Sentences with phrase «small subset of schools»

It also might suggest that the benefits of school choice are limited to students attending a small subset of schools that admit few voucher students.

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

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Whenever you talk about school food reform, it's entirely predictable that a small subset of commenters will ask why, if school meals are so inferior, kids don't just bring a PBJ and an apple from home.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

Cancer biologist Todd Golub at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues developed a way to identify small RNAs from more 200 cancer types and found that different types of cancer harbor different subsets of microRNAs.

It allows them to target consequences on a smaller subset of low - performing schools and move away from NCLB - era interventions that were largely ineffective, and states appear to be focusing their efforts on more promising interventions that target growth and effective practices.

The purpose of a standardized test is to provide us a comparable metric for a small subset of what schools are supposed to produce, and it's very valuable for that purpose.

What distinguishes this small subset of America's 20,000 public high schools is that they are academically selective.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

Small high schools send larger shares of students to college, new study says ChalkbeatNY: The multi-year study examines a subset of 123 «small schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administraSmall high schools send larger shares of students to college, new study says ChalkbeatNY: The multi-year study examines a subset of 123 «small schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administrasmall schools of choice» that opened between 2002 and 2008 with private funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration.

«Though a small subset of charter schools has pioneered school designs that radically innovate in the use...

From the school's perspective, this dissection of growth creates disincentives for focusing on a small subset of students whose performance hovers just below a single threshold.

The context of these representations make it appear to the reasonable consumer... that the jobs reported are full - time, permanent positions for which a law degree is required or preferred... [and that the John Marshall Law School] grossly inflates its graduates» reported mean salaries, by calculating them based on a small, deliberately selected subset of graduates who actually submit their salary information.