Sentences with phrase «universities than state schools»

Not exact matches

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

With more than 35 years of experience, Clean Harbors performs a wide range of environmental and emergency services for State government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United StState government clients, including state - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United Ststate - run schools, colleges and universities, across the United States.

Each year more than 1.7 million visitors download more than 7 million documents from this site, including requests from more than 400 colleges, universities and schools of theology in the United States, and another 200 throughout the world.

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.

University of Washington quarterback Jake Browning and USC linebacker Cameron Smith have more in common than being All - American candidates and coming from high schools in the Sacramento area who were on teams that won CIF state championships.

Some babies with sensory feeding aversions suck 100 times less frequently during a feeding than typical babies, states Dr. Irene Chatoor, a professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine, as published on the Zero to Three website.

ALBANY - ALBANY — Setting up a budget fight on education, the Democrat - led state Assembly said Thursday it opposed Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's call for a tuition hike at state universities and favored boosting aid to K - 12 schools by $ 2.1 billion — more than double the increase the governor suggested.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

More than half of the state's public college and university students are attending school tuition free, thanks to a combination of grants and scholarships.

Meanwhile, licensing rules in most states do little more than «screen out the bottom few who can't master the English language or are badly schooled,» says Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65 - to 69 - year - old women and African - American women, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published in the journal Cancer.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

While most of these «low access» counties are located in the Mountain - West and Midwest regions, the findings of a recent study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania also reveal that 47 states have at least one county located more than 50 miles from the nearest gynecologic oncologist.

Women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a common hormone condition that contributes to infertility and metabolic problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, tend to have less diverse gut bacteria than women who do not have the condition, according to researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with colleagues at Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland and San Diego State University.

Researchers at São Paulo State University's Botucatu Medical School (FMB - UNESP) detected MetS in 57.8 % of the women analyzed with vitamin D insufficiency (20 - 29 nanograms per milliliter of blood) or deficiency (less than 20 ng / ml) and in only 39.8 % of participants with sufficient vitamin D (30 ng / ml or more).

Recreational and / or medicinal use of marijuana is now legal in more than half of U.S. states, researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said.

Charter schools are more racially isolated than regular public schools in practically every state and large urban area in the United States, says a report released by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California, Los Angeles.

New research published by the Oxford Review of Education suggests students who attended state schools are a third more likely to get a top degree at a leading university than their independently educated counterparts with similar A-level results.

Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of the university admissions service, has said research shows that state schools are better than private schools at preparing preparing students for the «new economy».

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of mentoring both on and off campus, while also gauging the adequacy of existing support at individual schools.

Florida Gulf Coast University graduates did very slightly better than St. Petersburg graduates, while the remaining schools very closely resembled Florida State.

Researcher Douglas Gentile, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University, in Ames, found that pathological gamers were more likely to report trouble paying attention at school, received lower grades in school, and had more health problems than nonpathological gamers.

The report's authors, Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Allison Gilmour of Vanderbilt, studied teacher ratings in roughly half of the more than three dozen states with new evaluation systems and found that a median of 2.7 percent of teachers were rated unsatisfactory, even though principals they surveyed in one large urban school system suggested that there were more low performing teachers than that in their schools.

On average, fewer than half of the American Indian and Alaska Native students in 12 states graduate from high school, says a report released last month by the Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles of the University of California, Los Angeles.

The massive survey of more than 18,000 teachers — one - third of those in the State — was conducted by the University of Sydney's Business School, the School of Education and the New South Wales Teachers Federation.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

Parental Involvment Still Important for High Schoolers The Pitt News, 11/23/2014 «The research team, which consists of Wang, Tara Hofkens, a graduate researcher in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center, and [Professor] Nancy E. Hill, a professor of education at Harvard University, asked more than 1,400 families in the Eastern region of the United States about how involved the parents were in the school lives of their teenagers.»

CJ Pascoe, a professor at Colorado State University, spent more than a year observing boys in a high school in California's Central Valley, a conservative district some of the locals describe as «right out of Iowa.»

Although they're «schools of choice,» they are operated in more top - down fashion by districts, states, or sometimes universities rather than as freestanding and self - propelled institutions under their states» charter laws.

I come from a family of more than a dozen public school educators, state directors, principals and even a president of a large state university....

In one study, Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, found that in observations of 700 preschool classrooms across 11 states, teachers in less than 15 percent of the classes demonstrated «effective teacher - student interactions.»

