Sentences with phrase «school characteristics by»

The methodological approach separates the effects of teacher characteristics from school characteristics by modeling the relationship between the assessments of school contextual factors by one set of teachers and the turnover decisions by other teachers within the same school.

When we analyze school characteristics by governing agency and school type (five groups), we find no statistically significant differences on these same variables.

Not exact matches

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Common worship tends to be highly valued and it is characteristic of schools with this ethos to include in the weekly schedule stated times for worship by the entire community.

Waldorf School of Princeton welcomes students and employees of any color; race; sexual orientation; ethnic, national, cultural, social, or religious backgrounds; and any other characteristic protected by law in its admissions and employment practices, as well as in participation in its programs and events.

It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of SEN together with the assessment and placement of pupils with statements of SEN.. It is based on pupil - level data collected via the school census and local authority - level data collected via the SEN2 survey.

On 17 October 2012, additional national - level tables are being added containing a further breakdown of analyses for primary type of special educational need by pupil characteristics (e.g. free school meal eligibility, age, gender, ethnicity).

The latest national statistics on Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics, January 2011 produced by the Department for Education were released on 22 June 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Time for SOMEONE to place restrictions on the release (by school districts) of children's names, addresses, pictures and physical characteristics as well as their contact information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses.

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

Data from a 1999 NSF report, Characteristics of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates, disputed the S&E shortage by reporting that 68 % of those with S&E baccalaureates and masters were working in non-S & E fields in 1997.2 However, some observers attribute S&E losses to higher enrollments in professional schools.

In a study published in Springer's journal Gender Issues, she investigated the characteristics shared by 31 school boys involved in 29 mass shootings at American schools between 1995 and 2015.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

The longitudinal study, conducted by Monica Bertoia of Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, shows differences by type of fruit or vegetable, suggesting that characteristics of these foods influence the strength of their association with weight change.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

Lloyd A. Greene and Arthur S. Tischler of the Harvard Medical School demonstrated in 1977 that cells of the line designated PC12 (which are derived from a rat tumor) respond to NGF by acquiring properties characteristic of sympathetic neurons.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

By now you will know how much I value many of these characteristics in my outfits for school.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

We can gain further insight into the factors associated with teacher mobility by examining the pre - and post-move school characteristics for teachers moving to a new school within the same district.

«Many Options in New Orleans Choice System: School characteristics vary widely,» by Paula Arce - Trigatti, Douglas N. Harris, Huriya Jabbar, and Jane Arnold Lincove

Gary Miron and Jessica L. Urschel, «Understanding and Improving Full - Time Virtual Schools: A study of student characteristics, school finance, and school performance in schools operated by K12 Inc.,» National Education Policy Center, School of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (JulSchools: A study of student characteristics, school finance, and school performance in schools operated by K12 Inc.,» National Education Policy Center, School of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (Julyschool finance, and school performance in schools operated by K12 Inc.,» National Education Policy Center, School of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (Julyschool performance in schools operated by K12 Inc.,» National Education Policy Center, School of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (Julschools operated by K12 Inc.,» National Education Policy Center, School of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (JulySchool of Education, University of Colorado - Boulder (July 2012)

Many of the schools chosen by the students were «better» on traditional indicators, such as student test scores and teacher characteristics.

WHAT TO DO WHEN ENCOUNTERING SUSPICIOUS ITEMS The following protocol should be abided to by a school's staff member should a suspicious item be identified at the establishment: • Use the following HOT protocol to confirm if the item exhibits suspicious characteristics • Is the item Hidden?

The report by Congress» investigative arm, «School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs,» focuses on 78 such programs operating around the country that together serve 46,000 students and provide $ 60 million in tuition assistance.

However, this analysis does not account for the possible sorting of students into particular schools based on characteristics not captured by their prior achievement and demographic characteristics.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

I'm sure you've all seen those widely circulated lists of characteristics shared by successful schools.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

The analyses presented above highlight the value of tracking individual students from the beginning of their college trajectory for many years beyond when they leave school, and the importance of disaggregating trends by student and institutional characteristics.

Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within - school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is explained by observable characteristics such as education or experience.

If spending is not strongly influenced by observable school characteristics, we have to question whether it is driven by a district strategy at all.

Working with data from the State of Florida, I have regularly noticed that achievement gains by students who move from one public school to another badly trail the gains of students who remain in the same school — even after one has adjusted for many family background characteristics.

These are likely to be characteristics that will not be rewarded by teachers in the school setting.

By controlling for a wide variety of other characteristics, including the students» own prior performance, our analysis is able to estimate the likely effect of desegregation within the school.

In Hyderabad, students attending recognized and unrecognized private schools outperformed their peers in government schools by a full standard deviation in both English and math (after accounting for differences in their observable characteristics).

I then examine whether these survey measures, which are not observed by the inspectors, are higher in schools that received better inspection ratings, controlling for various characteristics of the schools and survey respondents.

As noted above, this initial estimate of the variability in principal effectiveness may partly reflect differences in school characteristics that are not under the principal's control, such as the quality of the school building, or decisions made by district administrators as well as unmeasured parental influences.

Our basic value - added model measures the effectiveness of a principal by examining the extent to which math achievement in a school is higher or lower than would be expected based on the characteristics of students in that school, including their achievement in the prior year.

Increasing starting salaries in teaching has been advocated by, among others, the National Education Association, the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, and the authors of a heavily publicized 2007 report by McKinsey & Company on the characteristics of the world's most effective school systems.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

Our ethos is summed up through what are known as the 12 characteristics of a Mary Ward School - Mary Ward being our inspirational 17th century foundress who believed that «By God's grace, women in time to come will do much».

-- that by offering a viable alternative to the values of contemporary society, the Catholic high school has a unique niche in the educational scheme of things, especially given the lack of consensus about educational goals characteristic of so many public urban schools.

We compare the test scores of students in each of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the number of non-school books in the home, and the quality of the peer groups (calculated by averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).

Individual students who attend the same school may share some characteristics that are not captured by survey data; the individual observations are not wholly independent of one another.

CREDO controlled for the unique characteristics of students enrolled in virtual charter schools by comparing their performance to a «virtual twin,» a student with the same demographic characteristics and similar prior achievement enrolled in a traditional public school.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

We found that about half of the difference in student outcomes in schools slated for closure and the broader sample of schools can be explained by differences in incoming students» demographic characteristics, absenteeism, and achievement in middle school.