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My analysis finds no significant changes in school demographics at district schools after charter entry that might explain improved student performance (see Figure 3a).

Not exact matches

This demographic turns their nose up at traditional marketing tactics and steering clear of old - school advertising mediums like cable TV, which makes it hard for businesses to find a way in.

But never fear; he probably picked up some votes from that limited demographic that will enjoy watching its 16 - year old daughters struggling to be moms and finish high school at the same time.

I know our demographic is tech savvy with involved parents, but I think our model could work in schools at large.

The Center for Urban Research at CUNY has also published new online maps showcasing New York City voting patterns and demographics, in partnership with the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Community and Ethnic Media.

«I am fully aware that in a place with rapid demographic change, like Buckinghamshire, you are inevitably going to face questions about whether you need to build more schools or not,» he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One

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.

«This could have significant implications for both understanding inequality [in immigration], and also how to think about testing solutions that will mitigate some of these demographic biases,» says Emilio J. Castilla, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

P. Brian Smith, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S., of the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C., and coauthors compared demographics and mortality of infants with MRSA and MSSA at 348 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) around the United States to determine the annual proportion of S. aureus infections that were MRSA and to contrast the risk of death after invasive MRSA and MSSA infections.

«There was a major demographic transformation in India from a region where mixture was pervasive to one in which it is very rare because of a shift to endogamy,» says lead author Priya Moorjani, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School.

Although I'm not sure how much the lengths are ridiculous as much as it is that I'm no longer their target demographic — because I know I would have worn this length dress in high school and college (or shorter) and would have turned up my nose at my current requirement that my dresses at least graze the top of my kneecap.

Looking at basic demographic variations, our survey showed that those with college degrees and higher levels of household income are significantly more likely to be married than those with high school diplomas and those living in households with more modest levels of income.

Artie's tale of being bullied at school is just one of three plot lines, each aimed at a different demographic.

First, they compare the 10th - grade test scores of students with similar 8th - grade test scores and demographics, some of whom took the algebra and English courses online with FLVS and others who took the same courses in person at their local public school.

«But students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.»

The report found that students who use computers moderately at school tended to have better learning outcomes than students who rarely used them, but the worrying discovery was that students who use computers «very frequently» at school do much worse, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

Marshalling demographic, financial, political, and school performance data from 1990 to 2004, we took the novel step of assessing patterns in the presence of charter schools and in their enrollments at both the state and local levels.

In the 2012 - 2013 school year, for the demographic profile of our school, our students would be expected to be at about the 47th percentile in the top - to - bottom ranking of all schools in the state of Michigan.

In 2014, she debuted the information at the Ed School's Alumni of Color Conference, including demographics about this population and key definitions.

Researchers compared practices at 10 successful middle schools and those at five average - performing middle schools with similar demographic profiles and funding levels.

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Why a Good Racial Mix May Also Create a Sense of Comfort at School (The Christian Science Monitor) Lee Teitel weighs in on integration in schools and how there is a need to focus on what is happening in schools, not just the demographic make - up of its students.

In our study, we compare the enrollment rates at public colleges in Florida of 10,330 FTC students to those of non-participating students who initially attended the same public schools and had similar demographics (language spoken at home, country of birth, race / ethnicity, disability status, age, and free lunch participation) and test scores (in math and reading) prior to participation.

Unlike entering test scores, most demographic characteristics at KIPP schools remain stable throughout middle school.

But at two other schools with similar demographics, 42 percent and 19.6 percent of teachers took off that much time.

Imagine that, the more intensively students use computers at school, the less digitally literate they seem to be, even after accounting for social background and student demographics.

At the state level, Michigan schools frequently score at the bottom of the table on NAEP, even after adjusting for student demographicAt the state level, Michigan schools frequently score at the bottom of the table on NAEP, even after adjusting for student demographicat the bottom of the table on NAEP, even after adjusting for student demographics.

We also analyzed the demographic and performance characteristics of incoming 9th - grade students during those years at all 322 schools.

And although SchoolGrades.org attempts to control for what type of students the school enrolls, the ratings at GreatSchools are more a reflection of student demographics than school quality.

So, in our research, we're looking at a whole range of individual characteristics... such as student demographic background, their academic performance and educational aspirations, the number of hours they work after school and their peers» aspirations.

Furthermore, our research shows that board members of higher - performing D.C. charter schools, when compared to those at lower - performing ones, are more knowledgeable about their schools (particularly relative to its performance rating, demographics, and financial outlook), and more apt to evaluate their leaders using staff satisfaction as a factor in doing so.

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.

These include a relatively standard set of student and family demographics: an indicator for whether anyone in the family received free or reduced - price meals at school in the past year, the family's income as a percentage of the federal poverty line, whether the child was born in the United States, whether the child lives with a single mother, and the highest level of education either parent has attained.

So, we're looking at the school sector and demographics, school [resources], competition and academic orientation.

Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

Dr. Weast led Montgomery County Public Schools — 16th largest school district in the nation — to achieve both the highest graduation rate among the nation's largest school districts for four consecutive years and the highest academic performance ever in MCPS at a time when the non-English-speaking student population more than doubled and enrollment tipped toward low socioeconomic demographics.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Whether we look at rapidly shifting demographics, constantly emerging technologies, the way we learn or the way we lead, K - 12 schools are experiencing dramatic changes that will have lasting effects on young people, and ultimately, the nation as a whole.

Family demographics vary among the four different school sectors, with larger shares of African American and Hispanic students at tuition - free charters and district schools of choice than at private schools or assigned - district schools (Figure 1).

The research team also examined whether changes in student demographics at a school could be causing violence to go up or down, instead of the academic gains.

Demographic - adjusted average test scores also do a worse job at identifying schools where students learn the least, with the average growth rates of bottom - 15 % schools based on this metric closer to that of the average score measure than the growth - based measure.

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.

To build the chart, CCSA looked at schools that are serving the same type of demographics and then compares their test scores.

Promoting successful school completion requires a shift in focus from [demographic] predictors of non-completion, such as race and socioeconomic status, to student engagement at school and with learning over time.

5 An Extreme Degree of Difficulty: The Educational Demographics of Urban Neighborhood High Schools, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2006

It is important to understand how funds appropriated by Congress under NCLB actually flow to the targeted students, since significant discretion at both the state and local levels results in variations in amounts per student between the Local Education Associations (LEAs) and schools that have similar demographics.

Looking at demographic characteristics, credits completed, high school GPAs, and disciplinary incidents, the researchers found clear evidence that the Promise reduced behavior problems for all students, and had a dramatic positive effect on the GPAs of African Americans.