw a little girl who LOVES school, who loves to learn, who can READ, actually read, after not even a term and a half.

If you would like to see more fresh vegetables or less fried food on the lunch trays, however, talking to your school principal may have little impact, as this is an issue under the food service director's control.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to the two studies published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

High school athletics coaches in Washington State are now receiving substantial concussion education and are demonstrating good knowledge about concussions, but little impact is being felt on the proportion of athletes playing with concussive symptoms, according to two studies published this month in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

SNA Research on the issues and trends impacting school nutrition like SNA's trends and operations reports, The Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, and the Little Big Fact Book.

«It is deeply concerning that while these political games are played out, little thought is given to the devastating impact that today's sweeping statements have on the children and young people, the hardworking and dedicated staff in these schools, and the parents and local communities.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says a flagship policy to target extra funding at poor pupils in England is having little impact on many schools.

«We were fascinated to find that pricing has little impact on how much one eats, but a huge impact on how you interpret the experience,» said Brian Wansink, Ph.D., a professor at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University who oversaw the research.

«Ketone salts are relatively new to the market and there's not much research on their impact on performance,» says the study's co-author Jonathan Little, assistant professor in UBC Okanagan's School of Health and Exercise Sciences.

The substantial decrease in child neglect cases is concentrated among toddlers and school - age children, but changes in the minimum wage had little impact on reports of neglect of teenagers.

It's little wonder that a new Department for Education (DfE) report finds that a staggering 95 per cent of schools said that the Premium has had a positive impact on the physical fitness of students, as well as improving the skills and behaviour of pupils.

As the syllabi for teacher education courses suggest, there is indeed an ideological consensus around pedagogical progressivism in education schools, but it has had little serious impact on teaching and learning in American schools.

Indeed, I find little impact either positive or negative of winning a school - choice lottery on criminal activity for the 80 percent of students outside of this group.

There is precious little research demonstrating the value of school counselors on student achievement ~ with good reason it is difficult to demonstrate the impact of counselors on standardized test scores ~ which have come to define achievement in recent years.

It yields a lower bound, understating the potential impact of portability on federal funding for public schools, and showing how portability would matter even in areas with little private school presence.

However, the process was largely viewed as administrative or operational with nearly half of Australian teachers surveyed (43 per cent) reporting that «the appraisal and feedback systems in their school have had little or no impact on the way they teach in the classroom».

Tom Payzant, the veteran superintendent who heads up Boston Public Schools, says large school districts get funding from a variety of philanthropic organizations, but he has had to work hard to persuade these funders to align their efforts to support a system - wide vision of how to improve education and avoid contributing to what he calls «project-itis,» which is just a series of ad hoc donations that make givers feel good but have little impact on students.

It found that «attending an exam school increases the rigor of high school courses taken and the probability that a student graduates with an advanced high school degree» but «has little impact on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, college enrollment, or college graduation.»

The 2002 U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of racial quotas at the University of Michigan — but approving the use of race as one of many factors in admissions decisions — has had little impact on magnet schools, mainly because most had already abandoned the use of quotas.

Meanwhile, Picus and Odden ignore a large body of literature that shows little impact on advantaged students and smaller impacts on disadvantaged ones, to say nothing of the empirical reality that the 56 percent of students currently attending schools that have full - day kindergarten do not surpass the remaining 44 percent attending schools without full - day kindergarten by anything like a 0.77 margin.

Note also that in Odden's peer review in 2004 of William Driscoll's and Howard Fleeter's Ohio study of the costs of bringing all students to proficiency in math and reading in order to comply with NCLB, he castigates the study's authors, who called for expanded summer school, because they «reference no research to support this assertion, when in fact most research shows that summer school as typically administered has little if any impact on learning.»

While information about local district rankings shifts evaluations of local schools downward, it has little impact on assessments of the nation's schools.

How can it be that we pile dollars upon dollars and launch reform after reform yet have so little impact on student learning in our public schools?

A school contribution from this budget to a residential visit may be money well spent if it impacts on the self - esteem, behaviour, team - work, resilience, engagement and attendance of some pupils or on the child who has little chance of doing anything exciting with his family any time soon.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

There is little research about the impact of school closings on student achievement, according to Barbara Gross of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a nonprofit educational research and policy group that has been giving technical help to the actischool closings on student achievement, according to Barbara Gross of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a nonprofit educational research and policy group that has been giving technical help to the actiSchool Reform, a nonprofit educational research and policy group that has been giving technical help to the activists.

Also in Education Next, «Poor Results for High Achievers,» is a study of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students that found little impact on students» achievement for students who attended the program.

Priscilla Little, associate director of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) at HGSE, was one of four witnesses invited to testify at the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing, After School Programs: How the Bush Administration's Budget Impacts Children and Families, for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on March 11.

On the surface, it might seem that the teachers unions would play a limited role in public education: fighting for better pay and working conditions for their members, but otherwise having little impact on the structure and performance of the public schools more generallOn the surface, it might seem that the teachers unions would play a limited role in public education: fighting for better pay and working conditions for their members, but otherwise having little impact on the structure and performance of the public schools more generallon the structure and performance of the public schools more generally.

William G. Howell concludes that the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has had «little impact at all» on the Worcester Public Schools («One Child at a Time,» Feature, Summer 2004).

Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — While it is widely believed that good school principals have a positive impact on student achievement, there has been little systematic research to date on the effect of strong school leadership.

Meanwhile ed schools and the researchers who work within them are doing little to actually determine the impact of student teaching on the achievement of students in care of apprenticing teachers.

Though the state has too little data yet to fully judge the impact on student achievement, early academic results are promising, and the newest charter schools are predominantly run by organizations with a record of success.

«The provision of choice, and the publication of data on school performance, has sometimes had little impact, especially in districts where reform lacks adequate local ownership, community and wider civic involvement, and parent engagement,» Bruno Manno notes.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw says a flagship policy to target extra funding at poor pupils in England is having little impact on many schools.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has warned that a flagship policy to target extra funding at poor pupils in England is having little impact on many schools.

Your policies, votes, and, unfortunately preconceived ideas all have an impact on the school district of Hartford, Ct — mine have little to no impact, especially because those in office have no interest in the truth.

CHICAGO AND NEW ORLEANS: Weighing in on the privatization effort in Little Rock, New Orleans parent Karran Harper Royal and Chicago grandmother Irene Robinson published a powerful column in the Arkansas Times warning about the harmful impact that privatization has had on their cities» schools and communities.

The Toolkit also notes that there is little evidence that investment in school buildings or environment has a direct impact on results with one strong exception: better air quality can help improve learning.

Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed.

Successive funding cuts have also impacted on support services in LAs to such an extent that they have very little capacity to watch school budgets closely, in order to identify proactively when schools might fall into deficit, let alone take over decision making on the school's spending on a day to day basis when delegation is withdrawn.

So far, there's little research on how A-F accountability systems could impact the way families use school vouchers.

«Today's vote to move Senate Bill 455 forward is a move in the right direction for Connecticut schools, and can eliminate barriers to teaching that have little or no correlation with a teacher's job performance or positive impact on kids,» said Jen Alexander, chief executive officer of ConnCAN (Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now).

This absence gives little guidance for districts wanting to evaluate school library services and their impact on student achievement.

Though nearly all schools deliver some form of professional development, there is little evidence that common types of professional development efforts, such as workshop - type training, have positive impacts on teacher quality or student outcomes.