Sentences with phrase «school average results»

State, district, and school average results are included in relevant sections of the report to help parents understand how their student's performance compares to that of other students.

Not exact matches

The 2007 Associated Press investigation identifies 2570 public school teachers who, from 2001 through 2005, had their teaching licenses «taken away, denied, surrendered voluntarily, or restricted» as a result of sexual misconduct with minors» an average of 514 per year.

The results for the 2013 - 14 school year show an average of 11.2 million low - income children ate breakfast at school each day — an increase of 320,000 from SY 2012 - 13.

The almost weeklong protest resulted in a 22 percent average drop in cafeteria sales on each day ---- costing the school about $ 860 a day, school officials said.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The Fiscal Equity suit resulted in an agreement between the state and its schools, in which the state committed to a plan to fund high and average need districts.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

«Our study, which is the largest study to date examining the topic of single sports specialization, provides a foundation for understanding current trends in specialization in youth sports,» said researcher, Patrick S. Buckley, MD of the Rothman Institute at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. «Our results noted that current high school athletes specialized, on average, two years earlier than current collegiate and professional athletes.

UK researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Farr Institute of Health Informatics estimate that over 12,000 cases of these 10 cancers each year are attributable to being overweight or obese, and calculate that if average BMI in the population continues to increase, there could be over 3500 extra cancers every year as a result.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

Study results show the cost of home lunches averaged $ 1.93 for elementary students and $ 1.76 for middle school students.

Co-authored by Scott Ardoin, professor of school psychology in the College of Education's department of educational psychology, this new method resulted in an average of 39 extra minutes a week of instruction, or the equivalent of 2.6 extra hours of instruction time per month.

Last year, the school celebrated A-Level and GCSE results far higher than Wales's average, with 88 % of its sixth form achieving A * - B grades.

The results are mixed, with Teach to One students outperforming their traditional - school peers on average, but with some student subgroups and some school implementations showing less - than - stellar results.

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.

The provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

Our results indicate that, on average, New York City's charter schools raise their 3rd through 8th graders» math achievement by 0.09 of a standard score and reading achievement by 0.04 of a standard score, compared with what would have happened had they remained in traditional public schools (see Figure 3).

The result is that on average high school students get only 5 - 6 hours of sleep, when to be healthy and ready to learn they should be getting 8.5 -9.5 hours.

According to provisional figures results, local authority schools have achieved higher average GCSE results than free schools.

Although the results varied considerably between schools, the overall achievement of students across the 28 schools represents an average effect size of 0.6, which can be seen the shift in the relative proportions in each zone of the LAF from August to November shown in Figure 1.

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

On average it takes six months for NAPLAN results to get back to schools.

Accountable for the results of all students in the team, multi-classroom leaders also earn supplements that thus far have averaged 20 percent (and up to 50 percent) of teacher pay, within the regular school budget.

In addition, a 2016 analysis by Innovate Public Schools found the majority of Bay Area public schools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter sSchools found the majority of Bay Area public schools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter sschools achieving above - average results for low - income Latino and African American students were charter schoolsschools.

To the extent that one believes that states that expected to gain the most from accountability policies adopted them prior to NCLB, one might view the results we present as an underestimate of the average effect of school accountability.

These were schools where student results were lower than average, where behaviour may have been an issue, so someone needed to step in to make a difference.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Their statement, issued April 30, the first day of testing in the 432,000 - student system, argues that this spring's test results can not be used fairly to judge whether students should be promoted or sent to summer school, and whether schools should be penalized for year - to - year variations in test averages.

It bears noting that these charter results are significantly better than the national average CREDO reported in 2009, in which just 17 percent of charter schools in the 16 states they studied performed better than their district counterparts.

They tend to feel unaccepted and isolated and, as a result, are often withdrawn: On average across OECD countries, 42 per cent of students who reported that they are frequently bullied — but only 15 per cent of students who reported that they are not frequently bullied — reported feeling like an outsider at school.

He wrote that «undue emphasis upon average test results, upon school - to - school and teacher - to - teacher comparisons... may cause the teacher... to neglect the interests of the pupils, and to be concerned instead with subject matter objectives and with higher average scores for their own sake.

The results show that a fail rating raises average math and English test scores by 0.05 standard deviations three years after leaving the primary school.

According to the report, TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results, released by the Australian Council for Educational Research, average achievement levels in secondary schools continue to slide in comparison with performances in many other countries.

The figures found that the average local authority maintained school had 55 per cent of pupils achieving 5 + A * - C grades in GCSEs, while free schools had 50.5 per cent of pupils achieving the same result.

With Bedford experiencing an above - average population boom, resulting in a rise in pupil numbers, Bedford Borough Council has embraced standardised designs and partnership working to increase the capacity of many of its schools

By 2005 we had achieved the first of our results that were finally above average for all schools.»

Put aside the crystal clear anecdotes that go beyond the on average results — something education researchers are not good at doing — that show that for certain students in certain circumstances, full - time virtual charter schools are absolutely the best place for them to learn and that these students have not only been successful in these environments, they have also thrived in ways they would not have in traditional brick - and - mortar schools.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

They tend to feel unaccepted and isolated and, as a result, are often withdrawn: On average across OECD countries, 42 % of students who reported that they are frequently bullied — but only 15 % of students who reported that they are not frequently bullied — reported feeling like an outsider at school.

Families that make more choices, on average, receive a place at schools with higher GCSE results, it says.

Students consistently achieve outstanding results, performing well in literacy and numeracy tests when compared with national average levels and other statistically similar schools.

Our results show that private school competition, in addition to raising student achievement, substantially reduced the average spending level of the educational system.

«We would encourage schools to find out what devices their pupils are using at home and then compare their results with the national average.»

Average Year 9 reading results for schools in three ICSEA groups (2009 to 2013) Of particular concern is the observation that, since 2000, between - school differences in student performance in PISA have been increasing.

Seven of the eight previous studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on average, students move from more segregated to less segregated schools as a result of school choice.

They demonstrate that attending an oversubscribed charter middle or high school has a clear positive effect on students» math and reading achievement, but also find that this «on - average» result obscures dramatic variation.

Confidence in gross findings can be developed by replication, by averaging results over several time periods, and by using several measures of the development of human capital — not tests alone, but also attendance rates, dropout rates, and promotion rates (a very high - quality assessment will track indicators of human capital such as post-secondary school earnings and higher - education outcomes as well).

Colleges should eliminate from high school grade - point averages the results from 9th grade — when many boys struggle to make the transition from middle school.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.