Sentences with phrase «one's peers in public schools»

We've long known of the persistent and troublesome academic gap between white students and their black and Hispanic peers in public schools.

The intent of the support services is to enable all students with disabilities to make progress in the general education curriculum, to participate in enrichment activities, and to be educated and participate with non-disabled peers in the public school system.

The students get exposure to advanced technology that helps narrow the learning gap between them and their peers in public school.

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.»

These studies are rigorous precisely because they do not simply compare voucher students with «their peers in public school.»

• «Worse than their peers in public school» is incorrect for all five studies.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

The superintendents were curious to know our theories on why Catholic school students outperformed their peers in public school.

Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study further demonstrates that students in private schools are more likely to participate in community service than are their peers in public schools.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

Minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

The 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Civics Report Card for the Nation reports that students in private schools (both Catholic and non-Catholic) have higher average scores on the NAEP civics test than do their peers in public schools.

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

But studies show that voucher students of minority background, even if they do not perform much better on standardized tests than their peers in public school, are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college (see «The Impact of School Vouchers on College Enrollment,» research, Summer 2013).

Children in other Catholic schools of the Archdiocese have their special education needs met with resources that parallel those available to their peers in public schools.

The nonprofit organization can have its charter revoked if the students fail to measure up to their peers in the public school system for two consecutive years.

However, student outcomes at BIE schools lag far behind those of their peers in public schools.

In Cleveland, voucher students in most grades performed worse than their peers in public schools in math, though they did better in reading.

In many states, in fact, voucher students do no better — and sometimes fare worse — than their peers in public schools.

In one study, voucher students did no better than peers in the public schools for four years, then outpaced them in reading — but not math — in the fifth year.

Several studies show that voucher students perform the same or worse academically as their peers in public schools.

While there are no Arizona - specific results for private schools, the U.S. Department of Education reported last year that twice as many students from a nationally representative sample of K - 12 private school children earned a bachelor's degree or higher compared to their peers in public schools.

But there is scant evidence that these students fare better academically than their peers in public schools.

Researchers at Harvard and the Brookings Institution (where Ravitch used to be a fellow) found «minority students [in New York City] who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.»

«I think what these numbers show is these voucher students are not doing better than their peers in the public schools, so why are we doing this?»

More than half of the voucher students tested below the national average in reading, math and language and overall performed below their peers in public schools though it is not a precise comparison because the law allows voucher schools to select their own national tests.