Sentences with phrase «more disadvantaged students»

They found that early retirement programs did not reduce test scores, and that instead, small, positive effects were observed in schools that serve more disadvantaged student populations.

If students are from more advantaged backgrounds, externalizing is actually associated with higher earnings, while for more disadvantaged students externalizing seems to have no effect on earnings.

Pressure to close gaps has meant pushing more disadvantaged students into AP courses, even when it has compromised rigor or standards.

Simply increasing those resources is therefore unlikely to stimulate more disadvantaged students to attend college.

More disadvantaged students from around the world have access to a technology than ever before.

This analysis confirms that districts serving more disadvantaged students have lower opt - out rates, even after test scores are taken into account.

These findings suggest that even large investments in universal early - childhood education programs do not necessarily yield clear benefits, especially for more disadvantaged students.

Unions brought lawsuits arguing that the measures were arbitrary and capricious, that they unfairly penalized teachers who taught more disadvantaged students, and that they were being inappropriately used to measure things they were not designed for.

«Many assume that poverty in America is pulling down the overall U.S. scores, but when you divide each nation into socio - economic quarters, you can see that even America's middle class students are falling behind not only students of comparable advantage but also more disadvantaged students in several other countries,» according to the report titled «Middle Class or Middle of the Pack?»

«Investing Early: Intervention Programs in Selected U.S. States» also found that educators and policymakers are counting on the potential of those early - intervention programs to encourage more disadvantaged students to...

School leaders identify the opportunity to serve more disadvantaged students as a primary reason for participation.

In 2015 - 16 universities and colleges spent three quarters of a billion (# 725.2 million) on access measures, to support more disadvantaged students getting to university.

It also said it feared that if universities were required to provide a contribution for such students, the least well - funded universities would be hit the hardest, as they often take more disadvantaged students.

A closer look at 30 extended - day schools found that these schools generally reached more disadvantaged students, and that students» state math and reading scores were on average five percent higher — up to 20 percent higher — than their peers.

I was hopeful that this statement would carve out space between the two sides, offering a compromise position reflecting the principles of both and opening a path for more disadvantaged students to access great schools.

«For the most part, no matter how you split the data, I hesitate to use the word «worse,» but teachers who are less qualified, or less effective, tend to be teaching more disadvantaged students,» said Goldhaber.

We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with positive effects most pronounced in schools that serve a more disadvantaged student population.

The report also showed that the impact CREST Awards can have is even greater for more disadvantaged students.

A Fordham Institute study found that on average charters receive $ 1,800 less per student than traditional public schools, despite serving more disadvantaged students.

Adding additional expensive assessments may price out more disadvantaged students.

They often have more disadvantaged students and fewer resources.