Sentences with phrase «significant differences between schools»

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In a carefully researched article (Yale Journal of Regulation, Summer 2001), Yale Law School professor Roberta Romano summarized studies on the economic impact of splitting the chair and CEO roles in U.S. companies (where combined CEO / chairs are the norm), finding that there is no statistically significant difference, in terms of stock price or accounting income, between companies that split the roles and those that don't.

Dennis, in 1962, found no significant difference between the audience and non-audience of religious programs up to the high - school level of education.

A report by the NFER also found «no significant difference in attainment progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 outcomes after two years between converter academies and similar non-academy schools.»

According to NFER «the differences in school GCSE performance between sponsored academies that have been open for between two and four years and a group of similar maintained schools were generally small and mostly not statistically significant.»

«Although we expected the rates of cognitive change to differ significantly between those with a history of TBI compared to those with no history of TBI, we found no significant difference between the groups, regardless of their APOE genotype,» explained corresponding author Robert Stern, PhD, Director of the Clinical Core of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center (BU ADC) and professor of neurology, neurosurgery and anatomy and neurobiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

However, contrary to an earlier generation of research, there are no significant differences in BA completion rates between those students who started at a community college and successfully transferred and their peers who began at four - year schools.

«There was a moderate and statistically significant difference between students» hours of sleep at earlier and later starting high schools... this translates to an increase of 83.4 minutes of sleep for students at schools with later start times,» the report says.

So it is not altogether wrong to emphasize variation in the charter world, but on most of the school characteristics we find no significant difference between the variability in parental perceptions in the charter and district - school sectors.

The significance of the coefficients on the private - and district - school indicators allows us to test whether there is a statistically significant difference between charter - school parents and parents from either of the other sectors, after adjusting for differences in the observable background characteristics of the parents they serve.

There is no statistically significant difference between students in assigned public schools and those in secular private, magnet public, or religious / non-Catholic schools.

The difference between the charter and public school teachers is highly statistically significant.

Studying the association between academy status for primary and secondary schools and their pupils» attainment in the Key Stage 2 tests and GCSE exams from last year, NFER claims that there is no significant difference between the performance of primary academies and maintained schools.

Despite the parity in funding, significant differences remained between municipally run schools and privately run voucher schools.

The Commission says that this gap «can not be explained by their results at school or where they live», because there are significant differences between poorer children and wealthier children living in the same neighbourhood with the same GCSEs results.

There was no significant difference in attainment progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 outcomes after two years between converter academies and similar non-academy schools in 2013, although ceiling effects could limit the extent to which differences between these higher performing schools can be observed.

Private schools generate similarly higher levels of satisfaction than choice and district schools in all three types of communities, but significant differences between charters and chosen district schools are not observed in any of the three areas.

In math, the five for - profits had strongly positive impacts in all years, while the nonprofits had decidedly negative ones, leading to very large, statistically significant differences between the two groups of schools in all years.

The researchers also point out there were 1290 unique school and grade combinations in the study sample — an average of 40 students per combination — which meant it «lacked statistical power to find significant differences between treatment conditions or grade levels».

However, voucher students began to show signs of improvement by their fourth year in a private school, and in that year there was no statistically significant difference between them and their public - school peers in terms of total achievement gains from baseline.

We found no significant differences between lottery winners and losers on characteristics, including gender, age at high school entry, and the math and reading scores and racial composition of their middle schools.

There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups on absences from school or disciplinary actions.

But on the third issue — replacement — the study finds significant differences between KIPP schools and comparison middle schools on a couple of dimensions.

By year four, there was no statistically significant difference in math test scores between students who remained in private schools and the matched comparison group.

Based on a cross-case analysis of online and on - campus courses, the results of the study indicate that while there was no significant difference between online and on - campus courses in terms of teacher acquisition of knowledge related to CLD instruction and assessment, questions remain about whether distance learning can promote critical self - reflection, culturally responsive teaching practices, and collaboration within schools, when teacher learning is not supported and situated in schools and communities in an ongoing and structured way.

In less prosperous schools and colleges, religion may, at day» s end, be the only real difference between public and private — and the return on that investment, while perhaps significant, can not be easily measured.

