Sentences with phrase «school factor matters»

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The Service later announced that it will carry out an investigation into the matter to ascertain the factors which informed the headmistress» decision to ask for chalk from the Second Lady who had visited her school to donate 5 computers and about 500 books.

With consolidation on the horizon — the superintendent says it's a matter of when, not if — Browdy said decision - makers must consider factors such as neighborhood impact and school culture, not just «buildings and numbers.»

«We find the traditional relationship between your religious beliefs and evolution, and between your political beliefs and evolution, but we also find that those are not the only factors that matter,» said Deena Weisberg, a senior fellow in Penn's psychology department in the School of Arts and Sciences.

To that list, we must add two critical factors that matter a lot: creating more responsive school governance structures; and expanding teachers» capacity to have more professional discretion over their own practice.

The Rural School and Community Trust's semiannual «Why Rural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them improve.

We found that levels matter more — despite the fact that they are influenced by factors outside of the school's control.

Two policy factors turn out to matter considerably more: a larger private - education sector (which presumably introduces more competition into the educational system) and the presence of a centralized examination system (which presumably holds students and schools accountable).

Finally, the school - related factor that makes the most difference in the lives of students who live in poverty (or all students, for that matter) is the quality of teaching that occurs in the classroom.

Other factors matter too, such as choosing a development programme that is coherent and meets the needs of everyone in the school community.

In fact, a recent RAND Corporation report stated, «among school - related factors, teachers matter most.»

Over the last decade, research in public education has led us to three conclusions about the teaching profession: teachers are the most important in - school factor in determining student achievement; there is wide variation in teacher effectiveness; and those differences really matter for kids.

These include home, school and student factors that influence student learning gains and that matter more than the individual teacher in explaining changes in test scores.

Socioeconomic factors matter greatly in terms of comparing school outputs and a variety of indicators could easily be incorporated into the peer group formulations.

But while family and community factors are strong predictors of student achievement, school - level factors matter as well.

Despite ample research indicating that teachers matter more to student achievement than any other in - school factor, 32 both the Trump - DeVos budget and the House appropriations bill proposed eliminating the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grant program, often referred to as Title II grants after the section of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that authorizes the funding.

«It is students» grades that ultimately matter more for high school and college graduation than their test performance because grades capture more of the factors relevant for student achievement than test scores.»

«Teachers matter more to student achievement, more than any other factor inside our school building,» Melinda Gates said.

In determining what works in ed tech, it's not just about student demographics or the geographic location of a school, although these factors do matter.

That assessment about the effectiveness of a school within the context of its intake and other local factors is a completely different matter.

Out - of - school factors really matter.

Research suggests that, among school - related factors, teachers matter most when it comes to a student's academic performance.

Lynas said the new approach was a result of falling confidence in a current scoring matrix in which schools tallied points based on how teachers compared against various factors, such as disciplinary matters or appraisals.

In fact, the work of the many researchers Brill approvingly cites — including Kane, Staiger and Stanford's Eric Hanushek — shows that while teaching is the most important in - school factor affecting student achievement, family and neighborhood characteristics matter more.

One 2005 review by Russell Rumberger and Gregory Palardy of the educational effects of high - school demography found evidence that the factors that seem to matter for improvements for low - income students in integrated settings include high teacher expectations, more hours of homework completed, college - prep courses, and a lower percentage of students reporting feeling unsafe.

«The subject matter is timely, addressing two factors continually linked to undesirable outcomes in school: being male and poor.

Individual and school - level factors also matter.

Instead, according to the bill, annual evaluations, assignment to a failing school and teaching a difficult subject matter would serve as primary factors for compensation.

Teaching Matters believes such engagement will promote the best teacher effectiveness policies and practices, and that the quality of teaching is the single most important school - related factor contributing to student success.

Research tells us that among school - related factors, teaching matters most when it comes to student learning.

The Obama administration's proposal for program evaluation used that logic, but it's hard to say how much Podunk mattered compared with other factors like the school curriculum or the student's home life.

It acknowledges that teachers and school leaders matter, and that the right mix of school - based factors can blunt the impact of poverty and help large numbers of high - need students succeed.

Over the past few years, nearly 6,000 schools across 14 states have used the 5Essentials survey to systematically measure nonacademic factors that decades of research have shown matter most for school improvement and student success.

The extent to which these different modeling decisions matter depends on three factors: the correlation between each of these variables and student achievement; how inequitably students are distributed across different classrooms and schools; and how inequitably teacher quality is distributed within and across schools.

In his landmark 1966 report «Equality of Educational Opportunity,» sociologist James S. Coleman suggested that socio - economic segregation of schools contributed to variation in learning but that factors such as facilities and spending mattered little.

Instead, its enduring legacy has been its finding that schools and resources matter little independent of student family background and social factors.

Moreover, as a practical matter, if race is going to be a factor used to measure school success, then it stands to reason that schools should be able to consider race through such programs as controlled choice when addressing apparent school failures.

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.

The study will provide actionable insights for the School District of Philadelphia, including information on the impact of district messages about climate and suspension, strategies schools are using to reduce out - of - school suspensions, factors that impact schools» alignment with district priorities regarding discipline, and what resources matter most to schools» approaches to disciSchool District of Philadelphia, including information on the impact of district messages about climate and suspension, strategies schools are using to reduce out - of - school suspensions, factors that impact schools» alignment with district priorities regarding discipline, and what resources matter most to schools» approaches to discischool suspensions, factors that impact schools» alignment with district priorities regarding discipline, and what resources matter most to schools» approaches to discipline.

Also in 1966, the Coleman Report said that family background and socioeconomic factors play a role in «achievement» — but it was interpreted to mean that «school resources» don't matter.

Huffman is pushing charter schools and doing his best to demoralize the teachers of Tennessee by tying their evaluations to test scores, not to experience or education or any other factor that matters more than test scores.

«Where and when extreme weather events occur is still largely a matter of luck,» explains Professor Myles Allen of the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, a co-author on three of these new studies, «but science can help us understand how different factors are loading the weather dice.»

To the extent that rankings are one factor in a law school's perception in the legal community, sure, they matter.

At least, that's the conclusion of a recent survey by the National Jurist, which found a wide disparity between those factors that are considered influential in the US News & World Report law school rankings and those factors that matter to students.

When sentencing an Aboriginal offender, courts must consider: (1) The unique systemic or background factors which may have played a part in bringing the particular aboriginal offender before the courts.To do this courts are to take judicial notice of such matters as the history of colonialism, displacement, and residential schools and how that history continues to translate into lower educational attainment, lower incomes, higher unemployment, higher rates of substance abuse and suicide, and higher levels of incarceration for Aboriginal peoples.

Sonja B. Starr, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, says it «is a matter of what factors go into these instruments» and not the instruments per se.

But apart from all of that, which is the whole of Kids Matter focus, one thing in particular that schools can do is to look at the notion of teaching, specifically teaching social and emotional skills, and we know that that's a protective factor that children who have that reduce the likelihood of developing mental difficulties later.