Sentences with phrase «school competition»

We found that historical Catholic shares continue to be a strong predictor of the extent of private school competition in a country.

Throughout our study, this figure serves as our measure of the extent of contemporary private school competition in each country.

Most high school competitions allow students to buzz in as soon as they know, or think they know, an answer.

But what about the effect of private school competition on public schools?

Thus our finding should not be interpreted as a general statement about the potential of charter school competition to influence traditional public schools.

It includes ideas such as a whole school competition and key stage reading groups.

She then went on to write competitively in middle school competitions.

Public schools could react to private school competition by altering their policies, practices, or effort; this is the direct competitive effect.

First, we estimate the amount of contemporary private school competition across our 29 countries that can be accounted for by the share of each country's population that was Catholic in 1900.

Students in public schools faced with increased private school competition showed greater gains in test scores than students in other public schools with the introduction of the program.

More important, private school competition attributable to past Catholic policies generates higher student achievement in mathematics, reading, and science today.

Nonetheless, the results suggest that public school students profit nearly as much from increased private school competition as do a nation's students as a whole.

We wondered, though, whether private school competition also affects the input side of the educational process, specifically educational spending per student.

I assumed selling homes wouldn't be that difficult, but at real estate school the competition was insane.

By the end of first summer, they were not only independent but had also collected data that they planned on presenting at various high school competitions.

In estimating the effect of private school competition on student achievement, we also adjust for the effects of a host of other factors that can affect individual student performance.

Use this as a whole school competition (10 competitors) or simply as a class activity.

Private schools may be disproportionately located in communities with low - quality public schools, causing the relationship between private school competition and public school performance to appear weaker than it actually is.

This week, Shell is launching a brand new national, curriculum linked schools competition - The Bright Ideas Challenge - which aims to inspire future scientists and engineers - to understand the role their STEM learning can play in shaping a more positive future for everyone.

In collaboration with Studio in a School, we launched the first phase of the Public School Competition in February.

Therese and Costa hit the road with Australian Organic's Joanne Barber and Rochelle Crowe to visit students at Melbourne's Melba College and Ballarat's Delacombe Primary School — winners of an Australian Organic Schools competition in 2013.

Commenting on the initiative, England Head Coach Eddie Jones said: «The Varsity Match is always a great occasion at Twickenham and I'm looking forward to seeing the lucky schools competition winners.»

Two Princeton - area teams will travel to Washington, D.C., to compete in the National Science Bowl ® finals after winning the regional middle school and high school competitions at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) New Jersey Science Bowl ® at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) Feb. 24 to 25.

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Other Ed School alums have joined our team, we made it to the finals in the XQ Super School Competition, and we're getting close to launching our first school.

Carole Petty, School Business Manager, Carshalton High School for Girls said, «I was delighted to hear that our entry won the Autumn Term prize of the Eco-Schools Energy Efficient Schools Competition.

On 12 April 2017, the Department for Education (DfE) announced the approval of 131 new free schools, which included the approval of plans to launch a special free school competition across 19 local authorities which would allow sponsors to apply to launch the new schools.

Does School Competition Matter?

Global Green would like to thank our partners who helped promote the Green School Competition including: Alliance for Climate Education, Center for Ecoliteracy, Environmental Charter Schools, Facing the Future, Global Youth Action Network, Green Education Foundation, Healthy Child Healthy World, Louisiana Association of Public Charter Schools, NAACP, Roots and Shoots, Project Learning Tree, Dream in Green, Green schools Initiative, National Beta Club.

Kimball also excelled in law school competitions, taking first place in BYU's Moot Court Competition and second place in BYU's Negotiations Competition.

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That's why I'm an Ambassador for Shell's national schools competition — The Bright Ideas Challenge (shell.co.uk / brightideaschallenge).

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

Players also take part in local club and school competitions where they are able to measure themselves against New Zealand players of their age.

«She's spunky and gets super excited,» Ramsey said of Goodwin, who she's played with in either club or high school competition since they were 11.

Court Moor School are the first winners of the 2017 Rhino Schools Competition, after their name was drawn from a number of initial participants.

And there's really nothing wrong with charters, they give public schools competition which betters them.

So, put finger to keyboard and send your articles, by Friday 15 December, to [email protected] with the subject Graduate School Competition.

Perhaps the finishing touch occurred toward the end of his Ph.D., when he entered and won a prestigious $ 25,000 grad school competition that Nike sponsored for footwear research, which included presenting his work at a conference for Nike researchers.

«The Spelling Bee» sees contestants — played by Melissa Villaseñor, Luke Null, Chris Redd and Pete Davidson — struggle to compete in the middle school competition against the snarky host's character, who perhaps takes it all a bit too seriously.

Hoping to relaunch his career and leave behind his dumpster dinners, Ian plans to pit these singing sensations against Alvin and his brothers at an upcoming school competition.

WASHINGTON — Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander has proposed financing this year's Blue Ribbon Schools competition from a $ 100 - million fund set aside for new programs.

Art of Technology Schools competition shows dramatic changes in kids» creative thinking as technology embeds deeper

Released to launch the Big Pedal 2018, the UK's largest schools competition to encourage more young people to cycle, walk and scoot to school, the survey also revealed that the number of children concerned about air pollution rose to over half in London (53 per cent) and that 34 per cent stated that politicians were most responsible for bringing down levels of air pollution, while 29 per cent held drivers as most accountable.

Most high school competitions base questions on what's being learned in school.

Five elementary students from a charter school arrived at a Buffalo, N.Y., public school competition ready to play «Ode to Joy» on their violins.

These comparisons provide consistent evidence that charter - school competition raises the performance composite of traditional public schools.

«Our approach was a whole school competition whereby each hall (house in the school) was allocated zones of responsibility within the school and 200 points.