Looking at only those with 16 or more years of schooling, we see no significant difference between teachers and nonteachers, with slightly more than one - third of each group opposing it.

To my mind, the failure to find meaningful differences in student performance between charter schools that do and don't use computerized learning is significant.

At a young age I noticed there were significant differences between my charter school and the district schools my older siblings attended.

National Association of Head Teachers general secretary Russell Hobby warned of «a significant difference between official statistics and the perceptions of those in schools.

That's just one of many significant differences between the two bills on the matter of school accountability, which has been an impossible puzzle for the Legislature to solve in recent years.

There were statistically significant differences between KSSN and non-KSSN schools in the percentage of student absenteeism for each school year.

The report found that differences between sponsored academies open for between two and four years and maintained schools with similar intakes were «generally small and mostly not statistically significant».

Differences between high and low boundary participation neighborhoods in terms of demographic characteristics, indicators of economic opportunity, and neighborhood characteristics are not significant at middle and high school levels.

[19] The difference between the demographics of schools and neighborhoods is not statistically significant for schools that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students.

Yet on key comparisons, especially by students» race, there is no statistically significant difference between the performance of kids in charter schools and traditional public schools.

Charter schools have higher normalized SAT scores than traditional schools: With respect to SAT scores, when we normalized the comparison between the LAUSD Alliance charter and LAUSD traditional schools under consideration to equalize the rate of test participation, we found that the Alliance charter students outperformed the LAUSD traditional students with average scores of 1417 vs. 1299 — a significant difference.

Attempting to show that even a well - managed school district can't close achievement gaps in student learning, McRae showed Fraisse data from the state Department of Education showing significant differences in test scores between African - American and Latino students and white students in some of the administrator's former school districts.

However, there was no significant difference in performance between pupils in «inadequate» and «requires improvement» schools.

In fact, the company says, in New York there was no significant test - score difference between students who attended private school on vouchers and those who stayed in public school.

Perhaps the most significant difference between primary school and secondary school teaching is the relationship between teachers and children.

Despite the potential benefits of Linked Learning, the authors argue that significant changes in policy and practice are necessary to overcome systemic and programmatic barriers such as traditional high school's master schedule, teacher and course «departmentalization,» and differences in teacher credentialing procedures and accountability policies between CTE and traditional academic tracks.

The significant difference between funding for charters that share space with traditional schools and charters located in private spaces sheds light on another divide within the charter sector.

So far, DfE hasn't provided a clear definition of what «fair funding» for schools would look like, focusing instead on a deficit model: the obvious unfairness of significant differences in funding between similar schools.

There are, however, significant differences between some of ESSA's requirements and some of the features of California's system of educational funding and school accountability and support.

Of the five states (Arizona, Florida, Ohio, California and Texas) that opened the greatest number of charter schools in the first 10 years of chartering, four posted negative student achievement results while the fifth (California) showed no significant difference between charter and traditional public school performance.

But Steve Lowder, superintendent of the Tigard - Tualatin School District, said there are significant differences between Mitch and Tigard - Tualatin schools.

When you come to writing of a college level essay you can understand that there lays a significant difference between the college essays and that ones you wrote during the school years.

Rankings for veterinary colleges are few and far between because there is a relatively small number of veterinary colleges in the U.S., and those schools tend to be set apart from each other by significant differences in specialty programs and facilities.

But the psychological difference between completing school with low debt (thanks to tuition grants) or high debts (albeit with a promise of loan forgiveness) proved significant.

In 2007, Professor Curcio gave her first - year Civil Procedure class five single - issue essay questions over the course of the semester.134 After students turned each assignment in, the professor provided an annotated model answer.135 In addition, the professor spent some class time discussing the models and providing time for self - and peer - edits.136 The students in Professor Curcio's class and in another Civil Procedure class then took the same final exam.137 Professor Curcio and the other professor graded all the exams from both classes.138 The results showed that students who practiced and received feedback performed better than those students who had not had the opportunity to practice and receive feedback.139 Most of the benefit, however, accrued to students who had above - the - median LSAT scores.140 For those students with below - the - median LSAT scores, the study found no statistically significant difference between scores of those who had received the feedback and those who had not.141 In 2010, the school's median LSAT was 161.142