Sentences with phrase «performing schools than other»

Houston is unique in that it provides much more targeted assistance to low - performing schools than other districts.

Not exact matches

The statistics are suggest that free schools performed better than other types of schools, such as local authority schools or academies.

However, he noted that there are public schools in some regions of the state that perform better than others.

«If academies are being set up to raise standards, then the evidence shows that they perform no better than any other type of schools.

But though 80 percent of the charters in her home state perform worse than traditional public schools, DeVos — a billionaire whose family has also opposed workers» rights, gay marriage and has contributed heavily to a variety of other right - wing causes — has led the way in resisting any attempts to regulate or improve Michigan charter performance.

That goal, which doubles as Diaz's own insistently self - deprecating joke about her flat chest, drives Elizabeth to do all sorts of disreputable things, like steal proceeds from a school car wash (where she reels in customers via a skimpy Daisy Dukes outfit) and compete for a salary bonus by drugging a state official (Thomas Lennon) and filching a test so that her class will perform better than all others, and especially that of ultra-cheery rival Amy (Lucy Punch).

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

In addition, it wasn't particularly well aligned with the district's other main accountability program, school probation, which focused on second - quartile students rather than the lowest - performing students in a school.

Both group and individual incentive schools also performed significantly better than other randomly chosen schools that received additional schooling inputs of a similar value.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Schools that participate say they are curious to see how their students compare to students from other countries, especially if the school is considered high performing; a few participated to demonstrate that low - income minority students could perform as well or better than students nationally or internationally.

But rather than focus on the problems, we turned to the best performing schools to understand what others could learn from their energy efficiency strategies and celebrate the champions.

Since the Obama Administration has quietly transitioned to a normative accountability system, where schools are compared to each other rather than to some pre-determined «proficiency» benchmark, it doesn't matter if all students appear to perform worse this year.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

Controlling for other factors, houses in districts with higher - performing government schools are more expensive than those in areas with lower - performing schools.

Although the specific allocation for school improvement grants appears to fall well short of the minimum amount required by federal regulations, other sources of federal funds could more than close the gap, if they were directed to low - performing schools.

As Andy Smarick and others have argued, fixing a chronically low - performing school is often more wishful thinking than promising strategy.

Indeed, it would be remarkable if, all other things being equal, low - income students did not perform better in high - poverty charter schools than in high - poverty district schools given the self - selected nature of the classmates and parental community in charter schools.

In a ranking of 30 American urban school districts, 18 others performed better in math than Dallas, including Houston and New York City.

In other words, the inferences made about schools (e.g., low - performing or bottom 5 %) using the proposed measures are more appropriate than those made using proficiency rates alone.

• Compared to 41 other regions nationwide, Newark has the second - highest performing charter sector based on charter students» high growth rates in reading and math relative to similar students in district schools, according to a 2015 CREDO study • 30 % of students now attend a charter school, a figure that more than doubled in this period.

That is, rather than relying exclusively on test scores to judge schools, BBA calls for the creation of an inspectorate, similar to that used in other countries with high - performing education systems, that is comprised of experienced educators, policymakers and scholars, to evaluate schools and make recommendations about how they might be improved.

STANFORD — Children exposed to domestic violence not only have more disciplinary problems at school, they perform considerably worse in math and reading than other students.

SPARK fourth graders have performed in the 70th percentile in math and the 61st percentile in reading in the nation much higher than fifth graders who enter our schools from other schools, who typically start around the 25th percentile in math and reading.

With its state - run Recovery School District in place since 2005 to intervene in low - performing schools, Louisiana also has more experience at intervening in large numbers of schools than most other states.

Test scores for students in Louisiana's state - run Recovery School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the School District, a network of low - performing schools in New Orleans and several other cities in Louisiana, have grown faster than any other public school district in the school district in the state.

In fact Ofsted analysis showed that many academies were performing worse than other local authority schools, while a Sutton Trust report in 2014 warned that they were worse for disadvantaged pupils.

But other moves are less bending, such as one provision that states principals of low performing schools who have been there more than two years will likely be replaced.

This meant that a teacher actually had to perform a decent job while they were employed with the schools, other than having no motivation to get the job done.

Rubin, who walked around in front of the justices more than the other two lawyers presenting, talks about how charter schools that are not governed by the statutes do not perform better than some of the schools that are, and he tries to explain why some predominantly minority districts have low - performing teachers.

CPS sez: «And while some schools are higher performing than others, there are NO schools in the district where more than 90 % of 8th graders are meeting college readiness standards.»

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

Six low - performing Boston schools participating in a pilot program that gives teachers more training, support, and leadership roles are showing higher growth on state tests than other low - performing city schools...

A score of 10 indicates a school that performs much higher than other similar schools.

He also said, «Charter schools don't perform better in California than other schools» even though they don't have to follow the tenure laws.

Although parents seemed to care about and ask questions regarding the quality of academics, school representatives did not seem intent on discussing the academic performance of their students or explaining how and why their schools performed better academically than others.

They performed in front of a crowd of more than 56,000 during the Holiday Bowl halftime performance with the other competing high schools.

Last year, a landmark study of school improvement («School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schools.&school improvement («School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schools.&School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schools.»

Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost - Effectiveness The first large - scale national study to identify and prioritize the factors that make some technology implementations perform dramatically better than others, demonstrate that schools employing a 1:1 student computer ratio and the key implementation factors outperform other schools, and reveal significant opportunities for improving education return on investment (ROI) by transforming teaching and learning.

American middle and high school teachers report spending more time at the front of the classroom than teachers in nearly every other country in the developed world.9 While U.S. teachers deliver instruction for about 80 percent of their workday, the international average is around 60 percent — and teachers in high - performing nations like Japan, Korea, and Singapore spend only about one - third of their time providing instruction directly to students.10 We know that it does not have to be this way for U.S. teachers.

Well, the change that we made to improve our graduation rate is a change that hurts us on the test scores... We're showing these big improvements, our kids are performing closer to where they want to be — and they're not there yet — but in some cases, 30 — 40 percent higher on their test scores than [at other schools], but we're on the list.

Well, the change that we made to improve our graduation rate is a change that hurts us on the test scores... We're showing these big improvements, our kids are performing closer to where they want to be — and they're not there yet — but in some cases, 30 - 40 percent higher on their test scores than [at other schools], but we're on the list, and [other schools] are not, and I think the question is, why would that be?

The state's A-F grading system has shone a light on the reality that students living in poverty are far more likely than others to attend low - performing schools.

Some schools are more effective than others by virtue of their favorable resources, leadership, or organization; we can expect that teachers of similar skill will perform better in these more effective schools.

For example, Celerity Troika performs significantly higher than the other schools in the network.

Teachers are the most important in - school factor for student achievement.97 Indeed, research estimates that teachers have two to three times the effect of any other school factor, such as school services and leadership, on student academic performance.98 An oft - cited study underscores the scope of this effect, finding that students with three consecutive high - performing teachers scored approximately 50 percentile points higher than students placed with three consecutive low - performing teachers.99

While in some places there is evidence that children in charter schools perform better than those in traditional public schools, in other places, it's just not so.

Beginning in 2012, 10 low - performing district schools and three charter schools were closed or consolidated with other schools, while more than a dozen schools were renewed in the early years of reform.

Test scores at the zone's highest - performing middle school are in the bottom 9th percentile statewide, meaning more than 90 percent of other similar schools scored better.

Disadvantaged students at this school are performing far better than other students in the state, and this school is successfully closing the achievement gap.