Sentences with phrase «also school factors»

Moreover, there are also school factors not under the direct control of the school, including the quality of teachers inherited by the principal.

Not exact matches

The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

«Yale also enrolls the top law school applicants in the country, and has maintained the highest reputation among both academic peers and lawyers and judges / hiring partners,» Morse continued, circling back to subjective assessments that factor into the ranking.

Also a factor: BYU is a football independent and thus not attached to the same conference exit fees as other schools.

Also, a whole range of factors — including whether they're sick, hungry, or tired — can influence day - to - day reactions to school.

It's worth noting that how school lunch rules are applied varies from state to state, and also the budgetary support from state government or lack of it may be a factor.

Eliminating chocolate milk was also associated with 6.8 % fewer students eating school lunches, and although other factors were also involved, this is consistent with the notion of psychological reactance.

The people who work in school lunchrooms do their best to prepare nutritious meals, but are also aware of the «yuck «factor: Children are finicky eaters, and an estimated 40 percent of what they are served ends up in the garbage can.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

While many factors can influence hyperactivity in children, including genes and environment, «there is good evidence that artificial food colors can also increase levels of hyperactivity,» said Jim Stevenson, the study's lead author and professor emeritus in the school of psychology at the University of Southampton.

She also regularly posts pictures of students eating off the salad bar, adding an exciting interactive factor into school lunches.

The bill's language also stipulates that «any possible educaitonal impact differences between the school environment and the child's home environment and family background» also be used as a factor in seeking tuition reimbursement.

Other factors such as the mode of travel to school probably relate to independence on the part of young people and trust on the part of their parents; while others, most notably family relationships, demonstrate that social and emotional deprivation also plays a role.»

Mostly, this means the education and income of students, but it also captures factors like the percentage of students learning English as a second language, and the percentage of students who change schools during the course of the school year due to parental job shifts.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

The Comptroller also projected that the potential impact of levy restrictions for school districts (which have fiscal years beginning July 1) could range from a loss of $ 182.7 million, assuming a factor of 0.73 percent, to a loss of $ 332.6 million, assuming a factor of zero.

The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted - education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic factors, and school and teacher characteristics.

The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as seasonal temperature swings, rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches of old tires.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

«We find the traditional relationship between your religious beliefs and evolution, and between your political beliefs and evolution, but we also find that those are not the only factors that matter,» said Deena Weisberg, a senior fellow in Penn's psychology department in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Being a responsible student, maintaining an interest in school and having good reading and writing skills will not only help a teenager get good grades in high school but could also be predictors of educational and occupational success decades later, regardless of IQ, parental socioeconomic status or other personality factors, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

«Our sexual wellness specialists recognize that there are many factors that affect intimacy,» said Dr. Walsh, who also is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

They've also shown that performance in school has genetic factors.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

«It's possible that the negative effect that we have detected will disappear at that point, because in secondary school, the students have a higher level of English,» says Carro, who also proposes another topic to be analyzed: find out what other factors can influence the program's results, such a the importance of the teachers» level of English.

«We used a mouse model of the KPro to, first of all, identify the inflammatory factors that cause damage to the eye, and then we also quantified the amount of nerve cell death in the back of the eye that mediates the optic neuropathy, and, lastly, we looked at blocking these factors with antibodies,» said Reza Dana, M.D., M.Sc., MPH, Director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Claes H. Dohlman Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.

Now, a study by researchers from UCLA and the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that the factors influencing children's readiness for kindergarten include not only whether they attend preschool, but also their families» behaviors, attitudes and values — and that parents» expectations go a long way toward predicting children's success throughout their schooling.

Other psychosocial factors, including a nonsupportive school environment, marital crises or psychological problems arising between parents, and poor parent - child attachment can also transform a latent tendency into a full - blown disorder.

«Exercise - induced irisin may not only act as an endocrine factor capable of promoting the browning of white adipose tissue, but could also regulate bone metabolism by autocrine mechanisms,» said Chen, who also serves as faculty in the Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology program at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts.

Using a third approach, neurologist David Hafler of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues also identified the IL7R variant as a risk factor in 1540 MS patients and their parents.

This search for protective rather than risk factors is part of a paradigm shift in Joslin's diabetes complications studies, says Dr. King, who also is Joslin's chief scientific officer and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«It probably does have some sort of genetic underpinning,» says Kevin McKown, MD, head of rheumatology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, adding that environmental factors usually also play a role.

It gets you out of your comfort zone of doing old - school squats and lunges, and challenges your brain, which is also a key factor in shaping up.

It is not just these factors that constitute an excellent yoga teacher training school; it is also the people, the culture and the sheer hospitability of these schools that places them a world apart from the rest.

The Chronic Candida Syndrome (also, Candidiasis Hypersensitivity Syndrome [CHS], or Candida Related Complex [CRC]-RRB- is characterized by a collection of diverse symptoms, and there are several schools of thought about contributing factors.

Drs. Rajita Sinha and Ania Jastreboff from Yale University School of Medicine have extensively reviewed the published research on this topic in «Stress as a common risk factor for obesity and addiction» in the journal Biological Psychiatry (May 2013), and the topic is also researched by other experts in this field.

Other factors such as changes to government pension contributions and even changes to neighbouring schools» admission policies can also impact on pupil numbers.

HCSS Budgeting also allows all school level changes to be inputted manually into the system, so those planning the budget can have full visibility over all national and local changes that need to be factored in.

Psychologist and education academic Dr Amanda Mergler, Senior Lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, and co-author Professor Susan Walker, also of QUT, has published the results of a study into the factors that affect parents» decisions about whether to voluntarily delay their child's entry into formal schooling.

For high schools, there will also be a «Prepared for Success» component, based on factors such as dual - enrollment and AP and IB tests.

As mentioned previously, a large literature inspired by the Coleman Report has compared outcomes of individuals exposed to different levels of school spending without accounting for the possibility that changes in spending may have resulted from factors that also directly affect the outcomes of interest.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline - specific words, but these texts also include many «all - purpose» academic words, such as factor, structure, function, and interpret.

It also urges that the Carnegie unit, the long - standing gauge of whether students graduate and one of the factors that shape the way the school day is planned, be redesigned or abolished.

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

Distance is also a factor; move a school a mile farther away from a family and its odds of being top - ranked drop by 40 percent.

The nine design teams in Reeder's freshman - sophomore geometry class presented their school designs, plans, and budgets to Seattle architects Kirk Wise and Mark Miller, who were charged with selecting the project with the best concept, best use of site features, and best building and classroom design; cost was also a factor.

Hinton examined the interplay of happiness, motivation, and success in a K — 12 setting, and she also looked at the school factors that support student happiness.

Here you must control for the fact that the existence of a charter school may reflect factors in an area that also determine the area's demand for certain teacher characteristics.