Sentences with phrase «on differences between schools»

And the fact that the Coleman findings are based on differences between schools means that it ignores important differences in resources — teacher quality in particular — that we know today exist within schools.

This lesson focuses on the differences between schools in UK and schools in France.

Not exact matches

In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

He explained the difference between good and bad natural law in a newspaper article that expanded on a theme first advanced in the New York Times by Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe.

If one asks how the subject knows the object, one has in brief form the essence of theory of knowledge from Plato to Bergson; the differences between the many schools of philosophy can all be understood as variations on this theme.

So, in the absence of any explanation, we must ask what, in the eyes of our national Education Service, is the big difference between these two constructive diocesan documents on Catholic schools?

The doctrinal differences between Rabbinic Judaism and Messianic Judaism stem from the initial antagonism between the founders of the two schools of thought on YHWH.

Meanwhile, the difference between the SAT scores of wealthy and poor high school seniors has actually increased over the past 30 years, from a 90 - point gap (on an 800 - point scale) in the 1980s to a 125 - point gap today.

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Letting your child's school know about the differences between the real school supplies needed versus the ones listed on the school supplies list can help the school troubleshoot the supply list.

Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the researchers attributed to a differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.

As for clothes, another item often lost during the school year, iron - on clothes labels can mean the difference between buying a new set of gym clothes mid year and not.

One father of twins in the public school system commented on the differences he sees between the two teachers his children have, noting:

The teachers union president says when it comes to her thoughts on the system as a whole, the differences between schools doesn't just come down to parity in funding, but parity in opportunity.

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.

Despite Cuomo's comments about the differences between rich and poor districts, his address brought a lukewarm response from the Alliance for Quality Education, which focuses on the wealth disparities among schools.

«Other people knew that Canadians live two to two and a half years longer than Americans,» says Steffie Woolhandler, an author on the paper and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, citing a phenomenon that many attribute to differences in lifestyle between the two countries.

«The verdict is still out on the seriousness of subconcussions, but we've got to learn more since we're seeing a real difference between people who participate in sports with higher risk for these impacts,» said Port, an associate professor in the IU School of Optometry.

Our beliefs about differences between the sexes have an impact on society vastly out of proportion to the magnitude of those differences, from female scientists defending their mathematical and technical expertise to boys accused of lacking the communication and emotional skills to succeed at school.

«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.

Even if you have your skincare regimen down to a science — and can school everyone on the differences between a moisturizer and a serum — you might still be missing out on important steps.

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.&school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»

The difference between the 75 % and 56 % figure is largely immaterial because our «intention - to - treat» analysis exclusively measures the effect of starting high school in the voucher program on future levels of educational attainment regardless of how long you stayed in the program.

Often, the difference between a student graduating and going to college and a student not finishing school or going on to college is the relationship that student has with just one adult at school who knows him or her well, believes in the student's ability to succeed, and will not let him or her fail.

Based on a wealth of existing evidence, however, we are unable to share in the team's optimism that more complete data might show narrower differences in segregation between charter and traditional public schools.

The driving force of this relationship is not teachers» leaving urban districts for suburban ones; on the contrary, most of the difference in leaving rates between these types of schools is caused by teachers moving to new schools within their original district.

Fifty - two percent of city charter school students were in 90 - 100 % minority schools, compared to only 34 % of traditional public school students — a difference of eighteen percentage points, very similar to the overall difference of twenty percentage points between the two sectors of schools (Table 22 on p. 63 of our report).

Muralidharan evaluated four different facets of the program including the impact of performance pay on learning, whether it led to any negative consequences on the teachers, the difference between group incentives and individual, and the relative effectiveness of teacher performance pay versus spending the same money on additional school inputs.

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.

In addition, the differences in test - score gains between bottom - and top - quartile students on each non-cognitive skill amount to almost a full year's worth of learning in math over the middle school years.

In an era when a high school diploma is the difference between a career and a lifetime on the dole, New York's high - school reforms have increased the economic mobility of tens of thousands of students.

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.

But we detect no «structural» difference between the operation of the OSP and — as a leading example — the state's McKay program for disabled students, which began on a pilot basis in 1999 and as of the fall of 2005 was enrolling more than 16,000 students in private schools.

New York — On a recent Friday morning, while legislators and other state officials were making financial decisions that would make the difference between retaining and immediately laying off 1,000 of New York City's public - school teachers, Frank J. Macchiarola did what, in almost any other case, would be described as switching hats a few times.

We need gentle pressure, relentlessly pursued toward transparent and defensible targets, esteeming the expertise of educators who make these difference, while building a profession based on this expertise... an education implementation model that is shared between schools and not resident in only a few.»

But getting all of this done will be the difference between MET having a transformational effect on K — 12 schooling and MET retiring to a dusty shelf alongside other once - promising studies.

Another study, by Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond, both also at Stanford, evaluated the impact of school - accountability policies on state - level NAEP math and reading achievement measured by the difference between the performance of a state's 8th graders and that of 4th graders in the same state four years earlier.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

Thus, while it appears that charter students are, on average, more likely to attend hypersegregated minority schools, the difference between the charter and traditional public sector is far less stark than the CRP authors suggest.

The net impact on taxpayers, then, is 1) the savings that come from the difference between the voucher and the per - pupil revenue at district schools, for those who would have attended them in the absence of the voucher program, minus 2) the voucher costs for students who would have attended private schools anyway.

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.

Cornel West on democracy, the importance of activism, and the difference between schooling and deep education.

There is a world of difference between one organization's decisions to focus on its existing investments and a decision to place a nationwide moratorium on the opening of new schools.

The «burden» on NYC DOE from paying private school tuition is the difference between the average tuition and legal costs associated with private placement ($ 28,571) and the average cost for a disabled student in the traditional public schools ($ 24,773), which works out to $ 3,798 per student.

«I actually wanted insight into the school's racial achievement gap,» he says, «and thought a survey on how the students perceived the school — academics, teachers, extracurriculars, safety, and social morale — would reveal differences between racial groups.»

The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.

Look at it this way: your teaching every year is like a narrative, and... if the A-story is the standards - based content, then the B - story is the tween - based content, and there is a huge difference between a middle - school classroom run by a teacher who takes on this added curriculum and a middle - school classroom that doesn't.

We restrict our comparisons to teachers and students within the same schools in order to eliminate any potential influence of differences between schools on both TES ratings and student achievement.