Sentences with phrase «income on academic performance»

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In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

The report cards must generally include information on students» academic performance disaggregated by race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as disability, migrant, and English proficiency status — and specifically for students from low - income families.

Walnut Valley, with 20 percent low - income families and about 10 percent English learners, had among the state's highest Academic Performance Index scores — a system for rating schools based on test scores — before the index was suspended three years ago, with an average of more than 900.

It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.

That measure, called Academic Growth Over Time, uses a mathematical formula to estimate how much a teacher helps students» performance, based on state test scores and controlling for such outside factors as income and race.

Adults who benefit from the current system, in which it is nearly impossible to fire an ineffective teacher, would like us all to place the blame on low - income children — and their parents — for their lower academic performance.

The report is based on indicators that measure a child's success from birth to adulthood, such as birth weight, academic performance, teen pregnancy and family income level.

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.

Overall, charter schools in the district scored 29 points higher on California's Academic Performance Index, with low - income students, Latinos, English language learners and blacks all outperforming their peers

MarylandCAN chose to focus on Baltimore, a district that arguably faces the biggest hurdles in the state: high concentrations of low - income students and a history of poor academic performance.

The effects of welfare reform on the academic performance of children in low - income households

By law, they may not discourage certain students from enrolling based on income, national origin, academic performance or other factors.

In 2010, Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary and Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy ranked 5th and 15th among all California schools serving 70 percent or more low - income students on the state's Academic Performance Index.

This, combined with the fact that there is a directly negative relationship between residential mobility and student academic performance, particularly for students in low - income or single - parent families (Scanlon and Devine), shows how mobility patterns based on a long history of housing segregation can have direct impacts on individual students before they even affect institutional matters like funding.