Sentences with phrase «schools than effective»

Research had demonstrated that ineffective teachers were more likely to quit jobs in high - poverty schools than effective ones.

This suggests that it may be harder to create an effective middle school than an effective K — 8 school, and that part of the challenge is simply that middle school grade configurations require an additional school transition.»

Not exact matches

Helping schools choose effective anti-drug programs will take more than newly minted bumper stickers.

«The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

And if we ran circles around them and their shallow cultural theorizing because we had read more Marx and Lukacs and Frankfurt Schoolers and Sontag and Barthes than they had, they had an effective putdown: «Snob!

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

provides effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.

Lunch Money is Adamick's effort to dispel «the myth that school food reform is cost prohibitive» by providing «effective money - saving and revenue - generating tools for use in any school kitchen or cafeteria... [including] examples, diagrams, charts, and worksheets that unlock the financial secrets to scratch - cooking in the school food environment and prove that a penny saved is much more than a penny earned.»

These days you get fancy, effective and easy to use digital thermometers; these are any day better than the old school thermometers.

Willingboro, NJ School Board has taken action effective for the 2013 - 2014 school year to discard a school meal rather than feed a student, if their parents can not, or haven't arranged to, refill their student's lunch acSchool Board has taken action effective for the 2013 - 2014 school year to discard a school meal rather than feed a student, if their parents can not, or haven't arranged to, refill their student's lunch acschool year to discard a school meal rather than feed a student, if their parents can not, or haven't arranged to, refill their student's lunch acschool meal rather than feed a student, if their parents can not, or haven't arranged to, refill their student's lunch account.

There are just some of the reasons why Sundance Canyon Academy has been more effective for troubled teens than the therapeutic boarding schools in Las Vegas.

Letting an older child stay home while you run a quick errand or even for an hour or two after school until you get home from work is often more cost - effective and practical than trying to find childcare.

Having been in and around the school nutrition profession since the age of five — Laura's mother was very active in the Mississippi chapter of SNA — Bounds knows what it takes to be an effective manager, but says that Sandy is much more than just an excellent employee.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

She claims Mr. LaValle has not been effective in bringing the East End its fair share of school aid and says the amount of money East End residents pay in state taxes is more than what they get back in state services.

The Education Select Committee recently concluded that there is no basis for telling whether free schools are more or less effective than other similar schools.

They also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

«The NASUWT has always stressed that progress measures are, in general, a more effective and equitable indicator of the contribution schools make to the achievement of pupils than those focused on assessment.

The Conservatives also dismissed a crackdown on failing schools, suggesting it would be no more effective than a crackdown on illegal immigration.

For shooting themselves in the collective foot, Albany's leaders could not have chosen a more effective method than their failure Wednesday night to extend Mayor Bill de Blasio's control over New York City schools for at least another year.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

«We had a hunch that nudging, and especially digital nudging, would be very cost effective, but I was truly surprised to see that the cost effectiveness of nudging is often 100, and even 1,000, times greater than more traditional interventions,» says co-author Shlomo Benartzi, a professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr Setor Kunutsor, Research Fellow from the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the Bristol Medical School: (THS) and lead researcher, said: «For several decades, the two - stage procedure has been presumed to be more effective than the one - stage.

The schools in the district remain considerably diverse, and while there is evidence of a slight growth in racial segregation, Jefferson County's policy is more effective than most, with segregation levels remaining considerably lower than most large school districts.

The most effective prescription drug used to quit smoking initially helps women more than men, according to a Yale School of Medicine study.

His conclusion: summer school could be a more cost - effective way of raising test scores than reducing class size.

For those who prefer a contraceptive implant, getting the procedure in the hospital immediately after giving birth is more cost - effective than delaying insertion to a 6 - 8 week postpartum visit, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

The lab - grown mini-brains, which researchers say are truer to life and more cost - effective than similar research models, came about thanks to the son of two Johns Hopkins scientists and two other high school students who were doing summer research internships.

The two - year study, including 1,000 villages and approximately 650,000 individuals, aims to determine whether combining school - and community - based deworming is more effective at controlling and eliminating intestinal worms called soil - transmitted helminths than school - based deworming.

«Drugs that block the effects of myofibroblasts on the electrical or mechanical properties of heart tissue or that coax them to revert to fibroblasts might be more effective than current therapies,» says Guy M. Genin, PhD, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in WUSTL's School of Engineering & Applied Science, who is one of three co-primary investigators (PI) on the grant.

Just a few years ago, we didn't have such great options,» says Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, N.C. «Treatments are now more effective, safer and easier to use than ever.»

However, they were accompanied by nasty side effects and were effective less than half the time, says Ryan Westergaard, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison.

According to a study by The University of New South Wales School of Medicine, high - intensity intermittent exercise like anabolic running is more effective in reducing abdominal and subcutaneous body fat than other types of exercise.

Understanding time limitation, Brandon reckoned that he could train someone to be an effective massage therapist in a quicker amount of time than traditional massage schools he had attended.

Some Waldorf schools are much more effective than others.

High intensity interval training is an effective endurance training tool in non-athletic school going male population and provides better improvement in VO2max than SCT.

At a running time of close to two hours, School for Scoundrels is clearly much longer than it has any right to be - although, that being said, there's little doubt that the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances.

Although there are some effective twists in the final half - hour to tie things together, it's more effective as a nostalgic tribute to old - school horror than as a consistently creepy or suspenseful project as a whole.

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

It is only to say that some potential applicants might be more effective teachers than the alternatives that are currently available to public schools.

In a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.»

In 2015 - 16, more than 37 percent of DCPS's teaching force was rated «highly effective,» and the school district lost only 6 percent of that top talent.

Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world - leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools.

While the evidence for the effectiveness of charter schools nationwide is mixed, research has found that the charter schools in these cities are on average more effective than district schools in raising student test scores.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Although there is much more to the school curriculum than literacy and numeracy, students» abilities to read and understand different forms of written material and to apply mathematics to everyday problems are among the most important outcomes of an effective curriculum.