Sentences with phrase «between lower education»

This study found persisting associations between low education and income and self - reported diabetes after controlling for obesity and physical activity in women.

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Interestingly, the connection between expectations and experimental choices is weaker for respondents with low education, numeracy, and financial literacy.

Education SICs have fluctuated in the past five years between a high of $ 0.15 billion (2013) and low of $ 0.11 billion (2014 and 2015).

Certainly other factors are at play here, from low levels of education to strong kinship systems, but it's likely that Christian and Muslim teachings celebrating the generation of life and customs and rituals honoring the sacrifices of fathers and mothers play a role in accounting for the close connection between fertility and faith around the globe.

In a digital world, we may all witness the collapse of formerly compelling distinctions between high and low culture, theological education and spiritual formation, and theory and praxis.

In a climate of increasing separation between upper - and lower - class values in the Jewish society of first - century Palestine (witness the «pagan» lifestyle of the Herodian ruling class), the Jesus movement called for a return to the traditional kingly values of power, wealth and education — but now possessed by the lower classes.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

In New York City, between 2007 and 2010, Fryer oversaw and evaluated a program jointly administered by the city's education department and its teachers union that distributed $ 75 million in cash incentives to teachers in some of the city's most low - performing schools.

• Factors connected with less contact include low socio - economic status, low education, geographical distance, father having lived only briefly (or never) with the child, either mother or father re-partnering, high conflict between parents (Amato & Sobolewski, 2004; Maclean & Eekelaar, 1997).

Parent - Child Home Program is for families who enroll their children between 18 months and two years of age, participate for two years, are challenged by low levels of education, poverty, literacy and language barriers, and / or are isolated and not accessing community services.

Rutland has the lowest ratio of home educated children; 0.08 % of children between the age of 5 - 16 receive their education at home.

Absolute inequality measures reflect not only inequalities across socioeconomic subgroups but also public health importance of the outcome in consideration, and they could provide different, even contradictory, patterns of inequalities from relative measures in a given outcome.21, 22 However, measuring absolute inequality is often neglected in health inequalities research.23 Relative risks (RRs) and absolute risk differences (RDs) of discontinuing breastfeeding among mothers with lower education compared with mothers with complete university education (reference category) were separately estimated in the intervention and in the control group and then compared between the two groups.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

A father's antisocial behavior, such as having a DUI, boosted divorce risk, as did a discrepancy in the amount of education between partners, such as a mother having a low level and a father a high level.

A teacher rebellion in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over education cuts and conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.

But thinktank Civitas called on ministers to lower high teenage conception rates by focusing on education and the fundamental link between sex and reproduction.

Gaps also narrowed between low and and high needs districts, students with disabilities, and students who don't speak English proficiently, but Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia said in a statement that closing these gaps would be a priority for her department in the coming years.

A significant share of the gaps in income, education, crime, and other socio - economic indicators between Southern states and non-Southern states in the U.S. is associated statistically with having larger African - American populations, although Southern whites are still lower in income, less likely to receive educations, and more likely to commit crimes, etc. than whites in metropolitan areas outside the South.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

This diversity gap between students and teachers creates a divide from the very beginning of a student's education that stifles progress and doesn't empower them to overcome the low socioeconomic backgrounds they often come from.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Unveiling the Liberal Democrat education policy for the party's general election campaign with a keynote speech in London, Mr Clegg said that the link between deprivation and low achievement remained, despite Labour's investment programme.

The DOE will present the new zoning proposal, which will also cover the Village and Chelsea, in addition to lower Manhattan, at a District 2 Community Education Council meeting Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at M.S. 104, Baruch Middle School, 330 E. 21st St. between First and Second avenues.

Negotiations have resumed between the U.S. Postal Service and the New York City Department of Education, in a deal that would turn the Peck Slip Post Office in Lower Manhattan into a 400 - seat elementary school, according to DNAinfo.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

Establishing a relationship between low levels of second - hand smoke exposure and increased YLL offers further evidence that stricter legislation establishing smoke - free areas, together with education efforts in low - income and minority communities, is needed.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the neducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the nEducation and an author of the new study.

The report does note that «postdoctoral salaries are relatively low» and that «graduate students are sometimes discouraged by a perceived mismatch between education and employment prospects in the academic sector.»

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

By age three, the language improvement of low - income children attending early education and care has led to a significant narrowing of the gaps in the language skills between low - income and high - income children

While lower income and education among minorities have been linked to poor health for decades, this study focused just on the connection between financial worries and poor health.

The study also found that factors including family background, health, home learning, parenting and early care and education explained over half the gaps in reading and math ability between children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic strata.

Halloway's analysis found the association between participants» actual physical activity and gray matter volumes remained after further controlling for age, gender, education levels, body mass index and symptoms of depression, all of which are associated with lower levels of gray matter in the brain.

However, despite the gains in life expectancy seen across China, thought to be linked to increasing GDP and improved maternal education, large inequalities between provinces remain, with life expectancy around 10 years lower for both men and women in some provinces in the west part of China, comparable to less developed countries like Bangladesh.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Much of the discussion concerning American education policy focuses on the achievement gap between high - and low - performing students.

Education Week «s equity rankings depend on measures of the spread between higher - and lower - spending districts.

In this country where critics and the public often cite the low quality of education, especially for the poor, localized funding for public schools and a proliferation of expensive private schools creates a vast divide between poorer and richer students» schools.

To put these results in perspective, the education gap between children from low - income and nonpoor families is one full year.

In this economy, full scholarships are few and far between, and most families, even low income and working class families, will be expected to make some kind of financial contribution to their children's education.

Second, I want to raise awareness about the inequities in our public education system, and the unconscionable achievement gap between children from low - income and high - income communities that has developed as a result of these inequities.

There's a well - proven correlation between education and lower crime rates, reduced recidivism, and healthier communities, Stern reminds us.

EN: In the past two decades, education policy has emphasized closing the achievement gap between low performers and high performers by raising the achievement of the low performers.

The release of the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading and mathematics shows widening gaps between the highest and lowest achieving students in America, underscoring a continuing need for investment in efforts to make education systems more equitable.

Links between adult basic education classes and other worker training programs are weak, with workers who enter Department of Labor training programs with low skills typically not allowed into training programs and not referred to the DOE - based Adult Basic Education syeducation classes and other worker training programs are weak, with workers who enter Department of Labor training programs with low skills typically not allowed into training programs and not referred to the DOE - based Adult Basic Education syEducation system, and

Given the enormous changes taking place in the world, the current education achievement gap between low - income and affluent students, and the logical nexus between a nation's economic strength and the quality of its public education system, it is incumbent on our country to put in place a national education strategy.

For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

Drawing on a study by Stanford education professor Sean Reardon, Ladd says that the gap in reading achievement between students from families in the lowest and highest income deciles is larger for those born in 2001 than for those born in the early 1940s.

You can draw a straight line... between unfair funding, serious resource deficiencies, particularly in high - poverty schools and districts across the country and low outcomes,» said David Sciarra, executive director at Education Law Center.