Sentences with phrase «number of schools»

However, this gain fell barely short of a conventional standard for statistical significance, likely due to the very small number of schools in this category (only nine).

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio - emotional learning measures in their accountability policies.

An increasing number of school districts and charter networks are trying to break up concentrated poverty and balance their student populations by race and income.

These cases confirmed that at least some districts «matter» in powerfully positive ways for student learning in large numbers of schools and for students of all backgrounds.

One area school district has joined a growing number of school districts nationwide and will shift their start times to later in the morning.

However, we have since learned that a very small number of schools of education are beginning to introduce this mode of assessment.

And there will be questions about what will happen to local authority education services if councils are left controlling a diminishing number of schools with reduced funding.

Finally, a growing number of schools offer online and distance learning programs.

However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be off for every religious holiday that comes along.

The total number of school shooting fatalities from the rest of the world combined since then is around 175.

Two states set more ambitious metrics based on percentages, and three states use a specific number of school days.

And, of course, those motivated voters include a disproportionate number of the school system's own employees.

Since D and F schools are considered low performing schools, there's a large number of schools which will suddenly be labeled as deficient.

There's been a historic number of school closings across the country.

During the 1990s, he points out, the average number of school shootings with multiple victims increased from two to five per year.

A large number of schools also offer this course online.

Increasing numbers of school age children with allergic disease is presenting schools with a major challenge around how to make school life for pupils with allergic disease as safe as possible.

This is how it might work: The state creates a new entity empowered to develop performance contracts with a limited number of schools operated by districts.

In fact, a growing number of schools currently offer online programs for those students who can not attend school physically.

Each summer a select number of schools have been invited to begin this process so that there is capacity for supporting all of the schools over time.

Certainly the Labour model seemed more aggressively about turnaround, with more resources, and more scrutiny, due to the smaller numbers of schools involved.

While a good number of schools / districts have already addressed this issue through a shift in policies and practices, the knowing - doing gap is still alive and well.

It's possible that this sudden rise could be a side - effect of the growing number of schools converting to academy status.

If there are states that do not participate, a certain number of schools and students are selected to complete the national - level sample.

Despite the huge number of schools, there is a lot of competition for places in the best ones.

The district model enables us to expand our reach and impact a greater number of schools.

They touched on the rising number of school vouchers, property tax caps, and school funding formula changes.

This year, however, a substantial number of schools couldn't provide the salary data we requested, so we've eliminated it as a factor.

Music can say a lot about a school and an increasing number of schools benefit from the transformational power that music brings.

Additionally, due to the closures to pupil referral units and independent schools, the overall number of schools has dropped.

This will be a tough planning challenge for national and local government, against a background of spending constraints and growing numbers of schools moving outside of local education authority control.

A large number of school choice systems use merit - based assignment mechanisms in which students have incomplete information and constraints on the number of choices they can list.

I advise applying to approximately the mean number of schools — 10 — rather than either extreme.

I know that an increasing number of schools now have student advisory periods, a time when a group of students meet with a teacher for advisory help.

But large numbers of schools share two challenges that demand responses by all or many educational leaders if they are to be successful in improving teaching and learning.

State officials have said that a small number of schools will be accepted in that first group, with most of the others coming on board in 2013 - 2014.

And why not use the vegetables that students grow themselves in increasing numbers of school gardens, as is now prohibited?

She said a «surprising number of schools», for example, entered no children for foreign languages.

Between 2015 and 2016, we've see an increasing number of schools dissatisfied with their budgets.

I think this concept could grow to include a wider number of schools, maybe even become a regular professional procedure for all teachers.

A Freedom of Information request has revealed an alarming number of school pupils have been either permanently or temporarily excluded for sexual misconduct over the last four years.

It has, however, yielded an enormous number of schools that we now know, without doubt, are doing a miserable job, particularly with disadvantaged kids.

This means a sizeable number of school - age population is affected by the immigration system.

Despite confirming the rough number of schools taking part in this year's pilot, the government has only named a handful of those involved, and refused to name others when pressed.

Principal supervisors need to have a reasonable number of schools — probably not much more than 20 — for which they are responsible.

Current was middle strength and we were drifting passing countless number of schools of fish.

An unacceptable number of schools still contain asbestos, putting our children, teachers, and administrators at a constant risk for exposure.

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.