Sentences with phrase «increase educational achievement»

Community Awareness: Heighten community awareness to reduce poverty and violence, increase educational achievement, and strengthen families.

Objective is to improve maternal health behaviors during and after pregnancy, improve birth outcomes, build maternal caretaking skills, improve the quality of mother - child interaction, prevent rapid repeat pregnancy, increase educational achievement, and build social competence.

Churches could provide «education mentors» to work with teachers and counselors in order to help children increase educational achievement, develop self - esteem, and enhance moral and intellectual integrity.

Data from this system show that using these programs: • increases educational achievement • encourages students to take more college - preparatory courses in high school • increases students» college readiness • promotes educational and career planning • promotes college readiness of underrepresented minority students • promotes educational achievement in college, college enrollment, and persistence in college

He is the founder and director of FRONTIER 21 Education Solutions, a company dedicated to increasing educational achievement at the K — 12 level.

Break barriers to school success and employment by preparing the clients for independence as evidenced by increased educational achievement and employment:

Studies show that homeownership has a positive social impact in communities, such as heightened civic participation, increased educational achievement, lower crime rates, raising property values, and homeowners maintain and improve their properties relative to renters.

Not exact matches

New research published this summer by economists Christian Dustmann and Uta Schönberg in the American Economic Journal found that policies that increased maternity leave did little to increase children's future educational achievement.

We have to go to the disaster that encompasses the black family, the failure to close educational achievement gaps, the rise of worklessness among black males, the increase in crime, and, behind all these, there are other factors in infinite regress.

Indeed, that the data show the increase in death by self - destruction is not limited to whites with low educational achievement suggests that something else is at work — or at least something more complicated than lower economic achievement or increasing inequality.

Increased student achievement, student and family participation in the educational process, better school attendance, and reduced disciplinary issues are all advantages that can be attributed to the long - term teacher - student relationship developed during the looping years.

As more schools adopt the Breakfast in the Classroom approach, the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom anticipate participation in the federally - funded School Breakfast Program will increase, helping reduce hunger and improve educational achievement nationwide.

«It is concluded that breastfeeding is associated with small but detectable increases in child cognitive ability and educational achievement.

Bullying can also lead to increased truancy rates, which can have an adverse impact on educational achievement.

«Assortative mating on inheritable traits that are indicative of socio - economic status, such as educational achievement, increases the genetic variance of characteristics in the population.

His goal is not just to increase results in the district, but to create a sustainable, long - lasting culture of student achievement, community support, and educational quality in Holyoke.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

The keen observers among you will have noted that the most recent Ofsted inspection framework revealed an increased focus on the achievement of pupils with special educational needs and the quality of teaching that enables learning to take place.

The general pattern among them is that programs producing large gains in achievement test outcomes are producing little or no increase in educational attainment.

The negative effects are those one would expect in a market system: an increase in inequality, unequal educational achievement, and unequal wages in adult life.

Regardless of the precise mechanism at work, my results from Wake County suggest that later start times have the potential to be a more cost - effective method of increasing student achievement than other common educational interventions such as reducing class size.

These indicators allow to evaluate if the social system is contributing to the achievement of full employment and reducing unemployment, increasing income of the population, the decline in indicators of crime, increased provision of educational services, health, housing and transportation of the population and the increase of human development and their well being.

But many factors can influence a state's educational performance, from changes in state policies to changes in their demographic makeup, making it extraordinarily difficult for researchers to isolate any one cause for an increase in achievement.

The 2014 letter declares that «Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance... decreased academic achievement... increased likelihood of dropping out; substance abuse; and involvement with juvenile justice systems.»

The wide - ranging concept of leadership is one of the most studied topics in all of academia; however ~ the more specific issue of educational leadership has gained attention in recent years due to the increased expectations of public schools to improve student achievement.

During this same period, inequality in academic achievement and educational attainments between children from high - and low - income families has also increased substantially.

Education Hell: Rhetoric vs. Reality is an excellent book study for school leaders and educational teams working to increase true student achievement and dispel the misinformation about schools so often disseminated as truth.

While this report welcomed «the impressive progress made by the Programme of sponsored academies to date» it expressed the worry that «academies» educational achievements should not be undermined by poor stewardship of the public funds necessary to sustain the impacts of the Programme» and that there are «increased risks to value for money and proper use of public money».

Proponents contend that charter schools expand educational choices for students, increase innovation, improve student achievement, and promote healthy competition with traditional public schools.

This moment should be seized to dramatically increase one of the few educational programs the feds fund that has actually been shown to increase achievement for African - American students.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited each State education agency (SEA) to request flexibility regarding specific requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) in exchange for rigorous and comprehensive State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction.

A passionate and committed educational advocate, Tonia is a proponent of professional learning communities, and teaching and family partnerships; advocating for families to engage as full partners in their children's education to increase student learning and achievement.

The strong achievement gains estimated here for charter schools raise the question of whether charter attendance increases educational attainment as well as test scores.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»

Recent pressure to increase academic achievement has led new educational reform strategies to include ideas on extending the school day.

One may argue that public schools in the inner city are now doing such a poor job that the increase in the opportunity to choose only means that some will escape and raise their educational achievement.

candidates Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton were named finalists by Echoing Green for the Black Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic aAchievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achievementachievement.

«Results from Wake County also suggest that later start times have the potential to be a more cost - effective method of increasing student achievement than other common educational interventions such as reducing class size,» notes Edwards.

It may well be the case that these costs are justified by the achievement gains of having students spend more time in the school, but in the current fiscal environment substantial increases in educational spending are unlikely to be forthcoming.

(In this context, the authors hold out hope that assessment results based on Common Core standards will increase transparency of educational achievement across the country, a bet that looks less secure than it did a year ago.)

It will also help to address the persistent achievement gap between Latinos and their white counterparts a gap that threatens our state's future social and economic stability by encouraging policies and programs that lead to increased educational equity.

Out of this meeting came a renewed federal commitment to improving educational achievement and increasing the nation's commitment to students, teachers, and schools.

The Kalamazoo Promise was funded by anonymous donors who, according to the school district, had three primary goals: 1) to promote local economic and community development, in part by attracting parents and businesses to the Kalamazoo area; 2) to boost educational achievement and attainment; and 3) to increase confidence in KPS.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, October 2011).

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

These three recent national reports highlight the importance of and need for additional research on schools that serve the needs of poor children by increasing their achievement and, hence, their educational opportunities.

«When students» educational needs can be met in innovative ways,» Wemp argues, «we will see higher student engagement, success and an overall increase in student achievement.»

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), highlights the continued need for greater educational equity, and warns that race and gender disparities in opportunity and academic achievement lead to high dropout rates, limited job opportunities, and increased risk of poverty for African American females.