Sentences with phrase «later school attainment»

So we should be careful judging school performance based on later school attainment, rather than income (or other measures).

Not exact matches

«Student characteristics and behaviors were rewarded in high school and led to higher educational attainment, which in turn was related to greater occupational prestige and income later in life,» she said.

Children who started school a year later did not perform better in teacher ratings of their academic attainment than children who had started at an age appropriate time.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

We are looking at the impact of raising high school students» test scores on their attainment and earnings, later in life.

Booker, et al examine charter schools in Chicago and Florida and find significant benefits in educational attainment as well as higher earnings later in the workforce — at least for Florida charter students.

They were equipped to respond to government on «whole levels» — a description of attainment at the end of each programme of study — but were too broad and wide for application within schools, even with the later introduction of sub-levels.

The outcomes include both school - based achievements, such as students» course - taking and their level of educational attainment, and students» later experiences in the labor force.

School choice researchers are finding that vouchers may impact student test scores and later attainment outcomes in different ways.

Policymakers, researchers, and pundits can not simply identify a set of educational measures (test scores, non-cog measures, or educational attainment) and judge from afar which programs and schools are going to help students succeed later in life.

So to answer my own question, the latest results suggest that there is still much to do because secondary schools are not currently making enough progress in closing the attainment gap.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Early childhood education can reduce crime and incarceration later in life by improving subsequent educational attainment and reducing school dropout rates.5 The Obama administration recognized the value of early childhood education by expanding access to high - quality preschool through Head Start and Early Head Start; however, more targeted efforts are needed to ensure that children of incarcerated parents have access to high - quality early childhood education programs.

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.

The appropriate age at which children should start school is a subject which has received much research attention including in relation to its effects on later attainment and social development (Sharp, 2002).

Studies that examine children's development over time have shown that higher quality child care is a predictor of improvement in children's ability to understand spoken language, communication skills, verbal IQ skills, cognitive skills, behavioral skills, and attainment of higher math and language scores — all of which impact later school success.

Mental health problems in adolescents may impair their ability to learn and create a risk for lower education attainment and school dropout, 47 which in turn are known to increase benefit dependence.51 In the study by Fergusson and Horwood50 in which they studied conduct problems at age 8 years and unemployment 10 years later, analyses suggested that the association was mediated by a series of processes during adolescence including patterns of peer affiliation, substance use, truancy and problems with school authority.