Sentences with phrase «than large schools»

Small schools put way more pressure on teachers to pass kids than large schools do.

He also pointed to a series of studies that showed some substantial gains at New York City's small schools, which operate on the premise that they can give more attention to struggling students than the large schools they replace.

Richard Kahan, founder and chief executive officer of the Urban Assembly, a network of 20 small high schools and middle schools in the city, said he knew that students were doing better in small schools than large schools, but was still surprised by how positive the results were in the study.

In true small schools, students are absent much less, drop out at nearly half the rate, have higher grade - point averages, and improve reading scores by almost a half - year grade equivalency more than large schools, noted Educational Leadership magazine.

Small schools are not necessarily more expensive than large schools.

But it does show that small high schools, if properly designed, work better in big cities than large schools do.

Are small schools better than large schools?

Smaller schools have proven to be more effective than larger schools, especially with poor children.

At Southern the smaller schools of religious education and church music probably offer closer - knit community experience and potentially put a whole educational experience together better than the larger school of theology.

As a result, schools in the smallest decile were much more likely to be among the top 25 schools at some point over the period: Even though their mean gains were not statistically different, the smallest schools were 23 times more likely to win a top - 25 award than the largest schools.

Research has consistently demonstrated that smaller schools have much higher rates of extracurricular participation among students than larger schools.

«The challenge is that this is a very complex city — much more so than some larger school districts.

Making individual schools or smaller networks of schools the drivers of change (rather than large school systems) has been one of the themes of the charter movement and a voucher program would likely reinforce that philosophy.

Providing smaller classes does help children focus more than a larger school class setting.

Not exact matches

«To a large extent globally, rather than just the US, there's still an awful lot of experimentation for schools, and in education broadly, to get a grasp on which OS is most appropriate,» Blaber said.

The current cohort at the University of Alberta's MBA in natural resources, energy and environment is 10 % larger than the previous one, while the school's Fort McMurray MBA for oilsands workers is up nearly 35 %.

Some are larger than others, and if you're planning on bringing the notebook to school, work, or business meetings, then you'll want to ensure that it's the right size for your needs.

At Chicago, «Ted» Snyder oversaw the move to the school's new Hyde Park campus, brought in the largest donation to any business school in the world — a $ 300 million gift from alumnus David Booth and his family — tripled scholarship assistance to students, and more than doubled the school's endowment.

More than 16,000 undergraduates participate in the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program where students alternate school and work terms, gaining experience with employers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

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Top American schools are also welcoming first years from a larger segment of nations than ever.

Women are heading to business school in larger numbers than ever before, and at younger ages to boot.

Today HighWired.com is the world's largest online community of high schools, with more than 10,000 from 50 states and 65 countries.

Most large metro areas have more than one research university, but not all claim highly ranked engineering or management schools.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students School District (LASUD)-- the second - largest school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students school district in the country — closed its more than 900 campuses and 187 public charter schools Tuesday after receiving an electronic bomb threat, keeping about 640,000 students out...

A great clarifying sheet mask for acne - prone skin, this one from Too Cool for School specifically targets larger - than - you'd - like pores and excess sebum.

, the state pension plan does, too, and school districts, towns and villages, and other participants get a larger - than - normal bill.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

Leverage old - school PR tactics to make friends with people who have a way larger audience than your own.»

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

YogaFit is the largest yoga fitness education school in the world with more than 200,000 instructors trained on six continents specifically designed for presentation in health clubs, fitness facilities or other group exercise locations.

While studying at INSEAD, one of the world's largest graduate business schools, Griffiths saw an opportunity to create a product that did more than the existing options on the market.

The iShares MSCI USA Small - Cap ESG Optimized ETF (ESML) is part of iShares» larger ESG ETF family, which, in the wake of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, has altered its methodology to entirely exclude makers of civilian firearms or any retailer that earns more than $ 20 million or 5 % of their total revenue from the sale of civilian firearms.

By and large theological schools are still bogged down in traditional academic concerns designed more to produce scholars than strategists.

Plans are afoot to build a «temple school» for the training of new church leaders, but no major expansion of the church is presently contemplated even though, with a current membership of 213,399, the Reorganization is larger than it has ever been.

I grew up with over 30 % of my high school being muslim, with the largest Mosque in the States being just a few miles away, and with students learning more Arabic in high school than spanish.

As I noted in the first chapter, the proposal is a contribution to a larger, ongoing conversation about what is more frequently called «theological education» than it is called «theological schooling.»

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

We send eighteen - year - olds off to college rather than to professional schools, and, for a large part of four years, students take classes in subjects with no obvious relevance to their future jobs.

In the Warta district members of the hierarchy were brutally beaten, the clergy were decimated in a frightful manner, seminars, numerous establishments of religious orders and all Catholic schools and associations were abolished, ecclesiastical property was expropriated, sisters were driven - from their convents, churches in large part were closed, wayside crosses and shrines were destroyed, Polish inscriptions on gravestones were effaced and loyalty to religion was made extremely difficult and was ridiculed in every conceivable manner and more than three million Polish Catholics were left completely outside the pale of the law and were at the mercy of the despotic whims of the National Socialists.

Whether larger and less rigorously Catholic state schools would be motivated to find a solution rather than capitulating is more of a worry.

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

«This year, more so than ever, the largest schools are calling us,» he says, noting that they want the company's level of quality and expertise on allergens.

Foodbank is also the largest supporter of school breakfast programs in Australia, providing food for 1,750 schools nationally (both directly and via programs run by other organisations) to more than 100,000 students on a regular basis.

Mom and I arrived earlier than most, and as the other kids arrived, they looked like ants trudging into the band room from the parking lot, emerging shortly after carrying their instruments to the front of the school where five large charter buses sat waiting.

During the last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these schools will be host sites to the largest high school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th year will include more than 160 teams.