Similarly, a school can have
high attainment on average, but there can still be individual pupils who are struggling.
Not exact matches
If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a little, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea — and then he can very easily reach and help others to reach the
highest attainments, i.e. delude himself and others with the notion that in the world of spirit everything goes as in a well - known game of cards where everything depends
on haphazard.
While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational
attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40
higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence
on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.
Despite the simplicity and effectiveness of the supine sleep position in lowering SIDS risk, 24.4 % of care providers do not regularly place infants
on their backs to sleep.22 Use of the prone sleep position remains
highest in care providers who are young, black, or of low income or who have low educational
attainment.
This drive for academic achievement leads to
high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep
on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.
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.
But many of those fortunate enough to have a resumé line listing a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award know little of the eponymous scientist and civil servant whose death
on 6 October, a week before her 83rd birthday, ended an exceptional and still - active career encompassing
high attainment in both research and service to the nation and the world.
In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar for his project, The Long - Run Influence of School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability
on post-secondary
attainment and earnings, how
high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in
high school can complement college preparation.
Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's
highest standards, been tough
on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and
attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.
Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study
on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the
highest gains in pupil
attainment.
The difference between the 75 % and 56 % figure is largely immaterial because our «intention - to - treat» analysis exclusively measures the effect of starting
high school in the voucher program
on future levels of educational
attainment regardless of how long you stayed in the program.
Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused
on a
high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates
high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus
on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one -
on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus
on accelerated college credit
attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.
Efforts to Reduce College Costs May Have Little Impact
on Degree
Attainment (Diverse: Issues in
Higher Education) Report: Boosting Quality More Effective Than Tuition Cuts (Inside
Higher Ed) New research from David Deming showed that attempts to reduce college costs have little impact
on degree completition.
But I do find some impacts
on enrollment, grade progression, and grade
attainment for
high - risk youth.
«Those who attended an after - school club one day per week had,
on average, a 1.7 point
higher actual Key Stage 2 score than predicted based
on their prior
attainment and circumstances, while those who attended an after - school club two days per week had
on average a three point
higher actual total point score than predicted.»
«The setting,
attainment and celebration of public targets must be a
high principal priority and the issue of whether absences are explained or not (absence is undesirable) needs to be [tackled] head
on and won so that parent sanctioned absence does not blur the lines.»
We are looking at the impact of raising
high school students» test scores
on their
attainment and earnings, later in life.
The framework outlines the expectations for schools to provide accurate information about pupils»
attainment and progress that they make, along with a requirement to identify pupils who are making less than expected progress and / or are unlikely
on current performance to make expected or
higher attainment.
[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.
Gershenson and Papageorge examined data
on educational
attainment as well as survey results containing multiple teachers» predictions as to how far in school students were expected to go, such as to finish
high school, start college, or earn a degree.
[2] More recent work that tracks debt outcomes for individual borrowers documents that the main problem is not
high levels of debt per student (in fact, defaults are lower among those who borrow more, since this typically indicates
higher levels of college
attainment), but rather the low earnings of dropout and for - profit students, who have
high rates of default even
on relatively small debts.
In Florida, grade configuration is not a primary driver of the estimated positive effects of charter
high schools
on attainment.
The analyses reported above can not explain how or why charter
high schools appear to produce positive effects
on their students» educational
attainment.
The data required to analyze the impact of charter
high schools
on educational
attainment are substantial.
Since these traits are not easily measured, the estimated impact of charter
high schools
on educational
attainment could be biased.
This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter
high school
on educational
attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and
high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.
The researchers point out that this raises the possibility that the positive effects of attending a charter
high school
on educational
attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and
high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.
These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance
on educational
attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public
high schools.
Given the impact of educational
attainment on a variety of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have significant implications for the value of school - choice programs that include charter
high schools.
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.
To support pupils with
high attainment in academies, the Sutton Trust is calling for the government to create a fund to support successful initiatives for
high attainers from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to focus
on supporting disadvantaged pupils of all
attainment levels through the pupil premium.
The seven recommendations are currently informing a # 5 million campaign focused
on primary schools in West and South Yorkshire, regions where the
attainment gap between rich and poor pupils is large and there are a significant number of schools with a
high percentage of disadvantaged pupils.
According to an annual report, out of 48 academy chains, only eight saw poorer pupils with
high prior
attainment go
on to progress over the national average.
«Despite having the
highest levels of educational
attainment of any previous American generation,» writes ETS's Center for Global Assessment Director Irwin S. Kirch in the report's preface, «these young adults
on average demonstrate relatively weak skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments compared to their international peers.»
One analysis by Eric Eide and Nick Ronan uses an instrumental variable approach to estimate the effect of participating in
high school sports
on long - term outcomes, like educational
attainment and earnings.
«Those who attended an after - school club one day per week had,
on average, a 1.7 point
higher actual Key Stage 2 score than predicted based
on their prior
attainment and circumstances, while those who attended after - school club two days per week had
on average a three point
higher actual total point score than predicted.»
An evidence review by Pro Bono Economics has shown «very strong evidence» that
high - quality PSHE learning «has a positive impact
on academic
attainment».
The pupil premium research carried out by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has shown how, as part of a whole ‑ school approach, low - cost,
high - impact strategies can impacting positively
on outcomes for children and young people with SEN and help in narrowing the gap in
attainment for our most vulnerable students (http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk).
In one example of how the research has raised further questions for investigation, results indicate the genes associated with
higher educational
attainment were associated with decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease
on average.
The available evidence
on the influence of minimum - competency exams and
higher curricular standards
on educational
attainment and employability is not only scant but often contradictory.
The best answer to this latter question, I believe, is no, and it comes in two parts: 1) however much the economy is changing, not all
high - school graduates need to be ready for college and career, in whatever way that term is reasonably defined, and 2) practically, since roughly two - thirds of our
high schoolers do not graduate college and career ready, today we would deny well over a majority of our students a diploma if we were to impose these more - rigorous requirements
on the
attainment of a diploma.
If we focus only
on the true school choice programs — private school choice, open enrollment, charter schools, STEM schools, and small schools of choice — and we look at the direction of the impacts (positive or negative) regardless of their statistical significance, we find a
high degree of alignment between achievement and
attainment outcomes.
Of these, only the Texas charter schools had statistically significantly negative impacts
on achievement (ELA and math) and significantly positive impacts
on attainment (
high school graduation).
Going forward, our study will examine the impacts of vouchers
on high - school students» achievement and
attainment.
And the impact
on New Orleans
attainment has been very significant (
high school graduation rates are up twenty points).
The report uses empirical data analysis to correct the record
on the effects of unions
on the teaching workforce and, in turn,
on an important measure of student education
attainment:
high school dropout rates.
Most notably, schools with
higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and
Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine
high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus
on the arts.
Gender gaps in educational
attainment, which are not unique to the United States, are more difficult to explain using conventional economic models than gaps based
on socioeconomic status or race, because males and females grow up in the same families and attend the same schools.Recent evidence provides one possible explanation for the especially large gender gap in
high school graduation rates among blacks and Hispanics.
Because teacher retention and quality are not the only factors that influence student outcomes, Han also looked at the effects of unionism
on an important education
attainment benchmark:
high school dropout rates.
However, there is much more work that can be done, and many states have the necessary data to answer important research questions about CTE (including questions about equity and access, effect of participation
on high school graduation rates, college enrollment and
attainment, and civic and employment outcomes).