Sentences with phrase «consequences for academic achievement»

«A six - or seven - point decline in IQ may have substantial consequences for academic achievement and occupational potential,» says senior author Robin Whyatt.

«Over time, sleep deprivation leads to serious consequences for academic achievement, social behavior, and the health and safety of our nation's youth,» the Congresswoman added.

What research reveals about sleep deprivation and its consequences for academic achievement.

Not exact matches

One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.

This combination of sensitivity, caring, high expectations and structure has been shown to have the best consequences for children, who commonly display academic achievement, good social skills, moral maturity, autonomy and high self - esteem.»

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

«With so much focus on academic achievement for kids today, what might be the unintended consequences?»

Students, parents, teachers, and staff create and reinforce a culture of achievement and support through a range of formal and informal rewards and consequences for academic performance and behavior.

There is robust evidence that the EITC has quite large effects on children's academic achievement and attainment, with potentially important consequences for later - life outcomes.

While noncompliance is certainly a critical concern and risk factor, the overall costs of a poorly planned and executed parent communication strategy result in much more impactful consequences: lost dollars that could be spent furthering success in the classroom and a failure to actively engage all students and parents in a way that serves as a foundation for achieving sustained and long term academic achievement.

In a recent study, we calculated the consequences for economic growth, lifetime earnings, and tax revenue of improving educational outcomes and narrowing educational achievement gaps in the United States.1 Among other results, we found that if the United States were able to raise the math and science PISA test scores of the bottom three quarters of U.S. students so that they matched the test scores of the top quarter of U.S. kids (and thereby raised the overall U.S. academic ranking to third best among the OECD countries), U.S. GDP would be 10 percent larger in 35 years.