Economic, demographic, segregation and
schooling characteristics explain roughly three - quarters of the geographic variation in these gaps.
In order to investigate the role of both the intentional and unintentional factors, we explore the extent to which various
school characteristics explain variation in the allocation of resources within a school district.
Not exact matches
Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high
school biology classes
explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited
characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.
Even with this added dimension, the researchers were unable to identify tangible county
characteristics that
explain why slave concentration from 1860 is related to contemporary
school enrollment patterns.
First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the
schools that students attend can
explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic
characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).
Once I had 15 such stories, Harvard Education Press compiled them with some new material
explaining how I found the
schools and the common
characteristics of the
schools.
Semiparametric lower bound estimates of the variance in teacher quality based entirely on within -
school heterogeneity indicate that teachers have powerful effects on reading and mathematics achievement, though little of the variation in teacher quality is
explained by observable
characteristics such as education or experience.
This American modern art movement (also called the New York
School) is here short
explained in its goals and
characteristics, and moreover illustrated in selected art images.
More analysis needs to be done here, of course, because the kids aren't identical and it's possible that student
characteristics and
school selection effects rather than instructional effectiveness
explain much of the achievement track record.
We found that about half of the difference in student outcomes in
schools slated for closure and the broader sample of
schools can be
explained by differences in incoming students» demographic
characteristics, absenteeism, and achievement in middle
school.
We also include student fixed effects, which account for changes in the composition of the
schools» student populations over time that can not be
explained by the limited set of student
characteristics for which information was available in the district's database.
As research has demonstrated,
school factors
explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about one - third of what student and family background
characteristics explain.
It is a regression in which student achievement is
explained by a combination of
school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the
characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).
But we find little evidence that shifting student
characteristics explain flat scores, or that periods of increasing high
school persistence coincide with periods of divergent scores between older and younger students.
However, little work assesses the extent to which differences in the neighborhoods in which
schools are located either affect teacher recruitment and retention or
explain the observed relationship between
school characteristics and teachers» career choices.
This guide details the fundamental
characteristics of the young adolescent learner and
explains how Turning Points
schools work to meet the needs of these students.
The process can include assessing whether certain
characteristics — such as the qualifications of teachers or counselor - student ratios — can
explain some of the differences in the number of advanced courses
schools offer.
Schools in the Neighborhood: Can Neighborhood
Characteristics Explain Enrollment at In - Boundary
Schools?
Now that we have established that boundary participation rates are different across the city in ways that systematically change with neighborhood
characteristics, we can test whether differences in neighborhood
characteristics can
explain school choice behaviors across the city.
To measure which
school neighborhood
characteristics can
explain boundary participation rates, one must define «neighborhoods.»
Similar to boundary participation patterns, neighborhood
characteristics can no longer
explain enrollment at middle and high public charter
schools.
The D.C. Policy Center report «
Schools in the Neighborhood: Can Neighborhood
Characteristics Explain Enrollment at In - Boundary
Schools?»
This blog post examines public charter
school outcomes as a follow up to the D.C. Policy Center report,
Schools in the Neighborhood: Can Neighborhood
Characteristics Explain Enrollment at In - boundary
Schools?
In D.C., enrollment at in - boundary
schools is geographically concentrated in one area, but typical neighborhood
characteristics do not
explain this trend.
Preston C. Green III, Bruce Baker and Joseph Oluwole's article, entitled «Having It Both Ways: How Charter
Schools Try to Obtain Funding of Public Schools and the Autonomy of Private Schools,» explains how charters use «their hybrid characteristics to obtain the benefits of public funding while circumventing state and federal rights and protections for employees and students that apply to traditional public schools.
Schools Try to Obtain Funding of Public
Schools and the Autonomy of Private Schools,» explains how charters use «their hybrid characteristics to obtain the benefits of public funding while circumventing state and federal rights and protections for employees and students that apply to traditional public schools.
Schools and the Autonomy of Private
Schools,» explains how charters use «their hybrid characteristics to obtain the benefits of public funding while circumventing state and federal rights and protections for employees and students that apply to traditional public schools.
Schools,»
explains how charters use «their hybrid
characteristics to obtain the benefits of public funding while circumventing state and federal rights and protections for employees and students that apply to traditional public
schools.
schools.»
That is,
characteristics of neighborhoods in which highly popular in - boundary
schools are located might also
explain why some in - boundary
schools have higher boundary participation rates and others do not.
As research has found,
school factors
explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about a third of what student and family background
characteristics explain.
In 1966, a groundbreaking government study — the «Coleman Report» — first identified a «one - third in -
school factors, two - thirds family
characteristics» ratio to
explain variations in student achievement.
When combined with the other pupil
characteristics, models with measures of free
school meal eligibility worked best, in practical terms, for
explaining variation in pupil achievement.
Although differences in teacher and
school characteristics — such as a teacher's experience or a
school's student demographics —
explained some of this gap, more than half of the gap remained even after accounting for such factors.
«A significant
characteristic of those
schools was that
schools and communities had a shared sense of duty,»
explains Green.
Set to the sort of dated rock soundtrack
characteristic of»80s action - movie montages, or perhaps a traffic
school instructional tape, the video shared some of the sport's history and
explained its core techniques, such as the clinch, in which fighters wrap their hands around the back of their opponent's neck, leaving the opponent vulnerable to knee strikes to the body and head.
Only a few studies, including two of our own, assess families during the preschool period and again after the child has entered elementary
school.8, 12,13 The basic finding is of considerable consistency across the transition in terms of mothers», fathers», and children's
characteristics; both mothers» and fathers» authoritative parenting style during the preschool period
explains significant variance in children's academic achievement and externalizing or internalizing behaviour with peers two and three years later.
Results of multilevel analyses reveal that individual background
characteristics (e.g., gender, social class, individual assessment of teacher - student relationships)
explain more of the variance than
school characteristics, including
school climate.