Sentences with phrase «of school characteristics»

Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Incentive Effects of Competition among Jurisdictions

The importance of school characteristics in the housing market can be seen in the jump in house

Figure 5 — Predicted Percentage of Grade 5 Non-LEP Students Scoring Above the National Median, Given Different Levels of School Characteristics (1998 Stanford 9 Reading Test)

Parental Valuation of School Characteristics, Tiebout Equilibrium, and the Effects of Inter - District Competition

This article summarizes our analysis of the variety of school characteristics available in New Orleans.

Finally, we see that elementary schools cluster in groups with varied levels of school characteristics — except for student support staff.

To provide a more rigorous evaluation of the program's impact, we compare the reading and English performance of individual students attending NLP and comparison schools in 1997 and 1998, while taking into account a wide variety of school characteristics that could also influence student achievement.

So it is not altogether wrong to emphasize variation in the charter world, but on most of the school characteristics we find no significant difference between the variability in parental perceptions in the charter and district - school sectors.

Not exact matches

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

It took on more and more the characteristics of a denomination, strengthening its structures, sending forth missionaries, establishing Bible schools, and communicating with its constituents through the Pentecostal Evangel.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Philosophical schools were nearly unanimous in holding that wrath was not a characteristic of the divine being.

Christian humanism, present to a minor extent in denominations and schools, but widely prevalent in the «latent» church which seems large and important in America, is strong in its devotion to the Son of Man; reliance upon the Son of God is more characteristic of the ecclesiastical institutions and of the majority movement in the community.

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

Wacker describes the Pentecostal movement as a slice out of the American pie: its adherents have typically been «farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, and service providers with the middle school education and honorable social standing characteristic of those groups.»

This can be seen in relation to three of the characteristic features of a school: the subject matter that focuses its common endeavor; the «understanding» it seeks through study of that subject matter; and the kind of community the school is.

Common worship tends to be highly valued and it is characteristic of schools with this ethos to include in the weekly schedule stated times for worship by the entire community.

Such a movement of the mind toward God and the neighbor - before - God is characteristic of the Church in all its parts but it is the first duty and a central purpose of the theological school.

To this characteristic bit of big - school backbiting.

When the testing showed that the insertion of the 3 1/2 ounce sensor in between sections of the interior padding of the Schutt helmet did not in any way effect its performance characteristics, Schutt was able to assure the school that the helmet modification did not void its warranty, and we were able to proceed.

The Chef Instructor Training Program begins with two - weeks of intensive exposure to the world of school food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodSchool Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodology.

Waldorf School of Princeton welcomes students and employees of any color; race; sexual orientation; ethnic, national, cultural, social, or religious backgrounds; and any other characteristic protected by law in its admissions and employment practices, as well as in participation in its programs and events.

Handwritten main lesson books are a signature characteristic of Waldorf Schools worldwide.

«We have all the characteristics of an old - fashioned hometown - in our downtown area, we have a high school and a library and a post office that people can walk to.

It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of SEN together with the assessment and placement of pupils with statements of SEN.. It is based on pupil - level data collected via the school census and local authority - level data collected via the SEN2 survey.

On 17 October 2012, additional national - level tables are being added containing a further breakdown of analyses for primary type of special educational need by pupil characteristics (e.g. free school meal eligibility, age, gender, ethnicity).

An assessment of the effect that the national funding formulae for schools, high needs and central school services blocks will have on groups with protected characteristics.

Those characteristics include tree - lined streets, parks, historic structures, high levels of volunteerism and philanthropy, conservative government traditions, well - performing schools and top - flight park districts.

While I was unable to find any statistics on choking on school grounds per se, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported last year that «[c] hoking on food causes the death of approximately 1 child every 5 days in the United States,» and some of the characteristics of the typical school cafeteria eating experience were identified in the report as enhancing the risk of choking:

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

According to Lawrence B. Smith in his publication Oil and Water: The Attachment Disordered Child and School, a school has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disSchool, a school has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disschool has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disorder:

Participant characteristics: mean age: 24.4 years; married n = 47 (78 %); white n = 55 (93 %); completed high school n = 58 (97 %); income of USD ≤ 20,000 n = 13 (22 %)

Time for SOMEONE to place restrictions on the release (by school districts) of children's names, addresses, pictures and physical characteristics as well as their contact information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses.

Perhaps too little has been made of the extent to which he shares the characteristics of the last public - school - educated generation to run the party — the Edens, Homes and Macmillans.

The report also considers the key characteristics of young people who are out - of - school and out - of - work, including their demographics, where they live, their skills, and barriers they face connecting to employment opportunities.

Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing explored the impact of patient characteristics, including race, ethnicity and sex.

Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.) School of Medicine.

In order to separate student characteristics from aspects of segregated public schools, Kainz used a statistical technique called «propensity score matching,» which allows for comparison of reading growth in segregated and non-segregated schools, while also accounting for numerous differences in the students» backgrounds.

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

«From the first moment she came into our school,» wrote teacher Mike Weddle, «I was amazed at her ability to captivate the students with a succinct explanation of the pika's very complex characteristics and behavior.»

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

First author Adam Skibinski, M.D. / Ph.D., student at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, said «We've known for a long time that breast cells can lose their normal identity when they become cancerous, but we are now realizing that normal cells can change their characteristics as well in response to transcription factors like TAZ.

Lead researcher Dr Anna Wilkinson from the School of Life Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK, said: «The ability to learn through imitation is thought to be the pinnacle of social learning and long considered a distinctive characteristic of humans.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

Data from a 1999 NSF report, Characteristics of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates, disputed the S&E shortage by reporting that 68 % of those with S&E baccalaureates and masters were working in non-S & E fields in 1997.2 However, some observers attribute S&E losses to higher enrollments in professional schools.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

You would think that what all this prefrontal cortex real estate would do for us is allow us to do all these wonderful things like paint and make music and speak and build churches and cities and schools and have systems of justice, but at an anatomical level one of its most distinguishing characteristics is that it's full of inhibitory circuits.

«Single - walled carbon nanotube field - effect transistors (FETs) have characteristics similar to polycrystalline silicon FETs, a thin film silicon transistor currently used to drive the pixels in organic light - emitting (OLED) displays,» said Mark Hersam, Dodabalapur's coworker and a professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.

The longitudinal study, conducted by Monica Bertoia of Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, shows differences by type of fruit or vegetable, suggesting that characteristics of these foods influence the strength of their association with weight change.