Sentences with phrase «minority socioeconomic backgrounds»

Many from modest or minority socioeconomic backgrounds attend less prestigious colleges than their more privileged counterparts.

Not exact matches

The most recent survey data showed increased risk of hearing loss among participants of racial / ethnic minority status and from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

The CPS students in the program were primarily from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds and minority groups; about 90 percent were black or Hispanic.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

These CPS students were primarily from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds and minority groups.

After all, as recent studies of the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act has shown, focusing on socioeconomic achievement gaps improves outcomes for minority and White children (as well as struggling and high - achieving children of all backgrounds).

While the report suggests the numbers of racial minorities in charters should be higher, it's more important for charter schools to support socioeconomic integration and for students to be exposed to other students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds or ethnic minorities also represent at - risk populations for peer difficulties.

This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.