Sentences with phrase «economic background when»

Tilles said local tests would take into account socio - economic background when calculating student performance, and that those calculations would include whether English is a student's first language.

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Trump has long said his background in real estate and numerous business ventures give him unrivaled expertise when it comes to rebuilding the U.S. economy, which has seen weak economic growth since the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009.

I long for our communities to be a tangible representation, a sign along the road, of what it looks like when men and women of all ages, nations, experiences, intellectual abilities, socio - economic backgrounds all gather together to glorify God.

The epistles would suggest that when you throw together a group of people from vastly different ethnic, religious, socio - economic, and religious backgrounds there is going to be some serious friction.

Coleman Report had concluded that «schools are remarkably similar in the effect they have on the achievement of their pupils when the socio - economic background of the students is taken into account.»

Higher education is evolving into a caste system with separate and unequal tiers that take in students from different socio - economic backgrounds and leave them more unequal than when they first enrolled.

We worked with the Cambodian government to provide the technical background to allow them to set up the Seima Protection Forest which is in eastern Cambodia — really wonderful area for wildlife about the size of Yosemite — and set up strictly for the protection of carbon, when it was being deforested by people in search of economic well being.

Most daters gravitate towards what they know when they are meeting potential dates — like those with the same education, socio - economic or religious background.

PISA results show that when students discuss money matters with their parents, they have significantly higher financial literacy skills, even after accounting for differences in socio - economic background and their performance in other subjects.

Cultural immersion is especially helpful when the teaching force and student body come from different cultural and / or economic backgrounds.

The children, who ranged in age from 7 to 13 years when the study began, come from a diverse set of socio - economic backgrounds.

To the dismay of federal officials, the Coleman Report had concluded that «schools are remarkably similar in the effect they have on the achievement of their pupils when the socio - economic background of the students is taken into account.»

Many parents were also worried about the impact of economic integration on school climate, and several parents were worried about the bullying that could take place when mixing kids of different backgrounds.

There is little evidence that pupils from low socio - economic backgrounds are more likely to succeed against the odds when academic selection is used to sort pupils into different secondary schools.

When we address the low graduation rates and underlying literacy issues facing young men of all socioeconomic backgrounds, we are also helping high - performing young women of all races and economic backgrounds succeed.

And while there was only a small variation in student performance that could be attributed solely to the level of resources, there was an 18 % variation in results when both resources and the socio - economic background of students were taken into account.

One way of achieving this may be to make greater use of «contextualised» admissions, to take account of the socio - economic background of potential candidates when considering their applications.

http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2016/11/non-association-private-schools-less-likely-to-be-good-or-better-than-state-schools The OECD found that UK state schools outperformed (yes, that's right, outperformed) private schools in the 2009 PISA tests when socio - economic background was taken into account.

When I served as student body president at AU and began working on the issues I had always cared about — gender equity, racial justice, opportunity regardless of economic background, and, yes, LGBTQ equality — it became clear that making a difference in the world wouldn't diminish or dilute my own pain and incompleteness.

«When people are training to be library supervisors, there is very little out there to help you learn to do that job and with today's economic conditions, school districts are cutting back and people who have no background in library [science] are now in charge in libraries,» says author Cynthia Anderson, also associate superintendent for educational services at Shawnee Mission (Kansas) School District.

«What's impressive is when a college helps students do far better than would be expected from their academic and economic backgrounds,» Money says of its Best Value - Added College list.

But, in these gloomy economic times when young people's (particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds) debts spiral, their advice and support services downsized or removed, and... [more]

But, in these gloomy economic times when young people's (particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds) debts spiral, their advice and support services downsized or removed, and the looming legal aid cuts threaten the closure of the few specialised legal advice services that support them, what is to stop them falling into an even bigger access to justice black hole?