The lower - spending half of successful districts spent 50 percent less than the higher - spending districts, proving that many good schools do quite well with much
less than other schools.
Put another way, it examines whether some schools have higher
achievement than other schools that serve similar students and attributes that achievement difference to the principal.
Top Driver offers more classes and driving
lessons than any other school, giving you the flexibility to choose the class that best fits your schedule.
Free school admissions policies and practices, which local authorities do not have to be involved with, can be less clear and
public than other schools bound by different laws.
And, 61 % of the students she worked with, enrolled at either a college or university, a significantly higher
percentage than other schools across the state.
«These figures indicate that deprived schools have to deal with greater levels of
turnover than other schools and see more of their staff leave the sector altogether,» he said.
Perhaps, the survey that these schools give to their teachers gives them the option to «not report» more
prominently than other schools, so they choose not to report.
The research is clear: Teacher quality affects student learning
more than any other school - based variable (issues such as income and parental education levels are external).
As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate
than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..
Graduates are well received in the profession; in a survey of employers of WGU graduates, for example, 100 percent of respondents believe the program prepared graduates equal to or
better than other schools of education.
«We welcome robust oversight of all schools, but it is also important to recognise that sponsored academies have been improving results
faster than other schools in some of the least well - off communities in our country.»
We were only able to obtain randomized lottery information from the College Prep campus, but data from a broader group of Noble high schools indicate they have higher college enrollment
rates than other schools with similar student populations.
Furthermore, in an initial survey of employers of WGU graduates, 100 percent of respondents believe the program prepared graduates equal to or better
than other schools of education.
Stuyvesant frequently produces more National Merit Scholars and semifinalists for the prestigious Intel Science
awards than any other school in the nation.
Extensive research conducted by Paul Black and Dylan William (summarized in «Inside the Black Box,» Phi Delta Kappan, Oct. 1998) concluded that the statistical effect size of formative assessment on outcome measures (including standardized tests) was equal to or
greater than any other school intervention, including smaller class sizes.
When there is no proof that academies improve children's education, certainly no more
than any other school with extra funding, and with several academies in special measures, it is particularly irresponsible to push more schools down this route.»
The research, based on results of around 550,000 pupils suggests that after ability and social background is taken into account, grammar schools are no more or less
effective than other schools.
To ensure that students are keeping up with the material, DoDEA schools administer more
tests than any other school system in the U.S., in third through 11th grades, Lambe said.
Researchers who have studied the Tennessee data, mainly former University of Tennessee professor William Sanders and his colleagues, found that the effectiveness of teachers has more of an influence on student achievement
than any other schooling factor.
«This school gave us a chance to blossom,» Gallagher said, adding, «I learned more in one year
here than my other school ever taught me.»
LA Unified has more charter
schools than any other school district in the nation, and an internal report presented this week had some interesting facts, including where most of them are located.
Because Seattle has more property per
student than any other school district in the State, Seattle can raise a lot of money through local levies even though the Rate per Thousand is also the lowest in the State.
But Schools Week's own analysis of the exclusion data has found that free schools are actually more likely to exclude
pupils than other schools.
We find little evidence that any New Orleans elementary schools differentiate themselves by offering more in - house support
staff than other schools.
Some of the secondary schools supported by City Challenge programmes subsequently became sponsored academies, but they did not improve significantly more
than other schools supported by the scheme, the researchers found.