Sentences with phrase «with school characteristics»

These data are merged with school characteristics data from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core, Public School Universe survey.

Had it been, then some schools might have shown much greater growth rates of students than would others and these rates might have been highly correlated with school characteristics.

Not exact matches

It took on more and more the characteristics of a denomination, strengthening its structures, sending forth missionaries, establishing Bible schools, and communicating with its constituents through the Pentecostal Evangel.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

Wacker describes the Pentecostal movement as a slice out of the American pie: its adherents have typically been «farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, and service providers with the middle school education and honorable social standing characteristic of those groups.»

The poll also identified characteristics among evangelicals which correspond to other characteristics already noted as significant in distinguishing the religious television audience from the non-audience: the typical U.S. evangelical was characterized as a white female Southerner, aged 50 or over, with a high - school education and a modest income.

Common worship tends to be highly valued and it is characteristic of schools with this ethos to include in the weekly schedule stated times for worship by the entire community.

He left school as soon as he legally could, because, he would say later with characteristic flippancy, he could see no point in learning mathematics.

The Chef Instructor Training Program begins with two - weeks of intensive exposure to the world of school food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food, including an overview of the National School Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodSchool Lunch Program from an historical and policy perspective; the driving forces behind, and the consequences of, the modern American food system; the unique characteristics of, and limitations and opportunities within, a typical school food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodschool food service operation; and in - depth exposure to the Cook for America ® curriculum and teaching methodology.

It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of SEN together with the assessment and placement of pupils with statements of SEN.. It is based on pupil - level data collected via the school census and local authority - level data collected via the SEN2 survey.

An assessment of the effect that the national funding formulae for schools, high needs and central school services blocks will have on groups with protected characteristics.

Kay Brown, who produced the GAO study of eight districts, says they visited a range of schools across the country with differing levels of participation in free and reduced lunch and with widely different characteristics.

According to Lawrence B. Smith in his publication Oil and Water: The Attachment Disordered Child and School, a school has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disSchool, a school has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disschool has certain characteristics that can intervene with the growth and development of students with attachment disorder:

Participant characteristics: all enrolled in WIC program; mean age 23.1 years; 87 % African Americans; 26.5 % with less than high school education; 79.6 % single; 17.4 % not employed or in school; 26.6 % caesarean births; 50.6 % first time mothers; 32.3 % with previous breastfeeding experience

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

«From the first moment she came into our school,» wrote teacher Mike Weddle, «I was amazed at her ability to captivate the students with a succinct explanation of the pika's very complex characteristics and behavior.»

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

Data from a 1999 NSF report, Characteristics of Recent Science and Engineering Graduates, disputed the S&E shortage by reporting that 68 % of those with S&E baccalaureates and masters were working in non-S & E fields in 1997.2 However, some observers attribute S&E losses to higher enrollments in professional schools.

The longitudinal study, conducted by Monica Bertoia of Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, shows differences by type of fruit or vegetable, suggesting that characteristics of these foods influence the strength of their association with weight change.

But, when these predictors are part of the analyses, it demonstrates that African - American men and women attain higher educational levels than white students with the same high school GPA and background characteristics.

After adjustment for faculty and school characteristics, minority faculty development programs were not associated with greater representation of minority faculty, recruitment, or promotion.

Poorer children have worse cognitive, social - behavioural and health outcomes because they are poor, and not just because poverty is correlated with other household and parental characteristics, according to a new report from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

In a new paper published this week in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, first author Miguel del Campo, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues in Brazil and Spain, describe the phenotypic spectrum or set of observable characteristics of congenital Zika (ZIKV) syndrome, based upon clinical evaluations and neuroimaging of 83 Brazilian children with presumed or confirmed ZIKV congenital infections.

Marvin Minsky, director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US is identified with an opposing school, which favours creating complex computer software that mimics the characteristics of human intelligence.

Taken together, these differences may lead teachers to be less responsive to student needs, which can have consequences when compounded with other characteristics of middle school.

Dogs exhibit the same behavioral characteristics, respond to the same medication, have a genetic basis to the disorder, and we now know have the same structural brain abnormalities as people with OCD,» said Nicholas Dodman, BVMS, DACVB, professor of clinical sciences at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

Even with this added dimension, the researchers were unable to identify tangible county characteristics that explain why slave concentration from 1860 is related to contemporary school enrollment patterns.

In collaboration with Dr. Betsy Keller in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance at Ithaca College, we are examining the physiological and molecular basis of the exercise intolerance characteristics of CFS / ME patients.

«Child - parent dietary resemblance in the U.S. is relatively weak, and varies by nutrients and food groups and by the types of parent - child dyads and social demographic characteristics such as age, gender and family income,» said Youfa Wang, MD, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor with the Bloomberg School's Center for Human Nutrition.

Fortunately, we found that the characteristics of this disease were nearly identical to those of previously circulating influenza viruses, meaning that policies and models based on those assumptions could be applied to the control of 2009 H1N1,» said Justin Lessler, lead author of the study and research associate with the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.»

In the course of life, in the early ages of going to school, you tend to meet persons of different characteristics and you start learning about other people with whom you live with.

She recognises the inconsistencies in funding for individual schools with similar characteristics across the country and wishes to see matters improve.»

The next circle centers on the school as a dynamic organism, a society within itself, with a dominant system of values, a pervasive ideology, and a characteristic set of relationships, rituals, and authority patterns among administrators, teachers, and students.

They found that the achievement gap between black and white students with similar background characteristics is small or nonexistent at the time children enter kindergarten and grows steadily and significantly each year they attend public school.

We also compare the impact of salaries and school characteristics on the probability of switching to another district with their impact on the probability of leaving teaching altogether.

We organized those applicants into matched pairs, which were often adjacent grades in the same school or the same grade in different schools with similar demographic characteristics.

Working in cooperation with the Texas Education Agency, the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools Project has combined various data sets to create a database of key characteristics of both teachers and students during this period in all Texas public sSchools Project has combined various data sets to create a database of key characteristics of both teachers and students during this period in all Texas public schoolsschools.

We can gain further insight into the factors associated with teacher mobility by examining the pre - and post-move school characteristics for teachers moving to a new school within the same district.

School counselors shared with Education World some of the other characteristics that a good school counselor might poSchool counselors shared with Education World some of the other characteristics that a good school counselor might poschool counselor might possess.

Students present to schools with a range of personal characteristics including diversity in gender identity and presentation, sexual orientation and intersex status,» Ms Berry said.

We begin with an oft - cited data point: after controlling for differences in education, experience, race, gender, marital status, and other earnings - related characteristics, public school teachers receive considerably lower total annual salaries than private workers.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

This approach compares students with similar characteristics who attend schools that are similar, except for the fact that some schools start earlier and others start later.

Once I had 15 such stories, Harvard Education Press compiled them with some new material explaining how I found the schools and the common characteristics of the schools.

My first method compares students with similar characteristics who attend schools that are similar except for having different start times.

This fact sheet provides information on the characteristic traits that high learning potential children with Asperger Syndrome share, problems which may arise at home or at school and useful strategies and ideas to help deal with those issues.