Sentences with phrase «of educational attainment»

We need to continue to monitor these patterns and examine what it is about family resources and processes in single - parent families that may result in low levels of educational attainment for children.

In particular, we looked at whether high schools with a higher winning percentage in sports also had higher test scores as well as higher rates of educational attainment.

That suggests the younger adult cohort may not be the best measure of educational attainment for the entire population.

For our study, we considered the median income for each city as well as the level of educational attainment for residents.

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

A similar relationship holds among all young adults regardless of educational attainment.

It is time to continue the rally toward the vision of educational attainment for all, and to put our resources into improving instructional practice.

There seems to be little doubt on the basis of this evidence that patterns of infant feeding were consistently related to levels of educational attainment from middle childhood to the point of young adulthood.

Such character traits are more predictive of educational attainment than of future educational achievement.

The results of this study indicate that increased time spent watching television during childhood and adolescence was associated with a lower level of educational attainment by early adulthood.

Supporting financial literacy and the advancement of educational attainment is integral to open doors of opportunity to sustainable homeownership and wealth creation.

Critics contend that better cognitive scores in breastfed infants are due to the fact that mothers with higher levels of educational attainment are more likely to breastfeed.

First, the study followed students through 2012, providing accurate measures of educational attainment eight years removed from an on - time high - school graduation.

We looked at how each city stacks up in terms of educational attainment, based on the percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree or higher.

When we help all children, regardless of educational attainment or socioeconomic background, attain high - quality education, everyone benefits.

We also considered the level of educational attainment for each city's population, since this can directly impact wages.

«Despite having the highest levels of educational attainment of any previous American generation,» writes ETS's Center for Global Assessment Director Irwin S. Kirch in the report's preface, «these young adults on average demonstrate relatively weak skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments compared to their international peers.»

Given the impact of educational attainment on a variety of economic and social outcomes, a positive result could have significant implications for the value of school - choice programs that include charter high schools.

Professional evaluators will recognize that ours is a rigorous and highly conservative estimate of the educational attainment benefits of the MPCP.

As Geoff Colvin notes in this issue (see «How to Profit from the Ultra-Tight Job Market Right Now»), they're increasingly skeptical of educational attainment as a proxy for performance.

Now that test - score data for many countries over an extended period of time are readily available, it is possible to supplement measures of educational attainment with these more direct measures of cognitive skills.

But also, as a direct consequence of the larger proportion of elected officials, and also as a result of the lower rates of educational attainment in rural areas, elected officials in rural areas are, on average, far less «elite» educationally, socioeconomically, and in political and administrative competence than elected officials in urban areas.

«It is no surprise that when you look at our staggering poverty rates, that we don't have the kind of educational attainment that we want,» Miner said.

Children of similar intelligence have very different levels of educational attainment depending on their social backgrounds, says a large - scale study led by Oxford University researchers.

After decades of educational attainment gains among African American and Latino students, American educators find themselves in the midst of a major retraction of many of those gains for the students who can least afford it.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

«By voting to support a moratorium on public charter schools, the NAACP has tarnished its rich history by demonstrating that they place politics ahead of the educational attainment of African American children.

A college education is increasingly becoming the norm of educational attainment — and yet the vast majority of urban public schools in the United States still fail to provide students with the academic preparation and social support necessary for high school and college success.

In particular, he is interested in understanding the genetic architecture of educational attainment and the way in which schools can and do moderate the association between genes and educational attainment.

Academic Success Student achievement, school performance and other aspects of educational attainment

«A Dozen Economic Facts about Education»: These economic facts about education help illustrate the state of educational attainment in the United States and the growing importance of education in determining people's well - being.

Apart from urging employers to make greater accommodations for dual income households, the only other practical antidote is to increase both the quality and quantity of educational attainment.

The major proposals focus on two primary linchpins of educational attainment — what students need to succeed, and what their teachers need to facilitate success.

The reason why marketing schools in this way is such a successful method of attracting white, middle - class families is because of the «growing importance of educational attainment» in terms of the labor market and for upward social mobility (Dougherty, 2012, p. 220; Scherger & Savage, 2010).

It adds value on top of your educational attainments and job experience, and can even be a decisive factor when choosing between similar applicants but with one having volunteer work and the other without.

Considers the role of educational attainment, degree type (e.g., concentration or major in early childhood or a related field), years of experience, and training.

«Absent comprehensive and expensive interventions, socioeconomic status is what drives much of educational attainment and performance, «he wrote.

This study finds protective effects of educational attainment against lifetime experience of sexual violence among women in Uganda, but not in Malawi.

All of these adverse circumstances have been shown to impair the developmental trajectories of cognitive processing capacity and emotional regulation capacity as well as trajectories of educational attainment, mastery, self - esteem, and future orientation (e.g., Farley and Kim - Spoon 2015; Hampson et al. 2007; Hardy 2006; Melby et al. 2008; Nam and Huang 2009; Oshri et al. 2016; Steinberg 2001; Zhang 2003).

«Past research has not been able to disentangle how different types of educational attainment and student debt interact to impact the likelihood of owning a home,» according to a blog post at Liberty Street Economics.

In terms of educational attainment, 49 percent of Asian Americans have at least a college degree (this figure rises to 70 percent amongst Indian Americans) compared to 28 percent of the overall US population.

Below is a list of some of the best earning medical and health careers, regardless of educational attainment.

Lack of educational attainment may be the single greatest cause of Hispanic poverty, according to a report by the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.

Not since the time of Sputnik have such diverse political and popular wills rallied behind a shared nationwide vision of educational attainment.

One aim of the T.L.L. Temple Foundation, based in Lufkin, Texas, is to address low rates of educational attainment in East Texas.

The primary determinant of SES was parental educational level, defined by the highest level of educational attainment of either parent.