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Children of divorce suffer psychologically and frequently have lower academic achievement than children from intact families.

A child with an average teacher who comes from a literate, economically secure, and stable family environment will, on average, have better achievement than a child with a superior teacher but with none of these contextual advantages.

As Dr. Orton and Anna Gillingham described many years earlier, for a beginning reader, knowledge of letters and sounds had more influence on reading achievement than the child's tested mental ability or IQ.

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if humans had just fell in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying in child birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.

Our recent pilot found that FRED children were four times more likely to exceed their school achievement targets than their peers.

Conversely, low interest by fathers in their children's education (particularly boys) has a stronger negative impact on their achievement than contact with the police, poverty, family type, social class, housing tenure and child's personality [2].

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There is no better achievement than to see your little one rise and shine; thanks to the creative and innovative toys, the daunting task of making children learn has become a complete fun activity for both, the parents and children.

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But I would be doing myself and my children a disservice to not also look back and feel, beyond the surface of my frazzled nerves, the stored memories soaked into every part of my body that make being a parent more powerful than achievements stored in a baby book.

Drawing an emotional response from the audience, more than a dozen Chicago Public School parents voiced complaints at Wednesday's school board meeting over how the district questioned their children about their decision to not to take the Illinois Standards Achievement Test when it was administered earlier this month.

He is a leading advocate of «slow education», the opposite of pushy parenting, when children are allowed to develop their own self - motivation rather than perpetually being forced to meet the goals and achievements of their parents.

On average, children who were breastfed for ≥ 8 months 1) scored between 0.35 and 0.59 SD units higher on standardized tests of ability or achievement and teacher ratings of school performance than children who were not breastfed, and 2) were considerably less likely than nonbreastfed children to leave school without qualifications (relative risk = 0.38; 95 % CI: 0.25, 0.59).

I don't consider the birth of either of my children particularly extraordinary (other than the amazing achievement of growing and presenting a fully formed human being to the world) but I have yet to hear someone share an experience exactly like mine.

Children of parents whom Kim classified as «tiger» had lower academic achievement and attainment — and greater psychological maladjustment — and family alienation, than the kids of parents characterized as «supportive» or «easygoing.»

In a secondary analysis, the NSLY found that the achievement scores of children breastfed for at least 29 weeks were 1.5 points higher than those of children never breastfed (P =.01), but the authors considered their data about breastfeeding duration «less reliable» than data about whether a child was ever breastfed.

By contrast, achievement scores on the Woodcock Word, Passage, and Reading Comprehension tests were higher for breastfed than for bottle - fed children (Table 4).

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.

No one cares more about the achievement of students than the teachers who dedicate their careers to educating our children.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

The results, Thompson points out, would likely differ in less - developed countries where children don't have equal access to education; academic achievement in these places is shaped more by opportunities than genetics.

Research indicated that the Chinese children were sleeping less than youngsters in the United States and Europe, who had participated in similar studies — differences which may be a result of a focus on studying and academic achievement in China.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect in 2002, more data than ever have been made available on schools, the quality of their teachers, and their student achievement.

As well, the study finds that a child's nurturing environment is more strongly correlated than biological factors to brain development and general intellectual ability, declarative memory, procedural memory, executive function, academic achievement, fine motor dexterity, and socio - emotional health.

Pia Glatz, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors conducted a nationwide study of more than 2 million children born in Sweden from 1973 through 1993 by using a variety of national health care databases, school achievement registries, and the military conscription register.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

This helps to assure that the links between physical activity, brain development and achievement are actually caused by the differences in activity rather than reflecting the characteristics of the children who choose to be more or less physically active.

Honored with the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Best International Film Award for Le Conte du ventre plein (aka Bellyful, 2000), the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1987 Children's Live - Action Humanitas Prize for The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, a 1972 Tony Award nomination for «Don't Play Us Cheap», two 1971 Tony Award nominations for «Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death», along with a Grammy Award nomination and Drama Desk Award for this earlier musical, Melvin Van Peebles is more than a one - note film director.

This animated fable from Studio Ghibli, aimed more at adults than at children, is a thoughtful film about the cycle of life, and a sublime cinematic achievement.

Differences between low - and high - income children in reading and math achievement are much larger now than they were several decades ago, as are differences in college graduation rates.

Research has shown that children from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds are better prepared for achievement when they enter school than children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Teaching Kids to Be Kind (U.S. News and World Report) Coverage of Making Caring Common's research that illustrated that parents were more concerned about academic achievement than teaching their children kindness, and ways that parents can help teach kids to be kind.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

The study, conducted by McCartney, Boston College Associate Professor Eric Dearing, and Samford University Professor Beck Taylor, looked at reading and math achievement of more than 1,300 children in middle childhood from economic backgrounds ranging from poor to affluent.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

He found that single - sex schooling helps to improve academic achievement, with benefits greater for girls than boys, and that underprivileged children derived the most benefit.

«Getting better at maths» is a lot more abstract than «reaching level 10 and unlocking a new power», and so it can be difficult for younger children to get the same sense of achievement from their progress.

Reading achievement is more dependent on learning activities in the home than is math or science achievement (The College Board, 1994) and the single most important activity for building knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children (Anderson et al., 1985).

Some of Willie's examples of hijacking included changing the idea of integration to desegregation, which negatively affects the Civil Rights Movement, or even focusing on closing the achievement gap rather than emphasizing helping each child reach his or her full potential.

«Some parents are better than others at helping their children make the connection between middle school achievement and post-high school plans,» Hill says.

In his words, «No matter how competent the teacher, the academic achievement of lower - class children will, on average, almost inevitably be less than that of middle - class children.»

According to the report, a majority of teens view their parents as more concerned about their children's achievements than about their being caring people.

Class size is more important than the length of the school day in the achievement of disadvantaged kindergarten children, concludes a study by the Chicago Board of Education.

Closing the achievement gap will require more than teaching young children basic pre-reading and math skills.

At the root of outcomes - based education is the desire to raise student achievement and prompt the nation's schools to fix their sights on what children learn rather than on what administrators supply and what teachers teach.

Efforts to keep children from dropping out of school must begin in the middle grades, a new report advises, and should include school - based reforms that enhance achievement, promote self - esteem, and provide personalized, rather than punitive, discipline.