Sentences with phrase «across socioeconomic groups»

Education today is certainly a diamond in the rough and elearning could be the polish that cleans up sub-par teaching, provides equality across socioeconomic groups, and makes learning a whole lot more exciting.

Only by building on the success of the ban will the UK reach the goal of reducing smoking to five per cent across all socioeconomic groups by 2035.

Not exact matches

«Group communication unlocks so many possibilities across the socioeconomic and political spectrums,» Okamoto says.

Further, the M - % DI system was associated with a positive gradient between increasing socioeconomic disadvantage and comprehension of the labelling systems, whereas the TL labels resulted in equitable performance across SES groups.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

«I think in terms of this job, there's tons of very, very painful life lessons that come at you really quickly, but what I think it has shown me... [is that] cancer cuts across all sorts of demographics and socioeconomic groups and is relentless, and so I think that was life lesson number one.»

Focus group participants were recruited across several settings via posters inviting participation in the study, at child health clinics, child care centres and early learning centres, to obtain women with a range of experience, socioeconomic levels and occupations.

So let me begin with this disclaimer: a simple, foolproof method for ensuring that a group is well represented across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic or gender lines does not exist.

They investigated how the nutritional content of National School Lunch Program entrées chosen by students varied across different socioeconomic and demographic groups and impacted their health.

This simple example illustrates that eliminating the average difference across the two groups will only remove all differences by socioeconomic status if there are no differences in outcomes by socioeconomic status within the broad income groups.

Publicly funded kindergarten is available to virtually all children in the U.S. at age five, but access to preschool opportunities for children four years old and younger remains uneven across regions and socioeconomic groups.

As education spread across the country and infiltrated various socioeconomic groups, technology spread as well.

And, as I argued a few weeks ago, it's extremely likely that student behavior does in fact vary across different subgroups — not because of race, but because of the vastly different socioeconomic circumstances that children of different groups are facing.

While summer learning loss varies across subjects, grade levels, and socioeconomic groups, students on average score lower on assessments administered after summer break than on those given at the end of the school year.

What does the data from your high school suggest about the success rates of students across gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic groups?

TCASN is one of five organizations across the nation serving as institutional policy partners for The Frontier Set, a select group of colleges and universities, state systems, and supporting organizations committed to significantly increasing student access and success, and eliminating racial / ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in college attainment.

Such tests can be used to compare students across regions, racial groups or socioeconomic backgrounds.

Achievement gaps are greatly reduced or closed across varying ethnic and socioeconomic groups, and for English language learners.

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

The AAPI community is also the fastest - growing racial group in the United States — representing more than 48 ethnicities, over 300 spoken languages, varied socioeconomic status, and distinctions across immigration history, generational status, culture, and religion.»

This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health.

The detailed aspects of socioeconomic disadvantage controlled in the study explained much of the difference across groups.

Living apart may help increase work productivity, enable the care of a loved one (e.g., helping a sick parent), or help maintain a level of autonomy for the individuals in the relationship.4 Whereas this type of relationship may not be «traditional,» it does work for some and appears across age and socioeconomic groups.