Sentences with phrase «quality schools apparently»

Those living in parts of the country with lower - quality schools apparently have little idea that schools in other states are, on average, a lot better.

Not exact matches

The most confident conclusion that can be drawn from this literature is that unions increase the costs of education, apparently by an average of 8 to 15 percent - and without (as far as can be determined) a corresponding increase, or any increase at all, in school quality.

As per an article published last week in The Columbus Dispatch, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) apparently rejected a proposal made by the state's pro-charter school Ohio Coalition for Quality Education and the state's largest online charter school, all of whom wanted to add (or replace) this state's VAM with another, unnamed «Similar Students» measure (which could be the Student Growth Percentiles model discussed prior on this blog, for example, here, here, and here) used in California.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.