Sentences with phrase «math than in recent years»

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Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Of those that did manage to find jobs, the biggest change in employment for math Ph.D. s came in industry, which boosted its hiring by 18.1 % from last year to take in more than 26.8 % of the recent graduates.

However, Houston's scores are significantly higher than those of Los Angeles in both reading and math, and the city has experienced greater gains in recent years.

While students in the district have made some academic gains in recent years, far less than half are proficient in math, reading, and writing.

The academy is a K - 8 school where fewer than half the students scored proficient or above on standardized math and reading tests in 2014 - 2015, the most recent year for which state data are available.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

Online quotes have gotten more streamlined in recent years (cough, cough), but there's a still chance, at some point in your search, you'll encounter a trio of numbers that looks more like math than anything else.