Sentences with phrase «found educational attainment»

The report found educational attainment by disadvantaged children had improved but the gap between them and their better - off peers has only got marginally better — by one percentage point.

Researchers have found educational attainment to be a higher priority among couples than ever.

Not exact matches

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

UN Women found that increased educational attainment for women and girls accounts for about 50 percent of the economic growth in OECD countries over the past 50 years.

The finding that fathers» education levels are actually more predictive than their income of their children's education success has led to suggestions in the US that developing low income fathers» educational attainment should be a serious goal — perhaps in preference to their employment (Yeung, 2004).

However, Ermisch and Francesconi (2002) find a small negative association between fathers» employment and children's educational attainment when heterogeneity between fathers is taken into account.

What they found was that fathers» level of education has the biggest impact on the likelihood of low educational attainment — itself (see below) a key factor behind poverty.

The researchers found that educational attainment is the most important factor in explaining poverty in the UK.

The study also found that prolonged breastfeeding had an impact on individual and societal levels by increasing the odds of improving educational attainment and even their earning potential.

An evaluation of Hawaii's Healthy Start program found no differences between experimental and control groups in maternal life course (attainment of educational and life goals), substance abuse, partner violence, depressive symptoms, the home as a learning environment, parent - child interaction, parental stress, and child developmental and health measures.25 However, program participation was associated with a reduction in the number of child abuse cases.

Some studies of children who attended preschool 20 or more years ago find that early childhood education programs also have lasting effects on children's later life chances, improving educational attainment and earnings and, in some cases, reducing criminal activity.

Later educational attainment mattered, but researchers said the findings highlight the importance of personality traits, intelligence and vocational interests in determining how well people fare in a changing labor market.

They found that the negative effect of sibship size (the amount of siblings in an immediate family) on educational attainment was cut in half between the beginning and middle of the 20th century.

«Our findings suggest that life insurance companies that acquire an applicant's credit score are also indirectly acquiring information about that applicant's educational attainment, intelligence and personality, right back to childhood,» the authors wrote.

The study found that parents of 3 - year - olds in Head Start had steeper increases in educational attainment, but not their employment by the time their children turned 6 years old, compared to the parents in the control group, whose children were not assigned to Head Start.

Kessler Foundation researchers have found that higher educational attainment (a proxy of intellectual enrichment) attenuates the negative impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on cognitive status.

They found that the relationship between parental divorce and later inflammation was mainly explained by adolescent material disadvantage and educational attainment, although the specific mechanisms remain unclear.

Ms Datta said: «One of the important and concerning findings in our study is the difference in educational attainment and job status between people who sought help for infertility and those who did not.

«A robust association has been found in the literature between birth weight and outcomes during adulthood, such as health, educational attainment, and earnings.»

The findings, while new among TBI investigators, mirror those in Alzheimer's disease research, in which higher educational attainment — believed to be an indicator of a more active, or more effective, use of the brain's «muscles» and therefore its cognitive reserve — has been linked to slower progression of dementia.

Scientists have found evidence that a genetic risk for low educational attainment is associated with...

An annual study by UNLV's School of Community Health Sciences and partners found that full - day kindergarten might be linked to higher levels of educational attainment and, in turn, healthier, longer lives.

MDRC also found no significant differences in postsecondary educational attainment between the two groups.

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).

We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

Our study finds the first rigorous evidence that we know of showing that an online degree program can increase educational attainment.

Building upon his past analysis of CCT programs in Bogota, Colombia, Harvard Graduate School of Education economist Felipe Barrera - Osorio has found that these programs — depending on their structure — can increase educational attainment for as many as eight years after the incentives were provided.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

After decades of educational attainment gains among African American and Latino students, American educators find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those gains for the students who can least afford it.

Updating his findings, McLanahan and Jencks report that «A father's absence lowers children's educational attainment, not by altering their scores on cognitive tests, but by disrupting their social and emotional adjustment and reducing their ability or willingness to exercise self - control.»

Booker, et al examine charter schools in Chicago and Florida and find significant benefits in educational attainment as well as higher earnings later in the workforce — at least for Florida charter students.

Our findings are consistent with some research on the efficacy of Catholic schools, which finds substantial positive effects of attending a Catholic high school on educational attainment.

Notably, they find that «the short - term effect of a small class on test scores is an excellent predictor of its effect on adult educational attainment.

They find that CTE participation is not strongly associated with educational attainment — CTE students are marginally less likely to enroll in college but no less likely to earn a degree — but CTE coursework does predict employment outcomes.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

More recently, the consortium found that freshman - year GPA predicts later educational attainment better than test scores.

Second, we find that cross-sector differences in observed teacher characteristics such as experience and educational attainment fail to explain any of the observed gaps in teacher effectiveness in higher - poverty settings.

Victoria Rideout, co-author of the study, said Tuesday,» One of the things I did find interesting is that for families that are connected — whether they're low - income or parents have low educational attainment — they're using technology in robust ways for educational purposes.

The researchers found that students assigned to high value - added teachers had higher educational attainment, earnings, and wealth as adults.

Miller (1998) found that high school grades had strong, significant relationships with earnings nine years after high school, for both men and women, even after controlling for educational attainment and school effects.

We find that postsecondary educational attainment has risen modestly over the past two decades, with greater gains in BA attainment in the 1990s and in certificate and AA attainment since 2000 (though attainment rose in response to the Great Recession at all levels).

Three studies have examined these effects so far and found positive effects on educational attainment for at least one subgroup of students.

When Phillip Jackson founded the Black Star Project in 1996, few school reformers had fully focused on the crisis of low educational attainment among young black men.

Job seekers who come to South Dakota will find that employee wages may vary significantly based on location and the educational attainment of a particular city's population.