Sentences with phrase «nonacademic benefits»

Moreover, it seems clear that there are nonacademic benefits that may be quantifiable in the future, as the model spreads and becomes integrated with other initiatives, such as violence and gang prevention in Chicago.

EN: What are the nonacademic benefits of desegregation, particularly for poor and minority students?

SR: Potential nonacademic benefits include expanded access to job networks, more interracial friendships, and enhanced access to educational networks, including private schools and colleges.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

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He commends the report's emphasis on advising on nonacademic careers: «I think young women researchers — but men, too — would benefit if professors could be a little less snobby about assuming that academia should be the default first choice for all their students.»

Ultimately, community schools benefit students, families, and teachers in three important ways: They reduce the demand on educators and other school staff by addressing the academic and nonacademic challenges that students bring to school.