Sentences with phrase «lasting academic effect»

«Whilst the noted effects of the intervention on reading and numeracy achievement were small (between 2.0 % and 5.5 %), it is remarkable (though not unexpected) to find lasting academic effect of an eight session parenting intervention carried out when the child was between three and five years of age,» the report states.

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We know that chronic hunger seriously undermines kids» physical and mental development, increases behavioral problems, encourages risky behavior and has lasting, detrimental effects on academic achievement and later job performance.

The other problem, Pope says, is that summer homework packets (frequently put off until the last unhappy week before school begins), often seem to fall into an academic black hole once they're turned in — with no feedback from teachers and no effect on kids» grades.

The changes, which went into effect last week, are a response to complaints from academic and scientific organizations over the past year.

We strongly believe that this balanced academic exchange will have a positive, sustainable and long - lasting effect — rewarding Amazon communities and the curious and open - minded Global College student.

And don't forget reams of research showing that few preschool programs, even good ones, have lasting effects on kids» academic achievement.

Starting to develop a student's growth mindset early in a student's academic career, during pre-school, kindergarten, and the elementary school grades can have long - lasting effects.

Because of the negative effect that closing schools has on students and communities, PAA believes that schools should be closed only as a last resort, and never as a strategy for «academic improvement.»

The numbers were based on the results of The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests, administered to students in the third through eighth grades and the 11th grade and tied to the Common Core academic benchmarks that went into effect last year.

The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students raise their standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.

As parents guide their young children from complete infantile dependence into the beginning stages of autonomy, their styles of caregiving can have both immediate and lasting effects on children's social functioning in areas from moral development to peer play to academic achievement.

Last but not least, teachers are important adults in children's scholastic lives, and there is some evidence that teacher wellbeing, at least indirectly, has significant effects on children's socioemotional adjustment and academic performance (Hamre and Pianta 2004; Malmberg and Hagger 2009; Moolenaar 2010; Roth et al. 2007).

Findings suggest that experiences with racism can have long lasting effects for African American youth's depressive symptoms, and highlight the detrimental effects of experiences with racism for perceptions of control in the academic domain.

There are also a handful of teachers who stand out in having lasting positive effects in terms of building up the self - esteem and academic efforts of children.