Sentences with phrase «public school peers in»

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

Verriden said Hope eighth - graders outperformed their local public school peers in reading and math in the last WKCE exam and that that their pace of improvement exceeded those of students nationally and locally in what's known as the MAP assessment.

The Bay Area, Boston, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, New York City and Newark are much stronger than their traditional public school peers in math.

New voucher students fell statistically significantly behind their public school peers in math after switching.

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

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.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

The debate tournament segment of the class was probably the one that formed me most — it caused me to join Pacilio's debate team for a couple years, and it was the first, and probably last, time that I and my peers were treated to full - throated political discourse in the public school classroom.

Thus Machen, unlike most of his conservative peers, then and now, opposed Bible reading and prayer in the public schools as well as Christian political action on behalf of Prohibition.

As summarized by Reuters, the study's researchers peered into the lunch boxes of 626 third and fourth graders from 12 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, and found that only 34 % of lunches contained fruit, only 11 % contained vegetables, 42 % contained snacks and 28 % included dessert.

Said senior author Abdullah Baqui, associate professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, «Infants born in the slums of Dhaka appear to be confined within «growth channels» determined at birth, so that bigger babies grew ever bigger relative to their smaller peers.»

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

Attending public preschool is linked to an increase in students taking the admissions test for gifted and talented programs, reducing the disparity in test taking between disadvantaged students and their peers, finds a study of New York City students by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«Our findings reveal that, across all grades and subjects, students in online charter schools perform worse on standardized assessments and are significantly less likely to pass Ohio's test for high school graduation than their peers in traditional charter and traditional public schools,» said McEachin.

Low - income minority adolescents who were admitted to high - performing public charter high schools in Los Angeles were significantly less likely to engage in risky health behaviors than their peers who were not admitted to those schools, according to a new UCLA - led study.

Katie Devine, PhD, MPH, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey behavioral scientist, and colleagues from universities in the United States and Canada conducted this study to assess if a peer - mediated intervention at the public schools for cancer survivors was feasible and acceptable to family members.

This contributes to policy discussion on Medicaid expansion by providing evidence that public outlays on Medicaid are well spent,» said Kimberly Johnson, associate professor at the Brown School and co-author of the study, «The Effect of Health Insurance on Childhood Cancer Survival in the United States,» published Sept. 11 in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

Second - year Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) and Masters in Public Policy students shared with peers and Woodrow Wilson School administrators the findings of their Policy Workshops during a Policy Workshop Symposium on Feb. 6, 2014.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

Just a few miles away, their 330 peers at Houston's KIPP Academy, a public charter school, benefit from an even newer facility, built in 2001.

In her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradIn her assessment of four California public schools that use Waldorf methods, Oberman found that students tested below peers in language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin language arts and math in the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin the second grade, but they matched or tested above their peers in the same subjects by eighth gradin the same subjects by eighth grade.

In the early 1980s, James Coleman and his colleagues found that Catholic - school students were significantly more likely to report that their schools» approach to discipline was «excellent or good» than their public - school peers.

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

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.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

Their peers in New Haven public schools during this same period climbed slightly, from 25 percent mastery in 6th grade to 31 percent mastery in 8th grade.

In fact, several urban union locals, in Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and public school choicIn fact, several urban union locals, in Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and public school choicin Cincinnati, Denver, and Rochester, to name a few, have already agreed to reforms such as merit pay, peer review, and public school choice.

Students with disabilities now have the right to be educated in public schools with their nondisabled peers and to be prepared for a positive and productive life after school.

The GRC enables users to compare academic achievement in math and reading between 2004 and 2007 for virtually every public school district in the United States with the average achievement in a set of 25 other countries with developed economies that might be considered our economic peers and sometime competitors.

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

It improves the academic performance of the low - income, mostly minority students who use scholarships to attend private schools, and also that of their peers who stay in the public schools.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

In eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matIn eighth grade, for example, in both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin both reading and math, as recently as 2015, pupils in Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin Catholic schools outperformed their public - school peers by a solid margin — more so in reading than in matin reading than in matin math.

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.

If this were true, the presence of motivated peers at KIPP could help bolster the effectiveness of the KIPP model, and it would call into question whether KIPP's approach would be equally effective in conventional public schools.

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 key question is whether KIPP's positive effects on learning are attributable to a peer environment that is more conducive to academic achievement than the peer environment found in traditional public schools.

Before Putnam employed the concept to explain differences in governmental performance between northern and southern Italy, Coleman and his colleagues developed it to theorize why students in Catholic schools excel academically relative to their public school peers.

In public schools, teachers from such colleges earn 3 percent more than their peers.

Alex Hernandez of the Charter School Growth Fund celebrated: «[CREDO] reports that the 107,000 students whose schools receive support from the Charter School Growth Fund gain, on average, the equivalent of four additional months of learning in math and three additional months of learning in reading each year when compared to peers in other 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.

Whittle's prime example of assigning students to peer tutoring is already used widely in public schools.

There are 11 million students in rural public schools, and kids in rural America are more likely than their peers in any other geography to live in poverty.

It provides public and peer endorsed recognition for an individual's commitment to the Australian Principal Standard and to its operation in Australian schools.

NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit grantmaking organization, operates in several major cities across the U.S. CMOs in its portfolio work exclusively in urban neighborhoods, serve predominantly low - income students, with demographics that are similar to those of their local public school peers.

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.

In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scalIn a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scalin the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.