Sentences with phrase «lowest educational scores»

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In years past, America has ranked as the fourth best country in the world, but as a result of scoring low in «business friendliness, respect for human rights and democracy, and educational quality,» the United States has dropped down to No. 7 this year.

The Department of Education accused the UFT of trying to «politicize» the issue after it argued that the lower scores undermined the mayor's claims of educational progress and showed that the DOE had not done enough to train teachers for the new standards.

Cognition scores of women may result from their sleep difficulties and / or lower educational levels.

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

This group on average scores much lower in terms of educational attainment and income and trends more female and minority in background.

Research shows the younger a child begins spending time in front of the screen, the lower they score on language tests, despite being taught language on educational videos or television.

In the US, educational attainment scores were much lower in junior schools where outdoor spaces were poorly designed.

Concern over low test scores often leads to misguided recommendations for educational segregation of multilingual children, and can prompt excessive referral of multilingual children to speech - language pathology clinics, she said.

Updating his findings, McLanahan and Jencks report that «A father's absence lowers children's educational attainment, not by altering their scores on cognitive tests, but by disrupting their social and emotional adjustment and reducing their ability or willingness to exercise self - control.»

The percentage scoring at the advanced level is only 2 percent for U.S. students from families with low levels of educational attainment and only 4 percent for students from moderately educated families.

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

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.

Children whose parents are poor and have low educational attainment tend to have lower test scores.

The numbers are unlikely to give fodder either to educational cheerleaders or alarmists: The average score in both subjects was just one point lower in 2015 compared with the last time the test was given, in 2013.

Using test score data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, we also find that reforms cause gradual increases in the relative achievement of students in low - income school districts, consistent with the goal of improving educational opportunity for these students.

Patricia Gandara, an educational psychologist at UCLA, said students in bilingual programs often go to schools with higher concentrations of poverty, which is linked to lower test scores.

Promisingly, researchers have found that it is possible to orient students toward positive learning mindsets through low - cost interventions, including online programs that teach students about growth mindsets and purpose.29 According to Carol Dweck and her colleagues, ``... educational interventions and initiatives that target these psychological factors can have transformative effects on students» experience and achievement in school, improving core academic outcomes such as GPA and test scores months and even years later.»

In contrast, low monitoring scores are associated with schools that engage in the futile exercise of the educational autopsy — an analysis of last year's scores long after it's too late to do anything about them.

A person with an IQ score lower than 130 may be admitted to gifted programs when other educational criteria in the profile of the person strongly indicate gifted ability.

[The move was especially ironic considering early childhood education is considered the single most important factor in producing better educational outcomes for students and Governor Malloy's «education reform plan» calls for expanding the amount of early childhood programming in those districts that have lower test scores]

Aside from the educational measurement point that I make, from a practical point - of - view, does it make sense to administer tests to 3.2 million kids at the cost of roughly $ 100 million to conclude that the low scores simply say that common core instruction has yet to be implemented in a school or a district yet?

We also found that children with low - average IQ scores did not generally experience more severe language deficits, educational difficulties, or social, emotional and behavioural problems than those who scored in the average range.

«Because of their historically low scores, urban schools feel the strongest pressure to focus on narrow test preparation rather than on real educational quality.»

I would think schools with lower test scores would benefit from additional resources, for both educational and moral, and therefor the funds should be awarded accordingly — better yet — split it evenly per child.

According to the Nation's Report Card, Detroit is the lowest - performing city school system in the U.S. Research evidence demonstrates private school scholarships can help to improve student test scores, but this is only one reason — and perhaps not the most compelling reason — to give parents and students more educational opportunities.

Wealthy parents in Reseda can look into their children's educational career and see two options: Send their kids out of their own neighborhood to schools that have pretty low scores OR they can choose to send their kids to one of the several affordable private schools in the area.

They are exceptional in the sense that they add the most educational value to their students regardless of whether their entering test scores are high or low, or whether they are advantaged or not.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan argued that U.S. results «must serve as a wake - up call against educational complacency and low expectations,» whereas ASCD's recent blog post detailing the scores explains that «this lack of growth is not surprising given the size and diversity of the country, as well as our decentralized approach to education improvement.»

Test scores are being used with increasing frequency to rate teachers, deny students promotion from one grade to another, and justify closing «low - performing» schools,» despite a lack of evidence that such strategies have any educational value.

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CFA's prior research has shown that blue - collar workers, drivers with lower levels of educational attainment, and drivers with low credit scores pay considerably higher premiums for these basic policies.

In addition, the highest achieved level of education was coded on a 4 - point scale, with the lowest score indicating minimal educational qualifications and the highest level indicating university degree.

Children living in poverty have lower scores on standardized tests of academic achievement, poorer grades in school, and lower educational attainment.2, 3 These patterns persist into adulthood, ultimately contributing to low wages and income.4, 5 Moreover, increased exposure to poverty in childhood is tied to greater deficits in these domains.6, 7 Despite numerous studies demonstrating the relationship between family resources and children's educational outcomes, little is known about mechanisms underlying the influence of poverty on children's learning and achievement.

Factors which were found to be significantly related to lower cognitive scores included maternal characteristics (low maternal educational attainment and younger age) and socio - economic factors (living in an area of deprivation, an urban area of residence, larger family size and living in persistent poverty during the early years).

In a longitudinal study of 132 children by Hay et al [36], lower IQ scores, attentional problems, difficulties in mathematical reasoning and special educational needs were significantly more frequent in children whose mothers were depressed at three months postpartum than in controls.

Likewise, we verified the existence of significant differences in the educational practices of parents, the adequate profile is characterized by greater use of parenting dimensions considered to be positive, and at the same time, lower scores on dimensions considered to be negative.