Sentences with phrase «affect educational achievement»

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.
It then moves on to look at the outside school factors that could affect educational achievement.
This lesson introduces Interactionism and the inside school factors that affect educational achievement.
What was found is that family income affects educational achievement in a number of ways.

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While the relationship between spending and educational achievement is wrapped in a fog of uncertainty, there is no reason to assume that educational cuts will adversely affect academic achievement.
The first subproject looks at how changes in physical activity and fitness affect cognitive function, academic achievement and educational attainment at different stages of a person's life.
However, lower peer achievement is a potentially important channel through which a high poverty rate could affect the educational environment, and from a policy perspective what matters is the total effect of a high poverty rate.
The volume — which includes contributions from a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy — analyzes the ways in which a variety of social and economic conditions affect school performance and educational achievement.
In particular, the research highlights the causal affects of family income on a child's educational achievement.
They exhibit various handicapping conditions of varied severity that affect their educational ability and achievement.
Low academic achievement is particularly important to control for because children only receive special education services if their disabilities are adversely affecting their educational performance.
Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.
As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.
«Unwanted sexual contact can affect a young girl's self - esteem and educational achievements.
The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.
During the tour, federal, state and local visitors will bring attention to how school facilities, health and wellness, and environmental education affect equity and achievement and highlight best practices that states, districts and schools are using to improve the overall wellness, productivity, and achievement of occupants through health, safety, and educational improvements.
Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choice.
Her research interests emphasize applied educational measurement by designing and managing research studies to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-site intervention programs over time; investigating how school, teacher, and student factors affect student achievement; and developing, validating, and evaluating assessment systems.
These resources affect student's achievement because without them students lack the support and confidence they need to make educational decisions and feel confident about their abilities to learn.
Safe and affirming environments have been shown to affect educational outcomes: LGBT students show lower academic achievement than their counterparts as a result of missing school to avoid harassment, being less likely to pursue higher education, and reporting higher levels of depression (Nieto 1992; GLSEN 2013).
Poverty and related social determinants of health can lead to adverse health outcomes in childhood and across the life course, negatively affecting physical health, socioemotional development, and educational achievement.
On the other hand, some studies have shown that family structure affects educational outcomes of children and adolescents besides other characteristics as self - efficacy and achievement orientation which may affect educational outcomes.
Mannuzza's review of the long term prognosis in ADHD concludes that childhood ADHD does not preclude high educational and vocational achievements (for example, Master's degree or medical qualification).61 However, ADHD is a disorder that may affect all aspects of a child's life.
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