So, for example,
statewide study in Florida by Robert baufin showed a relationship, a correlation, between kids who are suspended even just one time in ninth grade and a doubling of their risk for dropping out from 16 % to 32 %.
In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but
a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.
This isn't going to stop Congress from reauthorizing and re-funding the program, mind you, but it's already been seized on by voucher haters and added to a spate of recent
statewide studies in Louisiana, Ohio, and Indiana that found little or no gain for the voucher kids.
² These findings are consistent with those of
statewide studies in North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Not exact matches
A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26
In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.
In a similar
study from Connecticut, which passed a
statewide paid sick days law
in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.
in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective
in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.
in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses
in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.
in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28
Faribault is participating
in statewide and international energy efficiency
studies that will use the company's plant operations as a model for future sustainable manufacturing facilities, King says.
But that
study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program
in 15 schools
statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
At 1 p.m., Sen. David Carlucci calls for a
statewide study of level grade rail crossings
in the wake of the deadly Metro - North crash
in Valhalla, 11 Orchard St., Nanuet.
«Latino candidates have been successful
in enclaves but at a
statewide level, it's not clear to me that they can mobilize enough votes to win,» said Venator - Santiago, who also holds an appointment at UConn's Institute for Latino / a, Caribbean, and Latin American
Studies.
This major
study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an
in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a
statewide level and
in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.
According to a 2006
study by the Local Government Education Committee, a municipal training organization, roughly 14 percent of voters
statewide participated
in school elections
in May of 2006.
Thomas Tafuri, land records chairman of the New York State Land Title Association, said that while he had no
statewide study, he was certain that Nassau's closing costs will be the highest
in the metropolitan region of New York City, Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau.
The
study finds half of minimum wage workers over 35 years old, and
statewide 70 percent are older than 25, 80 percent
in New York City.
Economic development officials
in Lake Placid and the surrounding region earlier this year put forth a proposal to
study a new Olympic bid as part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 1.5 billion Upstate Revitalization Initiative, a plus - sized version of the annual
statewide competition for grants and other forms of aid.
A
study released by the office of state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman found microbeads
in three - quarters of the samples collected from wastewater treatment plants
statewide.
The results of a 11 - year
study of the impact of
statewide field triage changes to Maryland's helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) were published online
in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Jenerette and others have
studied local NOx emissions from soils
in California, but no
statewide assessment existed.
All had their operations with surgical teams taking part
in Michigan's
statewide bariatric surgery quality initiative, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, which is directed by
study coauthor Amir Ghaferi, M.D., M.S. and co-directed by the
study's senior author Jonathan Finks, M.D..
«We need to be aware that brain injury is a risk factor, but parents shouldn't keep their kids out of sports because they fear a concussion will lead to dementia,» said Dr. Munro Cullum, a neuropsychologist who oversaw the
study and is leading the nation's largest
statewide effort to track concussions
in youth sports.
According to Aggarwal, the Michigan
study is the first to examine
in - hospital mortality related to a
statewide smoking ban.
Miami Beach
in particular has become a poster child for the effects of climate change, with some
studies making grim predictions of a 5 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century and others suggesting that up to $ 23 billion of existing property
statewide could be underwater by 2050.
• A
study of the ACT (which is administered
statewide)
in Illinois found test strategies and item practice did not improve student performance, but coursework did.
We haven't had the opportunity to
study those questions
in the United States when it comes to a private school choice program operating at scale, at least until very recently, when you had
statewide programs adopted
in Indiana and Louisiana.
As I wrote
in our
study of data use
in New York City, we need to move beyond either / or dichotomies that pit classroom information against district or
statewide data:
New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to
study a foreign language and pass a
statewide test
in it before leaving sixth grade.
A task force
studying educational improvement
in Nebraska has called for a long list of reforms, including a new school - finance formula, far more state aid for schools, higher pay and longer contracts for teachers, a master - teacher program, and the establishment of
statewide high - school graduation requirements.
The 55 urban districts
in the
study showed more progress
in mathematics than
in reading on
statewide tests.
The
study found that after multimedia technology was used to support project - based learning, eighth graders
in Union City, New Jersey, scored 27 percentage points higher than students from other urban and special needs school districts on
statewide tests
in reading, math, and writing achievement.
A 1992 to 1995
study of 371 schools
in North Carolina found that students who attended schools with blocked schedules scored at least equal to and slightly higher
in some subjects on end - of - course
statewide tests than did students
in non-blocked schools.
