Sentences with phrase «schools perform at»

If the studies so far are right (and yes, there's need for more), the majority of charter schools perform at or less than parity with public schools, even with more parental involvement and supposedly more / better teachers and programs.

KALAMAZOO — When it comes to measuring student achievement, Edison schools perform at levels similar to their host districts but fail to make the educational gains Edison administrators claim.

The Schaefer Center report found that charter schools perform at least as well as regular public schools and even slightly outshine them in some areas.

«I can not comprehend why taxpayers are willing to subsidize a private voucher school education system, especially when research indicates that private voucher schools perform at best as well as the public school system and in many cases below their public school peers.»

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

Finally, in Kenya, where the raw test scores showed students in private and public schools performing at similar levels, the fact that private schools served a far more disadvantaged population resulted in a gap of 0.1 standard deviations in English and 0.2 standard deviations in math (after accounting for differences in student characteristics).

Students who take more rigorous math courses in high school perform at higher levels on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math.

As evidence, Harris cites what he calls a «well - regarded study,» which «found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.»

We find that the gains made by retained students did diminish over time, as critics predicted, but these students still entered high school performing at higher levels in both reading and math than similar peers who were promoted on time.

Of course the challenge to keep the city's current (and growing) group of charter schools performing at a high level is itself a formidable one.

Chadwick Elementary is a fascinating case of a high poverty, high ELL school performing at very high levels.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

«Even at some of our highest - performing schools, are all of the students in that school performing at that equally very high level?»

One well - regarded study found that Detroit's charter schools performed at about the same dismal level as its traditional public schools.

«If every school performed at the level of our 18 winners, Tennessee would lead the nation in educational improvement.»

Only students in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Department of Defense schools performed at a statistically higher level in fourth - grade reading.

A senior from Masterman High School performs at the opening of Monument Lab, at Terry Adkins» temporary monument in City Hall Courtyard.

Meanwhile, a Michigan State University initiative launched November 2 tracks the teaching of legal services innovation and technology at 38 American law schools and ranks Chicago - Kent one of two schools performing at the highest level.

Not exact matches

The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

Major construction works at the new independent public secondary school Fremantle College is set to be performed by Perkins Builders under a $ 22.9 million contract.

That tendency towards anxiety is at least helping you perform better at school, work, or wherever a sharp memory will help you get ahead.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

An Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine, Mangi has performed over 2,500 heart surgeries and ranks in the 90th percentile of cardiac surgeons globally.

«We released maybe the first ever SAT rap album and toured the country performing at schools at 8 a.m. in the assembly hall,» says Rappaport, who serves as the company's CEO.

In case of any doubt, Wired also learned that, while at Harvard graduate school (right before dropping out to join Google) Damore wrote and performed in a skit about «Microtubule Jerking» and the women who helped with it.

The researchers, all business school professors out of Columbia University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, set up a mock hiring experience in which managers were asked to select which job «applicants» they thought would perform best at a math task.

You can help youth and high school athletes perform at a higher level and provide a one - stop resource for all of their needs.

ou can help youth and high school athletes perform at a higher level and provide a one - stop resource for all of their needs.

Herbie Hancock will perform with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Jazz Band and the Coral Springs Middle School Jazz Band May 22 at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts.

On April 19, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Orchestra will perform a free concert at Hollywood's Young Circle Amphitheater.

The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Orchestra will perform on April 19 at 7 p.m. at the Young Circle Amphitheater, 1 North Young Circle, Hollywood, 33020.

Franklin, Edison and Einstein performed pooly in school at one time or another.

She attended the High School of Performing Arts in dance before receiving her Bachelor of Arts in literature and her Master of Arts in Russian literature at the University of Chicago.

After the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, members of Congress performed a familiar ritual: They tweeted, spoke, and emailed condolences to the victims and their families.

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

We don't go to the festival very often now but my husband still has many fond memories of being in the parade and performing at it with his high school punk band.

Have a look at this great Green Thickie given to teenagers to help them perform better at school.

With this in mind, it makes me sick sometimes when I walk into weight rooms at some high schools and see how poorly the lift is being performed — mostly because coaches haven't taken the time to study, understand, or perform the lift themselves, and therefore making it impossible to coach correctly.

The Angelo State grad performed well in his roles — 2010 5A II state champion at Steele High School, 2011 state runner up, mentor for Tech RB DeAndre Washington as he rushed for 2,500 yards in 2014 - 15 — but if nothing else, the geography was confusing.

Horsing around at school, we would sometimes shoot with empty bottle caps, but the real contests were always performed with wax - filled shooters.

They have performed annually for 25 years at Bay Area KidFest, along with performances through the years at Concord Fall Fest, Police Olympics and at local schools in an effort to promote the benefits of martial arts training for all ages.

The state high school champion, the band has performed at the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby and Jimmy Carter's inauguration.

It holds true with taking a test at school, performing well at work or in all performance endeavors.

So, it is no secret that high school golfers ultimately earn their reputation based on how they perform at their section's tournament of champions, regional finals, and the CIF State Tournament.

Sofia was a high - performing student at an academically challenging school — and yet she was really frustrated.

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Children who eat breakfast at school — closer to test - taking time — perform better on standardized tests than those who skip breakfast or eat breakfast at home.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.