Sentences with phrase «increases educational attainment»

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

In contrast, for nonpoor children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending throughout the school - age years increases educational attainment by less than 0.1 years, and this estimate is not statistically significant.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

that increased educational attainment for women and girls accounts for about 50 percent of the economic growth in OECD countries over the past 50 years.

UN Women found that increased educational attainment for women and girls accounts for about 50 percent of the economic growth in OECD countries over the past 50 years.

Our study finds the first rigorous evidence that we know of showing that an online degree program can increase educational attainment.

Building upon his past analysis of CCT programs in Bogota, Colombia, Harvard Graduate School of Education economist Felipe Barrera - Osorio has found that these programs — depending on their structure — can increase educational attainment for as many as eight years after the incentives were provided.

There is a significant body of high - quality evidence showing that part of this difference is causal (not explained by differences in student characteristics between two - and four - year colleges), although community colleges likely increase educational attainment relative to not attending college at all (http://papers.ccpr.ucla.edu/papers/PWP-CCPR-2012-004/PWP-CCPR-2012-004.pdf).

«This is the first rigorous evidence that we know of showing an online degree program can increase educational attainment,» write the authors.

Private school vouchers have a generally positive track record in their impacts on test scores, and evidence suggests that they can increase the educational attainment of low - income minority students.

[i] Consequently, better understanding the role this sector plays in U.S. higher education overall, and in each state, may reveal ways for policymakers to increase educational attainment.

The fact that this sector is already integrated into the broader higher education system, through federal aid and some state aid programs, suggests that these policy levers might be used to better leverage the private sector to further policymakers» goals, such as increasing educational attainment overall and for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Our goal is to inform the national body of work on rural education and explore its implications for increasing educational attainment and economic competitiveness of Idahoans and other Americans who live and work in rural communities.

Second, I'd include higher - education tax credits, which are regressive and have failed to increase educational attainment.

In addition, things we do to increase educational attainment may come at the expense of later earnings.

Michigan College Access Network is proud to present the second edition of «A community's guide for increasing educational attainment through the lens of collective impact.»

MCAN recently released Charting the Course: A community's guide for increasing educational attainment through the lens of collective impact, available by downloading for free or purchasing a hard copy at www.micollegeaccess.org/our-network/lcan-guidebook.

Charting the Course: A community's guide for increasing educational attainment through the lens of collective impact

Strategy Labs enables state and system - level policymakers and postsecondary education leaders to connect and collaborate with one another and with experts to develop strategies to increase educational attainment for all students.

Increasing educational attainment will positively impact the economic prosperity of our region and quality of life for our residents.

Tonya Allen, president and CEO, Skillman Foundation, who outlined Detroit's plan to increase educational attainment.

Research shows that high - quality father involvement and support are associated with a number of positive child outcomes, including decreased delinquency and behavioral problems, improved cognitive development, increased educational attainment, and better psychological wellbeing.8 Children with involved fathers, on average, perform better in school, have higher self - esteem, and exhibit greater empathy, emotional security, curiosity, and pro-social behavior.

An analysis released today by the White House Council of Economic Advisers describes the economic returns to investments in early childhood education, including increased parental earnings and employment in the short - term, reduced need for remedial education and later public school expenditures, as well as long - term outcomes such as increased educational attainment, increased earnings, improved health, and decreased involvement with the criminal justice system.

• All Families have access to early care and education programs that are affordable and of high quality, and are participants in the education and well being of their children through family involvement in programs and schools, as well as opportunities to increase their educational attainment.

High - quality father involvement and support are associated with positive child outcomes, such as decreased delinquency and behavioral problems, improved cognitive development, increased educational attainment, and better psychological well - being.8

These results suggest that policies aimed at increasing educational attainment among girls may have broad - ranging long - term benefits.

Their rising income and increasing educational attainment will profoundly change the country.

Not exact matches

After decades during which the educational attainment of Americans steadily increased, educational gains have stagnated.

«Specifically, they were more likely to have higher levels of educational attainment, lower levels of poverty, increased physical activity, reduced rates of smoking and drinking, and a healthier eating index.»

Growing up in a household with three or more children also increases the likelihood of a low level of education by 1.4 times compared with being an only child; if there are four or more children this rises to a 2.5 times greater likelihood of low educational attainment.

So for example, the odds of a low educational outcome is 1.6 times higher for those who grew up in a single adult household compared to households with two adults; living with three or more adults also increases the odds of low educational attainment by a factor of almost 2.

The study also found that prolonged breastfeeding had an impact on individual and societal levels by increasing the odds of improving educational attainment and even their earning potential.

SHARE aims to involve parents actively in their children's learning; increase parents» understanding of the important role they play and of the learning process; improve the educational attainments of children; enable parents to further their own education; and develop effective management and organisation of parental involvement in schools.

In 2010, teen pregnancy and childbirth accounted for at least $ 9.4 billion in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

However, the annual wage premium for African - American fathers did not increase significantly with higher educational attainment.

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«If child poverty really is to be abolished, the Government's anti-poverty programme must reach beyond raising incomes, and address the human dimension of poverty in a holistic way - increasing good parenting, aiding family stability, raising levels of educational attainment and healthcare and thus boosting children's life chances.»

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

«For example, the employment gap declines as educational attainment increases.

The study found that parents of 3 - year - olds in Head Start had steeper increases in educational attainment, but not their employment by the time their children turned 6 years old, compared to the parents in the control group, whose children were not assigned to Head Start.

«The growing income gap and increased economic segregation may lead to inequalities in children's test scores, educational attainment, and well - being,» Owens said.

Each additional year of neighborhood - average educational attainment increased the odds of participation by 69 %.

The observed association between usual percentage of calories from added sugar and increased risk of CVD mortality was largely consistent across age group, sex, race / ethnicity (except among non-Hispanic blacks), educational attainment, physical activity level, HEI score, and BMI (Figure 2 and Supplement [eTable 1 and eFigure]-RRB-.

Their educational attainment increased along with the gross domestic product.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

It will highlight how increased collaboration between Government, private and social investors can help to meet domestic and regional education goals, and facilitate the creation of new programmes that will improve educational attainment across East Africa.»

Because test scores are not necessarily the best measure of learning or of likely economic success, we examine instead the relationships between SFR - induced spending increases and several long - term outcomes: educational attainment, high school completion, adult wages, adult family income, and the incidence of adult poverty.