Sentences with phrase «much difference the school»

Much like private schools, which are more apt to trade on their reputations and college - placement records than on hard evidence of what students learn in their classrooms, the schools on our list generally don't know — in any rigorous, formal sense — how much their students learn or how much difference the school itself makes.

Not exact matches

But then some business school professor would probably be rude enough to bring up the fact that if 225 million orangutans had engaged in a similar exercise, the results would be much the same... I would argue, however, that there are some important differences in the examples I am going to present.

Walliyulla showed that these differences were trivial and at a deeper level there was much in common between the two schools.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

Bello recently took trips to Florida, Florida State and Alabama, but had trouble pointing out what he saw as differences in the schools, saying that they have much more in common than they do different.

* Note: these are raw stats, unadjusted for opponent, and we don't have enough of a sample of QBs from mid-major schools to know how much of a difference to expect from that jump.

Though students may not notice much difference in the food line, the USDA has fashioned three basic methods for schools to follow the guidelines.

I think schools (PAUSD or any others) can only do so much, and at some point parents make the big difference.

«The benefit of having school nutrition make up so much of our client base is that we work with people who make a difference daily, all over the country.

«The government's current strategy for improving [sex ed] in schools is weak, and the recent actions taken by the government are insufficient to make much difference.»

But one contested item that won't make too much of a difference for school districts is the rate at which students have chosen to opt out of state standardized tests.

The difference in personal safety between the 5th percentile and the 20th percentile of school safety is much greater than between the 20th percentile of school safety and the 65th percentile of school safety, even though the percentile gap is three times as great.

Zimet did attack Cahill's stand on sales - tax policy, but on other issues, including school aid, women's reproductive rights, ethics and legislative misfeasance, gay rights, local hospitals and campaign finance reform, there wasn't much difference between these two liberal Democrats.

The other significant finding of the study, says Garrett Jenkinson, Ph.D., assistant research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering who carried out much of the analyses, was that this variability goes haywire in cancer cells, which may display significant regional differences in methylation stochasticity compared to normal cells.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

In some countries — including Israel and six European countries — girls were much more positive about school than boys, but in other countries such as Nepal and Ethiopia there was no difference between girls and boys.

To make sure that the closeness rankings didn't reflect a fundamental difference between types of friendships at large and small schools, Bahns and her colleagues adjusted for a number of other variables, including how long friends had known each other and how much time they spent together.

«We were surprised by the magnitude of the difference in how much people paid for an identical car that was bought in the same month in even the same city,» says Ambarish Chandra, Assistant Professor of Business Economics in U of T Scarborough's Department of Management and the Rotman School of Management.

New research indicates that teenagers who drink too much may lose as much as 10 percent of their brainpower — the difference between passing and failing in school... and in life

«There's really not much scientific studies on the use of kukui oil in the dermatologic literature, and the one study I know of failed to demonstrate any differences between kukui oil and the placebo in treating mild psoriasis,» says Julia Tzu, MD, clinical assistant professor of dermatology at New York University School of Medicine.

The last time I wore a pair of Keds I was in elementary school (my shoes are the generic version but there isn't much difference except for the label).

It looks like there is not much difference out there from the guys that were in high school, well except there is the scary factor now.

You are so right... there isn't much difference between the guys online and guys from high school.

Couples who had met on eHarmony also reported higher relationship satisfaction than those who had met through their jobs or at school, but the difference was much less significant.

Mainstream wisdom among federal policymakers then was that schools don't make much of a difference in children's lives and that spending money to improve schools was wasteful.

The performance differences, however, while statistically significant, are much smaller than those found in the NAEP analysis, which supports the view that control variables used in the NAEP models are biased against private schools.

This is a much more positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these differences and to sort students accordingly.

Variables that measure student differences based on participation in government programs are problematic, however, especially when comparing different school sectors, since government - run public schools are much more likely to participate in such programs than are privately run schools, even if both types of schools have similar student populations.

A reanalysis of the data used in the UCLA report found much smaller differences between charter and traditional public schools once more appropriate comparisons were made between the two groups of schools.

Differences in interest accrual and graduate school borrowing lead to black graduates holding nearly $ 53,000 in student loan debt four years after graduation — almost twice as much as their white counterparts.

students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.

There's just not all that much difference in the changes between schools that were SIG - eligible but lost and schools that were SIG - eligible and won.

City schools also were twice as likely to report serious violent crime compared with rural and schools in towns; however, there was not much difference in the amount of serious crimes in schools located in urban fringe areas, according to the NCES Annual Report on School Safety — 1998.

Contrary to what Michael Dyson asserts, «profound resegregation of American schools» has not happened; «telling differences between how much money suburban and urban schools spend on each student» do not exist; African American dropout rates are not 17 percent (but closer to the 50 percent figure that Cosby is accused of getting wrong); and the existence of the phenomenon of «acting white,» far from being «a theory that is in large part untrue,» has been affirmed by a major new study.

Thomas Hehir, Ed.D.» 90, the Silvana and Christopher Pascucci Professor of Practice in Learning Differences at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), spent much of his career helping children with disabilities, including a decade teaching in Boston Public Schools.

There are other factors that make a difference to student wellbeing and much comes down to teachers, parents and schools.

Expanding school choice, like almost all of education reform, occurs in the states, so who is in charge in DC will not make too much of a difference other than turning a headwind into a tailwind.

Minister Pyne's proposals are sound, but they are unlikely to make much difference to the quality of Australian schools.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

We are also unable to find significant evidence that increased school expenditure, by itself, makes much of a difference.

Simple common sense would dictate that the effectiveness of different teachers or schools should have as least as much to do with differences in what is being taught as who is doing the teaching, or under whose roof and which assessment regime.

Similar to our analysis of charter schools, access to private schools is much higher for families from urban areas relative to families from rural areas (although the difference is not as large).

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

Nor has the compensation of school principals much improved; indeed, the annual average salary difference in 2011 — 12 between what veteran high - school teachers (eleven to twenty years) and their principals get paid was roughly $ 40,000.

If a school leader balances the teaching talent on each team so that there are no discernable differences between teams at different grade levels, then parents don't worry so much about «poor» teachers, because they know that there will be strong and less - strong teachers on every team that their child could be on.

The AFT claims that charter schools are more racially homogeneous than district schools, citing research that makes much of very small differences (normally less than 10 percent) between charter and nearby district school student bodies.

I am an advocate for the use of IT in schools, but even I was surprised at how much of a difference our new wireless network made.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

Diane Ravitch's claim that school voucher programs have failed is based on ignoring much of the scientific evidence of their success, misreporting the facts regarding the studies that she does discuss, and the 1 percent difference between 95 % confidence and 94 % confidence.

Free schools and academies are making a huge difference to the quality of education right across the country and we very much look forward to establishing these new schools so that we can offer exceptional opportunities for learning to even more children.»