Sentences with phrase «economic disadvantaged students»

There are substantial equity concerns with this forced feeding of technology - based testing, with substantial concerns that underserved populations such as English learners, students with disabilities, and socio - economic disadvantaged students having less access to technology and thus being at a disadvantage due to the premature forced technology - based testing protocol, thus widening the perceived achievement gap for these students.

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One study concluded: «The achievement growth rates of Catholic school attendance are especially strong for students who are in one way or another disadvantaged: lower socio - economic status, black, or Hispanic.»

For universities, a major benefit of active learning is lower failure rates and possible increased retention of science students, including underrepresented minorities and students with economic disadvantages.

Our students have significant social and economic disadvantage and although our NAPLAN results indicate improvement greater than the state they are below state average, however we understand from experience that knowing where students are in terms of skills and developing a scaffolded learning program can make a difference.

In the Seattle system, a «basic student,» assigned a weight of 1.0, is a native English speaker with no special needs or economic disadvantage.

The awards recognize three public high schools that demonstrate excellence in academic growth and help disadvantaged students achieve their higher education goals despite social, cultural, and economic challenges.

As regards access to tertiary education, they are treated as if they are international students who are required by immigration policy to be self reliant and economically independent.9 South African social justice policies focus primarily on advancing the historically disadvantaged and such focus has an implication of excluding refugees from benefiting from socio - economic scheme.

Likewise, the typical student eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (a proxy for economic disadvantage) attends a school where almost two - thirds of students are also eligible for a subsidized lunch.

«There's a need to improve the effectiveness of interventions to reduce the prevalence of mental disorders in children experiencing socio - economic disadvantage and to improve the effectiveness of programs to help students.

It also broadened public understanding of the types of interventions that will elevate the academic, social, and economic outcomes of disadvantaged students in a manner that will give meaning to the notion of equality of opportunity.

Various subgroups of students, defined by ethnicity, gender, economic disadvantage, and need for special education, must be making comparable progress.

Although well - intentioned given the desire to maintain «the same grade - level academic standards for all students,» the economic forces described above and in our original article suggest that adherence to these guidelines is likely to hurt the disadvantaged students that the USDOE is trying to help.

Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost never a politically potent interest group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and economic boundaries.

Or consider the opening paragraph of the BBA mission statement, which claims to have identified «a powerful association between social and economic disadvantage and low student achievement.»

Kemple was first drawn to HGSE because of its record of faculty and alumni who work to improve the lives of students at risk of educational, economic, and social disadvantage.

«We have teamed up with the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources to give disadvantaged high school students the opportunity to learn about current projects such as drought programs, infrastructure projects and transport programs,» he said.

Social and economic disadvantage depresses student performance; concentrating disadvantaged students in racially and economically homogeneous schools depresses it further.

Money would then be available to bring needy schools up to 95 per cent of the government's schooling resource standard (SRS), which is calculated by taking a base cost for educating each student and adding money for disadvantage (such as coming from a low socio - economic background, being indigenous, or living in a remote area).

But as many students seek to ascend the college path, they confront a host of seemingly insurmountable barriers, including economic disadvantage, negative peer influences and family dynamics, and discrimination.

The conclusion: while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better - off kids held steady or continued to make progress during the summer — but disadvantaged students fell back.

Most states now combine student subgroups, previously identified by race, ethnicity, economic disadvantage, special education, and English language learner status, into opaque «super-subgroups» that are very purposefully less transparent.

While most WSFs weight economic disadvantage, they often give higher weights to other student categories, such as students with disabilities (SWDs), English learners (ELs), and foster care or homeless students.

«We must ensure that changes being made to our qualifications system do not unfairly disadvantage specific groups of students, including those with special educational needs or those from backgrounds of economic disadvantage.»

It answers these questions by looking the attendance of grammar schools by different socio - economic and ethnic groups; examining access to grammars for disadvantaged students and those from Just About Managing families, along with examining the proportion of privately educated pupils vis - à - vis state educated pupils.

Proponents view putting core academics first as a matter of social justice: If economically disadvantaged students lack essential literacy and math skills, then no amount of music or art will give them economic opportunity and self - sufficiency.

«It's the capacity of those systems to invest in those students from disadvantaged backgrounds» says Schleicher, the education director for the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), which administers the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) among its roughly three dozen member countries.

Middle - class schools are 22 times as likely to be high performing as high - poverty schools, in part because disadvantaged students face extra obstacles, but in part because economic segregation has an independent, negative effect on student achievement.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

That is, the greater the misperception of poverty, the more likely it is for 15 - year - old students» math scores to be predicted by their actual socio - economic status, and the harder it is for disadvantaged students at the bottom of the socio - economic ladder to score among the top students.

Broader, BOLDER Approach to Education (BBA) is described as «a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence - based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children's readiness to learn.»

24 percent of economically disadvantaged students were chronically absent, compared to 6 percent of those with no economic disadvantage.

«The gaps are too big in terms of achievement for students with disabilities, they are too big in areas of race, students with socio - economic disadvantaged backgrounds,» he said.

Mineola ISD serves over 1,600 students including 63 % living with economic disadvantage.

A key feature of our data generating process is that student achievement depends on a continuous measure of economic disadvantage.

If the socio - economic status of its students is factored into the ratings, however, Reo's grade moves up to an A. That's because 87 percent of the school's 189 students are «economically disadvantaged,» which means they qualify for a free or reduced price lunch.

However, 32 % of disadvantaged students in the United States performed above expectations scoring as well as the top quarter of students with the same socio - economic status across all countries and economies in PISA.

Disadvantage in education is a function of both the socio - economic characteristics of students, but also of the average socio - economic characteristics of their schools.

The distributions vary for students who are traditionally disadvantaged because of economic or language barriers:

, it began to issue state waivers that focused school improvement status on a Targeted Achievement Gap Group (TAGG) which was comprised of (a) students at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with Disabilitiestudents at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with DisabilitieStudents with Disabilities (SWD).

Mentored ethnically diverse students from socially and economic disadvantage backgrounds in after school homework program.

The Education Act 1998 defines educational disadvantage as «the impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools».

The program benefits a diverse racial and socio - economic population; more than 40 percent of students qualify as economically disadvantaged or low - income, and more than 35 languages are spoken in the district.

Noelene has been facilitating programs for 15 years to disadvantage children and youth in the low socio - economic areas, children and youth with disorders and disabilities and to all students K - Yr 7 in a School setting.