Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant
academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.
Assertions that the sector has «fulfilled one of its core missions — equity for students — by establishing itself as a primarily urban phenomenon with significant chains of schools that are closing achievement gaps» (Lake, 2013, p. 1) are countered by claims that «charter schools, on average, don't have
an academic advantage over traditional public schools, but they do have a significant risk of leading to increased segregation» (Rotberg, 2014, para 2).
Not exact matches
But when it comes to hiring, at least in STEM
academics, women have a strong
advantage over men.
Academics have speculated on the multiple reasons that congressional incumbents have enjoyed an
advantage over the years.
Federal student loans have many
advantages over private loans, and in most cases a borrower should extinguish all available federal loans for any given
academic year before relying on private loans.
They will provide you with insights into the differences between
academic and industrial science, broaden your skills and experiences, and give you an
advantage over other applicants who have not had an assignment with the company.
The study suggests that women who didn't spend a lot of time on
academics but are «intelligent enough» have an
advantage over women who excel in school,» said researcher Natasha Quadlin, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State.
If a permanent position has
advantages over a postdoc, a job at a public research institution in France also has
advantages over the typical
academic post.
Over the past decade, my research has focused on the
academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Below is an IELTS
advantage / disadvantage model essay about having one language in the world.
Their
advantage in math and reading test scores in 5th grade is roughly 0.7 of a standard deviation, which amounts to well
over two years of
academic progress (see Figure 1).
This initial
advantage in
academic achievement dissipates sharply
over time, however, and appears to vanish by high school when, as a 9th grader, the redshirted student is at most 7 percent older than his peers.
Middle - class children do not achieve their
academic advantage by writing the letters of the alphabet and counting to ten
over and
over.
Cheating is wrong for at least four reasons: it gives students who cheat an unfair
advantage over those who do not cheat; it is dishonest; it is a violation of trust; and it undermines the
academic integrity, the code of conduct, and the social order of the school.
The Measures of
Academic Progress, or MAP test, offers certain
advantages over the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, which is the only test that can be used for school accountability purposes.
Check out the following links for some interesting research in the field of arts education:
Advantages in Arts Learning
Over Time, Music Lessons in Childhood Benefits, Neuroscience and Music, Improved
Academic Performance.
To take
advantage of the
academic options provided to them, some parents prioritized
academic quality
over safety and location — 80 percent of parents in D.C. and 79 percent of parents in New Orleans reported making this choice.
Although it seems clear that gifted children should continue to have
advantages over non-gifted children, in terms of
academics that is not always true.
As long as they continue to receive material and instruction that is appropriate for their intellectual level, they will retain any
academic advantages they have
over their non-gifted age mates.
The
advantage over the national average grows throughout elementary school and especially by the end of middle school, showing that the longer a student attends a Catholic school, the greater the likelihood for
academic success and performance above the norm.
Federal student loans have many
advantages over private loans, and in most cases a borrower should extinguish all available federal loans for any given
academic year before relying on private loans.
Most
academic research has shown short - sellers (represented by measures of short - interest) generate excess returns
over the medium to longer - term, and some recent work ferrets out subsequent news flow to posit they [shorts] possess informational
advantage (better research?)
There is no doubt among
academics that college graduates gain a competitive
advantage in the job market
over counterparts that have merely earned high school diplomas.
That's another strike against those, including a Cornell
academic, who argue that so - called fugitive emissions from unconventional natural gas production offset the emissions
advantages natural gas has
over coal in power generation.
Accumulating
advantages over time: Family experiences and social class inequality in
academic achievement.
The Collaborative for
Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) examined
over 200 studies of schools with and without SEL programming and found an 11 percentile point
advantage on achievement tests among students in schools that placed an emphasis on both head and heart.