Sentences with phrase «education race between»

International test results such as those of the OECD have become surrogate measures of the future economic potential of nations, prompting a global education race between national education systems.

Not exact matches

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

In between is a steeply slanted line that links family form to education, income, and race.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said it was vital for Britain that the race to be PM should come down to a head - to - head between Mrs May and Mr Gove.

The other Green citywide candidates for Councilor - At - Large and Commissioner of Education received votes from between 24 % and 29 % of the voters in those multi-seat races.

«Links between individual characteristics, disability employment gap found: Employment gap influenced by age, marital status, race, gender and education level.»

The cancer patients and the controls — between the ages of 18 and 80 — were carefully matched by age, sex, race, years of education and occupation.

In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the neducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the nEducation and an author of the new study.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as age, education and occupational status, the researchers found that not only was there a 30 % increased risk of any arrhythmia with the highest number of races completed and the fastest finishing time, but also the risk increased by 10 % between each category for the number of races completed, i.e. there was a 10 % increased risk from the least exposed group of participants (those who completed only one race) to the next group (two races), another 10 % increase in risk to the next group (three - four races) and another 10 % to the most exposed group (five or more races).

Controlling for age, race, and ethnicity, education, marital status, and poverty, there were significant differences between pregnant and non-pregnant women in the relationship between health insurance and alcohol use and health insurance and tobacco use.

The third JAMA Psychiatry article by lead author Michael Schoenbaum of the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, examined the suicide and accident death rates in relation to basic socio - demographic and Army experience factors in the 975,057 Regular Army soldiers who served between Jan. 1, 2004 and Dec. 31, 2009, charting variations in the rates based on a variety of factors including sex, race, education level, and rank.

In 1890, the average adult had completed about eight years of schooling, and by 1960, it was nearly 14 years (Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology).

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

The survey, which gauges racial attitudes in schools a half - century after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down separate schooling for black and white students, found differences between teachers and students on questions of race and education.

For Schifter's students, that means choosing between two final projects: a mock Congressional markup on an education - related bill or a mock grant proposal similar to Race to the Top.

The study, Resegregation in American Schools, analyzes the latest data from the National Center of Education Statistics» Common Core of Education Statistics, and examines changes in racial composition in American schools, national patterns of segregation, the relationship between segregation by race and schools experiencing concentrated poverty, the difference in segregation in different regions and types of school districts, and the extent and segregation of multiracial schools.

H.G. Wells predicted that our future would be a race between education and catastrophe.

Finding that «local policy prerogatives and dire financial conditions trumped federal pleas for reform and led to the spending of massive amounts of aid on preserving the status quo and protecting existing jobs and programs,» Smarick urges policymakers to heed the lessons learned from that experience and to focus on reducing the gulf between reforms promised and reforms delivered when it comes to the Department of Education's $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top fund.

Lecture halls of hundreds of students are as much a feature of undergraduate education as an achievement gap between different races and socioeconomic backgrounds (PDF, 1.2 MB).

For black children, the relationship between race and special education remains positive but gets smaller in magnitude and becomes statistically insignificant.

In the age of globalization, when the world is becoming increasingly linked economically, it is necessary to develop education that will allow a real integration between people of different religions, nations and races.

As with the race and ethnicity variables, the relationship between each of these characteristics and access to services is not statistically significant different from its relationship with special education.

How do student and family characteristics mediate the relationship between race and special education?

In related work, Morgan et al. have investigated the relationship between race and special education services for speech or language impairments and found similar patterns.

The Department for Education is working with the Li Ka Shing Foundation and the highly respected Stanford Research Institute on a pilot scheme that uses computer programmes to teach maths interactively — for example, showing a race between two people on screen and inviting pupils to plot their time and distance on a graph, then adjust it for variables.

But between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, federal education accountability efforts have taken a very, very, very wrong turn.

The candidates» views on charter schools, teachers unions and education reform have turned the race for state superintendent of public instruction into an expensive proxy war between big labor and big donors.

Study Links Brain Anatomy, Academic Achievement, and Family Income MIT News, 4/17/15 «In recent years, the achievement gap in the United States between high - and low - income students has widened, even as gaps along lines of race and ethnicity have narrowed, says Martin West, an associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new studeducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an author of the new studEducation and an author of the new study.»

With our focus on closing the achievement gap between blacks and whites, framing reform as the «civil rights issue of our time,» and the attention and praise we have heaped on inner - city charter schools — one of reform's few bona fide success stories — we have tacitly made education reform a race - based endeavor.