A 2003 survey of urban public - school superintendents that one of us (Fuller) conducted for the University of Washington found that more than two - thirds of the administrators in states with collective bargaining said union contracts impede reform.

State universities can charter schools anywhere in the state, and they have issued more than 80 percent of the charters in MichState universities can charter schools anywhere in the state, and they have issued more than 80 percent of the charters in Michstate, and they have issued more than 80 percent of the charters in Michigan.

In a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers Atila Abdulkadiroglu of Duke University, Parag Pathak of MIT, and Christopher Walters of the University of California at Berkeley found that students who received a voucher through the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) during the 2012 - 13 school year were 50 percent more likely to receive a failing score on the state math test than students who applied for but did not receive a voucher.

In a few short years, middle schoolers would go from Growing Up Forgotten, the title of a 1977 report by the Ford Foundation, to being what David Hough, then director of the Institute for School Improvement at Missouri State University and managing editor of the Middle Grades Research Journal, described as «studied, researched, and analyzed with a greater degree of exuberance and sophistication than ever before.»

You can use your Smarter Balanced high school scores at more than 240 colleges and universities in 10 states to determine whether you are ready for credit - bearing courses.

This summer, a Stanford University study estimated students in 37 percent of the nation's charter schools have performed worse on state standardized tests than their peers in typical public - school districts.

While the city is nearly certain to reach the limit of the number of charter schools it can approve this year, the State University of New York can still approve more than a dozen new charter schools.

Some LA Unified school board members want to raise graduation requirements to require at least a C in college prep classes, undoing a vote of the previous board to lower the requirement to a D. For the Class of 2016, less than half of graduates were eligible for the University of California and California State University systems, which require a C in those classes.

Charter schools — which are publicly funded but independently operated — are no exception, and researchers from Pennsylvania State University and University of California Los Angeles have found that in some states, these schools are more segregated than traditional public schools.

Such bills would cut funding for charters serving elementary - and middle - school grades, or subject charters to onerous state - approval processes for facilities, or eliminate the charter - friendly State University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union lstate - approval processes for facilities, or eliminate the charter - friendly State University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union lState University as a chartering entity - or set artificial caps on charter enrollment in areas such as Albany, where parental interest in charters is far higher than the union likes.

An estimated 150 teachers, school administrators, parents and others from around the state came to the conference at the University of Washington Tacoma to learn about charters, which are public schools that permit significant decisions to be made at a school level, rather than by a school district or state officials.

Alarm bells went off among Mayor Greg Ballard's staff Dec. 3 when Virginia - based Imagine Schools issued an arcane press release announcing its Imagine - West charter school in Indianapolis would be overseen by Trine University rather than by Ball State University.

Students in Ohio's burgeoning full - time online charter schools perform far worse on state assessments than similar students in brick - and - mortar charter and regular schools, according to a new study from researchers at New York University and the RAND Corporation.

«In her blog, Weingarten states, «A well - regarded Stanford University study found that charter school students were doing only slightly better in reading than students in traditional public schools, but at the same time doing slightly worse in math.»

UCF is the largest producers of teachers in the state; the university's education school enrolls more than 2,000 students.

National University recommends more teachers for credentials than any other single institution in California and holds more K - 12 teacher training contracts with elementary and secondary school districts than any other university in University recommends more teachers for credentials than any other single institution in California and holds more K - 12 teacher training contracts with elementary and secondary school districts than any other university in university in the state.

Now, more than 50 years later, the state has more than 650 charter schools, a statewide Florida Virtual School, university lab schools and online education options operating in every school disSchool, university lab schools and online education options operating in every school disschool district.

«Turnaround» schools (SPI Lowest 5 %, Graduation Rates Lower than 60 %, or Schools currently receiving School Improvement Grants) would be subject to «aggressive turnaround interventions» and inclusion in a «Commissioner's Network»; then could face takeover by the State, and / or State - mandated operation of public schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.schools (SPI Lowest 5 %, Graduation Rates Lower than 60 %, or Schools currently receiving School Improvement Grants) would be subject to «aggressive turnaround interventions» and inclusion in a «Commissioner's Network»; then could face takeover by the State, and / or State - mandated operation of public schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.Schools currently receiving School Improvement Grants) would be subject to «aggressive turnaround interventions» and inclusion in a «Commissioner's Network»; then could face takeover by the State, and / or State - mandated operation of public schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.schools by universities, the State Education Resource Center (SERC), Regional Education Service Centers (RESC's) non-profit organizations, charter management organizations, CommPACT, or «other providers or partners with a track record of success.»