Sentences with phrase «school factor driving»

A growing body of research confirms that teacher quality is the most influential in - school factor driving student achievement.

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While it's true that fewer students are applying to b - school each year, supply and demand is hardly the only factor driving the trend.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

She knew this about me, about my admission to medical school and dropping out, and on the basis of the internal factors which drove me, in the past, to get into medical school, so calculated that I was not much of a risk at all even though I was broke and continued to be so for the first three years of our marriage.

«The schools we selected at the beginning had very high free / reduced percentages — something like 80 percent — so that was a driving factor with our principals at the time,» recalled Shorter.

Another factor which drove Conservatives to accept the welfare state was the fear of revolution (albeit this was probably the least important factor) Lloyd - George introduced the liberal welfare reforms between 1906 and 1914, thiis included the introduction of free school meals.

Despite factors that should drive up interest — control of the board being at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.

Among dozens of mouse studies, he presented work led by Moderna Co-Founder Kenneth Chien, then at Harvard Medical School in Boston, showing that mice recovering from induced heart attacks survived longer and had stronger hearts when injected with mRNA encoding a protein that drives blood vessel formation — vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.

Poor physical health and financial health are driven by the same underlying psychological factors, finds a new study out of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Depression is the driving factor for missed days of work or school in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS).

Now, however, a team of researchers led by Yu - Hua Tseng, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has created cell lines of human brown and white fat precursor cells that will help investigators to pick apart the factors that drive the development and activity of each type of cell.

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:

In fact, there is substantial evidence that escape from the harmful effects of ability tracking in the district schools is a major factor driving disadvantaged families to charter schools and private school choice.

Neither factor indicates that charter schools are driving special education students away from their doors.

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

It is precisely the unique interplay of human factors in a school that drive a school's productivity and success.

This study is designed to identify family and school factors that drive the development of children's socio - emotional skills and how these skills in turn help improve children's future outcomes.

We can only speculate what is driving these factors but it is likely that both family and school factors are playing a role like they did earlier.»

The fundamental challenge to measuring the impact of school leaders is separating their contributions from the many other factors that drive student achievement.

So what are the key influencing factors driving a growing number of schools to outsource or co-source?

Some of the disparity in suspension rates may stem from racism or variations in discipline policies but some may stem from differences in student behavior — differences driven by poverty and the other out - of - school factors.

The fact that we obtain quite similar results regardless of the specific measure used makes us confident that the findings are not driven by other factors that might distinguish public schools facing more or less competition based on a given measure.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Isn't it likely that at least some of the suspensions gap stems not from racism or variations in discipline policies but from differences in student behavior — differences driven by poverty and the other out - of - school factors mentioned above?

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

They investigate how the student composition and academic achievement of charters have changed over time, what drives charter school entry and exit, and the factors that are associated with charter school success.

None of this really tells us exactly which of the factors drove the improvements in student outcomes — no doubt they are interconnected — but it does provide some indication of how schools and families responded to the policy shift.

These substantial increases have been driven by key factors beginning with increased national awareness of the crisis of low high school graduation rates, and efforts to spotlight the problem.

Three other factors - «initiatives to improve student achievement» (which includes a school leader's prowess in data - driven decision making and staff development), «customer satisfaction,» and «school management» - account for the remaining 30 percent.

«When you delay school start times, all these factors improve: less self - reported depression, fewer driving accidents, better grades, better test scores, better attendance,» Owens said.

By ending teacher and parent nominations, for example, districts and schools can remove referral bias as a factor that currently drives black and Hispanic student underrepresentation.

E4E - Los Angeles School Captain Angie Trae - Greenbarg lays out strategies to drive parent engagement, one of the factors highlighted in «True Grit: The Game -...

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This study, from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, uses NYC data to analyze the factors driving the gap in special education enrollment between charter and traditional public schools.

«This recent drop in arts entries is driven by several factors, including changes to the way school performance is measured, financial pressures on schools, and, of course, local decisions taken by school leaders.»

The push to change teacher evaluations has been driven largely by nonprofit groups and politicians, and it follows research demonstrating that teacher effectiveness is the most important in school - factor affecting student performance.

But, counteracting the historical reluctance to have state or federal funds help pay for school construction were several factors that converged in the 1990s to give greater impetus to the drive to improve the nation's schools:

The idea is that this ensures that factors outside of school — like poverty or a student's home life — are not driving the results.

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on need.

Being driven more by ideology than pedagogy, and inclined to serve would - be oligarchs» interests more than the public's interests, the Atlanta Public Schools Leadership (APSL) have pressed these negative contributing factors into the district over just the past few years.

While one indicator of a school's progress is performance scores, research shows that teacher quality is the dominant factor driving student performance on standardized tests.

These cuts are primarily driven by three factors: overstaffing in the previous school year; nine schools getting less federal funding for after - school programs; and the District moving the management of Measure G library funds from school budgets to the central office budget.

Given that one of the driving factors behind the popularity of magnet schools is that they are considered to be superior to their district counterparts, mention of academic achievement was surprisingly absent from the field notes of Choice Seminar students who attended RSCO School Choice fairs.

In collaboration with the Consortium, UChicago Impact, the Urban Education Institute's innovation arm, developed the 5Essentials system, which is composed of surveys, reports, and training supports that states, districts, and schools can use to track progress on the nonacademic factors proven to drive school success.

You know, we realized that teachers are the most important in - school factors for driving student learning.

By ensuring the Critical Success Factors of teacher quality, effective leadership, data driven instructional decisions, productive community and parent involvement, efficient use of learning time and maintaining a positive school climate, campuses can increase performance for all students.

If we had reason to believe that either non-observed factors on the front or back end were driving the generally positive impacts of school voucher programs, it would cause us to question all of them.

Driven by the belief that teachers are the most important school - related factor in raising student achievement, Mrs. Rohatyn joined forces with former teachers, principals and technology experts and founded Teaching Matters in 1994.

Again, as in Bifulco et al.'s analyses, we can not determine if the school is directly responsible for improving student achievement or if another factor is driving the relationship.