Sentences with phrase «educational achievement by»

Kindergarten disruptive behaviors, protective factors, and educational achievement by early adulthood

Yet the United States and Nebraska continue to have significant gaps in educational achievement by race and income.

Kin - dergarten disruptive behaviors, protective factors, and educational achievement by early adulthood.

These grants will support projects that strengthen environmental education through capacity building on a state - wide level or that advance educational achievement by implementing the goals of state Environmental Literacy Plans.

Adequate progress would be the average level of progress needed to bring a given student or group of students to a prescribed level of educational achievement by the end of a school year or a school career.

Not exact matches

New research published this summer by economists Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in the American Economic Journal found that policies that increased maternity leave did little to increase children's future educational achievement.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation that aims to foster economic independence by advancing educational achievement and entrepreneurial success.

We have been frightened into re-examining our educational system by the spectacle of Soviet achievement in science and technology.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

In 1979 television researcher George Comstock, in assessing the impact and achievements of the educational television series «Sesame Street» observed that, «We simply do not know what we thought we did, but the lesson appears to be that too much can be expected from a mass medium even when, by its own terms, it is performing superbly.»

Moreover, people in my social class define themselves by educational and career achievements, not cultural inheritance.

Indeed, that the data show the increase in death by self - destruction is not limited to whites with low educational achievement suggests that something else is at work — or at least something more complicated than lower economic achievement or increasing inequality.

According to Tough, who has investigated everything from neuroscience to educational psychology to discover the true predictors of high achievement, as a society we are so preoccupied by exam results that we are not bringing out the best in our children.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

Supportive parents had the best developmental outcomes, as measured by academic achievement, educational attainment, family obligation (considered positive outcomes), academic pressure, depressive symptoms, and parent - child alienation (considered negative).

She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.

The fringe, «Reclaiming the Promise for all Children and Young People» heard how the educational progress and achievements of children and young people have been blighted by rising poverty, and by education policies which have fostered inequality.

As a sixth form college principal I witnessed how the educational maintenance allowance (EMA) significantly improved attendance, retention and achievement and was helping to tackle some of the most deep seated issues by raising aspirations.

«Entice families to stay engaged in the educational system, by promising free college tuition, but most important, we used our resources to put various types of support in schools for students and their families to enhance opportunities for academic achievement,» she said of the program.

Important rights and entitlements have been removed such as the entitlement to be taught by a qualified teacher, the entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum and the entitlement to access educational experiences which promote opportunity and achievement and are not based on their parents» ability to pay.

«It is unacceptable that educational experiences that promote opportunity and achievement are limited by an ability to pay.

The most high - profile international test is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a survey of the educational achievement of 15 - year - olds organised by the OECD.

He was pleasantly surprised by the landmark and enviable achievements of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in the educational sector through his numerous interventionist initiatives,» the Bureau said

Under the new program led by AAAS, educational institutions commit to removing barriers to STEM achievement for women, minorities and people with disabilities through participating in a program of voluntary self - assessment.

The study was designed by Robert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and his colleagues, to tease apart the impact of genes and the environment on educational achievement.

Most studies so far have found that educational achievement is influenced by a combination of thousands of genes.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

A study co-led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people with genes for high educational achievement tend to marry, and have children with, people with similar DNA.

As a race - based educational achievement gap in American schools persists, a corresponding assortment of race - based health disparities follow proportionately, according to multiple studies cited by Anderson.

Conditioned by an educational system to become gold - star addicted, our self - worth is attached to achievement.

And, while the artistic language that once surrounded school - based practice has not been totally eliminated, mainstream educational discourse is now driven by words and phrases like accountability, achievement, school success, and recovery.

She has been a Distinguished Lecturer at ASCD national conferences, was honored as a Finalist for Distinguished Achievement Award for her educational writing by the Association for Educational Publishers, and writes extensively for professional educational journals as well as consulting for the media including Wall Street Journal, Education Week, USA Today, NBC News Education Nation, among others.

SAME seeks to close the gap in student achievement between rural and remote and urban areas by delivering live, interactive, sessions from broadcast studios via EDUSAT — a dedicated educational satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Much like the United States, education policy in Germany is not controlled by the central government, but by the states, where educational achievement varies.

But in Sweden both the profile of educational achievement and the profile of earnings is, by American standards, remarkably compressed and remains so.

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

Murray points to the fact that national gains in educational achievement, particularly for those beginning on the lower end of the distribution, have been very hard to come by in the past few decades: «If we confine the discussion to children in the lower half of the intelligence distribution (education of the gifted is another story), the overall trend of the 20th century was one of slow, hard - won improvement.»

Today, many believe that the continuing difference between the earnings of black and white workers is due in good part to differences in their educational achievement, as measured by tests of cognitive ability.

The concept of cultural capital theory was proposed by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean - Claude Passeron (1977) to explain differences in academic achievement among children in France's educational system in the 1960s.

A review of 25 schools supported by the Achievement for All Achieving Schools programme between 2011 and 2015, indicated that pupils with special educational needs (SEN), those eligible for Pupil Premium funding and low attainers consistently made progress at a higher rate than expected for their year groups.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

Most of the proposals to lift student achievement offered by Ladd and her Broader, Bolder colleagues ignore the many hours children spend at school, proposing instead a potpourri of noneducational services; those services that do have an educational component are to be offered either to preschoolers or to students during their summer vacation or after school.

If the policy goal were to equalize educational opportunity and / or to narrow achievement gaps, in retrospect America would have been better served by intensive kindergarten targeted on particularly needy kids.

What is clear, however, is that both Catholic schools and voucher programs for low - income families show stronger effects on students» educational attainment than on their achievement as measured by standardized tests.

Concerns over our educational system, fueled by our students» poor performance in international comparisons of achievement, have reinvigorated the call for early academic instruction as a remedy for inadequate teaching later on.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

«Our study suggests that the pressure put on families by this cut in benefits may also be working contrary to other policies that are intended to support child wellbeing and educational achievement, diminishing their effectiveness.»

The Minister said he was very encouraged by the findings of this study which show local children have a positive attitude towards educational achievement both at home and school.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».