Sentences with phrase «by socioeconomic levels»

Earlier this year, the President proposed a $ 120 million program called «Stronger Together» that awards grants to school districts for efforts to integrate their student populations voluntarily by socioeconomic levels, which often results in racial integration as well.

Not exact matches

The rest of the world will want to separate you by race, by socioeconomic status, by education levels, by religion, by neighborhood, by what kind of car you drive, by the clothes you wear, by athletic ability.

It doesn't make you do anything: It amplifies your best and worst traits, all of which are shaped by your childhood, your socioeconomic status, and your education level, among other things.»

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Kraus's team tested the auditory abilities of teenagers aged 14 or 15, grouped by socioeconomic status (as indexed by their mother's level of education, a commonly used surrogate measure).

Although we addressed this issue in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed differences in patient outcomes.

The prospective relationship between psychosocial factors and risk of developing hypertension may be confounded or mediated by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors.47 In general, younger persons, blacks (except for TUI), women (except for ASC or hostility), and less educated individuals (except for TUI or ASC) reported higher levels of measured psychosocial attributes.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

This significant increase in residential sorting by income among families with school - age children would have likely led to far greater disparities in school resources by community socioeconomic status had SFRs not been an effective leveling tool.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

Pupils from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may be held back by their A Level subject choices when applying for elite university places, a study has found.

Although recent re-analyses have challenged the strength of the earlier findings, the fact remains that the influence of socioeconomic status on achievement is by no means uniform across nations, age / grade levels, gender, and subject matter.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Factors that differ across schools — such as rigor of course work, teacher quality, and the socioeconomic composition of schools — are all captured by school - level fixed - effects ηs.

Planners can gain additional insights by analyzing the performance of subgroups of students, in particular the learning progress of students of different socioeconomic backgrounds, ability levels, language experiences, ethnicities, races, and genders.

Much, but not all, of the racial and socioeconomic sorting we document is accounted for by differences in achievement, particularly at the high school level.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap when it's measured by students» socioeconomic status, with poor students performing almost three grade - levels below their more privileged peers, according to national exams.

According to a 2009 analysis by Erica Frankenberg and Genevieve Siegel - Hawley, 16 states had laws that permit or require charter schools to employ positive steps to bring about greater levels of racial and / or socioeconomic diversity.54

Report the progress of achievement in schools and districts by categories of student — e.g., grade level, racial and ethnic group, socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency, special education.

Beginning with the now - famous evidence reported by Coleman and his colleagues (1966), study after study suggests that socioeconomic status (SES) of families explains more than half of the difference in student achievement across schools; it is also highly related to violence, dropping out of school, entry to postsecondary education and levels of both adult employment and income.

Art League Houston (ALH) adds to the unique creative identity of Houston by serving as a hub for the appreciation of and participation in contemporary visual art - uniting a variety of audiences across cultural, gender, and sexual identities, age, level of engagement in the art community, professional success, and socioeconomic status.

If both Greenland and West Antarctica shed the entirety of their ice burden, global sea levels would rise by 12 to 14 m. Although these icecaps would not disintegrate within a century, the loss of even a third of their mass — quite plausible if the rate of polar ice loss continues to double each decade — would force up the oceans by at least 4 m, with disastrous socioeconomic and environmental consequences.

The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

Secondly, it is acknowledged that for understanding the determinants and development of behaviour and mental health information is needed at different levels, that is, social (e.g. socioeconomic background), psychological (e.g. temperament), and biological (HPA - function, DNA).18 Adherence to the second principle is demonstrated by the broad range of measures that has been included in the study (Table 2).

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents insocioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents inSocioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

reveals that couples in a low - income marriage are more likely to be hurt by mental health issues or other stressful life events than couples from a higher socioeconomic level.

We have investigated the extent to which interest in attending parenting programmes is determined by factors such as socioeconomic status, educational level, and the presence of behaviour problems among the children, in a survey of a representative sample of parents of 2 — 8 year olds in Oxford.

From an early age, she became concerned with «fairness» and was struck by how many doors appeared to be closed to people based on their education level, race / ethnicity / nationality and socioeconomic status.

In multivariate models simultaneously including ODD diagnosis and CU levels, controlling by socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sex, severity of conduct disorder symptoms and other comorbidity, high CU scores were related to higher levels of aggression, withdrawn, externalizing and global symptomatology, functional impairment and higher probability of comorbid disorders and use of services.

Results from a recent survey by the Pew Research Center draw parallels between socioeconomic forces and our level of «neighborly» trust, uncovering a near - even split: 52 percent of survey respondents trust all (or most) of their neighbors; 48 percent trust none (or only some) of them.