Sentences with phrase «than their private school peers»

Yet the average performance of students attending public school is significantly lower than their private school peers;

Not exact matches

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

This analysis (again the Newspeak) builds on a large body of program evaluations in Louisiana, Indiana, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., all of which show that students attending participating private schools perform significantly worse than their peers in public schools — especially in math.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

Although the federal government, states, school districts, and private foundations already have invested nearly $ 200 million in producing and rewarding National Board - certified teachers, this is the first study assessing whether the National Board has actually succeeded in identifying «expert» or «master» teachers who perform better than their uncertified peers.

Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study further demonstrates that students in private schools are more likely to participate in community service than are their peers in public schools.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

Minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

While younger students may have benefited slightly from the voucher program after one year, the older students who switched to private schools scored significantly lower than their public - school peers after one year.

Boston — Public - school teachers are far more likely to perceive student absenteeism, use of alcohol, and tardiness as serious problems at their schools than are their private - school peers.

On average in the three cities, African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored 6.3 percentile points higher than their peers in the control group on the reading portion of the test and 6.2 points higher on the math portion.

According to a study conducted by the UCL Institute of Education, private school pupils are more likely to have healthy habits in their adult life, than their state educated peers.

In response, choice proponents cite evidence that private school students are more civically engaged than their public school peers.

They include private - school vouchers, online courses and requiring third - graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or «social promotion.»

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

In fact, like most charter schools, even those in public - private partnerships, receive on average 30 % less per pupil than their traditional school peers whose management has no accountability or incentive to improve student outcomes.

Private voucher schools have 4 - 5 % higher proficiency in Reading and Math than their public school peers.

Wisconsin's private voucher and public charter schools receive, on average, $ 2,200 less in per pupil funding than their public school peers.

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

Results from a study conducted by a nonpartisan research team at the University of Arkansas showed that students in private - choice schools were more likely to graduate from high school than their peers at Milwaukee Public Sschools were more likely to graduate from high school than their peers at Milwaukee Public SchoolsSchools.

that students attending private schools thanks to this program have equal or better academic performance than their peers in the local public schools, and have significantly higher graduation rates.

One example is a report released last month by the Washington D.C. - based Urban Institute, which found students in a statewide private school choice program for four years or more are 40 percent more likely to enroll in college than their public - school peers.

Girls from top private schools three times more likely to suffer from drug or alcohol addictions in later life than their less affluent peers

These findings are consistent with studies of private school voucher programs in Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio, which have all revealed that students who use vouchers perform worse academically than their peers.

In Arizona, adopted children are eligible for education savings accounts, and children in foster care are eligible for private school scholarships (like homeless children, children in the foster care system also appear in crime and prison statistics at higher rates than their peers from intact families).

Researchers at Harvard and the Brookings Institution (where Ravitch used to be a fellow) found «minority students [in New York City] who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.»

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Three - fourths of schools involve peer educators to teach sexuality education; this is more common in public (92 %) than in private (61 %) schools.