We offer many resources in both Spanish and Haitian Creole for parents and students
researching school choice options.
Parents who actively
research their school choices tend to remain highly involved in their children's educations.
Research School Choice and Charter schools and the government's connection along with Reinventing Schools Coalition (RISC) a new method being used in charter schools across the country.
Not exact matches
, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in
schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting
research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual
choices.
The Standards were developed following
research showing that children were not making healthy food
choices at lunchtime and that
school meals did not meet their nutritional needs.
Significant supporting
research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that
school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of
choices via a
school salad bar.
Significant supporting
research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that
school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of
choices via a
school salad bar.
Because our program is different from many other therapeutic boarding
schools in Hawaii, we encourage parents to really do their
research and see whether we are the right
choice for their teenage sons.
Homeschooling may not be the right path for every family for a panoply of reasons, but just as parents spend a lot of time contemplating and
researching the public and private
school options available to them, homeschooling should be another reasonable education
choice for families to consider.
Patricia Mucavele,
research and nutrition manager at the
School Food Trust, which offers its own advice on packed lunches, said, «
School lunches are now the most nutritious
choice for children and young people.
PX's
research on
school choice, housing and Islamic extremism has added handsomely to the public square.
After a gap year spent as the assistant project director for a chimpanzee field site for ecological
research in western Uganda, I began graduate
school in my first -
choice neuroscience program.
Dr Walid Magdy, of the University of Edinburgh's
School of Informatics, who led the
research, said: «The introduction of skin tone
choices for emojis has been a success in representing diversity and their extensive use shows that they meet a real demand from users.»
One 15 - minute focused - breathing meditation may help people make smarter
choices, according to new
research from researchers at INSEAD and The Wharton
School.
That's the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Marketing
Research: «Healthy
Choice: The Effect of Simplified Point - of - Sale Nutritional Information on Consumer Food
Choice Behavior,» co-authored by Hristina Nikolova, the Coughlin Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carroll
School of Management at Boston College and J. Jeffrey Inman, Associate Dean for
Research and Faculty and the Albert Wesley Frey Professor of Marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate
School of Business.
They hear the horror stories about promotion and tenure decisions, the fight to secure funding to keep
research going, and the drudgery of teaching introductory courses in which students only want to get the «A» that will help them get into the medical or graduate
school of their
choice.
UF / IFAS assistant professor of food and resource economics Jaclyn Kropp — along with economists at Georgia State University, Clemson University and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — worked with a county
school food services director to develop a novel
research model to study
school lunch
choices children make, combining lunch sales data collected at the cafeteria register with data on student absences.
While more consumers than ever are making healthier
choices at the grocery store, they tend to purchase a balance of healthy and less - healthy foods, according to new
research from the University at Buffalo
School of Management.
People are more likely to delegate decisions — or «pass the buck» — when faced with
choices that affect others than when those decisions affect only themselves, according to new
research from Mary Steffel, assistant professor of marketing in the D'Amore - McKim
School of Business at Northeastern University.
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His
choices widened when he looked at the work of his graduate
school mentor, who had made important contributions to society by founding a Cord Blood Bank, and of a professor at a local 2 - year college, who advanced student training in scientific
research by involving them in the lab production of monoclonal antibodies.
From a health perspective, farmed salmon is a good
choice, said Roxanne Karimi, a
research scientist at the
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University.
Significant supporting
research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that
school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of
choices via a
school salad bar.
Ballots don't come with lists of eligible
choices so it's up to each member to think up a list and since the category is «under 21» it takes a bit of
research for the teen / young adult performances; as is Hollywood tradition almost everyone playing high
schoolers in Lady Bird or Spider - Man Homecoming are in their early - to - mid 20s.
The carefully conducted
research by Caroline Hoxby and Jay Greene tells us that
choice - even the threat of
choice - provokes a detectable response from the public
schools.
To illustrate the un-reliability of test score changes, I'm going to focus on rigorously identified
research on
school choice programs where we have later life outcomes.
On - going trends involving public
school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's
research, and the expanding policy emphasis on
school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.
In addition, districts in our sample needed to have a minimum of 6 percent of students in
choice schools, the level Caroline Hoxby identified as a threshold above which districts could reasonably be expected to respond to competitive pressure (see «Rising Tide,»
research, Winter 2001).
Research indicates that privately funded
school -
choice programs are less likely to be overregulated than publicly funded programs.
School choice proponents who seek to prove that vouchers, tax credits and scholarships «work» by citing test - score - based
research have allowed themselves to be lured into argument that can never be completely won.
The
research represents each level of government — federal, state, and district — and focuses on state - federal relationships and the effects of
school choice and supplemental education services on
school districts.
In three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education
Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of
school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment system.
Research on private
school choice, like most educational interventions, has focused on short - term outcomes like test scores and parent satisfaction.
The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international
research on the effects of
school choice; and test for the effects of
school choice in Sweden on achievement.
, Handbook of
Research on
School Choice (pp. 409 - 426).
[7] Since parents are critical players in selecting elementary
schools, finding trusted community members to support and advise parents through that
choice process is a promising area of future
research.
A common shortcoming in
research and commentary on
school choice is the failure to recognize the extent to which
school choice already exists.
Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other
research, the report concludes that
school -
choice plans based on magnet
schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»
In considering the policy implications of this
research, it is important to recognize that our analysis reflects parent decisions conditional on
school choice.
At a recent conference on
school choice worldwide held at the Cato Institute in Washington, Mr. Tooley called his
research results potentially explosive because...
Even though these studies are among the most compelling in this area of
research, the complications introduced by the purposeful
choices and responses of families and
schools temper the strength of the findings.
The limited
research on efforts to improve
school choice systems also demonstrates that simplifying the information parents receive about their
school choices increases the likelihood that parents will select a higher - performing
school.
Fortunately,
school choice has been around long enough to have produced a large body of
research to learn from.
Research on private
school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.
These findings suggest avenues for future
research on the optimal design of private
school choice programs.
Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all public
schools — and providing even more quality
choices — as
research has clearly shown that they do.
A more recent summary, by Epple, Romano, and Urquiola, selectively included only 48 % of the empirical private
school choice studies available in the
research literature.
One chapter, by Ludger Woessmann (coauthor of «
School Choice International,»
research, page 54) uses international data to show that systems that make greater use of public - private partnerships (ideally combining public funding with private operation) perform better than systems that do not.
Eden's
research interests include early education,
school choice, and higher - education reform.
Paul E. Peterson and William G. Howell's article, «Voucher
Research Controversy» (Check the Facts, Spring 2004), was informative regarding the academic debate over
school choice.