Sentences with phrase «differences mean for education»

This promises to be a stimulating meeting to discuss what naturally - occurring individual differences mean for education and equality.

Not exact matches

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.

Their analysis suggests that «from the perspective of US science education and innovation policy, visa restrictions for foreign students should not be applied uniformly or on the basis of financial means; they ought to account for student - quality differences.»

In addition, in cases in which inclusion really means «mainstreaming» (special education students are «brought into» a regular classroom for certain periods of the day) or when special education professionals focus solely on special education students instead of supporting, and interacting with, all students, individual differences are magnified and social isolation is increased.

This article begins with a brief discussion about the difference between the two mindsets, what that means for education, and concludes with some ideas for how school leaders might seek to develop a growth mindset amongst their staff.

To illustrate what this analysis might mean nationally, consider Education Week «s calculation of spending per student, adjusted (albeit imperfectly) for regional cost differences.

These coefficients differ from the mean special education rates in Figure 1 because they refer to differences from the mean for whites, the excluded group in the regressions.

This difference manifests itself as two messages: an internal one, meant for the unions» leaders and activists, and an external one, meant for education policymakers and the public at large.

While it may seem like scribing provides an extra — and perhaps unfair — advantage for special needs students, this particular strategy can mean the difference between enabling the student to participate in general education and segregating the student into a separate classroom, depriving him of opportunities to socialize and participate in mainstream education.

«There is no greater meaning in life than to use the education opportunities you have to make a difference in people's lives, and doing that for a city is so tangible.»

Controlling for age at diagnosis and combined parental education, children in the intensive behavior analytic group demonstrated significant improvements in all areas assessed at follow - up, including an average IQ of 89 (41 - point improvement over baseline) and a 24 - point difference from the combined mean of the other intervention groups.

For me this means that when governments develop systems, be they education, health or any in other area, they have a duty to design such systems so that they accommodate difference, whether the people affected are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, refugees, have a disability or are gender different.

We expected this association between wedding guests and marital quality to be mostly related to having more economic means, but controlling for income and education (as well as race / ethnicity and religious differences, which we did not expect to be significant here) did not eliminate a strong association.