Sentences with phrase «low academic status»

Charter schools are also more concentrated among schools with low academic status and low growth, but proportionally serve fewer students than low - performing non-charters.

Additionally, charter schools serving low - income populations are more likely to have high academic status and high growth and less likely to have low academic status and low growth than non-charters serving low - income populations.

Not exact matches

This is partly due to the lower status of applied research in academic circles, though another cultural difference may also be important.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

Next, the new law creates a «micro-entity» status that will result in lower patenting fees on qualifying individuals and academic institutions.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

What we found was that the delay in the school start time did in fact increase academic performance in the GCSE examinations and that this increase was more pronounced in individuals who come from a deprived background — who have a lower socioeconomic status.

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.

Holtz said low academic proficiency rates in areas of poverty continue to fester because of a state bureaucracy that bogs down teachers and a status quo mentality at DPI.

The existence of a «socioeconomic achievement gap» — a disparity in academic achievement between students from high - and low - socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds — is well - known in educational research.

«This systematic review and meta - analysis seeks to identify effective academic interventions for elementary and middle school students with low socioeconomic status.

NCCP's national data analysis found that chronic absence in kindergarten is associated with lower academic performance in first grade for all children regardless of gender, ethnicity or socioeconomic status.

The abstract for the report called «Academic Interventions for Elementary and Middle School Students With Low Socioeconomic Status.»

How is a program that produces similar academic results to the status quo at a much lower cost to taxpayers a failure?

Has giving more money to the parents or the schools of low - achieving students or lowering academic standards in the name of equity or accessibility improved their academic record or social status?

Prof. Elacqua cites PISA data showing that most of Chile's academic growth is due to gains by students of low - to - middling socioeconomic - status.

Relative to high income countries, academic achievement in low - income countries can be more affected more by students» social status and less by teacher quality.

Likewise, on average, schools that serve families from a lower socioeconomic status had lower levels of school attachment, disciplinary order, and academic climate.

For example, Comer's School Development Project demonstrates that strengthening the connections between urban school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, 1996).

However, evidence is emerging that shows that arts education can have powerful effects on student achievement, with the greatest gains for students in the lowest socioeconomic status quartile, those most at risk of academic failure.

But perhaps this problem has never been stated as starkly as in a recent paper examining the distribution of teacher quality in Washington state: «We demonstrate that in elementary, middle school, and high school classrooms (both math and reading), every measure of teacher quality — experience, licensure exam score, and value - added estimates of effectiveness — is inequitably distributed across every indicator of student disadvantage — free / reduced lunch status, underrepresented minority, and low prior academic performance.»

Provided academic counseling and planning services to a diverse student population including: IEP students, ESL students, first generation college student, and students of low socio - economic status

In another study, researchers implemented both social skills training and academic skills training with low - achieving socially rejected children, examining their relative impacts on the youth's social status (Coie & Krehbiel, 1984).

Reality check everybody - low health status, life expectancy rates, huge unemployment levels, poor academic performances, deaths in custody, to name a few issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders which did not develop overnight.

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

Trauma resulting from childhood maltreatment can manifest in feelings of depression, aggression, avoidance, low academic achievement, and / or health problems or substance abuse; all of which are exacerbated when low socioeconomic status is also a factor (Chartier et al., 2010; Felitti et al., 1998; Kreidler & Kurzawa, 2009).

For many students, the disadvantages that accompany low socioeconomic status (SES) result in their academic achievement not matching that of their higher - SES peers.

Among the predictors missing from the ACE Study model are peer rejection, exposure to violence outside the family, low socioeconomic status, and poor academic performance.

For example, compared to older mothers, teen mothers display lower levels of verbal stimulation and involvement, higher levels of intrusiveness, and maternal speech that is less varied and complex.47, 48 Mothers with fewer years of education read to their children less frequently25, 49 and demonstrate less sophisticated language and literacy skills themselves, 50 which affects the quantity and quality of their verbal interactions with their children.2 Parental education, in turn, relates to household income: poverty and persistent poverty are strongly associated with less stimulating home environments, 51 and parents living in poverty have children who are at risk for cognitive, academic, and social - emotional difficulties.52, 53 Finally, Hispanic and African American mothers are, on average, less likely to read to their children than White, non-Hispanic mothers; 54 and Spanish - speaking Hispanic families have fewer children's books available in the home as compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts.25 These racial and ethnic findings are likely explained by differences in family resources across groups, as minority status is often associated with various social - demographic risks.