Texas was
studied in the issue paper because the state exemplifies a national trend toward using
statewide exams as a basis for high - stakes educational decisions.
The
study, «The Louisiana Scholarship Program,» by Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, finds that the transfers resulting from the LSP vouchers
statewide «overwhelmingly improve integration
in the public schools students leave (the sending schools), bringing the racial composition of the schools closer to that of the broader communities
in which they are located.»
[4] It is a
statewide program and almost 10,000 students applied
in its first year, making it considerably larger than the DC program, which averaged about 600 eligible applicants a year during the three years when students were enrolled
in the
study sample.
In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adult
In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school,
in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adult
in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a)
In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adult
In their final year, the students
in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adult
in the
study's four California case
study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers
statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep —
in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adult
in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.
Johns Hopkins and Old Dominion universities have
studied our
statewide implementations
in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and have found that students
in schools led by NISL - trained principals outperform their peers at matched schools
in both math and English language arts as demonstrated on state tests.
The latest
study focuses on six Boston schools that,
in an earlier analysis, were found to produce large improvements
in students» performance
in the
statewide standardized test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System.
The few
studies from a measurement perspective that are available on new
statewide assessments (e.g., Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona) do not distinguish among reading, language arts, and mathematics
in design or analyses, making it difficult for literacy educators to interpret the implications for curriculum, instruction, or research.
Using
statewide longitudinal data, the
study analyzes dual - credit participation rates by race / ethnicity, gender and math and reading achievement on state tests and examines differences
in outcomes for dual - credit participants and nonparticipants.
In a study of the Alaska Statewide Mentorship Program, our researchers and evaluators found that new teachers who were provided with experienced mentors were more likely than their peers to still be on the job after three years — and students in their classrooms were performing better in math and readin
In a
study of the Alaska
Statewide Mentorship Program, our researchers and evaluators found that new teachers who were provided with experienced mentors were more likely than their peers to still be on the job after three years — and students
in their classrooms were performing better in math and readin
in their classrooms were performing better
in math and readin
in math and reading.
No one has
studied the largest, single
statewide program
in the nation... until now.
However, case
studies and state - level analyses have shown that zero - tolerance policies, for example, are not reducing problem behaviors
in schools.4 In fact, an analysis in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementatio
in schools.4
In fact, an analysis in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementatio
In fact, an analysis
in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementatio
in Tennessee found that drug and violent offenses actually increased
in the first three years of statewide zero - tolerance policy implementatio
in the first three years of
statewide zero - tolerance policy implementation.
In its 10th Year, the Leadership Academy is funded by a
statewide Teacher Center grant to be a Learning Community
studying Leadership.Its mission is to empower individuals to realize their professional and personal leadership capacity through learning together, enhancing individual and group skills, and to set and achieve goals that advance distributive leadership within the New York State Teacher Centers» Organization.
Given that the LSP is the first
statewide voucher program systematically
studied (other rigorously
studied programs serve smaller samples of students
in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;
Across that period, charter schools
statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the
study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days
in reading and 63
in math each year.
However, a recent major
study of the
statewide Louisiana voucher program found that, after two years, students
in the program had actually lost ground
in both reading and math.
A 2009
study she conducted of third -, fourth - and fifth - graders
in Michigan found that students reported being significantly more anxious when taking
statewide assessments compared to other classroom tests.
This
study found the percentage of students scoring «Proficient or Above» on standardized Language Arts and Mathematics Mississippi Curriculum Tests, Grade 4 Mississippi Writing Assessment Tests, and 5th Grade Mississippi Science Tests was significantly higher at schools participating
in the Whole Schools Initiative that had effectively implemented the WSI integration model when compared to student performance
statewide and when compared to district level student performance for the school district within which the WSI school was located.
One of the most talked - about education
studies in recent months is a new working paper on the effects of Louisiana's
statewide voucher program during its first year of operation.
A new comprehensive
study shows that Maryland is a national leader
in implementing an educator evaluation system
statewide.
In 2013, a statewide commission charged with studying public school funding recommended that the state adopt a weighted, three - tiered structure that looks much like the New York one, and there are now bills in the state Senate and House that call for implementing this structur
In 2013, a
statewide commission charged with
studying public school funding recommended that the state adopt a weighted, three - tiered structure that looks much like the New York one, and there are now bills
in the state Senate and House that call for implementing this structur
in the state Senate and House that call for implementing this structure.
She was principal investigator and project director of the Texas School Dropout Survey Project, the first
statewide study of dropouts
in Texas.