Sentences with phrase «from educational achievements»

Research shows us that resolving or preventing conflict can positively impact child outcomes, from educational achievements to physical health [1].

«From educational achievement to emotional development and healthy self esteem, the contribution that dads make to the life and the development of children is unique and enduring, and Parentchannel.tv's National Dads Matter Week is a great way to recognise this.

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The very simple CNN poll was different from the questions posed in the study and was based on more educational achievement and socioeconomic status than anything.

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.»

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.

Collectively, the evidence from longitudinal research, clinical trials, and neurodevelopmental research is beginning to provide a compelling case for the view that breastfeeding may have longer - term effects on individual cognitive ability and educational achievement.

It also calls for greater input from parents, arguing for a stronger relationship between parents and schools to promote educational achievement.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

«Marginalisation of the «less gifted» does not follow from finding genetic influence on educational achievement,» says Plomin.

A new report from the Royal Society on improving U.K. science and mathematics education contains a lengthy wish list: Upper - level students should take a lot more science and math; more college graduates with science degrees should go into teaching; current teachers should continually upgrade their skills and have a larger voice in the educational process; and the government should de-emphasize the high - stakes tests used to measure student achievement.

«Marginalisation of the «less gifted» does not at all follow from finding genetic influence on educational achievement.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

However, lower peer achievement is a potentially important channel through which a high poverty rate could affect the educational environment, and from a policy perspective what matters is the total effect of a high poverty rate.

The upcoming EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

The volume — which includes contributions from a distinguished team of economists, sociologists, and experts in social and education policy — analyzes the ways in which a variety of social and economic conditions affect school performance and educational achievement.

America is awash in achievement «data,» yet the truth about our educational performance is far from transparent and trustworthy.

School Wastage Study - National Absenteeism in Armenia «The term, school wastage, can be broadly defined as lack of demonstrated school success or realized educational gain (or value), measured as output of student achievement, outcome of social and economic returns, from provided educational services, finance, and other schooling related consumption of resources.

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.

o To keep costs low, the system must rely primarily on existing data (such as student achievement, grade retention, attendance, graduation, college going and student log files from educational software providers).

Given the various social, economic, and educational factors at work before and after NCLB was implemented, it is difficult to draw strong conclusions about the policy's impact from a simple comparison of achievement trends before and after enactment of the law.

Regardless of the precise mechanism at work, my results from Wake County suggest that later start times have the potential to be a more cost - effective method of increasing student achievement than other common educational interventions such as reducing class size.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

«Our contributors inspire different roles for families in the quest for educational equity: from «parenting for high achievement» to participating in program evaluations; from interacting with children in informal and formal learning spaces to sustained advocacy in social and educational policy.»

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard in measuring educational achievement, inched up slightly through the Bush administration, but NCLB was far from a magic bullet.

In a previous study, Hill followed the progress of students from the seventh through the eleventh grade, tracking the impact of parental involvement on variables such as behavior, achievement, and occupational and educational goals.

In this essay, I use interview data collected from the Baltimore site of the MTO program to consider possible reasons MTO did not have the expected results for educational achievement.

But many factors can influence a state's educational performance, from changes in state policies to changes in their demographic makeup, making it extraordinarily difficult for researchers to isolate any one cause for an increase in achievement.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Educational researchers are working with game manufacturers to create a new brand of «serious games» that have the potential to capture and stream the kind of important assessment data that educators can use comprehensively, from tracking individual student achievement to determining national educational trends.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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

This EPE Research Center report examines a number of key issues facing students with disabilities ranging from the demographics of the population, educational settings, overrepresentation of certain student groups, achievement, high school completion, and transitions to adulthood.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

For example, they might consider only Identified Students as being from low - income families for reporting on achievement gaps between economically disadvantaged and other students or selecting schools for performance consequences, while identifying all students as being from low - income families for determining eligibility for supplemental educational services.

Title I. Title I of the ESSA changes from «improving the academic achievement of the disadvantaged» to «improving basic programs operated by state and local educational agencies.»

One commentator, reviewing dozens of studies of the educational benefits of desegregated schooling, found that the studies have provided «remarkably consistent» results, showing that: (1) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated schools as compared to racially isolated schools, (2) black students» educational achievement is improved in integrated classes, and (3) the earlier that black students are removed from racial isolation, the better their educational outcomes.

Likewise, it is critical that a desire for data traditionally gathered from meal applications does not stand in the way of districts and schools implementing community eligibility, which can help support educational achievement, reduce hunger, and improve children's nutrition and health.

Speaking just a few days after he moved from the Midwest to begin the fall semester, Diamond outlined the pressing educational and sociological issues he hopes to tackle in his new post.Among them: the K — 12 racial achievement gap.

«Results from Wake County also suggest that later start times have the potential to be a more cost - effective method of increasing student achievement than other common educational interventions such as reducing class size,» notes Edwards.

To be meaningful, achievement gains must result from greater student understanding, and they must be important in some educational sense.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

In this bi-weekly blog, I'll share my thoughts on educational assessment practices and stories from my work helping teachers across the country improve student achievement through learner - centric assessment practices.

This is the second year the Oakland - based educational policy, research and advocacy organization has issued its District Report Cards,» compiled from publicly available data to assign districts A-F» letter grades and rankings based on four key indicators: performance, improvement, achievement gaps and college - readiness.

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

If schools are to eliminate the disparities in learning opportunities and achievement from which students of color and students situated in poverty suffer disproportionately, then leadership preparation programs must prepare educational leaders who have the capacity to argue the following claims:

Researchers used composite achievement results from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA, as the performance metric, and weighed those scores against 63 «inputs,» or factors that could influence educational outcomes, such as teaching materials and technology, the quality of school buildings, and teacher training.

The Center for Student Achievement's inaugural report found that charter schools are meeting a need for educational settings not widely available in district schools, and that the data contradict the common misconception that charter schools attract, or «skim» only higher performing students away from district schools.

Set up by the social enterprise body Asian Trade Link, and with support from cricketer Imran Khan, the Rainbow School says it aims to turn round educational under achievement in inner - city areas of Bradford.