Sentences with phrase «schools had little effect»

A federal effort to provide intensive technical assistance to low - achieving Title I students and schools had little effect, a new study concludes.

Private schools have little effect on the educational opportunities of Black students from low - income families in either Mississippi or Michigan.

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The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

There is very little information on the sampling — how the researchers chose the schools and children involved, which seems as though it would have a crucial effect.

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

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.

We've got a school board election next week, and I've been very disappointed at how little concern the candidates have expressed about the effects of No Child Left Behind on our schools.

Based on data showing that, while youth football players sustained concussions at about the same rate in practice and overall as high school and college athletes, they were injured at a rate 3 to 4 times higher than older players during games, the UPMC researchers predicted that Pop Warner's new rules «may not only have little effect on reducing on reducing concussions but may also actually increase the incidence of concussions in games via reduced time learning proper tackling in practice.»

The free tuition offer has had little effect on where most graduating high school seniors are headed to college this fall, area guidance counselors say.

Legislation signed in December by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that made school tax exemptions for available to certain veterans took effect with little advance notice, making it difficult for school boards tasked with deciding whether their districts would participate in the program to make well - researched and educated decisions.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Language barriers and cultural differences had little effect as McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School scientists and their colleagues from the Chinese Society of Psychiatry convened in early October to launch the first conference of the McLean Hospital - Chinese Society of Psychiatry Initiative in Psychiatry (MCIP).

For example, one study done at the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at the University of North Carolina concluded based on their study results that a soy isoflavone - rich supplement appears to have little or no effect on bone in young adult women with normal ovarian function during the course of their one year study.

Roy Arbogast who has worked on special effects milestones such as «Jaws,» «The Return of The Jedi,» and «The Fugitive» leads a crew that did a lot with a little, using a combination of complicated puppets and mechanical creatures and old school camera tricks including reverse photography.

The effects are very good and the performances by a host of old school British thesps on auto - pilot are as reliable as you'd expect, but Radcliffe / Potter is still an annoyingly smug little brat and Rupert Grint does nothing but sniffle and yelp like a yappy lit...

Hyde may have had very little effect on the kids» cognitive development, but it still had a great effect on the kind of behaviors — self - discipline, steady work habits, respect for others — that lead to success in school.

That includes any effect of student poverty on teacher quality; in a 2004 study, Eric Hanushek, John Kain, and I found that poverty contributes to teacher turnover and to schools having a higher share of teachers with little or no prior teaching experience.

Magnet schools appear to have little effect on academic achievement, preliminary findings from a new study suggest.

The United States has wasted well over $ 60 billion «cramming» technology in schools in this way to little effect over the past couple decades — and predictably so, according to our research.

If we could make a dent in one district, it would have more effect nationally than me flying around and creating little charter schools everywhere.

It's no surprise that, 28 years after the publication of A Nation at Risk, school - reform efforts have generated so little effect.

Yet little research has been conducted to determine the effect of school quality on crime.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

However, automatic admission has little effect on overall college enrollment or on the quality of the schools students in the top 10 percent attend.

But this strategy, if well executed, could probably effect meaningful change in some schools, and that would be a real win for children at very little cost.

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.

Veteran teachers and school leaders have seen wave after wave of pedagogical, curricular, and policy fads wash over the education landscape with little lasting effect.

In the early 1970s, the federal courts ordered a number of states to pay school desegregation costs, but these rulings were limited in number and had little overall effect on state systems for school funding.

Comments from some recent users of this book should help convince you to buy it: As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes Worth every dime Every student in my class has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research Surely this is the best book in its field First class I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight Blows you away with its power and simplicity Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

The Coleman Report identified the peer group at school as an important factor affecting learning, but several papers in this volume suggest that the socioeconomic status or academic ability of peers has little effect on academic performance.

We often lament, «Kids today don't have social skills,» yet we have done little to rethink how we structure time and its effect on the people within schools — and what more collaborative school initiatives could do within that new time frame.

The effects on flagship enrollment are only observed in high schools that send many of their graduates to college, suggesting that automatic admission may have little effect on the college choices of students in the state's most - disadvantaged schools.

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

The selective schools also seemed to have little or no effect on the likelihood of taking Advanced Placement classes, graduating from high school, or enrolling and staying in college.

And transfers had surprisingly little effect on racial distributions across the sites: Typically, students transferring to charter schools moved to schools with racial distributions similar to those of the TPSs from which they came.

But while much has been said about the potential negative effects of exclusionary school punishment, little is known about what policymakers can do to address it.

Little or no data have been collected on the effect of school choice on graduation rates, incarceration rates, the probability that students will end up on welfare, the chances that they will be employed full time - all outcomes that deserve careful scrutiny.

Yet decades of attempts to regulate district schools into quality have had little effect.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — While it is widely believed that good school principals have a positive impact on student achievement, there has been little systematic research to date on the effect of strong school leadership.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

Exams intended for a set of elite schools or advanced courses influence standards at the top, but they have little effect on the rest of the students.

«GCSE results suggest that converting already high - performing schools to academies has little effect on their academic performance, so it's not true to think that academy conversion raises standards across the board,» says Mr Hannay.

Just a little incremental change every year on the part of the teacher, over time, you know, would have this cumulative effect on student achievement where you'd say that, «Hey, in this district, in this school, we know that our teachers are getting better every year.

The school district spent «hundreds of millions» on remedial efforts that had little effect on students» progress, he said, siphoning money away from early education.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

«The legislation is designed to move schools away from one - time teacher workshops that have little effect on classroom practice to ongoing, job - embedded professional development that results in student learning gains,» said Carter.

I am a private tutor and in my opinion a good tutor can get an average ability child to near the top or to the top at school, whereas a poor tutor has very little effect.

Some experimental studies have found positive effects of specific professional development programs on leadership practice — or an association between particular types of professional development and improved student performance, school climate, teacher collaboration, or principal retention — but there is little expert consensus about the most effective design for professional development programs.

The study, conducted for the U.S. Department of Education by Mathematica Policy Research, found that participation in federally funded 21st Century after - school programs had little effect on academic performance.