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These include the ethics of grade inflation, lottery - based school assignment policies, disciplining socially fragile children, and charter school expansion policies that take attrition rates and school demographics into account.

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Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.

Given that charter schools can and do enroll students across traditional boundary lines, our analysis took into account the demographic composition of students in the entire metro area, as opposed to a single school district.

We organized those applicants into matched pairs, which were often adjacent grades in the same school or the same grade in different schools with similar demographic characteristics.

Or it may be that demographics matter because changes in the demographic composition of local school districts increase the desire among families to sort students into similar peer groups.

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.

Previous predictions of teacher shortages later in this decade based mainly on demographic projections of increased elementary - school enrollment have been called into question by recent federal demographic surveys.

As a new crop of teachers age into the workforce, earn higher salaries, and slowly take their place as the dominant group in schools, the trends may reverse, and we may start to see demographics artifically inflating average salaries.

Because this approach does not take into account student or school demographic characteristics, it is likely to penalize schools serving disadvantaged students.

Incorporating rich information on students» high school performance, placement test scores, and demographics, we developed statistical models to predict how remediated students would have performed had they been placed directly into college - level courses.

Advocates of SGPs, and of «sparse» growth models more generally, view this as an advantage; they worry that methods that do take into account student or school - level demographic characteristics effectively set lower expectations for disadvantaged students.

The changes in performance reported below for each group of schools have all been adjusted to take into account any changes between 2001 - 02 and 2002 - 03 in schools» demographic characteristics, such as the share of students participating in the federal school lunch program and the ethnic breakdown of the student body.

Despite some drawbacks, demographically - adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state - level school performance, and show that there are substantial differences across states, even after adjusting for demographics.

This method allows us to address two sources of bias: (i) differences in the types of schools that Asian Americans and whites are likely to attend (e.g., school quality, course difficulty, socio - demographic composition of student body) and (ii) self - selection of Asian Americans into school districts.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

We also find that perceptions of school quality in Florida are unrelated to student demographic characteristics, including the percentage of students who are poor, once we take into account levels of student achievement.

We divided the principal survey into sections with items about the principal «s areas of expertise, school conditions, school leadership, district leadership, district policy conditions, state policy and influences, parents and community, and demographics.

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

In the section about D.C., the report goes so far as to credit charter schools with contributing to «dramatic improvements» in the traditional public school system, a statement that doesn't take into consideration how demographic changes have improved D.C. school results.

Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.

White - hat thinking shows it's needed: teachers are leaving at higher rates and fewer people are entering, right as a demographic bulge of teenagers maraud into schools.

«If there is a way to grade schools that can realistically take into account different demographics of schools, that's one thing, but that's still attaching Draconian consequences to what are inevitably somewhat arbitrary scores.»

The demographic breakdown of charter school enrollment offers insight into the groups of students being served.

Bernhardt defines the three main data tools school districts are now using to electronically collect student demographic and achievement data (student information systems), to organize information into databases (data warehouses), and to keep track of student performance on assessments and plan lessons accordingly (instructional management systems).

Of course, this analysis is limited in that it is based on a small number of schools and does not take into account the demographics of different suburbs.

Get better visibility into which schools generate the highest demand, and easily analyze family demographics, geographic breakdown, and more.

Demographics are not destiny in student achievement, according to an expert who spoke at NSBA's pre-conference session on Friday called «Disrupting Poverty: Turning High - Poverty Schools into High - Performing Schools.»

These scores take into account the demographics of the students to rate each school's performance.

Since poverty, language barriers and the need for special education services are the demographics that have the greatest impact on standardized test scores, perhaps these charts and the CTMirror article will remind the media and public officials that next time Jumoke claims that schools like theirs are such a success, and schools like Milner are such failures, they will look deeper into the different populations schools serve.

A new cost study — which is sorely needed and which the school funding advocates (CCJEF) are calling for — one done to reflect current costs, taking into account all our new mandates and standards, and current student demographics and need — will undoubtedly show a similar if not even larger gap in state funding.

As a result, students are funded based on little more than historical precedent, the type of school they attend, and politics; none of which take into account their needs, the needs of their communities, or the changing enrollments and demographics of their schools.

These indicators are grouped into the following seven categories: student enrollment and demographics; dropout rate and high school completion; student attendance, suspensions and expulsions; elementary and middle school student achievement; high school performance; youth labor force participation; and youth civic engagement.

When she divided the schools she was looking at into public and private categories and controlled for demographics, the schools stacked up quite differently.

Without proper training and continuous knowledge update, diversity clubs will not significantly change the situation with discrimination and prejudice.Taking into account the specifics of demographics in Texas and increasing tensions among diverse students in the school setting, there is an urgent need in the creation of diversity clubs which is not possible without sufficient funding.

Current snapshots of law school demographics completely ignores the larger picture of the existing demographics of the bar, as well as exclusionary bars preventing advancement of minorities into these positions.

The group has sent the information to top law schools around the country, encouraging students to take this demographic data into account when choosing where to work after graduation.

Insurers will take into account: your car's make, model, and safety record, your credit score, your driving history, your age and demographic, your claims record, and even the grades you get at school.

A strong regional infrastructure for implementing the ELP will ensure that statewide and local organizations work together, tap into each other's wisdom, have the capacity to understand the changing demographics and needs of children and families, and set strategy to take action collectively so that ALL children have a greater opportunity to be successful in school and in life, particularly those furthest from opportunity.

Century 21 spokespersons said the recruitment program is aimed at three demographic groups: successful experienced real estate pros, new salespeople who are in real estate school or have been in the business less than a year, and newbies just coming into the profession.

Onboard delivers seamless integration of real estate property listings, lifestyle search parameters, community, school, neighborhood, geographic and demographic information, and transforms the complexity of this data into meaningful solutions.

RPR's Property Report takes a deep dive into data sets like property characteristics, values, listing and foreclosure activity, market statistics, demographics, property history, taxes, and school information, and even the property's before - and - after photos.

Compiling data from multiple sources into one place, RPR is populated with MLS data as well as public records such as prior transactions, zoning, school district data, demographics, and tax information.