Sentences with phrase «academic achievement among»

Parental Warmth, Control, and Involvement in Schooling: Predicting academic achievement among Korean American adolescents.

WUWM recently spoke with Means about his theories for raising academic achievement among students of color.

Evers, like Holtz, said community engagement is key in improving academic achievement among students — especially those living in poverty, who generally do more poorly in school than their wealthier peers.

Evers also has said lawmakers need to properly fund public school districts before expanding the state's taxpayer - funded school voucher programs to ensure districts like Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine have enough money to provide needed tutoring, teachers and other programs to improve academic achievement among low - performing students.

The Department of Revenue released the first study showing academic achievement among Alabama Scholarship Program students.

Leading Educators» programming is the backbone of an ambitious strategy to significantly increase academic achievement among lower income children who attend the nearly 120 district, charter, and religious schools in the Greater Grand Rapids urban area.

The risk of confirming negative stereotypes about one's social group, known as stereotype threat, depresses academic achievement among students of color and contributes to racial gaps in achievement.

Factors contributing to academic achievement among recently arrived Chinese adolescents in Australia remain relatively underexplored.

One study found that more suspensions lowered academic achievement among non-suspended students.

Increasing prosocial behavior and academic achievement among adolescent African American males.

Courses will examine first and second language development; second language literacy development, assessment, and instruction; successful approaches to assessing and teaching oral language and content skills including designs for differentiating instruction according to students» levels of language proficiency; and the multiple factors that influence academic achievement among this student population.

Association between short time in bed, health - risk behaviors and poor academic achievement among Norwegian adolescents.

The bottom line is that similar academic achievement among minorities and whites will not be achieved until other factors besides bad teachers are acknowledged and addressed.

CHICAGO — Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis criticized the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) list of schools targeted for closures and other school actions by pointing out that not only does the policy do little to improve student achievement, but the District has a poor record of improving academic achievement among the city's most vulnerable students.

Forty - three states, the District of Columbia and the island of Guam participated in the fourth - grade testing program, which has monitored trends in academic achievement among public and private school students since the 1970s.

A school is more likely to retain effective teachers, a new study reports, if it is led by a principal who promotes professional development for teachers, is characterized by collaborative relationships among teachers, has a safe and orderly learning environment and sets high expectations for academic achievement among students, a new study reports.

«The Houston Independent School District has earned a national reputation for innovation and academic achievement among all student groups,» Carranza says.

The document indicated Holtz would receive a guaranteed three - year, $ 150,000 job with a personal driver at the Department of Public Instruction should Humphries win and would have authority to take over large districts with persistent gaps in academic achievement among groups of students.

As debate commenced today for floor action of the Senate's Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177), NSBA sent a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators urging their strong support for moving forward on a final bill that restores community ownership to local school districts, maximizes authorized funding for Title I, and advances academic achievement among all students.

Charter schools in New York consistently grew academic achievement among the following demographic groups at significantly higher rates than the same subgroup of students in their district peers: Black, Hispanic, students in poverty, and special education.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

As E.D. Hirsch has written, «General knowledge is... the best single predictor of later academic achievement among preschoolers and kindergartners, as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/).

The federal government has found black students are three times more likely than whites to be suspended or expelled, a disparity experts say contributes to lower academic achievement among African - American students caught in the discipline system.

District officials and some civil rights advocates hailed the ruling, saying that while the plan has largely integrated the schools, more time is needed to help boost academic achievement among African - American and...

The concept of cultural capital theory was proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean - Claude Passeron (1977) to explain differences in academic achievement among children in France's educational system in the 1960s.

The National Honor Society has joined the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the venerable honor society for college and university students, and Phi Theta Kappa, which recognizes academic achievement among community college students, in creating the Alliance for Educational Excellence.

This study evaluated academic achievement among children known to be prenatally exposed to maternal heavy alcohol consumption as compared to their peers without such exposure, and explored the brain regions that may underlie academic performance.

