Sentences with phrase «lower academic performance»

[5], [6] Children whose parents are divorced also have lower academic performance, social achievement, and psychological adjustment than children with married parents.

Similar risk factors for DSH / SA among the whole sample included female gender, lower academic performance, depression, substance use (tobacco and alcohol) and low self - esteem.

While I can not definitively say that either the disparities in discipline practices nor the 2007 decision to end busing directly caused the lower academic performance in Pinellas County and the southern county schools specifically, national studies point to the conclusions that these phenomena negatively affect student performance.

«In the early years of learning, not showing up is associated with lower academic performance, especially in reading and math, he says.

Even missing a few days a year can be correlated with lower academic performance.

Research has also found that hunger contributes to lower academic performance.

Chronic absenteeism in the early years of learning is associated with lower academic performance, especially in reading and math.

Chronic absenteeism in the early years of learning, he says, is associated with lower academic performance, especially in reading and math.

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.

Adults who benefit from the current system, in which it is nearly impossible to fire an ineffective teacher, would like us all to place the blame on low - income children — and their parents — for their lower academic performance.

The evidence shows that rather than improving students» behavior, such punishments are more likely to result in negative effects such as higher drop - out rates and lower academic performance.

And she stood by last year's closings, saying that each of those schools was an easier decision due to their lower academic performance.

According to a study from Johns Hopkins University, chronic absenteeism in kindergarten was associated with lower academic performance in first through third grade.

According to the American College of Pediatricians excessive exposure to screens, especially at early ages, has been associated with lower academic performance and behavior problems.

The drawback is that persuading youngsters to stay in school until graduation when they don't care about getting an education will lower academic performance, not raise it.

Students who do not learn how to «manage» themselves well as they proceed through school experience more setbacks, become discouraged and disengaged from learning, and tend to have lower academic performance.

A new study draws attention to the large numbers of Detroit children who have been exposed to lead and establishes a link between blood - lead levels and lower academic performance.

These results support previous findings of lower academic performance among children prenatally exposed to alcohol compared to their peers, which appear to be associated with differences in brain development, and highlight the need for additional attention and support for these children.

It has consistently been flagged by the state Education Department for low academic performance.

When Norm Morrow became the principal of Jefferson High School in Los Angeles four years ago, the art deco building was severely overcrowded, had poor security, and — two months into his leadership — was one of 12 schools statewide to be audited because of low academic performance.

In November 2002 the Texas Education Agency ordered the shutdown of five charter schools (all open for at least three years), citing persistent low academic performance.

All of the factors facing Cleveland — low academic performance, financial strain, enrollment loss, charter school competition — are familiar to many urban school systems.

The U.S. Department of Education is planning to expand a pilot initiative that would flip the order of key consequences for schools» low academic performance under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Current state and federal strategies place the full burden upon schools and schools alone to remedy low academic performance.

It is no accident that those California systems with histories of low academic performance, unstable leadership and contentious politics have produced the greatest charter growth.

Chief among them is the exacerbation of the problems the pedagogy was originally intended to address — namely, low academic performance and limited economic opportunities.

In elementary and middle schools, for example, many schools with low academic performance also demonstrate high growth relative to similar schools (Figure 1).

The Tennessee education commissioner recently called for their K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school to be shut down for extremely low academic performance.

Countries in which schools frequently hold back or kick out students with low academic performance tend to have weaker, more expensive, and more socially inequitable education systems overall according to an analysis by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Not surprisingly, parents tend to eliminate schools with the lowest academic performance as their first filter.

The heads of most of the 38 schools facing closure for low academic performance are drafting agreements that would allow the schools to stay open and collaborate with the state.

Three years ago, Oak Hill Elementary School in High Point, North Carolina, had one of the lowest academic performance scores in the state.

To that end, we also commend the LAUSD board for voting yesterday to close Cornerstone Prep School in Florence, one of 33 schools statewide that CCSA identified as having persistently low academic performance in our report.

Following years of various turnaround efforts, the Newark school was closed in 2012 due to a combination of declining enrollment, dilapidated conditions and low academic performance.

A few reasons they might be classified as at - risk students include: high number of absences, single - parent home, low academic performance or low - income family.

A: Given the widely documented low academic performance of Native students, our work broadly focuses on identifying approaches to creating learning environments that are perceived as culturally relevant and welcoming by Native students and facilitate their school success.

Yet... charter schools are rarely shuttered for low academic performance....

Figure 1: Chronic absentees in kindergarten have the lowest academic performance in first grade

In late February, Levy, the independent D.C. budget analyst, went before the city council to testify about the district's low academic performance.

Why, for example, focus on unsubstantiated ideas like the Common Core rather than do something that would really matter, such as improve instructional quality, reverse school funding cuts that are harming schools, or address the inequities and socioeconomic conditions that researchers have demonstrated are persistent causes of low academic performance?

School closures are an increasingly common reform strategy for school districts facing declining enrollments, constricting budgets, and low academic performance.

Being the best means dispensing tough love: The board closed 20 charter schools over the past five years, including 15 for low academic performance.

Under ESSA, states are accountable for focusing resources on low - performing schools and traditionally underserved students who consistently demonstrate low academic performance.

The Colorado school is also only operating on a one - year approval for the 2013 - 14 school year as a result of the concerns that the school district that hosts the school had about the low academic performance and other issues related to the K12 - run online school.

The legislation «would require private management companies to disclose more openly how they spend tax funding while addressing low academic performance in online schools, «exorbitant» lease deals, poor attendance and other issues.»

As featured in the 2008 HBO documentary Hard Times at Douglass High, the school suffered from low academic performance and graduated less than 25 percent of its students.

In my own way, I contributed to New Orleans» low academic performance prior to Hurricane Katrina.

Even supporters have argued that such schools are not sufficiently regulated, and various studies show that they are rarely shuttered for low academic performance.

Last year, Tennessee shut down their K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school for extremely low academic performance.

In the Harbor School application, Capital Preparatory Schools, Inc. (CPS — the Charter Magnet Organization that will provide «whole school management» services for the school) proposes a commitment to serving students with a history of low academic performance, students with a history of behavioral and social difficulties, students eligible for free / reduced lunch, students in need of special education and English language learners.