Parents define a successful school
largely by the socioeconomic status and race of its students; the ministry defines a successful school as one to which more and more people seek admission.
Given that there are large difference in
outcomes by socioeconomic status within broad income groups in the United States, this condition clearly does not hold in reality.
Critics at the time, however, noted that these outcomes could have been
predicted by socioeconomic status alone, and Terman's test missed some gifted individuals, including two future Nobel laureates.
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.
Allocation was concealed and performed after application of the prebirth exclusion criteria, stratified
by socioeconomic status with use of the New Zealand Deprivation Index 2006.
The presence of interracial partnerships is
hampered by socioeconomic status, gimcrack and even the fetishization of someone of one race by another; these determinants could play a role in how interracial couples see each other or what motivates the connection in the first place.
While national data do not allow one to examine chronic
absenteeism by socioeconomic status, existing research finds that chronic absenteeism is significantly more common among economically disadvantaged students.
Bennett - Britton added: «Traditionally, beneficial effects of marital status were thought to be mediated by either health selection,
confounding by socioeconomic status, or psychosocial mechanisms.
In addition, RFF believes that achievement
gaps by socioeconomic status must be eliminated for the city's educational system to truly achieve transformative change.
The first reason is that it relies on the same flawed understanding of our results outlined above (i.e., that eliminating differences across two broad income groups implies eliminating all
differences by socioeconomic status).
Societal issues can begin to impact students both in and out of the classroom, causing a disparity in academic performance between groups of students, especially groups
defined by socioeconomic status, race / ethnicity, and gender.
While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than
predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.
Early adopters included La Crosse, Wisconsin, which created a districtwide plan to balance school
enrollment by socioeconomic status in 1979, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, which made socioeconomic status the main factor in its controlled choice program in 2001.
About 23 percent of women of childbearing age are regular smokers, says Higgins, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Vermont, who adds that smoking prevalence
varies by socioeconomic status — particularly in terms of educational attainment.
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).
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.
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.
There are significant disparities in obesity prevalence among racial / ethnic groups and
by socioeconomic status.
This simple example illustrates that eliminating the average difference across the two groups will only remove all differences
by socioeconomic status if there are no differences in outcomes by socioeconomic status within the broad income groups.
Because there are large differences
by socioeconomic status among those in each income group (e.g., the wealthy tend to have better outcomes than the average non-poor person, and the very poor tend to have worse outcomes than those just above the poverty line) eliminating the average difference in outcomes across the two broad groups does not eliminate all differences by socioeconomic status within each group.
We also report that the reform had no systematic significant impact on either sorting by ability or
by socioeconomic status.
Specifically, they found that homework hours vary
by socioeconomic status.
Specifically, the United States had the largest increase — 12 percentage points — in the percentage of «resilient» students, defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted
by their socioeconomic status.
One of the foremost logistical barriers to integrating schools
by socioeconomic status is geography.
Similar backlash greeted a new school - boundary plan in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, that also balanced students
by socioeconomic status.
But de facto school segregation also persists because balancing student enrollment
by socioeconomic status, like most education reforms, is logistically, politically, and operationally difficult.
It is also unfortunate that the people in these MHPs are not driven to live there by choice but
by socioeconomic status.
It is generally accepted that mental health problems are unequally distributed across population strata defined
by socioeconomic status (SES), with more problems for those with lower SES.