Sentences with phrase «on public school performance»

These results are from her paper «Impact of Voucher Design on Public School Performance: Evidence from Florida and Milwaukee Voucher Programs.»

It is notoriously difficult to gauge the competitive effects of private schools on public school performance.

While it is difficult to disentangle the reasons for this strengthening over time of the program's estimated effects, these findings nonetheless suggest that our first - year results may understate the positive effect of the FTC program on public school performance

In order to determine the effect of scholarship - induced private school competition on public school performance, we examine whether students in schools that face a greater threat of losing students to private schools as a result of the introduction of tax - credit funded scholarships improve their test scores more than do students in schools that face a less - pronounced threat.

The available evidence also shows that STC programs may have a positive impact on public school performance.

A 2011 study by David Figlio and Cassandra Hart of found that Florida's STC program had a small but statistically significant impact on public school performance on standardized math and reading tests.

Not exact matches

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The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

January 12: Boston Public School students showcase creative reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy with dance, music, theater performances, videos, and essays (Boston)

So if kids» school performance depends on full bellies, why aren't universal meals built into our public school system?

The Academy also noted that its students» performance on state tests in math and English Language Arts runs above both the state average and that of the Hempstead public schools.

Is there a single soul in New York City with less moral standing to speak on public - school performance than Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers?

To better understand segregation's impact on student performance, FPG scientists looked at nearly 4000 first graders in public schools nationwide.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

Charter school students in grades 3 through 8 perform better than we would expect, based on the performance of comparable students in traditional public schools, on both the math and reading portions of New York's statewide achievement tests.

Each public school is assigned a grade based on the performance of its students on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) in reading, math, and writing.

In addition, he is looking to work with partners for creative solutions on delivering quality early literacy education, which he sees as a vital initiative for stemming the low - performance culture of Holyoke public schools.

The forthcoming second edition of Education Week's 50 - state report card on public education finds huge gaps between the performance of students in urban and nonurban school districts.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

The public is also famously and enduringly off the mark regarding the academic performance of their local schools, still sipping the warm waters of Lake Wobegon and giving honors grades to «the public schools in your community,» even while conferring far lower marks on «the public schools in the nation as a whole.»

In contrast, Polikoff's public comment on draft ESSA accountability rules drew heavily on a large empirical literature as it argued against a federal mandate for states to use proficiency rates as measures of school performance.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The logical extension of Jason's argument is that an all voucher education system would lead to a public education system where all schools would be allowed to reject students based on wealth, academic performance, and behavior.

Because the effects of competition on the performance of traditional public schools can be identified best during periods in which the amount of competition is changing, these years offer a convenient way to test the effects of expanded school choice.

Why does the public have a generally accurate understanding of school performance but a gross misunderstanding of the amount that is spent on education?

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

◦ Trend: The public grades their local schools more favorably now than at any point in the past ten years, despite mediocre performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the same period.

• Of all the influences on parental choice, by far the most powerful is school performance: The less satisfied parents are with the performance of the public schools, the more likely they are to go private.

Sacramento — Bill Honig, California's state superintendent of public instruction, last week proposed a three - year program that would reward the state's schools on a per - pupil basis for improving their performance in several measurable categories.

The fact that traditional public schools experienced net gains in performance, despite a slight decrease in average student quality, suggests that our estimates of the effects of charter - school competition may understate the true effect of charters on traditional public schools.

Peterson also points to research by Harvard University's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann, who examined the impact of school choice on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries and «discovered that the greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading.»

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

The analysis, which looked only at charter schools because of the prevalence of incentive programs in the independent public schools, found no impact on students» performance in mathematics.

Bates said the mandatory performance review process will build on the existing teacher performance review framework that has been in place in Queensland's public schools since September 2012, but that has not been applied appropriately, or even at all, at every school.

The authors concede that a number of national and city - level studies show relatively strong performance for disadvantaged youth in charters, but come to rest on the familiar refrain that charter students do about the same as those in other public schools.

Rigorous research on charter school performance (studies that make true apples - to - apples comparisons) shows that there is tremendous variation nationally; charter schools often outperform traditional public schools, though not the majority of the time.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

, the Hoosier State has an «annual performance - accountability rating system» for participating private schools that is based on the results of state assessments — the same tests that public school pupils take.

Yet virtual school students come and go at all times of the year, leaving the public with no data on their performance.

Nonetheless, our results indicate that private school competition, brought about by the creation of scholarships for students from low - income families, is likely to have positive effects on the performance of traditional public schools.

Here we use the data from all three cities to analyze the one - and two - year effects on academic performance of switching from a public to a private school.

We examine a unique intervention in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to uncover the causal impact on school performance of an evaluation system based on highly structured classroom observations of teacher practice.

Various fundamental reform proposals put forward since the publication in 1989 of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sSchools by John Chubb and Terry Moe would replace regulatory compliance with student - performance standards, make schools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools» existence and staff members» jobs contingent on performance, give families choices among public schools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual sschools, and transfer control of public funds from centralized bureaucracies to individual schoolsschools.

Finally — and many would say most importantly — Her Majesty's inspectors (based in a free - standing agency) constantly visit schools, appraising their performance on multiple indicators (not just test scores), giving them detailed feedback on what they need to do differently, and making all of that public.

If CCSS were to enhance public knowledge of the performance of local schools as compared to schools elsewhere in the state and nation, the impact on the school reform debate could be substantial, especially (but not exclusively) in those districts that are ranked below average nationally.

These values should permeate all aspects of a school's operation, for example, the procurement of goods and services, the appointment of staff on merit, the performance of job responsibilities and the use of public funds.

As voucher programs have grown, much attention has been paid to the students, their performance, and the impact of private - school competition on the public schools they fled.

That suite includes «public and private school choice,» which would be «a catalyst to improve the system»; better teacher training and evaluation; school evaluations based on student performance; and more digital learning.