Sentences with phrase «against child poverty rates»

A quick glance at a graph measuring student achievement against child poverty rates demonstrates that while there is a strong correlation between poverty and student achievement, there are also outliers that are bucking the trend.

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Or will they peter out, as the benefits of accountability, research - based reading, and other reforms hit up against the reality of sky - high child poverty rates and out - of - wedlock births in the black community?

Please read the entire article and consider the trend against what has been learned by scholars like Joshua Goldstein and Steven Pinker about death rates from war and violence; declines in deep poverty as shown by Max Roser; and child mortality rates from the World Health Organization.

Researchers from University of Wisconsin's Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation used data on premature deaths, self - reports about health and factors such as smoking rates, obesity, teen births, the percentage of children in poverty and number of liquor stores vs. grocery stores to rank more than 3,000 counties nationwide against others in their state.