Sentences with phrase «highest household education»

Poverty level was imputed from state, highest household education, total number of children in household, and total number of adults in household, using hot - decking techniques to maximize use of that variable in analyses.35

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Together, Lane and Comley looked at the Broadway theater demographics, which has remained the same for many years — over 40 years old, Caucasian, largely female, higher average education and much higher disposable income than an average American family (the latest figure places the average annual household income of the Broadway theatergoer at $ 194,940).

For households with kids, higher costs for education and child care may play a role.

Millennials have grown up in the shadow of the Great Recession, are saddled with higher education debt and housing costs, and are forming households later.

• For these and other reasons, although children in mother - stepfather families tend to experience better financial support than children in lone mother households, and their stepfathers tend to be of higher «quality» than their biological fathers in terms of education, employment, psychopathology etc. (McLanahan et al, 2006) their outcomes and adjustment are not superior to children in lone mother households, although there may be cultural variations.

In our direct education work, FoodCorps currently concentrates on schools with high rates of students from low - income households, as measured by eligibility for free or reduced - price school lunch.

Besides low birth rates, higher life expectancy, longer education time and an increasing share of single - parent households, Germany is also the poster child of labour market dualisation: pampered workers in the industrial and unionised core contrast with part - time and irregular work in the peripheral service industry.

«The EMA and maintenance grants were introduced to ensure young people from disadvantaged socio - economic households were able to overcome the financial barriers to staying in further and higher education.

It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.

However, my father's keen interest in machines, mechanical tools, and puzzles of all sorts — and my older siblings» strong interest in books, music, and higher education — maintained an academic type of environment in the household, compared to the other business families in town.

The researchers also measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.

Many children living in poverty have parents with some higher education, and many live in two - parent households.

Researchers tracked each participant's physical activity during selected times over seven days and considered socio - demographic factors — including household income, highest level of education attained by parents living in the household and median household income.

While higher parental education decreases the likelihood that a child will live in a low - income or poor household, nearly half of children living in poverty (48 percent) have a parent with at least some college education.

«Our findings indicate that sexual minorities living in communities with higher levels of prejudice die sooner than sexual minorities living in low - prejudice communities, and that these effects are independent of established risk factors for mortality, including household income, education, gender, ethnicity, and age, as well as the average income and education level of residents in the communities where the respondents lived,» said Dr. Hatzenbuehler.

The first is that the Finnish national database that was consulted for sampling purposes is so extensive that they were able to find adoptees and families at high - and low - genetic risk for schizophrenia - spectrum disorders that were matched on demographic variables (age, education, income level, household size, etc.).

A higher risk for COPD was found in persons who smoked, but there was also a COPD correlation with persons of lower household incomes, less education, and lower BMI (body mass index).

People from rich households are more likely to reach the most prestigious institutions, white working - class boys rarely make it to higher education and there is a big black attainment gap.

In the Serrano cases, it was the state's reliance on local property taxes to pay for education, combined with the residential preferences of higher - income homeowners, which left low - income households with a smaller tax base to fund their schools.

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

When the children at risk were placed in high - quality classrooms, these gaps were eliminated: children from low - education households achieved at the same level as those whose mothers had a college degree, and children displaying prior problem behavior showed achievement and adjustment levels identical to children who had no history of problems.

Overall, a third of the school's students are identified as «high needs,» a designation that includes special education students and English language learners, students who are in foster care or from households receiving state assistance with food or housing and those from economically disadvantaged families.

But for those families, especially single mothers and blue - collar households, choice sounds great in the abstract until one thinks about the high cost of transporting their kids out of their own neighborhoods just so they can get a high quality education.

I've also be clear that I believe the reason the test scores are higher is that not only are classrooms sizes small etc. etc. but that AF and other charters are pulling those students that are less poor, speak primarily English, do not go home to households that don't have English as their primary language and have fewer special education needs.

Universal Pre-K (UPK) is high quality education for 4 - year - olds, available at no cost, regardless of household income.

