Sentences with phrase «between socioeconomic background»

«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.

The 15 - year research synthesis from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), «Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility for students.

«A research synthesis of the associations between socioeconomic background, inequality, school climate, and academic achievement.»

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.

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The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

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.

In analysing 28 studies that reported an association between socioeconomic status and bullying, and adjusting for bias, the review showed that bullies were not more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and were only marginally less likely to come from the highest socioeconomic levels (2 % less likely).

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.

To gain more insights into how people of different socioeconomic backgrounds use MOOCs, Hansen and Justin Reich of Harvard University looked at registration and completion patterns in 68 courses offered by Harvard and MIT, combing through data from 164,198 U.S. participants between ages 13 and 69.

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

There are some big disparities there, particularly between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and those from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds.

And while overall access to information and communications technology (ICT) has grown significantly in recent years, a digital divide (often linked to socioeconomic background) still exists between and within countries.

The links between a private education and healthy living habits persevered even after socioeconomic background, childhood health and cognitive ability were taken into account.

Lecture halls of hundreds of students are as much a feature of undergraduate education as an achievement gap between different races and socioeconomic backgrounds (PDF, 1.2 MB).

In Australia in 2012, 55 per cent of the observed between - school variance in PISA mathematics was associated with differences between schools in average socioeconomic background.

Each school was given a grade based on a comparison between its actual scores and its predicted scores, which in turn were based on its students» socioeconomic backgrounds.

-- According to findings released today by researchers at the Strategic Data Project (SDP), the gap in college enrollment rates between black students and white students in four large, urban districts disappears or even reverses direction once prior achievement and socioeconomic background is accounted for.

... the difference between advantaged students and disadvantaged students (those in the lowest quartile of socioeconomic background) is even larger: 90 score points on average across the OECD and 87 score points in Australia.

Its elementary model was recently the subject of a multi-year study that showed UChicago Charter is effectively addressing educational inequality and closing the achievement gap that has persisted between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

This latest report from OECD uses data from the 2012 PISA mathematics section to examine factors associated with the performance gap between students from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

The existence of a «socioeconomic achievement gap» — a disparity in academic achievement between students from high - and low - socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds — is well - known in educational research.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

What knowledge and skills do principals need to address large performance gaps between students from different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds?

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

As education leaders strive to promote excellence for all students, they confront sharply contrasting schools of thought about the best way to close achievement gaps between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Strong gradients of association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adult health have been consistently observed in a number of British, and other, populations at various stages within their life course, with outcomes considered including all - cause mortality, general health measures and specific causes of mortality and morbidity.1 — 10 This study continues to provide clear evidence for association between childhood socioeconomic deprivation and adult general health and mental well - being, even considered within a broad context of child well - being including other aspects of family background, health and development.

Family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early care and education factors explain over half the gaps in reading and math ability between US children in the lowest versus highest socioeconomic status quintiles, suggesting a need for comprehensive early interventions.

Associations between background socioeconomic variables and offspring conduct problems and depressive symptoms are presented in S3 and S4 Tables.

To examine whether the emotions in the emotion picture book were interpreted as they were intended, we asked 67 respondents (36 % male) between 20 and 63 years of age (M = 34.0, SD = 12.9) with a similar socioeconomic background as the participants in the main study to label the emotions of the children in the pictures.