Sentence examples for inefficient schools from inspiring English sources

Table 4 shows, as an example of the potential benefits of measuring inefficiency, the most inefficient schools with estimated efficiency scores greater than 1.20 for PISA 2012, i.e., where outputs could be increased by more than 20%% if they were fully efficient.

It is essential to explore the sources of such differences in order to improve academic outputs in more inefficient schools and to reduce inequalities in the education system.

That is, once a first efficient frontier is calculated, all of the associated efficient schools are removed from further consideration and a new efficient frontier based only upon the remaining, initially inefficient schools is calculated.

For example, a qualitative and in depth analysis of the most efficient and inefficient schools could provide additional useful information about how to implement efficient practices and avoid the inefficient ones.

An alternative way to evaluate the potential gains due to inefficiencies reduction is by comparing the actual distribution of students into PISA proficiency levels defined by the OECD with the potential distribution that would be observed once inefficient schools reached the frontier.

Today, millions of children and teachers go to school every day in unhealthy, inefficient schools that waste money, make kids sick and provide poor environments for learning.

But school officials said renovating the entire structure would create an inefficient school and would cost $60 million more than building from scratch.

The Gary Plan broke from what many saw as the rigidly bureaucratized and inefficient schooling of that time, and it made the city's school system widely known as a centre for progressive education.

New York City mayors have long tolerated one of the most inefficient school transportation systems in the country — made so by a labor agreement that undermines competitive bidding and poorly designed bus routes.

The DSS then generated realistic energy and waste improvement targets for any relatively inefficient school against another grouping of benchmarked schools.

This unbalanced situation is highlighted in primary schools located in rural areas of China, where exits many rundown schools, inadequately prepared teachers, unattractive teaching materials, inefficient school management, and high dropout and repetition rates (Postiglione, 2006).