During the last two decades, complacency had set in as reports from the U.S. Census Bureau's household survey suggested that high school completion among young adults was approaching 90 percent, the goal set by the first National Education Summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1989.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

In Gary, Indiana, where little more than 10 percent of all households have any college education, 21st Century Charter School is experiencing near 100 percent high school graduation rates and zero dropouts.

Echoing the two high school girls, Bair explains that students are losing faith not in education, but the type of irrelevant schooling the Hartford school system is providing them, also hinting that this is due to the agency and independence Hartford students have developed in response to single parent households and the challenges that came with it.

America's higher - education system passed a milestone a few years ago that university officials would probably prefer no one noticed: Annual tuition plus room and board at some private institutions overtook the median household income.

As more higher - need districts adopt CEP, the districts» FRPL rates become 100 percent — meaning all of the students in the district could be counted as low - income in any education funding formula that attempts to provide additional funding to low - income students, even though not all of the students live in low - income households.

While some education researchers such as Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution may want to argue that the PISA data is irrelevant because it supposedly doesn't reflect what American kids are learning in school, the fact that kids from highly educated households (as well as kids whose parents are high school dropouts) are not performing well makes such theorizing seem silly.

Many middle class and wealthy households — especially those in suburbia — want to believe that their children are receiving high - quality education.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

The surge in ownership of tablet computers was especially notable among those with higher levels of education and those living in households earning more than $ 75,000.

With the costs of education growing uncontrollably, these monetary respites are usually not enough for someone who comes from an average income household to pursue higher education.

Minnesota followed closely behind North Dakota in terms of how high the head of the household has gone in education.

Regardless of your household income, planning for higher education can be burdensome.

The only households in which student debt has not been a growing proportion of total debt were households headed by seniors, households headed by those without a high school education, and households in the wealthiest quarter of households by net worth.

A «not college - educated» household refers to a household headed by a person whose highest education is less than a bachelor's degree.

Dogs that have a solid obedience education are a joy to live with — they respond well to household routines, have good manners in the presence of people and other dogs, and they enjoy the company of the owner who took the time to provide training, intellectual stimulation and a high quality of life.

Dogs who have a solid obedience education are a joy to live with - they respond well to household routines, have good manners in the presence of people and other dogs, and they fully enjoy the company of the owner who took the time to provide training, intellectual stimulation, and a high quality life.

The Federal Reserve's latest report on household debt and credit shows that consumers are feeling confident enough about the economy to borrow money for a new car or pay for higher education.

In India, the share of total household expenditure on higher education is 15.3 % in rural and 18.4 % in urban areas.

While deciding the sum assured of the policy, he has considered the monthly household expenses and the higher education goals of his son and arrived at a figure of Rs. 2.5 crores.

A married people with a family obviously has more financial obligations than an unmarried youngster and thus, he needs a higher cover that can meet various financial obligations such as child's education and / or marriage, repayment of loan, regular household expenses, even in your absence.

For calculating the insurance needs, you can sum up the outstanding loan amount, child's higher education & marriage expenses, regular household expenses, or other financial obligations.

One hypothesis is that if your socioeconomic status is low - meaning that you have no or a low level of education, a low household income, no or a low status job, various psychological and physical stress factors may be high.

Family structure (ie, single - parent [15 %] or two - parent households), parental education levels (elementary [3.7 %], intermediate [30.7 %] and higher), work affiliation (ie, work [93.4 %], benefits [3.8 %] or other [including students, retirees and stay - at - home parents]-RRB- and ethnicity (Norwegian [96.3 %] or foreign) were reported by adolescents.

Indeed, a longitudinal Swedish study reports that «high achievers» used television as a complement to school learning, whereas «low achievers» used television as a substitute for it.16 Similarly, a study of 326 young children found that parental education is negatively related to hours watched overall.13 Other studies have found effect modification of the effects of television viewing on educational outcomes by the SES of the parents.14, 21 As a result, television viewing in a general population may serve to exacerbate disparities in cognitive outcomes between high - SES and low - SES households.