Educational attainment refers to a person's level of education or the degrees and qualifications they have achieved in their studies. It measures how much education a person has completed.
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We need to continue to monitor these patterns and examine what it is about family resources and processes in single - parent families that may result in low levels
of educational attainment for children.
The remaining difference between childhood family types
in educational attainment in 2010 could to some extent be explained by the reversal over time in socioeconomic selection, from positive to negative.
Consider the consequences of
low educational attainment for young men of all races, one of the leading symptoms of the nation's education crisis.
Like virtually all prior work, their results suggested that the effect
on educational attainment is largest for urban minority students.
«A child from a family with
high educational attainment talks to a child using complex language skills frequently, thus children acquire oral language skills at an advanced rate,» she said.
For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years
increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.
... Entry into more than 70 percent of openings through 2020 will be associated
with educational attainment of a high school diploma or less, she explained.
But they are aimed almost exclusively at the private dimension of education (there would, of course, be a long - term public economic benefit in
improving educational attainment and efficiency).
It's safe to predict that this trend will only accelerate as older generations with lower
educational attainment rates are gradually replaced by new generations with higher attainment rates.
This tool provides a range of information about various contextual factors affecting children,
including educational attainment, children's social services referrals and performance, and information relating to health outcomes and crime.
A difficulty with strain theory is that it does not explore why children of low - income families would have
poor educational attainment in the first place.
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There seems to be little doubt on the basis of this evidence that patterns of infant feeding were consistently related to levels of
educational attainment from middle childhood to the point of young adulthood.
These tests are also culturally biased, so that students from families with
greater educational attainment or higher incomes are more likely to answer certain questions correctly.
The report
found educational attainment by disadvantaged children had improved but the gap between them and their better - off peers has only got marginally better — by one percentage point.
We take advantage of the fact that if two teachers disagree about the
expected educational attainment of a student, at least one of the teachers must turn out to be wrong.
Still, after controlling for these conditions, a substantial family type difference in
educational attainment remains and, as noted, we are not able to tell why this is so.
But interestingly,
once educational attainment is controlled for, the financial situation of the household as a child is not, in itself, a significant predictor of future poverty.
Residents need to understand the correlation between wage and
educational attainment while recognizing the need and value in all occupations and the impact they have on the success of the community as a whole.
For companies working with educational community organisations or schools to raise aspirations, promote continuous learning and improve
educational attainment amongst adults and young people.
There needs to be a greater focus on skills — not
just educational attainment — or we are likely to experience adverse consequences that could undermine the fabric of our democracy and community.
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