Sentences with phrase «school effects reported»

The charter school effects reported here are therefore large enough to reduce the black - white reading gap in middle school by two - thirds.

Not exact matches

The report also clarified that the average effects weren't driven by a few lower performing schools but reflect the industry as a whole.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

A psychiatrist who studied the effects of the school desegregation conflict on children in the Deep South reports: «I have been struck by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future of their lives.

Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

The case is scheduled to go to trial in December — though it could be delayed — meaning whatever magical fixes the DI board plans to implement from the blue - ribbon commission's report may only be in effect a year before the schools have to blow up their athlete compensation model and start from scratch.

The articles, «The Effect of Coach Education on Reporting of Concussions Among High School Athletes After Passage of a Concussion Law» and «Implementation of Concussion Legislation and Extent of Concussion education for Athletes, Parents, and Coaches in Washington State,» are available online through the journal: http://ajs.sagepub.com/.

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

A 2015 KSHF - commissioned series of case studies of 19 schools in seven states explored the effects of these federal kitchen equipment grants on students and meal programs and found that equipment bought with these funds helped many schools overcome challenges reported in the 2013 study.

It has been four years since the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act «s (HHFKA) improved school nutritional standards went into effect, and we've been hearing conflicting reports about how districts are adapting to them ever since.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Pattern for Progress issues a report analyzing how solid Rockland's educational infrastructure is for the coming decade Declining enrollment rates and a shrinking tax base will have a profound effect on Rockland County's school districts over the next eight years, according to a report from the Hudson Valley non-profit Pattern for Progress.

Meanwhile a research and data report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, which describes itself as «an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany, New York,» found that since the tax cap went into effect, school tax levies have risen by an average of just 2.2 percent annually — the lowest in any four - year period since 1982.

«We've seen the egregious effects bias - based harassment has on students when there is a failure to intervene, from the violence at South Philadelphia High School in 2009 to reports we received in years past from the former Lafayette High School in Brooklyn,» Mariadason said.

Coleman Report had concluded that «schools are remarkably similar in the effect they have on the achievement of their pupils when the socio - economic background of the students is taken into account.»

The conference has expressed its disappointment with the effect the policy is having on admissions in private schools, with reports that enrollment of first - years has dropped significantly.

McMahon says the report draws on data from the state education department and comptroller's office about the average rates that school and other property taxes were rising in the years before the 2 percent per year tax cap took effect.

The study, which is published today in Scientific Reports, used a mathematical model that takes into account whether people are naturally more of a morning or evening person, the impact of natural and artificial light on the body clock and the typical time of an alarm clock, to predict the effects of delaying school start times.

«There is a tendency to think of depression as a purely «psychological» or»em otional» issue, but it also has physical effects and changes in inflammatory and immune markers have been reported in depressed people,» commented Scott Patten, MD, PhD, the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Cumming School of Medicine.

«Considering both the negative effects and the positive outcomes that respondents sometimes reported, the survey results confirm our view that neither users nor researchers can be cavalier about the risks associated with psilocybin,» says Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a psychopharmacologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Low field magnetic stimulation (LFMS) is one such potential new treatment with rapid mood - elevating effects, as reported by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Weill Cornell Medical College.

Later school start times are reported to have had a positive effect on athletic performance, even when practice times are shorter to accommodate the later end of the school day.

A Wisconsin law requiring public reporting of test scores from voucher schools went into effect during the last year of the study, 2010, giving researchers a rare look at private - school test scores both before and after the accountability mandate.

According to Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, as much as 80 percent of all cancers are «driven by either mutations or environmental factors that work to enhance or mimic the effect of insulin on the incipient tumor cells,» Gary Taubes reports, vii adding:

But, «the type of treatment effects reported in this study, even though the investigators referred to increases in levels of «hyperactivity,» were not the disruptive excessive hyperactivity behaviors of ADHD but more likely the type of overactivity exhibited occasionally by the general population of preschool and school age children.»

There is not yet a sufficient number of charter school students in grades 9 through 12 for us to report achievement effects for this group.

The report examines school - based initiatives, youth employment programs, GED - preparation efforts, and state and local policies that have had a positive effect on helping dropouts return to school in 12 communities.

By contrast, Education Trust's report, reflecting the effect of Abbott, ranked the Garden State as the second most equitable school finance system in the country.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

On March 2, readers questioned two of Education Week's staff members who had recently toured hurricane - ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast: Sarah Evans, the director of photography, and Alan Richard, a staff writer who covers many Southern states and has done extensive reporting about last fall's storms and their effects on schooling.

In the decades following the release of the Coleman Report, the effect of school spending on student academic performance was studied extensively, and Coleman's conclusion was widely upheld.

This report takes a multifaceted look at just how ready those states, districts, and schools are to bringing ESSA's changes in for a successful landing when the law goes into full effect for the 2018 - 19 school year.

Mr Rockliff said a KPMG report into the effect of lowering the school starting age — found that the sector was vulnerable to change.

Spurred by a government report warning about the effects of overeating and inactivity among children, education and health officials formed Action for Healthy Kids, a group that works with schools to promote more healthful lifestyles for youngsters.

But the NEPC report contains no information that can be used to accurately measure the effect of K12 schools on how much their students learn.

But all previous evaluations of the effects of private schools or of school voucher programs reported test - score results for both reading and math, or a composite measure of the two, even if the researchers thought that one or the other was a better measure of school performance.

The report cites several school - based programs that are having a positive effect on students who have a parent deployed.

This special report on ESSA looks at what the law will mean for virtually every aspect of public schooling when it takes full effect in the 2017 - 18 academic year.

These enrollment patterns highlight the fact that the effects of voucher use reported above do not amount to a comparison between «school choice» and «no school choice.»

Students attending charter schools also report substantially lower levels of negative peer effects and modestly lower levels of student input in their schools.

They found that the majority of students (86 %) attended schools that had a positive effect (although it is not reported what this means for the number of schools or the statistical significance.)

The report, issued recently by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, notes that HB 72, the omnibus school - reform law, has had immediate positive efSchool of Public Affairs, notes that HB 72, the omnibus school - reform law, has had immediate positive efschool - reform law, has had immediate positive effects.

And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt affect a school board member's ability to influence district achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable guide to policymakers for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements for student academic performance.

In an analysis of the effects of the 1990 Kentucky Education Reform Act recently published in the Kentucky Annual Economic Report, a professor of economics at the University of Kentucky asserts that the state's higher school spending levels have not led to significant gains on national tests or substantial improvements in the dropout rate.

The analyses reported above can not explain how or why charter high schools appear to produce positive effects on their students» educational attainment.

Causes and Effects of Sick Schools Vary In the fourth part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the varied causes and effects of environmental problems in our nation's sSchools Vary In the fourth part of the special report Sick Schools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the varied causes and effects of environmental problems in our nation's sSchools: A National Problem, Education World news editor Diane Weaver Dunne examines the varied causes and effects of environmental problems in our nation's schoolsschools.

«Developmental Designs, along with other organizations, is working hard to provide the necessary tools and research to support the profound effect building emotionally and physically safe places can have on student success in middle schools,» he reported.

In a recent Brookings report, Mark Dynarski cites studies of Indiana and Louisiana private school voucher programs that show negative effects, raising provocative questions regarding the impact and viability of such programs.

Third, Maranto is not persuaded by the research cited in our report showing that charter schools have had only a limited competitive effect on other public schools.

The most commonly cited school choice review, by economists Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow, declares that it will focus on the evidence from existing experimental studies but then leaves out four such studies (three of which reported positive choice effects) and includes one study that was non-experimental (and found no significant effect of choice).