Sentences with phrase «from academic performance»

Fathers have a profound and far - reaching impact on their children, shaping everything from academic performance and impulse control to social development and the capacity for empathy.

Each fund maintains individual requirements for application, ranging from academic performance and financial need to high school attended, major selected and hometown.

The School Quality Improvement Index, which was developed by the California Office to Reform Education (CORE), is a significant jump away from the Academic Performance Index (API), which was discontinued after 2013 as the state transitioned to the Common Core - aligned Smarter Balanced tests, which debuted last year.

Scores analyzed included those from the Academic Performance Index (API), Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), Annual Measurable Achievement Objectives (AMAO) and the California English Language Development Test (CELDT).

Charter school trends in performance are stable since the transition from the Academic Performance Index (API), as charters continue to positively serve the most historically disadvantaged and vulnerable students.

According to the California Charter Schools Association, the latest numbers from the Academic Performance Index — the official measure of how well schools are progressing toward state goals — show that 64.4 percent of charter schools achieved gains from 2003 to 2004, compared to 61.1 percent of non-charter schools.

By the 1960s, however, that sense of urgency had faded and the focus of reform had turned away from academic performance.

We have long known that interactions with parents, caregivers, and other adults are important in a child's life, but new evidence shows that these relationships actually shape brain circuits and lay the foundation for later developmental outcomes, from academic performance to mental health and interpersonal skills.»

Not exact matches

Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.

More plausible and more troubling is Ravitch's claim that «test - based accountability... removes all responsibility from students and their families for students» academic performance.»

They range in age from 11 to 21, come from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds, exhibit a range of academic performance (from excellent to failing), and vary substantially in personality and social characteristics.

One can think of many other ways in which shame follows from our failure to measure up to familial, societal, academic, ethical, psychological, and perhaps especially, «religious» standards of performance.

He's officially responsible for monitoring their academic performance but often winds up advising his charges, most of whom are Hispanic, on everything from girlfriends to job applications.

Guttentag, of Connections Learning, says he was pleasantly surprised by the Honey Badgers» academic performance last semester, though the team grade point average fell marginally from 3.2 to 3.18, according to Sills.

From the age of 2 years, quality early childhood education is actually associated with improved academic performance.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

In recent years we've heard that gathering regularly for a family dinner has all kinds of beneficial effects on our children, from improved academic performance to a lower incidence of drug use.

When children come from homes where there is abuse, domestic violence, an incarcerated parent, or a parent with drug or mental health problems, they don't get that kind of attention and suffer the consequences: higher risks of later - life depression, adolescent pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, and poor academic performance.

Since good behavior in schools generally translates to more time teaching and more time on task, cutting or reducing recess time could affect everything from test performance, to grades, to academic progress.

Advocacy From attendance and behavior to academics and overall performance, research shows healthy children do better in school.

While you may find it challenging to pull your little ones away from their iPad or Xbox, the truth is that playing Minecraft (and video games in general) can be beneficial for your kids on many levels, including problem solving, building self - confidence, enhancing creativity, understanding teamwork and improving academic performance.

In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.

Over the period from 8 to 18 years, sample members were assessed on a range of measures of cognitive and academic outcomes including measures of child intelligence quotient; teacher ratings of school performance; standardized tests of reading comprehension, mathematics, and scholastic ability; pass rates in school leaving examinations; and leaving school without qualifications.

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Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

I even found an academic abstract from a paper by Gina Masullo Chen that says the term «continues the culturally ingrained performance of motherhood women learned since childhood, and, in so doing, holds women captive in this subjective norm that may not fit them».

The DOE had cited poor academic performance as its reason for proposing to trim grades from Wadleigh, which was designated as a Renewal School in 2015.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is distancing himself from the school board and its fight with State Education Commissioner John King over poor academic performance and low graduation rates.

The previous studies linked a belief in free will in people from Western countries with increased happiness, better work performance and academic achievements and less negative behaviors such as cheating.

Some academics may find themselves silenced, censured, or threatened by a less egregious but nonetheless career - breaking attack: being fired from their positions, in most cases under false pretexts such as budget cuts or unfounded claims of fraud or poor performance.

The 2004 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Mental Health Survey, from the Berkeley Graduate and Professional Schools Mental Health Task Force, concluded: «Almost half of all graduate students participating in this survey reported an emotional or stress - related problem that significantly affected their well - being and / or academic performance in the last twelve months.»

Dr Arthur Poropat from Griffith's School of Applied Psychology has conducted the largest ever reviews of personality and academic performance.

To resolve this, the researchers conducted so - called meta - analyses: From relevant databases of scientific publications, they identified 59 studies that tackled the correlation between social media use and academic performance.

Veterans returning from overseas combat often struggle with trauma - related psychological distress that can affect their daily lives and academic performance.

«Music lessons improve children's cognitive skills and academic performance: Cognitive skills developed from music lessons appear to transfer to unrelated subjects, leading to improved academic performance.»

Strikingly, children from low - income families, who typically don't perform as well at school, show similar academic performance as children from high - income families.

It diverts attention from the rigors of science and undermines an individual's work or academic performance.

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven, for the first time in history, that physical fitness in children may affect their brain structure, which in turn may have an influence on their academic performance.

«Our work aims at answering questions such as whether the brain of children with better physical fitness is different from that of children with worse physical fitness and if this affects their academic performance,» Ortega explains.

This led Alwyn to formal academic studies in Sports Performance at West Lothian College and then progressed on to receiving an honors degree in Sports Science from Chester College, the University of Liverpool.

the intentionally funny scenes — notably an academic party that segues seamlessly from intellectual bitchfest to literal bloodbath — and for Taylor's riveting performance.

On average, today's teachers are older and hence their preparation for teaching occurred when academic achievement was not recognized as the primary purpose of schooling; their professional experience was in institutions that did not demand academic performance from them or their students.

Examining this teaching framework, used in an elementary school, a high school, and a community college, the documentary highlights research and results from leading neurocognitive experts, and how this framework can greatly increase academic performance.

The playbook, written by our adjunct fellow, Heather Staker, draws on findings from a pilot project focused on helping teachers motivate their students to high levels of academic performance.

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

But it is also plausible that schools will develop strategies for improving the grade they receive from the state without actually improving the academic performance of students.

Many pundits point to the fact that in the United States, teachers tend not to be drawn from the top of the academic - performance distribution, as is the case in countries with higher student achievement, such as Finland, Korea, and Singapore.

Whatever parents are seeking for their children — improved academic performance, more engaged teachers, social acceptance, freedom from bullying, special needs programming, and so on — they are more likely to find it when they have more than one choice.