Sentences with phrase «educational attainment from»

Instead she claims that the similar Milwaukee finding of higher educational attainment from vouchers is questionable because «75 % of the students who started in a voucher school left before graduation.»

Second, it elicited subjective expectations of each student's ultimate educational attainment from students» 10th - grade math and reading teachers.

Not exact matches

«The spectrum of tech - related occupations — from programmers to sales reps — is creating well - paying and quality jobs for New Yorkers of all levels of educational attainment,» says the study's author, Kate Wittels, a director at HR&A Advisors, a real - estate and economic - development consulting firm.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Association between breastfeeding and intelligence, educational attainment, and income at 30 years of age: a prospective birth cohort study from Brazil.

These women did not differ significantly from those retained to follow - up for race (P >.5), age (P >.7), marital status (P =.10), or educational attainment (P =.06), but they had significantly lower socioeconomic status (P =.01).

Clegg said: «We have, even after 12 years of Labour, one of the most socially segregated systems of education in the world, where the circumstances of your birth determine everything from your educational attainment to the length of your life.

One can not forget the wild jubilations by the youth of Adansi, the chants of support given him during his walk from the Mosque to the Market in Asawase and the warm embrace of the Chiefs and students of Bekwai when he inaugurated the brand new ultra-modern girls» dormitory block at the SDA Secondary school to accommodate 1200 girls; an investment aimed at bridging the gender gap in educational attainment in the area.

An April 2013 report released by the U.K. Higher Education Academy reported lower rates of progression to Ph.D. studies for undergraduates coming from a state high school, or from a family with parents of low educational or professional attainment.

SHARE contains information on the health, educational attainment, and household income of more than 120,000 adults aged 50 + from 27 European countries plus Israel.

Participating in an intensive early childhood education program from preschool to third grade is linked to higher educational attainment in mid-life, according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers.

The fact, noted by Aviv, that he comes from a family of modest educational attainment makes his swift ascent through elite academe — Harvard University bachelor's degree, UC Berkeley Ph.D. in 3.5 years followed by a tenure - track job, and tenure by 30 — all the more impressive.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

examines long - term sequelae resulting from a diagnosis of childhood cancer and its treatment, and health care relating to these late effects.This multi-study initiative is funded by a Canadian Cancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survivors.

Sun and his colleagues took into account more than a dozen health and demographic factors that could influence both drinking and aging (such as diet, smoking, educational attainment, and family history of disease), but it's still possible that the moderate drinkers differed in key ways from their peers.

The observed association between usual percentage of calories from added sugar and increased risk of CVD mortality was largely consistent across age group, sex, race / ethnicity (except among non-Hispanic blacks), educational attainment, physical activity level, HEI score, and BMI (Figure 2 and Supplement [eTable 1 and eFigure]-RRB-.

If we divide the period into three spans of about 10 years (1968 — 78, 1979 — 88, and 1989 — 99), we find that the estimated relationship between the single - parent family structure variable and educational attainment more than tripled in size, from -0.11 for the earliest cohorts to -0.43 in the latest cohorts (see Figure 3).

When a child has access to a computer and broadband internet at home, they have a seven percent greater chance of graduating from college — and by extension, the potential to earn greater income over their lives relative to educational attainment.

In the case of Democratic Republic of Congo, the decline in educational attainments was the result of a decades - long progressive collapse of governance — along with a drop in copper prices — that drove the DRC's GDP per capita down from approximately $ 300 per capita (in constant USD 2000) in the 1970s, to approximately $ 100 at the beginning of the periods of civil war that started in the late 1990s (Human - Security - Report, 2012:92).

Investigating the causal effect of school spending increases generated by the passage of SFRs, we conclude that increasing per - pupil spending yields large improvements in educational attainment, wages, and family income, and reductions in the annual incidence of adult poverty for children from low - income families.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.

Let's briefly review the results from the three rigorous examinations of the effect of private school choice on educational attainment.

Due to the high educational inequality evidenced in the previous section, Uruguayan youths face different situations in the labor market according to their educational attainment, being the most educated more protected from unemployment.

The percentage scoring at the advanced level is only 2 percent for U.S. students from families with low levels of educational attainment and only 4 percent for students from moderately educated families.

