Sentences with phrase «at academic achievement»

Just take a close look at academic achievement in today's high schools — overwhelmingly dominated by female students.

Most teachers have seen firsthand how students» emotions can enhance or undermine efforts at academic achievement.

The No Child Left Behind act is forcing school systems to take a closer look at the academic achievement of their elementary and middle school students.

Since coming to the Ed School in 2007 following teaching stints at schools in Harlem and at the academic achievement program she attended before starting private school, she has been active in the annual Alumni of Color Conference.

Not exact matches

You suggest that some of the most effective models of closing the academic achievement gap are found at the school - based level.

From Southern Baptist boycotts of Disney and theonomic tub - thumpers screaming blue murder from crackpot websites to Roman Catholic grandees assuming that their academic achievements require that the world take them seriously, Christians have proved adept at the ways and means of worldly «political politics.»

i think the whole world knows whats going on at Arsenal, lets not forget AW academic achievements (undergraduate degree at the faculty of engineering and took a master's degree in economics from the University of Starsbourg) basically he knows his shi7 when it comes to economics so his not the village idiot and knows exactly whats going on and equally guilty with the board if there is a blame

After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve aAchievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievementachievement.

This is most concerning because the time a family spends together «eating meals at home [is] the strongest predictor of children's academic achievement and psychological adjustment.»

Dinner conversations, trips, games, reading time, family sports, appropriate supervision, home organization, and daily routines all contribute to your child's academic achievement at school.

Conversely, over-parenting — where academic achievements are elevated above emotional needs — creates a disproportionate reliance on external affirmation, so the child doesn't possess the internal resources to overcome unexpected challenges and is liable to crumple at the first obstacle.

The objectives of the Erie County Fire Chiefs» Mutual Aid Organization's Memorial Scholarship is to enhance academic achievement at the college level for all firefighters of Erie County and their immediate family.

At 6:15 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina will attend the Remarkable Achievement Award ceremony at Citi Field to honor students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved academic succesAt 6:15 p.m., NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina will attend the Remarkable Achievement Award ceremony at Citi Field to honor students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved academic succesat Citi Field to honor students who have overcome personal obstacles and achieved academic success.

The Buffalo School Board is taking a hard look at all of the programs outside of the brick and mortar classrooms intended to help students do better in academic achievement.

At 7:30 p.m., the Manhattan Young Democrats, New York State Young Democrats Caucus of Color, New York State Young Democrats and The City College of New York's Urban Mentoring and Achievement Network host a panel discussion on race and privilege, The City College of New York, North Academic Center Room 1/201, 160 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan.

At the Y, we know that access to playgrounds throughout our communities provide kids with the opportunity to be physically active, which is essential for their health and academic achievement,» stated Kyle Stewart, Executive Director of the Alliance of New York State YMCAs, «We commend Senate Co-Leader Klein for his continued and progressive leadership to create strong communities by creating safe environments for kids to play outdoors, thereby leading toward a healthier New York.»

Perhaps most remarkably, «[f] ollowing the successful conclusion of a BRIDGE Fellowship and ensuring the academic achievements are attained at the required standards, Fellows will be appointed to a permanent academic post at the University of Birmingham, normally at Lecturer grade,» states the program's website.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

For one, she is the child of Chinese immigrants who hold their own demons at bay by relentlessly demanding the highest academic achievement from their daughter.

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.

Our aim is to explore how physical activity and fitness are linked to academic achievement, cognitive functions, brain properties and executive functions at different ages, both in children and adults.»

«One of the biggest difficulties that an academic faces when transitioning to industry is learning to deemphasize the individual achievements and maximize the team achievements,» says Paul Matthews, vice president of imaging at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Clinical Imaging Center housed at Imperial College in London.

Coming from Howard Beach, where none of his friends were focused on academic achievement, «I always felt like an underdog» at Bronx Science, he says.

In choosing schools, at - risk students place less weight on academic indicators, and low performing students are more likely to attend a school with low average achievement.

Cham believes that part of his drive to become an academic was the thrill of achievement, and he realized that being «this close» to fulfilling his dream of getting an academic job at MIT was «actually pretty good.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

I also saw this job as an opportunity to use the knowledge I had gained at university and to further my own academic achievement.

In all, about 62 % of the individual differences in academic achievement — at least when it came to GCSE scores — could be attributed to genetic factors, a number similar to previous studies» findings, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Depending on how many students at a given school live in poverty, strong parental networks have a favorable or inhibiting effect on the academic achievements of their children.

The therapies leave survivors at an increased risk for cognitive declines that reduce academic, social and work - related achievement.

«Where a child grows up in impoverished conditions... with limited cognitive stimulation, high levels of stress, and so forth, that person is more likely to grow up with compromised physical and mental health and lowered academic achievement,» said Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

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.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

The agreement, which was ratified by 92 % of voting DFA members, «represents a significant achievement for DFA,» DFA president Andrew Wainwright tells Next Wave Canada, «though at the price of great disruption of the academic year and shredded labor relations.»

Davis - Kean and colleagues Jacquelynne Eccles, also of the University of Michigan, and Miriam Linver of Columbia University presented their findings in a paper titled «Influences of Gender on Academic Achievement» at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in New Orleans on April 13.

«A number of labs have reported differences in children's brain structures as a function of family income, but this is the first to relate that to variation in academic achievement,» says Kimberly Noble, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University who was not part of the research team.

Upon graduating he was given two awards, one from the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University and an award from the Society for General Microbiology for academic achievement.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

However, the fact that we demonstrated associations between cognition and cardiovascular fitness but not muscle strength, the differential link to some domains over others, and the longitudinal prediction by cardiovascular fitness at age 18 y on subsequent academic achievement speak in favor of a cardiovascular effect on brain function.

The relationships between cardiovascular fitness at age 18 y and subsequent academic and educational achievements were determined using Cox proportional - hazards regression models.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

The company is passionate about praising and encouraging children at school in order to boost their self - esteem and support their academic development, as a «Well Done» sticker, «Teacher's Award» badge or «Super Effort» stamp may seem small, but they make a child feel really proud of their achievements, spurring them on to work harder.

I also run the tutoring center at Compass Academy, the Academic Achievement Center, and teach a few sections of photography.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievAchievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievementachievement gaps.

The research, published in Child Development, found the cognitive advantages of bilingualism tend to help with academic achievement only if English skills are sufficient at school entry for the child to be fully engaged.

While the positive impact of the arts on academic achievement is worthwhile in itself, it's also the tip of the iceberg when looking at the whole child.

It is the first research to look at child reported bullying and using NAPLAN as the marker of academic achievement.