The purpose of the plan included in the board's agenda is to «eliminate race and family
income as predictors of school success by guaranteeing equitable access to opportunities for personalized learning and growth.»
In fact, many of those studies were representative samples that incorporated people's actual
income as a predictor!
Not exact matches
Known
as your debt - to -
income ratio (DTI), this calculation is believed to be the best
predictor of whether you can actually afford to buy.
For example, some of the best research has focused on «family
income»
as a
predictor of education success, but Susan Mayer, a University of Chicago sociologist, has shown that unexpected changes in family
income by themselves have little effect on a child's educational performance.
The test - score data were adjusted statistically to account for any observed differences between the two groups, such
as level of family
income - an important
predictor of academic performance - that might have biased the results.
Family Environment and School Environment
as Predictors for Physical Aggression in Low -
Income Children
As education researcher Patricia Lauer has found, the amount of time that children spend hanging out on street corners with their friends after school is actually a better
predictor of poor academic performance than is family
income.
Low -
Income Ethnically Diverse Children's Engagement
as a
Predictor of School Readiness Above Preschool Classroom Quality.
An April, 2009, a Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) article revealed that household
income is the greatest
predictor of whether or not pets undergo a spay / neuter operation, with homes earning under $ 35,000 being almost half
as likely to have pets altered than homes over $ 75,000.
Second,
as a possible direct consequence of the communication bias, one in five Australians incorrectly think that reducing emissions will cause future
incomes to fall below current levels and subscription to this belief is a powerful
predictor of opposition to carbon policy [13].
I had a guess
as to whether or not a defendant's race or
income was a better
predictor of outcomes, and I bet you have your own guess, but we have reasons to doubt our guesses.
The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites
as the reference group), gender, household
income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family
predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.
Low
income, poverty, lower occupational status (e.g., blue collar or working class
as opposed to white collar or middle class), and lower educational attainment are among the strongest
predictors of domestic violence.
Regression analyses revealed that emotional intelligence, husband's education, monthly
income and family system emerged
as strong
predictors of marital satisfaction.
In a meta - analysis, she identified low family
income, low maternal education, young maternal age and minority group status
as predictors.
Family and social risk, and parental investments during the early childhood years
as predictors of low -
income children's school readiness outcomes.