Sentences with phrase «serving a more disadvantaged»

• There was a widespread, well - justified concern that prior accountability measures based primarily on achievement levels (proficiency rates) unfairly penalized schools serving more disadvantaged students and failed to reward schools for strong test score growth.

We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with positive effects most pronounced in schools that serve a more disadvantaged student population.

A Fordham Institute study found that on average charters receive $ 1,800 less per student than traditional public schools, despite serving more disadvantaged students.

The thriving charter pre-K programs in D.C. demonstrate that the charter pre-K model offers an opportunity for states to better serve their neediest students, particularly because, in general, charter schools serve more disadvantaged populations.

Teacher Denise Casco at Vista del Valle Dual Language Academy in San Fernando said the inclusion of student achievement could disproportionately affect her because she serves a more disadvantaged community than others in the district.

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Regus has a vested interest in exposing the dark side of at - home work — after all, it operates business centres designed to serve as alternatives to home offices — but the potential disadvantages are worth considering as more and more Canadian companies experiment with flexible working arrangements.

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

Operated by Sisters of Charity Hospital, the center currently serves more than 14,000 patients annually, including many who are economically disadvantaged.

Therefore, an approach with more appeal might be simply to accept the fact that there may be greater turnover in schools serving a larger disadvantaged population, but then to concentrate much more attention and resources on the quality dimension.

The school serves an economically disadvantaged and diverse population of students who speak more than 50 different languages.

It may be that private schools are able to create a more or less consistently safe environment, whereas charter schools, concentrated in areas that serve disadvantaged students, vary substantially in this regard.

And it is even more amazing considering that some of the highest performing charter schools, like Roxbury Prep in Boston or KIPP Infinity in New York City, serve very disadvantaged students.

Nevertheless, the redesigned tests would ultimately reflect a more honest accounting of where we stand, allowing us to build a system of instruction and assessment that would far better serve generations of disadvantaged students.

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).

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

For example, a state with a relatively new charter sector may want to focus on supporting the creation and growth of high - quality charters, whereas one with a more mature charter sector may want to focus on increasing the involvement of an existing private sector that is significant in size and geographic reach but has not historically served large numbers of disadvantaged students.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

The results of this approach may also be biased in favor of schools serving more advantaged students if the test - score growth of disadvantaged students differs in ways not captured by the value - added model.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

And this has an impact on schools serving highly disadvantaged populations, because the more - experienced teachers who leave these schools are generally replaced with new teachers.

After months of intense opposition to his plan for overhauling the way New York City funds its schools, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has agreed to retool a piece of his proposal that, in part, sought to put more veteran teachers in schools that serve the most disadvantaged students.

Researcher Marguerite Roza and others have produced considerable evidence that teachers in schools serving the most - disadvantaged students have lower average salaries... [and] there is also evidence that these schools tend to have more teachers with emergency credentials and without regular certification... The problem is that these readily measured attributes of teachers have virtually nothing to do with teacher effectiveness.»

For example, a disadvantaged student who enrolls in a more advantaged school should bring with him the money policymakers intended to serve him.

Most deliberately chose to work there because they wanted to serve disadvantaged students and because they thought they could do so more effectively in an alternative setting governed by a well - developed sense of what constitutes «best practices» unfettered by bureaucratic constraints.

Private schools were more likely to participate if the gap between their tuition level and the usually lower voucher amount was smaller, if they already had experience serving disadvantaged students, and if they were Catholic schools.

This is so senior teachers can choose the schools they believe are the best workplaces — most often schools in nicer neighborhoods with students from higher - income families — while newer teachers with no seniority rights and fewer choices tend to work in more disadvantaged schools serving poorer students.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

The alternative education boom occurred as Orange County Public Schools — which serves more than 200,000 students, two - thirds of whom are economically disadvantaged — sought national recognition.

These 31 districts have received considerably more state aid to cover the extra costs of serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Figure 2 — Distribution of Teacher Characteristics Across K — 6 Schools, by Location K — 6 schools serving more - disadvantaged students have a higher percentage of less - prepared teachers.

Through guidance — and future legislation — the federal government should also send a clear message that districts ought to align the schedules of schools with the typical work schedule more closely, and they ought to prioritize schools serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds in ways that improve student outcomes.

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In highly segregated systems, disadvantaged pupils are more likely to be found in less popular schools — with schools serving few disadvantaged students less able to counter the effects of that disadvantage.

The group's North Carolina school, The Capitol Encore Academy in Fayetteville, is a K - 8 charter serving more than 350 students, roughly half of whom are considered «economically disadvantaged.»

Under the LCFF, more state funds will be directed to help schools serving educationally disadvantaged students - that is, children from low - income families, English learners and foster care youth.

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

The report found schools serving the most disadvantaged children, which make up 40 per cent of all schools in England, would need «10,000 more school leaders by 2022».

This administration needs to serve more than a salmon dinner to indicate they sincerely want to support good teachers for disadvantaged students.

So while «efforts over recent decades to recruit more minority teachers and place them in schools serving disadvantaged and minority students have been very successful,» the report states, «there continues to be a persistent racial - ethnic parity gap between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system.»

And while more low - income and otherwise disadvantaged students are now being served in charters, the substantial disparity across states indicates that policies on authorization, regulation, and monitoring are likely the biggest drivers of those differences.

A 2010 state report found districts that serve disadvantaged students are more likely to draw young, inexperienced teachers assigned subjects in which they had little training.

And schools serving high proportions of disadvantaged students are more likely to employ less - experienced teachers and lower concentrations of teachers deemed highly effective.

In 2017, 91 percent, or 336 of the 371 schools in Texas with failing marks from the TEA serve populations with more than 60 percent economically disadvantaged children.

Kline has also moved a bill out of committee that would slash half of NCLB's federal education programs and another one that would give more states flexibility over spending federal education funds intended to serve disadvantaged students.

Good as far as it goes, but this is also another call for Idaho's charter school sector and its allies to do more to grow and expand schools that serve larger numbers of economically disadvantaged and minority students.

Step Up To Serve co-founder and trustee Dame Julia Cleverdon said: «Organisations [such as the Scouts] have picked up # 10million of Libor money to build 400 more centres in areas of disadvantage.

However, these disadvantages, which were only rarely noticed, are more than outweighted by an enormous advantage: progress not only explains the past without breaking up the contimuum but it can serve as a guide for acting in the future... Progress gives an answer to the troublesome quesiton, And what shall we do now?

Women who experience IPV may also be more likely to live in communities with higher levels of social disorganization, 36 disadvantage, 37 and violence.38 Several studies have found evidence that familial violence exacerbates the adverse impact of child exposure to community violence.39 Neighborhood safety may serve as a barrier to the ability to exercise and play outdoors.

Such an approach indicates a failure to move beyond the policy paradigm of throwing palliatives in the form of quick - fix, short - term solutions at the urgent problems experienced by Indigenous people an approach which often serves only to manage and even perpetuate enduring cycles of disadvantage, at the expense of resourcing more holistic and far - reaching solutions.