Sentences with phrase «than schools with»

Many schools that have high sticker prices also have significant amounts of student aid and could be cheaper for you to attend than schools with much lower sticker prices.

In some cases, the dashboard gives schools with lower overall performance better ratings than schools with higher achieving students.

Data showed that «schools that measured strong in all five supports were at least 10 times more likely than schools with just one or two strengths to achieve substantial gains in reading and math.

As noted in the 2015 Texas Equity Plan, «schools with high concentrations of minority students and students living in poverty have higher percentages of inexperienced teachers than schools with low concentrations of those students.

Why do some cities, like Newark and Columbus, have high numbers of schools that «beat the odds» by performing better than schools with similar demographics?

Vladovic said he analyzed data from the last three years that showed schools without Title III coaches who train teachers who teach English learners did just as well or better on reclassifying English learners than schools with coaches.

A 1999 U.S. Department of Education study found that schools with more than 1,000 students had far higher rates of violent student behavior than schools with fewer than 300 students, and teachers and students in small schools were far less likely to be victims of crime.

It just means better performance than schools with the same subgroups of students.

Education Trust West, a nonprofit think tank that opposes «last - in, first - out» policies, calculated that impoverished schools are 65 percent more likely to have a teacher laid off than schools with few low - income students.

A report by the National College for School Leadership into «hard» federations (groups of maintained schools with shared governance) found that schools in federations performed better than schools with apparently similar characteristics that had not federated.

«This research shows that positive gains by Renewal schools were not better than schools with similar demographics,» said Jonah Rockoff, an education researcher at Columbia University who has studied New York City schools in the past and reviewed Pallas's data.

Students from high schools with a larger number of low income students (more than 50 % eligible for free or reduced price lunch) had lower college enrollment rates than schools with mostly higher income students, regardless of the minority or geographic category that the school fell into.

Schools enrolling a greater percentage of black students exhibit higher suspension rates for black students than schools with fewer black students.

As we just saw, schools serving adolescents are prone to more suspensions than schools with younger children.

Department of Education officials said the new superintendents led schools that achieved significantly better results than schools with similar populations in their districts.

Additionally, schools that had a larger share of FTC students and were therefore more financially dependent on the FTC program had a smaller positive effect on low - income students» college - going rates than schools with a smaller percentage of FTC students.

Do you have a school in your district that is beating the odds, recording higher attendance rates than schools with similar student populations?

The results suggest that elementary schools with no bilingual - education enrollment score six points higher in reading and three points higher in math than schools with all their English Learners enrolled in bilingual education.

States can focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.

In other words, schools with more veteran teachers before the creation of the ERI program experienced much larger changes in teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teachers.

Because curriculum varies from state to state and from community to community, a school with a curriculum that aligns with the test will fare better than a school with a curriculum that does not.

A school with low proficiency rates for English language learners needs a different kind of support and strategy than a school with low growth rates in 7th and 8th grade math for all students.

Impressively, attending the school with the strongest civic climate (where 85 percent of students listed voting as a component of good citizenship) rather than the school with the weakest civic climate (where 46 percent chose voting) increased anticipated participation by a quarter of a standard deviation, or by about twice the effect of the individual student's having listed voting as a component of good citizenship.

Similarly, of two schools with similar academic achievement, a state could choose to focus limited resources for CSI on a school with poor SQSS outcomes rather than a school with positive SQSS outcomes, since the latter school may be on a road to improvement while the former is not.

For example, the underrepresented students or certain subgroups which would normally cause a school to miss AYP will not count against the school in the same fashion because the school as a whole would appear to perform better than a school with a larger subgroup population not making AYP.

That is, a school with more low - income students had lower - ranking teachers than a school with a wealthier student body in the same district.

If your son is an aspiring football player, than a school with great athletic facilities and coaching staffs will be a top priority.

Arguably, it is easier for a parent to discern that a school with 90 percent of its students on grade level is «better» than a school with only 50 percent of its students performing on grade level.

Not exact matches

I'd like to say I was smarter than my competitors, but I competed with guys who went to the Ivy League schools and they went to Harvard and Yale and Wharton over the years,» he says.

People today are entering the startup realm with far more formal education and experience in entrepreneurship than ever before, and they're doing so from many of the following schools whose degrees in entrepreneurship you might not have heard about yet:

A hybrid of «Oakland» and «Amsterdam,» the organization is much more than a school, it's a movement, replete with a museum, club, and other amenities that make it prime for learning.

With 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a sWith 6,900 employers associated with the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a swith the school — more than any other university in Canada — there's a good chance you'll find a spot.

Education debt is supposed to help you get a job with a better salary than you would get with a high school diploma.

With more MBA programs than ever before serving a record number of students — about 10,000 students are registered in Canadian MBA programs this year, up from 4,800 in 1998 — specialization has become a defining trend, helping schools compete for the best students, and graduates compete for the best jobs.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

According to a study from the Harvard Business School, guests with «distinctly African - American names» were 16 % more likely to be rejected by prospective hosts than guests with distinctly white names.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

• Pearson, a U.K. - based educational materials provider, is in talks with a consortium of Asian private equity houses to sell its English - language school unit for more than $ 350 million, according to the Financial Times.

Eighty - six percent of employed millennial college graduates are more likely than those with a high school diploma or less to say they have found a «career.»

As Bloomberg notes, rival apparel companies like Under Armour (UA) and Adidas (ADS) are likely to enter the bidding for the lucrative Texas contract — which could be worth more than $ 15 million per year — once it comes up for grabs, which means Nike will face some fierce competition if it wants to keep doing business with the school.

Most parents are aware that over the course of an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $ 1 million less than those with a bachelor's degree and are 50 percent more likely to be unemployed.

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.

This past summer, more students than ever spurned traditional summer internships to pursue their own startup dreams, sometimes with the funding and encouragement of their business schools.

Why do those with besties end up better off than those who win high school popularity contests?

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The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more than 12,000 children, with 95 % of high school seniors going off to college.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

We spend more time with the people we work with than almost anyone else, but nothing in school or family really prepares you to handle those business relationships.

With just 10 employees, Chalk.com is used in more than 20,000 schools worldwide and by 100,000 teachers.

For years, some business schools have gotten away with just providing a textbook education but companies are looking for more than facts and figures.