Sentences with phrase «small number of schools»

However, this gain fell barely short of a conventional standard for statistical significance, likely due to the very small number of schools in this category (only nine).

Why did he not look into the charter schools whose leaders are paid $ 300,000 — $ 400,000 a year to oversee small numbers of schools and students?

However, we have since learned that a very small number of schools of education are beginning to introduce this mode of assessment.

Local authority sponsorships exist in other parts of the country, although only jointly with other partners and for smaller numbers of schools.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

So Catholics operated a relatively small number of schools, mostly in Maryland and Pennsylvania, states with traditions of religious toleration.

Labour's schools spokesman Ed Balls said: «Despite the over one thousand schools the education secretary claimed wanted to become academies and the emergency legislation railroaded through Parliament, only a very small number of schools have applied to be Tory - style academies.

The vast majority of registered faith schools in England have a Christian faith designation, but there are also a small number of schools with other faith designations - including Muslim, Jewish and Sikh.

Next year's regionals will involve only one game per day because of the smaller number of schools in each draw.

Kona Ice, which sells sugary shaved ice drinks; World's Finest Chocolate, a small number of school districts, and a company called TiFry that sells «a device that not only assists with reducing cooking oil consumption but will reduce calories in fried foods.»

«The same issue that affected other states caused the system in New York to experience sporadic technical issues at a small number of schools on Tuesday morning,» Emily DeSantis, spokeswoman for the state Education Department, said in a statement.

«The report confirms that even the most significant challenges schools have faced were surmountable and that the small number of schools continuing to face difficulties should learn from those that have implemented the policy well.

I use Maryland as an example due to its small number of school districts.

Until recently, only a small number of schools have had access to the high - powered geographical information system (GIS) software that enables detailed, layered mapping and analysis of data.

However, the conditions that must be met in order to use this approach make credible quasi-experimental studies possible for only a small number of school systems.

Though vague on how the city's choice system had contributed to the problem, the report implied that because a small number of schools were serving a disproportionate share of «high need» students, their likelihood of failure had increased.

The data suggest that in many districts, school choice has increased the likelihood that the neediest children — special education students, English language learners, homeless children, and others who are typically low - achieving — will be concentrated in a small number of schools.

«The jurisdictions who are continuing with that trial have committed to work closely with officials in terms of technological issues to make sure any and all issues are resolved to their satisfaction so the small number of schools participating in the trial can have absolute confidence that it will work and be successful this year.»

Across the country, a small number of schools and districts are modifying or extending the academic year.

The scoping study enabled us to trial an approach in a small number of schools engaged with Greenhouse Sports.

A small number of schools that serve only middle - school grades were not included in this study.

The small number of schools that remain under the bureaucratic control of the OPSB play a notable role in the school market.

Recently, the Core Knowledge Foundation has been piloting precisely such a language - arts program in a small number of schools in New York City and elsewhere.

However, due to the non-random nature of the comparison and the small number of schools involved it is difficult to draw conclusions with this.

However, even with the most sophisticated statistical approaches, for some subjects and grades the ability to differentiate among educators may allow only a small number of schools and teachers to be identified as being different from the average educator.

The problem, as critics such as Robert Maynard Hutchins, E. D. Hirsch Jr., and Diane Ravitch have repeatedly shown, is that apart from a small number of schools serving highly motivated, well - to - do students, progressive education has rarely fulfilled its pedagogical promise.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

A: According to Brad Carl, associate director and researcher at the Value - Added Research Center at UW - Madison, Utah and New Hampshire in recent years were allowed to provide multiple tests on a trial basis for a small number of school districts.

Our research shows that while a small number of schools were able to avoid the worst effects of recent budget cuts, belts continued to tighten at schools with more economically disadvantaged students.

Lenon told Schools Week that more than half of those schools were in a «very bad position» when they were taken over and it was «unfair» to judge the small number of schools on the basis of only 18 months of improvement work.

If a small number of schools have an issue, all charters tend to be grouped together in how they are reported on in the media.

There is a small number of school districts around the country that have development offices.

He said the system should have been tried first in a small number of schools.

Certainly the Labour model seemed more aggressively about turnaround, with more resources, and more scrutiny, due to the smaller numbers of schools involved.

The government is condemning children to learn in dilapidated buildings, claims Labour, with only a small number of schools due to be rebuilt this year.

In response to the Ofsted report, Birmingham local government officials and politicians accused Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, of deliberately misrepresenting problems of governance in a small number of schools by associating them with a wider threat of Islamist extremism.

Instead the board offered replacement questions for the papers to be sat in a small number of schools and colleges.

Some groups that are pressing for changes in the state's school funding system represent the interests of a small number of school districts that see themselves as somehow «unfairly» impacted by the state's recapture provisions.

A small number of schools carry out tests for aptitude in a particular subject, such as music and sport, but are not - apart from existing grammar schools - supposed to test on the basis of ability.

And «because states are only using chronic absenteeism as a small portion of the accountability system, the incentives for cheating may not be strong,» though «past experience with evaluation systems suggests that a small number of schools will resort to unscrupulous means.»

Mr Courtney added: «The NUT maintains that the free school policy has diverted funds into a small number of schools and prevented Local Authorities opening schools where most needed.

«Now, this of course, comes from a school district that gets hundreds of millions of dollars from New Jersey state taxpayers every year because of a failed, and I believe, unconstitutional court requirement that we put disproportionate funds into a small number of school districts,» he said.

This decision impacts a small number of schools (6) but has significant impact on students in those schools being able to access all the benefits promised by the tax measure.

However, the initial intention, according to Pinkston, was to target a small number of schools that needed the most attention and to conduct a temporary leadership change in those schools, «not to occupy them in perpetuity.»