Sentences with phrase «school demographics affect»

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Because the presence of charter schools in an area might affect both student achievement and the decisions of families to move to a district, we measured state demographics and student achievement during the 1989 — 90 school year, several years before the first charter laws took effect.

Economic, cultural, and demographic factors are all known to affect those outcomes, as are a panoply of educational policies besides school choice, such as curriculum, testing, staffing, discipline, etc..

We analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.

In this study, we analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

As we look at the Core Index Scores, we are immediately hit by how much demographics of a school affects a school's success.

Similarly, in the schools we studied whose plans reflected a belief that teaching and leadership affect student achievement, achievement gains were three times greater than they were in schools whose plans reflected a focus on student demographic characteristics as the primary determinants of student achievement (Reeves, in press).

The calculations may take into account factors that can affect achievement, such as class size, a school's funding level and student demographics.

In conclusion, though school representatives and parents rarely talk about demographics, there are clearly many factors that affect racial composition of schools.

For example, although there are no longer laws that allow racial segregation, a state's housing and school choice laws affect the student demographics of schools.

Since location does seem to affect demographics at least to some degree, do schools with themes that enroll fewer minority students and fewer Hartford students tend to locate themselves further outside the city?

Instead, as Gary Orfield suggests, districts need to first look at the factors outside schools that affect children in order to best understand why some schools have the demographics they do.

But the lowest performing teachers, who are generally the most likely to transfer between schools, appear to «churn» within the system, and teacher mobility appears significantly affected by student demographics and achievement levels.

This recent correspondence outlines a new policy of the patronage divesting process as «enabling diversity of provision in an area where there is no demographic imperative to establish a school, however, the intention is that the establishment of a divested school does not adversely affect existing primary schools in the area.»

Parents of color fear that demographic shift this will also affect the school's «commitment to everyone» in that it will start to focus its resources and funding on the new incoming students (Posey - Maddox 2014).