Sentences with phrase «from school attainment»

In the aggregate, we call this broader measure the knowledge capital of states in order to distinguish it sharply from school attainment, or conventionally measured human capital.

Not exact matches

In a statement about the case, a spokesman for the Department for Education, said: «Schools are not allowed to remove pupils from sixth form because of academic attainment once they are enrolled.»

The report notes that education must prepare the 1.5 million young people who graduate each year from some level of schooling to join their elders in continuous striving for new attainments.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

Across England, DEMOS said that the attainment gap for free school meals pupils was 26.7 % in 2013 - 14, up from 26.4 % in 2011 - 12 but reduced from 27.5 % in 2010 - 11 when the pupil premium policy was introduced.

«Some schools will no doubt use the money effectively to improve attainment for children from poorer backgrounds.

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.

The research team found that infants born within a half a mile from a fracking site were 25 percent more likely to be born at low birth weights, leaving them at greater risk of infant mortality, ADHD, asthma, lower test scores, lower schooling attainment and lower lifetime earnings.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Adoption UK welcomes significant progress within the education sector in England - including the extension of the Pupil Premium funding (PPf) to adopted children - but our research suggests that more than 40 % of adoptive parents can not ascertain from their school how the pupil premium is being used to benefit their child's attainment.

Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst children from low income families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils who have poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.

«I would also encourage all schools to make full use of the PDG advisers and coordinators from the education consortia — they're there to help when it comes to making the best use of the funding and ensuring that we raise attainment across the board.»

Attainment in Scottish schools has been rated as above international averages in a review from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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.

With new frameworks in place to monitor how schools support health eating, Jo Wild of Food For Life examines the benefits that healthy school meals can have on pupil well - being and attainment, and why schools should be more engaged in cooking and learning about where food comes from.

[xxiv] We pool data from the 2000 - 2014 ACS surveys, restrict the sample to 25 -45-year-old high school graduates, and then regress ln (earnings) on degree attainment indicators as well as their interactions with race, gender, race, potential experience and experience squared.

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

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mSchool of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mschool district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

This was one of the key findings from the large - scale Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) study, which looked at typical ways in which TAs were being used in UK schools, and the impact they were having on pupil attainment.

Studying the association between academy status for primary and secondary schools and their pupils» attainment in the Key Stage 2 tests and GCSE exams from last year, NFER claims that there is no significant difference between the performance of primary academies and maintained schools.

Aimed at bridging the attainment gap for students, Progress 8 will capture the progress a student makes from the end of primary school to the end of secondary school, and as such level the playing field for all students.

Until 2015, when Ofsted Data Dashboard closed, Achievement for All collected average point score (APS) data each term from participating schools, as a measure of attainment across schools» target groups.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

More than 40 years after its inception, the General Educational Development Test has evolved from an emergency wartime measure to provide equivalency diplomas for soldiers drafted out of high school, into a certification of attainment that has won widespread acceptance among educators and employers.

Once prior attainment and pupil background is taken into considering, grammar schools have no overall impact on pupils» attainment, according to a major new study from the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

Many families find that when their children break up from school, it's four times more expensive to go take a break, however, the Department of Education has claimed that having time off school can harm pupils» attainment.

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.»

Dr Emily Tanner, lead author of the report, said: «For children from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, who have lower take - up of formal out - of - school activities, school - based clubs appear to offer an affordable and inclusive means of supporting academic attainment.

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.

Nine local authorities and 72 individual schools have been allocated funding from the Scottish Attainment Challenge for education initiatives and projects targeting the most deprived children.

All too often we are seeing in children from nursery through to secondary school that a limited experience base at home can impact negatively on personal development and, ultimately, academic attainment.

In order for us to conclude that school choice achievement results reliably predict subsequent attainment results the P - Value from the X2 test needs to be below.05 and the Gamma needs to be positive.

One develops a theoretical hypothesis, such as «The achievement effects from school choice evaluations reliably predict their attainment effects.»

School should be an environment which accepts and supports people from all backgrounds, encouraging attainment and ensuring that BME students are given an equal start in life.»

In our study we draw upon the findings from 24 evaluations of various types of school choice programs to show that the achievement effects from those programs are only weakly and inconsistently predictive of their subsequent attainment effects.

Last week, Mike Petrilli, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, published a series of blog posts at the Education Gadfly and Education Next critiquing an AEI study by Dr. Collin Hitt, Dr. Michael McShane, and myself discussing the surprising disconnect between the achievement and attainment effects from school choice programs in the US.

With benefits ranging from improved self ‑ confidence to improved academic attainment, outdoor education isn't just something schools should do, it's something they should prioritise, believes Phil Avery, director of education at the Bohunt Education Trust

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

With benefits ranging from improved self ‑ confidence and improved academic attainment, we believe that outdoor education isn't just something schools should do, it's something we should prioritise.

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.

If we look at the gap in attainment in grammar schools between those who are from disadvantaged backgrounds and those who are not, we see that it is virtually zero — that is not the same in other schools.»

She also confirmed # 2.5 million for 57 schools that will receive funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities&schools that will receive funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communitiAttainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities&Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communitiattainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities».

«Tackling absence from school is a key part of the government's determination to close the attainment gap between those from poorer and wealthier backgrounds.

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.

This is most useful when considering where and when to place staff training days, school holidays and start / ed of term dates to minimise impact on student attendance / attainment in the run up and return from holidays!

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.