This disparity foreshadows a large difference in actual educational attainment: 49 percent of white students ultimately graduate from college, compared to 29 percent of black students.

The Sutton Trust report, «Background to Success», investigates patterns of academic attainment of more than 3,000 students whose educational outcomes were studied across different phases of school and pre-school from age three to age 18.

But for students attending four - year institutions, including students from low - income families, the private, non-profit sector plays an important role and may be in a position to contribute even more to the nation's educational attainment and economic mobility.

We therefore took measures of average educational attainment and average cognitive skill levels for as many countries as possible and examined their relationship to the average annual growth rate in the country's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from 1960 through 2000.

During this same period, inequality in academic achievement and educational attainments between children from high - and low - income families has also increased substantially.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Research from developmental and educational psychology has shown how these differences in treatment lead directly to differences in school attainment.

A newly released paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that spending on improved educational quality is more effective for degree attainment than using the same funds to cut the cost of tuition.

There's good news in the book, mostly that these young people are doing markedly better than their parents in terms of reaching a certain level of educational attainment (most graduated from high school), enrolling in postsecondary education, and finding employment.

That is, students who misbehave toward others don't go as far in school, but they earn more in the workplace if they come from more advantaged backgrounds despite that negative effect on educational attainment.

These findings confirm those from a variety of previous studies, which have shown that adjusting the data for students» socioeconomic status is usually enough to eliminate most or all of the difference between blacks and whites in educational attainment.

Bachelor's degree completion numbers come from the National Center for Education Statistics's Digest of Education Statistics, Table 104.20: «Percentage of persons twenty - five to twenty - nine years old with selected levels of educational attainment, by race / ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1920 through 2014.

Policymakers, researchers, and pundits can not simply identify a set of educational measures (test scores, non-cog measures, or educational attainment) and judge from afar which programs and schools are going to help students succeed later in life.

For instance, data from the U.S. Department of Education's National Household Education Surveys Program reveal that parents who are the least likely to say they moved to their current neighborhood specifically to gain access to the local schools are typically black, poor, have lower levels of educational attainment, or live outside of an urban area.

The EEF will deploy the extra money for a dedicated round seeking proposals from schools and others to find out what works in raising attainment during this critical and often difficult educational transition for many children.

For the sixth year in a row, Michigan's postsecondary educational attainment rate has increased — from 35.7 percent of 25 - to -64-year-olds possessing at least an associate degree in 2008, to 39.3 percent in 2014.

Michigan's postsecondary educational attainment rate has increased — from 35.7 percent of 25 - to -64-year-olds possessing at least an associate degree in 2008, to 39.4 percent in 2015.

Thirty years ago, the United States was the world leader in educational attainment, but the United States has fallen to 18th of the 26 industrialized countries in the proportion of students who graduate from high school.

The report describes the long - term effects of career academies on outcomes associated with the transition from adolescence to adulthood, particularly on labor market participation, educational attainment, and family formation, over the eight years following scheduled graduation from high school.

For the sixth year in a row, Michigan's postsecondary educational attainment rate has increased — from 35.7 percent of 25 - to -64-year-olds possessing at least an associate degree in 2008, to 39.3 percent.

For the sixth year in a row, according to census data, Michigan's postsecondary educational attainment rate has increased — from 35.7 percent of 25 - to -64-year-olds possessing at least an associate degree in 2008, to 39.3 percent in 2014.

Becoming a teacher in Rhode Island requires significant educational attainment, including at least a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution, but can be rewarding and pays fairly well.

A template for this identified by ministers is the system used in New York where schools are awarded a grade from A to F which attributes 85 % of marks to educational attainment and progress and 15 % to other factors.

For the first time in recent history, more than half of U.S. public school students come from low - income households, affecting both educational opportunity and attainment.

Retrieved February, 2016, from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/the-city-that-believed-in-desegregation/388532/ Using a formula that takes into account household income, family composition, educational attainment of parents, and other factors, Jefferson County has managed to create one of the more racially diverse systems in the country, and its approach to diversity is widely credited with contributing to a thriving local economy.

Apart from urging employers to make greater accommodations for dual income households, the only other practical antidote is to increase both the quality and quantity of educational attainment.