Sentences with phrase «higher income peers»

We would hope more kids would have this opportunity during the school day as our research shows that lower income students are more likely to rely on in - school independent reading time than their higher income peers.

Low - income students and students of color enroll in remediation at higher rates than their white and higher income peers.

Looking closely at the chart above shows us that at the beginning of the third grade, lower income students could be as much as 2 years behind their higher income peers.

Instead, she posits that «buying» poor children classroom access to their higher income peers and the political capital of their peers» parents is the likely reason for the success of universal preschool.

«I'm deeply hopeful that this type of technology can be used to bridge these gaps and can provide low - income children with a high quantity of responsive, individualized high - quality reading and vocabulary practice that is currently more available to their higher income peers.»

This finding is especially distressing given that lower income students are likely to benefit more than their higher income peers from receiving individualized attention ~ particularly as regards to college and career readiness.

Not exact matches

Surprisingly, research shows that individuals from low - income families are more likely to work at unpaid internships than their higher - income peers.

«Strikingly, however, stressed and non-stressed upper income households reported higher average default likelihood than lower income peers,» UBS said.

Despite having the highest net worth of any neighbourhood in B.C., these residents are not the highest - paid of their peers on this list, with an average annual income of only $ 700,431 against Kerrisdale's $ 1,153,529.

Indeed, among Canada's 16 peer countries, the U.S. has the second - highest level of income per capita but also the highest rates of poverty and homicides and the lowest life expectancy.

Having your loan tied to a part of your home's value usually results in lower interest rates, Drake says, but someone with a good income and a high credit score may be able to get a low rate on a personal loan or peer - to - peer loan.

These high payout companies differentiate themselves from their growth - oriented peers by electing to return earnings to shareholders in the form of quarterly income.

In this study, and in opposition to findings elsewhere, higher levels of social support were associated with greater depressive symptomatology, leading researchers to speculate that for low - income men the perceived costs of reciprocity may have deterred them from utilizing available support; or that peer groups may have influenced their alcohol or drug use, or placed demands on their resources (Anderson et al, 2005).

His theory is that in a low - income, high - crime neighborhood, if you offer social and educational supports to just a few of the kids who live there, their participation will always seem a bit oddball, and they won't have much of an effect on their peers.

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.

Although the difference was slight, high - income children outperformed their less wealthy peers on both IQ tests and an exam designed to replicate achievement in various academic subjects.

Examining research on how children's home life impacts their language development, article author Natalie H. Brito at Columbia University Medical Center concluded that children from higher - income homes are typically exposed to more words, gestures, and complex grammar and phrases then their peers from low - income homes.

Low - income minority adolescents who were admitted to high - performing public charter high schools in Los Angeles were significantly less likely to engage in risky health behaviors than their peers who were not admitted to those schools, according to a new UCLA - led study.

Results indicated that both high - quality close friendships and a drive to fit in with peers in adolescence were associated with better health at age 27, even after taking other potentially influential variables such as household income, body mass index, and drug use into account.

Children whose parents are more educated and have better jobs and higher incomes tend to have stronger math and reading skills than their peers.

«Children from low - income families are less likely to attend college than their higher - income peers,» said lead author Arthur J. Reynolds, a professor at the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Development and director of the Chicago Longitudinal Study.

After taking into account their parents» income and education — factors that are known to affect exam scores — the highest - achieving students were more than three times more likely to suffer from the mental illness than their average peers.

Evidence on the achievement effects of desegregation by income is limited by both an absence of detailed information on family income (including indicators for severe poverty or high income) and the difficulty in separating the effects of students» own circumstances from the influences of peers.

Low - income kids can lose vast amounts of learning over the summer when they don't have access to the same enriching activities as their higher - income peers, such as vacations, visits to museums and libraries, or even just time spent with family discussing academic concepts or everyday events.

Furthermore, low - income students and students of color are less likely than their peers to have access to high - quality civics experiences.

Predicted spending increases are also associated with greater probabilities of high school graduation, with larger effects for low - income students than for their nonpoor peers.

The phenomenon is even more pronounced for lower - income and first - generation college - going students, who often lack the supports of their higher - income peers.

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

Among college - bound 12th graders who had taken the ACT college - entrance exam in 2002, students from high - income families were more likely than their low - income peers to have completed college - preparatory coursework in high school.

Because this gap grows much wider in the later grades, Bell and Chetty suggest that «low - income children start out on relatively even footing with their higher - income peers in terms of innovation ability, but fall behind over time, perhaps because of differences in their childhood environment.»

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

A majority of the states in our sample have charter sectors that enroll a higher percentage of low - income students than their traditional public schools peers.

Graduates of low - income, high - minority schools are much less likely to enroll in college in the fall after they finish high school than are their peers in high - income, low - minority schools, regardless of the school locale.

If you can put a few kids from low income neighborhoods in a high performing school, they will probably benefit from the peer effects and lack of disruptions in this environment.

Estimates suggest that, by age 3, children whose parents receive public assistance hear less than a third of the words encountered by their higher - income peers.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers, and it's acute even in higher - income towns like West Hartford.

Moreover, even the top performing low - income students lag behind their higher - income peers in what is now referred to as the «excellence gap.»

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

But once more than a certain percentage of a school is drawn from low - income, high - minority neighborhoods, this peer effect begins to dissolve and the school in general becomes more likely to decline.

Research suggests that low - income students in mixed - income schools — surrounded by peers who expect to go on to college, parents in the school community who regularly volunteer in class, and strong teachers — perform substantially better than comparable students in high - poverty schools that often lack those ingredients for success.

The presence of troubled peers increases problem behavior of low - income children, but does not significantly increase the disciplinary problems of higher income children.

Estimates suggest that, by age 3, children whose parents receive public assistance hear less than one third of the words encountered by their higher - income peers.

The scale scores of low - income students in DCPS are higher than those of their peers in only Detroit and Cleveland (the two lowest - performing cities across the board), and they saw no statistically significant gains.

The researchers found that troubled peers have a large and statistically significant negative effect on the math and reading achievement of higher income children, but only a small and statistically insignificant effect on the achievement of low - income children.

Research also finds that low - income students benefit from the peer effects of learning alongside higher - income students, particularly those who are higher - performing.

That's perhaps a clue that even if you could magically get low - income children in other countries to do as much homework as their high - income peers, as the OECD researchers are suggesting, you might not raise their PISA test scores very much.

The authors investigated the impact of a manualized high school transition program, the Peer Group Connection (PGC) program, on the graduation rate at a low - income, Mid-Atlantic high school.

In 2010, researcher Heather Schwartz published a longitudinal study of about 850 students who resided in these units, and found that by the end of elementary school, the achievement gap between low - income children who resided in these inclusionary homes and their high - income peers nearly closed.111

For example, among low - income fourth graders, students who attend low - poverty schools are two grade levels ahead of their peers in high - poverty schools.

*, giving policymakers, researchers, educators, and parents information to identify schools and cities where students from low - income families are achieving at high levels compared to their more advantaged peers, nationally.