Sentences with phrase «achievement of children»

Positive impact on the social - emotional competence, wellbeing, behaviour and reading achievement of children in prep.

The educational attainment of parents varies widely across the North American continent, and those differences can have a significant impact on the academic achievement of their children, a report says.

How exactly does income inequality affect the educational achievements of children?

Their argument relies on the cultural deprivation paradigm to explain, in part, the poor reading achievement of children from low - income families.

Our willingness as a nation to fight for the best teachers in the world is the best measure of our commitment to the future achievement of our children.

Local authorities must promote the educational achievement of the children they look after, regardless of where they are placed.

Every Child Counts aims to help schools to raise achievement of children who have fallen behind in mathematics and raise standards for all children.

In The Asian American Achievement Paradox, sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants.

It sets out the core objective of early childhood education as «supporting the development and educational achievement of children through high quality early education, with particular focus on the target groups of the disadvantaged and those with special needs».

At the same time that DoDEA is expanding data collection on its graduates, there is strong bipartisan support for an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would require states and school districts to report the academic achievements of children from military families.

«I'm certainly looking forward to some meetings where the board can get away from distractions that have taken us off the tasks that we really need to do that will push forward the education achievement of the children in this district,» Board President Dr. Barbara Seals Nevergold said.

When arrayed with the stunning achievements of his child actors, Boy can boast a roster of lead performances that most films simply can't hope to match.

Researchers expected that the move to a better neighborhood would have discernible effects on the academic achievement of the children involved, yet MTO data from the five cities show no overall positive impact on the children's learning.

When state law essentially guarantees public employment for ineffective teachers in California, low - income families pay one way or another — either in the form of salary incentives to retain and redistribute effective teachers, reductions in other services required to pay for those salary incentives, or because such policies usually fail to completely offset the burden, in terms of the lowered achievement of their children.

Witnessing the results of the admission lotteries, we have measured those costs in terms of the diminished achievement of children, and they are sizeable.

Second: one - time «snapshot» data of a single cohort of kids, which is all that NAEP can supply the first time around, tell you nothing about the academic achievement of children before they entered their charter schools — and just about everyone knows that a big fraction of the youngsters enrolling in charters were already behind the education eight - ball as a result of dismal performance in previous schools.

All of which are designed to share our knowledge and understanding of how schools can use PE and school sport to improve the wellbeing, leadership skills and achievement of all children across the whole school.

They test more than one grade level, so if the starting level isn't the correct level for the child, the tester will adjust, up or down, until he finds the approximate grade level of achievement of the child in each subject.

This kind of antiquated, «one best system» thinking is detrimental to the future of further advances in education accountability and finance reform, as well as, ultimately, the growth in educational achievement of the children of Texas.

A national project developed by the Department for Education (DfE) and in partnership with the National College and National Strategies, the workshops offered advice, guidance and inspiration for educators to improve the access, aspiration and achievement of children with SEN, The Assessment and Learning, Pedagogy and Parental Engagement — significant following the promises of the SEN Green Paper to raise the profile of parents in education.

Throughout his career, Parrett has worked to improve the educational achievement of all children and youth, particularly those less advantaged.

While the linguistic mismatch might generate obstacles in the educational process of Latino / a students, research related to the achievement of immigrant students has also established that immigrant parents promote academic achievement of their children.

He argued: «Research suggests that if you take out the different school factors and you compare the achievements of children in the same school it would be as small as 0.02 per cent of the difference, so it's clearly not a geographical thing, it's a wide - spread issue across the board.»

My birth was celebrated loudly and authoritarian tiger parents actually inhibit the achievement of their children.

Research from a U.S. Department of Education study indicates that the role of fathers in school and child care helps with the achievement of children.

The fringe, «Reclaiming the Promise for all Children and Young People» heard how the educational progress and achievements of children and young people have been blighted by rising poverty, and by education policies which have fostered inequality.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

Depending on how many students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the academic achievements of their children.

Roy Ballam concluded: «Evidence for the benefits of good nutrition and physical activity on the academic achievements of children is accumulating.

Major studies have confirmed what we all intuitively know: the quality of teaching is by far the biggest factor within schools impacting on the learning and achievement of our children.

raising broad regional awareness of ten thousands of Moroccans for the achievements of the children through collaboration with broadcasting media (first public station SNRT, now private station MFM)

The General Round is open to any education program designed to improve the academic achievement of children in Australia.

Businesses now have an opportunity to work in partnership with Achievement for All to support their own local community in raising the aspirations and achievement of their children and young people.

Research has found that peers influence the academic achievement of children.

At this time there are no ten - dollar group tests that can measure the achievement of the child and the effectiveness of the teacher at the same time.

States were required to measure the academic achievement of all children, with schools accountable for results.

Studies have shown that the mother's education level strongly predicts the achievement of the child, and among low - income families, the mother's education level usually does not exceed a high school diploma.29

The very revelations of how poorly districts and states were doing in improving the achievement of children — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — since the implementation of No Child 12 years ago have embarrassed states and districts publicly and badly.

According to HMIe the need for improvement is great, as research has indicated that Scottish education is less successful than other countries in closing the gap between the achievements of children from well - off and less well - off homes.

Research has demonstrated that the academic achievement of children is dependent on many factors, the largest being poverty.

There are tests that are specifically designed to measure the achievement of a child during the course of a school year, but these tests must be administered individually in the fall and then again in the spring.

Correlatively, educational romantics believe that the academic achievement of children is determined mainly by the opportunities they receive; that innate intellectual limits (if they exist at all) play a minor role; and that the current K - 12 schools have huge room for improvement.

William Parrett has worked to improve the educational achievement of all children and youth, particularly those less advantaged.