Sentences with phrase «schooling than the control group»

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The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control School: The KMC group spent about 23 percent more time in preschool and had less than half the rate of school absenteeism compared to the control school absenteeism compared to the control group.

Dr. Rachel Klein, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 School of Medicine, and a group of colleagues did a 2 - year controlled study of more than 100 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 school - aged kids back in the late 1970s, and then followed up with them repeatedly over 33 years.

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

Mayor Bloomberg's gun control group is dropping more than $ 250,000 on cable TV ads featuring surveillance video from the Columbine High School massacre to urge the Senate to put new restrictions on gun sales.

In this study from researchers at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge, and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, and published today in the journal Tobacco Control, more than 400 English children aged 11 - 16 who had never smoked or «vaped» previously were recruited and randomly allocated to one of three groups.

In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, people who received high doses of the stress hormone cortisol daily for four days performed worse on recall tests than those in the control group.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

The middle schoolers who agreed to lose part of their paycheck if they failed to increase it were no more likely than their control group peers at increasing their paycheck.

For example, students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of Crystal Bridges later displayed demonstrably stronger ability to think critically about art than the control group.

Parents whose children used an Opportunity Scholarship also expressed greater confidence in their children's safety in school than parents in the control group.

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

What's more, students who were eligible for free school meals and took part in a CREST Silver Award were 38 per cent more likely to take a STEM subject at AS Level than the matched control group.

Drawing on an evaluation of 3,000 applicants in the 2005 06 school year, MDRC concluded that after three years ChalleNGe cadets were more likely than members of the control group to earn a diploma or a GED and to enroll in college or in college courses.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

Also, Hispanic parents in the control group continued to rate their children's schools more favorably than did African American parents.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

Black students who attended D.C. private schools for two years scored 9.0 percentile points higher on the two tests combined than did students in the control group.

After one year, black students who switched to private schools scored 0.17 standard deviations higher than the students in the control group.

The program also resulted in FAFSA applications being filed significantly earlier than those in the control group: over one month earlier for high school students and almost three months earlier for independent students.

«By the end of the trial, the reading scores for children in the participating schools were far higher than for children in the control group.

As a consequence, the participating pupils attended between 3.5 days and 10 more days of school a year than their peers in control groups.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

Findings: New York, NY — African American and Hispanic students offered vouchers to attend private elementary schools in 1997 attended college within five years of expected high school graduation at a rate 4 percentage points higher than the control group and obtained a bachelor's degree at a rate 2.7 percentage points higher than the control group's rate (11.7 percent vs. 9.0 percent, respectively).

Students from low - performing public schools who received and used scholarships graduated at a rate 20 percent higher than the control group.

After the first year, when TTI teachers were still receiving payments for remaining in their schools, teachers in the TTI group returned to their schools at significantly higher rates than their control group counterparts: 93 versus 71 percent.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

In contrast, children served by TN - VPK were more likely to have received school - based special education services than children in the control group (14 % to 9 % for the full sample — reported results aren't separated for the intensively studied sub sample).

For example, in Baltimore, 77 % of community school students in grades 6 to 8 were less likely to be chronically absent than a control group.

Results of a randomized control trial demonstrated that male students who participated in the program during Grade 9 were significantly more likely to graduate from high school within 4 years than male students in the control group (81 % vs. 63 %).

Magnolia's study revealed that Achieve3000 users did significantly better over the course of the school year and performed better than students in the control group on the GMRT - 4.

For example, It has been reported that «more than 600 schools have registered «near - perfect PSC pass rates in Yr 1» This group of schools constitutes a natural «treatment group» that can be compared to the «control group» of all other English schools.

Hehir points out that interventions for this group are more likely to focus on controlling their disruptive behaviors in school than on providing mental health help or positive interventions to improve students» mental state and behaviors.

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

But over the last few years, the Bloomberg approach has been vindicated by an innovative, multiyear study showing that the poor, minority students who attend small specialized schools do better academically than students in a control group who attend traditional high schools.

«When schools were under local control it would have been unthinkable as well as impossible that a head teacher of even a group of schools could earn more than a director of education, let alone the secretary of state for education, let alone the prime minister,» Mr Clarkson told the conference.

The groups» mission was to press the case for individual schools, rather than district administrators, deciding how to spend money coming into LA Unified from Gov. Jerry Brown «s new Local Control Funding Formula,...

The effect of the Nurse - Family Partnership on African - American boys specifically has not been isolated, but in one study in Memphis — where the participants were overwhelmingly African - American (though not all boys)-- the children whose parents participated in the program performed significantly better during their first years at school than did those in the control group.

They found that students provided with these custom lists were more likely to apply to the schools on the list than students in the control group.

Compared with a control group, children who went through the Perry program were 22 percent more likely to finish high school and were arrested less than half as often for felonies.

A federal program that pays private - school tuition for poor DC families, for instance, has been shown to raise students» reading performance by more than two grade levels after just three years, compared to a control group of students who stayed in public schools.

If Mr. Talton could provide two random assignment control - group studies of the attitudes of parents who have actually used a private school - choice program showing anything less than substantial improvement in satisfaction with their child's school, I offered to buy him a steak dinner.

«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47