Sentences with phrase «similar peers in district schools»

Stanford University researchers comparing charter school students» growth with that of similar peers in district schools found a striking charter school advantage in most cities.

Not exact matches

Or it may be that demographics matter because changes in the demographic composition of local school districts increase the desire among families to sort students into similar peer groups.

In his new study, Boosting the Quality and Efficiency of Special Education, he and his team identified school districts that get similar (or superior) results for special - education students as their peer districts, yet do so at significantly lower cost.

First, CTBA cites a longitudinal study of Milwaukee's voucher program by researchers at the University of Arkansas, claiming that voucher students in grades 3 - 8 «performed statistically similar» to a matched group of district - school peers on standardized tests.

A recent Stanford study (PDF) found that public charters in Washington, D.C. and New York substantially outperformed similar district schools, while public charters in Nevada and Texas lagged far behind their district peers.

Former Baltimore city schools CEO Andres Alonso decided to have the district join TUDA so city students could be measured against peers in districts of similar size and demographics.

Today, we begin a series of case studies that provide in - depth looks at how districts, charter schools, and other programs have begun using Opportunity Culture models or experimented with similar means of expanding teachers» impact on students and peer teachers.

The meeting offers collaboration with other leading school districts tackling similar challenges; an opportunity to build relationships with peers in similar roles across the country and Truenorthlogic leadership; and, training to help get the most value from using Truenorthlogic's solutions.

For the purposes of the brief, we operationalized access and equity as follows: to evaluate access, we examined districts» choice and recruitment policies and assessed the degree to which pathways were representative of their districts» high school student populations; to evaluate equity, we compared academic outcomes for Linked Learning student subgroups with those of similar peers in traditional high school settings.

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