Sentences with phrase «schools in the study»

We find few significant differences in the educational practices of the two groups of schools in our study.

Likewise, researchers found that the average charter school in the study stayed open eight hours a day, with some providing services for as long as 10 hours.

In all of the most effective schools and most of the other schools in this study, the building environments were positive, and the schools were friendly places for children to learn.

Although there is no evidence that schools in the study sample targeted resources to particular students, they may have allocated resources toward outcomes measured by the accountability system.

The private and public schools in the study also differ in the size of their student populations and average class size.

High schools would likely show very similar gains, although the authors did not include high schools in their study.

Many of the charter schools in our study aspire to boost minority achievement, so a natural benchmark for charter effectiveness is the black - white test score gap.

The best schools in our study took this broader view of professional development and developed their leadership, culture and teaching through a variety of different coaching, mentoring and development programmes.

The problem is that many of the blended - learning schools in the study are charter schools.

* Charter schools in the study did not significantly affect most of the other outcomes examined, including attendance, student behavior, and survey - based measures of student effort in school.

Significant positive impacts are evident on average as well as for the majority of individual KIPP middle schools in the study.

The KIPP schools in our study enroll an average of 13 new students per year in grade 6 (accounting for 18 percent of average total enrollment in that grade), 7 new students per year in grade 7 (12 percent of total enrollment), and 3 new students per year in grade 8 (6 percent of total enrollment).

Comparable schools in our study that remained private Catholic reported seeing very few students leave the switcher schools to attend their Catholic school.

The principals that would be trained in the NISL EDP began the study with their schools facing greater challenges than the matched schools in the study.

«The large samples of charter schools in these studies precluded using lotteries to estimate effects,» she said.

Miron said, «the study found a pattern of charter schools systematically counseling out students with disabilities rather than making accommodations and providing the required services and supports; administrators at one - fourth of the charter schools in the study reported having advised parents that the school was not a good fit for their disabled children.»

The eight schools in this study spent a total of only $ 650,000 on technology, 60 percent less than $ 1.7 million originally budgeted.

Schools in her study traveled through three phases of development as they implemented school improvement plans — instructive, transitional, and high capacity.

There were 40 participating schools in the study and the data generated was predominately surveys of students, teachers and administrators.

In addition to Railside, we included two suburban schools in the study.

The programme introduced in schools in the study included a daily opportunity to do 30 minutes of additional exercise; a six - week healthy eating and exercise programme in conjunction with Aston Villa Football Club; healthy cooking workshops once a term for families; and the highlighting of local family physical activities

The sample of schools in the study was broadly comparable with other English schools with above average levels of disadvantage and thus the results are somewhat generalisable beyond the immediate context.

In fact, it may be accurate to say that schools like the most effective schools in our study may be the first to produce students for whom these two types of cognitive ability are consistently decoupled, providing an opportunity to study just which kinds of outcomes are enabled by gains in crystallized knowledge alone.

Although serving the most disadvantaged population in the region, Kibera's private schools outperformed the public schools in our study, after controlling for background variables.

According to the evidence report, the KIPP elementary and middle schools in the studies both produced sizable, statistically significant effects on reading and math achievement - increases of between 5 and 10 percentile points (compared to the control group)- as measured two to three years after random assignment.

Parents from the virtual high school in this study were regularly kept informed when their child was not keeping pace with the lessons, so parents could build strong and meaningful connections to their child's education and build positive relationships with the school and teacher.

«All of the charter schools in the study either outperformed or showed no statistical difference when compared to traditional schools,» the report read.

King said the schools in the study did not increase time spent at recess.

Thirty - nine of the schools in the study used KiVa; in the other 38 schools, students were given some information about combating bullying, but these efforts were much less comprehensive.

The schools in the study use either the model from Linked Learning Alliance or Envision Schools — both of which show clear evidence of engaging and developing high levels of proficiency for students of color, English learners, and low - income students — at levels that far exceed traditional schools serving similar students.

Schools in the study were directed to use the Khan Academy resources, but several teachers decided to use additional or alternative providers that they felt better suited their class and teaching.

Most of the schools in the study implemented flipped learning with pupils undertaking online instructional learning for homework prior to lessons, but some modified this approach to provide access to resources within lessons, or homework sessions outside normal lessons.

All of the schools in our study were created as new entities, which can be an enormous advantage in the school reform business.

The schools in the study were located in or near large urban areas with predominantly low - income minority student populations.

All schools in our study implemented data systems to guide their decision making.

Interestingly, save for Ohio's automatic closure law that was applied to a handful of charters, state policy did not directly shutter the schools in this study.

«Some of our schools in the study were among the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago,» Wasley said.

Word recognition work and reading practice were much more the focus of reading instruction in grades 1 - 2 across all schools in this study than was comprehension.