Sentences with phrase «overall school population»

While many believe that gifted LGBTQ students are a small minority of the overall school population, according to an emerging body of research (Friedrichs, 1997; Treat, 2008), the population of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students may be much higher than previously realized.

As the number of poor kids moves from 51 to 55 percent or more [of the overall school population], it'll be more difficult to reach a political consensus on a strategy to help them.»

In addition, the Common Core Standards include significant attention to language development for the overall school population, with a section focused exclusively on standards for EL learners.

Not exact matches

The student population in all New York schools is going down — it corresponds with overall population declines in New York state.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.

«Similar to what you find with bipolar disorder in the nonperinatal population, the overall level of clinical severity and functional impairment really stands out as being of concern,» said Cynthia Battle, associate professor (research) of psychiatry and human behavior in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

«NAPLAN data and the My School website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrSchool website enables schools to compare the results of students at their school against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrschool against national results for the overall population and for schools with students from the same socio - educational backgrounds.

Between 1994 and 2004, the percentage of students with disabilities spending 80 percent or more of the school day in a regular classroom showed an overall increase of 5 percent, which shows that our nations schools are moving in the right direction but still have a long way to go to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population.

2) The dissimilarity index measures the extent to which schools and the overall student population are racially dissimilar, by calculating the percentage of blacks that would need to change schools if all schools were to have the same percentage of black students.

In Mozambique, on any given day, close to one - third of the overall population is attending school.

YouGov research, commissioned by the Education Support Partnership, shows that three quarters (75 per cent) of 1,250 school and college staff and leaders surveyed said they had experienced psychological, physical or behavioural symptoms because of work, which is significantly higher than the UK working population overall (62 per cent).

The pattern of differences across schools, across and within school districts, argues for enacting school accountability policies that hold schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

They tend to have higher average socioeconomic status students than the population of elementary schools overall.

Moreover, the cross-school differences in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students argue for enacting school accountability policies that shine the light on the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

And this would also indicate the value of introducing school accountability policies that shine the light on specific populations of students, rather than concentrating solely on overall performance levels or gains.

Josh Zoia believes that although KIPP class sizes are large, the small overall student population is a factor in the school's success.

Although we knew from the outset that charter schools would serve only a relatively small part of our overall population — probably less than 10 percent — we expected they would have a significant impact nonetheless.

If we look at the overall adolescent population, only about 1 in 5 meet current physical activity guidelines and if we look at senior school students specifically only around six per cent of those meet current physical activity recommendations.

The size of each bubble on the map represents a district's overall alternative school student population.

But even if one school has a student population that is 75 percent black and 25 percent white, and the other has those percentages reversed, there is still no evidence of any form of discrimination if the school with the majority black students has a higher overall discipline rate.

More than 90 percent of New Orleans public school students attend a charter school, with the RSD overseeing 70 percent of the city's overall K — 12 student population.

However, because schools with larger populations of black students have higher average exclusionary discipline rates overall, race - matched students at those schools are not necessarily less likely to experience such measures.

For a school or district to make adequate yearly progress, both the overall student population and each subgroup of students — major racial and ethnic groups, children from low - income families, students with disabilities, and students with limited proficiency in English — must meet or exceed the target set by the state.

Some places, such as Colorado, have significant populations of single - site schools, but overall, the movement doesn't seem to be trending that way.

While the city's charter schools ran independently of Rhee's efforts to reform the public school system, the slow improvement in the schools overall paralleled the city's growth — as the city's population grew over the last decade, more parents chose to enroll their children in the city's school system, creating pressure for better schools and more schools.

Overall, charter high schools, like charter elementary and middle schools serve different populations of students than their public school counterparts (See here).

Latinos and Latinas together comprise 16 % of the overall population in the United States, and approximately 22 % of the school - aged population.

Dr. Geoffrey Borman's recent meta - analysis of student achievement outcomes in 29 leading CSR models found that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations.»

States with a small overall population of ELLs may still have school districts or schools with large percentages of ELLs.

«We now have 11 more communities that enroll at least 20 percent of their overall student population in public charter schools.»

Authorizers can accelerate improvement in the overall quality of the charter sector by «restarting» low - performing charter schools: that is, transitioning the charter — and responsibility for governance and school management — to a high - performing charter school or network, while maintaining the existing population of students.

Overall, 84 percent of all students attending a school on the probation list were black, even though black students make up only 54 percent of the total student population in Chicago.

Data from the Academic Olympics demonstrate that 11th grade RFEP students perform comparably or outperform the overall student population for ELA within SCC school districts.

While Heritage has only nine students open enrolled from Sheridan, 20 percent of Littleton Public Schools» overall population is composed of students from other districts.

Finally, an expanded Learning Trust would enable sufficient, suitable and sustainable high quality buildings and facilities to accommodate the growing Morpeth and Rothbury catchment school population; together with a strategic approach to population growth, the location of schools, the organisation of learning and to improve the overall quality of facilities.

We also know that overall school performance can mask significantly different outcomes for some populations within a school.

Overall throughout the district, 40 % of the school population is eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

He said a number of variables — including charter school enrollment — could affect overall student population by a swing of as much 5,000 to 10,000 students in either direction.

And the schools also have a high population of economically disadvantaged students: 76 to 95 percent, compared to the district's overall average of 52 percent in its elementaries.

The SIFE population presents a range of special challenges to U.S. education systems, especially at the high school level where the overall dropout rate of immigrant teens is very high (Morse, 2005; Osterling, 2001).

Schools can win the award for overall academic achievement or for progress closing the achievement gap for low - income students, minority students, and other population subgroups.

And although there are poor students in many — if not most — schools, schools serving more affluent populations have larger budgets overall.

For example, a 2002 systematic analysis by Dr. Geoffrey Borman and his colleagues of the student achievement outcomes of 29 leading K - 12 CSR models — most of which operated in Title 1 schools — reported that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations» (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2002, p. 33).

... Overall, it is those families who (along observable dimensions) are least like the current population of private school customers that are most sensitive to price, suggesting that vouchers would substantially alter the socioeconomic composition of private schools.

The network expects an overall special - education population of more than 15 percent this school year — with a concentration of 22 percent at Cohen High School — compared to what Kleban described as a citywide average that traditionally hovers around 12 peschool year — with a concentration of 22 percent at Cohen High School — compared to what Kleban described as a citywide average that traditionally hovers around 12 peSchool — compared to what Kleban described as a citywide average that traditionally hovers around 12 percent.

The result, in the case of Newark's schools, is that the charters wind up serving 15 percent of the overall student population but only 1 percent of the ELLs.

Although some CMOs have been criticized for self - selecting students unrepresentative of the overall communities in which they live (Frankenberg and Siegel - Hawley 2013), Rocketship generally still serves populations similar to its surrounding public school districts.

So, while the overall student population is growing more diverse, individual schools» racial makeup is becoming more concentrated.

The overall population in primary schools was 4,558,000 in 2017 and is projected to be 100,000 higher in 2026 at 4,658,000, representing a 2.2 per cent increase.