The study investigated the associations of body fat percentage and other cardiometabolic risk factors with academic achievement among 175 Finnish 6 -8-year-old children.

Not exact matches

His encyclopaedic essay «La crisis del Estado» (The State's Crisis), influenced by Carl Schmitt, is arguably among the most interesting works in Spanish political literature and his academic achievements made of him one of Spain's rising intellectual stars.

The SUNY Chancellor announced that three SUNY Cortland students are among the 84 recipients of the 2017 - 18 Scholar Athlete Award, which recognizes outstanding academic excellence and athletic achievement.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Among many affluent families who want their offspring to attend elite colleges, the school / home / culture values are quite well aligned, and as a group these youngsters have high levels of academic achievement.

Almost 50 years and many professional achievements later — including serving as the first principal of the first postsecondary institution in southeastern Nigeria and founding the International Conference on Thinking — Maxwell's academy in which both athletics and academics are emphasized is becoming a reality thanks to an invitation from the National Olympic Committee of Albania, a country that is among the 100 nations that have never won an Olympic medal.

Winners are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, personal integrity, leadership potential, and physical vigor, among other attributes.

Social and Emotional Learning: «Research shows that promoting social and emotional skills leads to reduced violence and aggression among children, higher academic achievement, and an improved ability to function in schools and in the workplace....

We then analyzed this data to explore the relationships among happiness, motivation, and academic achievement.»

Drawing on participant observation among, interviews with, and resurveys of the same people surveyed in 1999, she is now examining how the parenting, gender socialization, educational experiences, academic achievement, and academic interests they had as adolescents shape their decisions about work, transnational migration, childbearing, parenting, health habits, and elder care now that they are young adults.

According to recently published research by David Card, Martin Dooley, and Abigail Payne, competition among these options is a significant contributor to academic achievement in Canada.

Her litany of complaints about the academic results of Klein's «radical restructuring» is somewhat familiar — «inflating» test results and «taking shortcuts» to boost graduation — except for the charge that «the recalibration of the state scores revealed that the achievement gap among children of different races in New York City was virtually unchanged between 2002 and 2010, and the proportion of city students meeting state standards dropped dramatically, almost to the same point as in 2002.»

While necessary and appealing, this drive toward higher standards raises justifiable concern: Are schools promoting academic excellence for those who already have a competitive advantage, while turning away from the far more difficult task of fostering achievement among those who do not?

In light of abundant data on low academic achievement and effort among high school students, Wagner's goal sounds impossible, but years of experience plus 150 interviews he conducted for the book convince him otherwise.

Research shows that promoting social and emotional skills leads to reduced violence and aggression among children, higher academic achievement, and an improved ability to function in schools and in the workplace.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

For the past 16 years, the Puente program has strived to boost the academic achievement of underserved Latino high school students, who have the highest dropout rate and lowest college attendance among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

Furthermore, research indicates that high - quality, evidence - based programs and policies that promote social and emotional skills among students can improve academic achievement as well as positive behavior, physical and mental wellbeing, college and career readiness, and economic productivity.

And in a landmark ruling, the Kansas Supreme Court has ordered the state to address significant shortfalls in how its public schools are funded, citing low academic achievement by black, Hispanic, and low - income students as among the deciding factors.

According to research sponsored by the Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) and the National School Boards Association (NSBA), they include (1) feelings of safety among staff and students; (2) supportive relationships within the school; (3) engagement and empowerment of students as valued members and resources in the school community; (4) clear rules and boundaries that are understood by all students and staff; (5) high expectations for academic achievement and appropriate behavior; and (6) trust, respect, and an ethos of caring (Bryant & Kelly, 2006; Elfstrom, Vanderzee, Cuellar, Sink, & Volz, 2006; Perkins, 2006).

The program affords the opportunity to bring attention to teachers who successfully employ strategies to increase academic success and narrow the achievement gap among a range of students.