Sentences with phrase «substantial positive impact»

Contact: Jennifer de Vallance, [phone] WASHINGTON, DC — February 27, 2013 — A report released today by Mathematica Policy Research shows that Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) middle schools have significant and substantial positive impacts on student achievement in four core academic subjects: reading, math, science, and social studies.

The substantial positive impacts of charter high schools on attainment and earnings are especially striking, given that charter schools in the same jurisdictions have not been shown to have large positive impacts on students» test scores (Sass, 2006; Zimmer et al., 2012)....

Participating in the voucher program * had a substantial positive impact on parents» views of school safety but not on students» actual school experiences with dangerous activities.

Graduation rates have been studied less often, but the available evidence indicates a substantial positive impact. . . .

The Afterschool Centers on Education Program — the Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers program — has had a substantial positive impact on the student performance of hundreds of thousands of students across Texas over the past few years.

Installment accounts that are years old have a substantial positive impact on consumer credit scores.

Even a change to Woman's Day or New Idea would probably still have a substantial positive impact.

i) Restructuring: A restoration of the division's historical margins could add over 7 percentage points to the company's overall operating margins (which would have a substantial positive impact on intrinsic value, under any Scenario!)

«The project is a great example of funding being provided for technologies that can have a substantial positive impact on the British economy and environment by nurturing sustainable, knowledge based, domestic manufacturing in the vitally important offshore wind energy sector.»

First, observational data suggest that neighborhood poverty is associated with the inconsistency of maternal parenting practices within the home (5, 6), and the strongest findings based on a randomized voucher experiment in the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program (7) show that moving to neighborhoods with relatively low poverty rates has a substantial positive impact on caregivers» mental health.

What I learned: The field is positioned to have a substantial positive impact on teaching and learning and on student success in school and life.