Among each of the ten largest districts in Florida, the observed range between the 10th and 90th percentile of the SES test score gap is larger than
the observed difference between the school district with the largest SES gap and the school district with the smallest SES gap (among the ten largest school districts in Florida, that is).
Not exact matches
«In fact, our results for prejudice were comparable to life expectancy
differences that have been
observed between individuals with and without a high
school education.»
It is important to keep in mind, however, that the
differences observed between all of these groups are dwarfed by the overall gap
between the public's understanding of
school expenditures and teacher salaries, and the truth.
In sum, we
observe strong
differences between the more - and less - educated white respondents on assessments of
school quality,
school spending, teacher salaries, immigration policy, teacher tenure, merit pay, and
school vouchers.
The OECD says results from the PISA collaborative problem - solving assessment show only 9 per cent of the
differences in students» scores (after accounting for their performance in the three core domains of science, reading and mathematics), is
observed between schools.
We next explore whether
schools differ in the extent to which relatively disadvantaged students catch up to relatively advantaged students (or fall farther behind), and we investigate the degree to which the
differences we
observe occur within
school districts, and not just
between these districts.
Even after adjusting for
observed demographic
differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved
differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the
schools themselves in causing
differences in academic performance
between public and private
schools.
In Australia in 2012, 55 per cent of the
observed between -
school variance in PISA mathematics was associated with
differences between schools in average socioeconomic background.
There was no significant
difference in attainment progress
between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 outcomes after two years
between converter academies and similar non-academy
schools in 2013, although ceiling effects could limit the extent to which
differences between these higher performing
schools can be
observed.
Private
schools generate similarly higher levels of satisfaction than choice and district
schools in all three types of communities, but significant
differences between charters and chosen district
schools are not
observed in any of the three areas.
However, little work assesses the extent to which
differences in the neighborhoods in which
schools are located either affect teacher recruitment and retention or explain the
observed relationship
between school characteristics and teachers» career choices.
Third, we find considerable
differences in teacher support and teacher influence on instructional policies and practices
between charter
schools and traditional public
schools, which might help explain the higher returns to experience on teacher effectiveness as well as the
observed effectiveness gaps
between charter
schools and traditional public
schools serving disadvantaged students.
eg Our analysis is unlikely to reconcile divergent
schools of thought regarding the causes of
differences between mo del led and
observed warming rates in t he early twenty - first century.