Sentences with phrase «background on their attainment»

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However, it is worth noting what the website says about it: «The review is taking place against the background (sic) On The Way to Life, of the re-examining the (sic) Religious Education Curriculum Directory and of embedding the second edition of the Levels of Attainment.»

And perhaps we can also start to be more aware of the persistence of social class in this country, where political leaders are drawn from a narrow social elite and where birth cohort evidence shows that parental background has a huge influence on academic attainment, health and labour - market opportunities.

This group on average scores much lower in terms of educational attainment and income and trends more female and minority in background.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

To support pupils with high attainment in academies, the Sutton Trust is calling for the government to create a fund to support successful initiatives for high attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to focus on supporting disadvantaged pupils of all attainment levels through the pupil premium.

We know, however, that both state migration patterns and the skills of interstate migrants are likely to differ depending on people's educational background, so we estimate NAEP scores separately for workers with different levels of educational attainment.

Once prior attainment and pupil background is taken into considering, grammar schools have no overall impact on pupils» attainment, according to a major new study from the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

Additionally, the Bill also places a duty on local authorities to reduce the attainment gap between pupils from different backgrounds.

The study considers the impact of the socio - economic background of young people on their educational attainment and post-16 choices.

That is, students who misbehave toward others don't go as far in school, but they earn more in the workplace if they come from more advantaged backgrounds despite that negative effect on educational attainment.

Our focus is on securing high standards of attainment for all pupils from all ethnic backgrounds and of different socio - economic statuses, ensuring that pupils are treated with respect and supported to reach their full potential.

The report also stated there was little support for the «notion that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to succeed if they live in a country with an academically selective secondary education system», based on the OECD's definition of resilience [which measures how many pupils in the bottom quarter of socio - economic status are in the top quarter of attainment].

This pooled pot will fund trials to evaluate teaching and learning approaches, as well as intervention programmes, solely focused on raising the attainment of EAL pupils from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and in particular those groups identified by the Strand / Murphy reports as most at - risk of under - achieving at school.

The waivers may allow for the possibility of states targeting gender for subgroup accountability (and thus, addressing the crisis of low educational attainment among young men of all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds) on their own.

Research shows that high - quality pre-school has a positive impact on children's lives: Adult alumni of high - quality preschools have higher education attainment, employment, and earnings, and are less likely to be involved in crime than adults from similar backgrounds who didn't attend pre-K as children.

«What we are really trying to achieve is great schools for all of our kids, no matter their zip code, ethnic background, educational attainment level of their parents, or anything else you can put on that list,» Larson said.

«So, even where overall attainment is high, we want schools to focus relentlessly on closing this gap by improving outcomes for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.»

However, where the research summarised suggests that an approach has a different average impact on the learning of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds compared to the learning of their better - off peers, the Toolkits» «headline» average attainment impact figure refers to the former.

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«We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment.

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