Sentences with phrase «slightly higher performing schools»

«They couldn't go much lower in terms of school achievement, so it's not surprising that displaced students attended slightly higher performing schools, but if you look at how much higher performing, not a lot,» explained Kori Stroub, a researcher with Rice University who co-authored the research brief with Meredith Richards, an assistant professor at Southern Methodist University.

In using a regression - discontinuity design (comparing schools that received the SIG treatment to slightly higher performing schools that did not receive the treatment), the authors were not able to generate a sample size that would be sensitive to positive significant effects that, in my mind, could be considered a success.

Not exact matches

While the experimental public schools showed slightly higher levels of academic growth than traditional schools overall, the number of students performing at grade level was lower than the state average.

An analysis of 27 school closures from 2003 to 2010 in HISD found that school closures disproportionately displaced black and poor students, and «while students generally transferred to slightly more advantaged and academically higher - performing schools, few transferred to HISD's highest - performing schools.»

Putting aside, for the moment, the evidence that some charter schools get better results because they are «creaming off the highest performing students» and therefore naturally have slightly higher test schools, there is a much more profound and important question.

In talking about strategies to reduce the achievement gap, Anderson said Fulton County gives slightly less money but more autonomy to its high performing schools.