After the sweetness - and - nice between New York State Education Department (NYSED) and the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to win $ 700 million from the federal Race to the Top fund last year (see my Education Next story), NYSUT yesterday sued the state's Board of Regents and NYSED's acting commissioner John King over the decision last May to ratchet up the importance of student test scores in a teacher's annual evaluation.

Education Week: Your work with teachers predates the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, but there was a lot of compatibility between the aims of that federal initiative and your grants.

In all, with the stakes high and changes already underway in public education, the governor's race has brought a clear choice between two distinct approaches as to how to improve and support the schools.

Finally, we describe some particular types of governmental collaboration, including P - 16 and P - 20 councils, and consider what the federal «Race to the Top» competition teaches us about a possible federal role in bridging the gap between America's K - 12 and higher education systems.

To overcome the achievement gap that still exists between poor and minority children and their more affluent peers, we must stay true to the law's core tenet — that all students, regardless of income, race, ethnicity or disability should have access to a quality education that prepares them for success in college and a career,» he said.

«The school venue was chosen because education is a major theme in the race between Malloy and Foley, according to state Democratic Party officials.»

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

It's not just in the race for the White House, though there are differences between the candidates on K - 12 education issues.

A few years before, American psychologist and education researcher Lewis Terman had drawn connections between intellectual ability and race.

The CTA's fight over Race to the Top brings out traditional political tensions between unions and charter schools — but also introduces philanthropists as a new force of power in the politics of education, said University of California, Berkeley, education professor Bruce Fuller.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan will divvy up the $ 700 million in additional Race to the Top money Congress gave him this year between a new contest focused on early education and the nine runners - up that lost in last year's high - profile state competition, the Education Department announcEducation Secretary Arne Duncan will divvy up the $ 700 million in additional Race to the Top money Congress gave him this year between a new contest focused on early education and the nine runners - up that lost in last year's high - profile state competition, the Education Department announceducation and the nine runners - up that lost in last year's high - profile state competition, the Education Department announcEducation Department announced today.

The behaviour occurs in a context where there is a real or perceived power imbalance between the pupil and the individual based on factors such as size, strength, age, intelligence, peer group power, economic status, social status, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, family circumstances, gender, race, disability or the receipt of special education

Florida proved that there was a clear correlation between Race and Income / Education levels, and made the case that insurance companies were indirectly using race as a factor, a practice that is illegal under both State and Federal guideliRace and Income / Education levels, and made the case that insurance companies were indirectly using race as a factor, a practice that is illegal under both State and Federal guidelirace as a factor, a practice that is illegal under both State and Federal guidelines.

We wanted to make sure that the lack of association between divorce and improved well - being for unhappily married adults was not an artifact of differences in age, race, education, income, or parental status.

Bullying behavior has been shown to vary with the child's race, age, and sex, 7,8,32 as has the amount and type of television viewing.35, 36 The association between bullying and socioeconomic status, including parental income and education, has not been explicitly explored, but socioeconomic status has been shown to be strongly associated with externalizing behavior generally.28 Socioeconomic status is also known to influence both television viewing and parenting style.22, 36 Model covariates therefore included the child's sex; race (Hispanic, African American, or non - Hispanic / non — African American); the child's age when the bullying question was asked in 2000; and the parents» income and educational levels.

While, for instance, responsibilities for education and health are shared between the Commonwealth, States and Territories, responsibility for record - keeping and access resides separately with each jurisdiction; that for juvenile justice and welfare lies with the States and Territories, and the Commonwealth has «special» responsibility for Indigenous people under s 51 (26) of the Constitution (the races power), as well as for Australia's international human rights obligations by way of its Executive power to ratify treaties and its power to «incorporate» them into domestic law under s 51 (29) of the Constitution.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

Finally, we examined the association between sociodemographic variables (child age, sex, race / ethnicity, maternal obesity, maternal education, poverty) and prevalence of having a chronic condition during any part of the 6 - year study period in multivariate logistic regression models that included all participants.

However, there were no differences based on race / ethnicity, maternal education, smoking status, low birth weight, or maternal IPV at baseline between those who completed the 36 - month assessment and those who did not.

Other factors that may influence parent — child relationship quality include each party's gender, race, marital status, education, self - rated health, neuroticism, and contact frequency between the parties.

Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between parenting style and overweight in first grade, controlling for gender, race, maternal education, income / needs ratio, marital status, and child behavior problems.