Sentences with phrase «of socioeconomic level»

Students in high - quality school music programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of the school or school district.

This issue will explore how educators can address the barriers that create opportunity gaps for students on the basis of their socioeconomic level, race, ethnicity, and gender.

I'm pleased to report that at our last Houston ISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, our food services director told me that these panini bars and other meal «concept» lines are now (with the exception of four high schools) available to all Houston kids, regardless of socioeconomic level.

The Commission makes five recommendations regarding neural modification: first, to prioritize existing strategies to maintain or improve neural health, such as diet, and adequate exercise and sleep; to prioritize the treatment of neurological disorders; to study neural modifiers and examine their prevalence, benefits and risks; to ensure equitable access so individuals of all socioeconomic levels can access the benefits of these advancements; and fifth, to create guidance on the use of neural modifiers.

This raises many feelings of cultural disconnect among immigrant parents of all socioeconomic levels.

Even fewer people know that poor nutrition is not only a problem for impoverished families — children of all socioeconomic levels can suffer from lower student achievement due to nutritional problems at home.

However, we were unable to find a school that was multiracial and had a mix of socioeconomic levels (yet was primarily low income) within Chicago.

Not exact matches

«Accordingly, policymakers and citizens alike would benefit from having an alternative, or at least complementary, bottom - line metric that measures the level and rate of improvement in shared socioeconomic progress.»

Three variables of childhood socioeconomic status significantly affect an adult's socioeconomic status: the parents» median income, their level of education, and whether the child inherited any money.

The rest of the world will want to separate you by race, by socioeconomic status, by education levels, by religion, by neighborhood, by what kind of car you drive, by the clothes you wear, by athletic ability.

The analysis controlled for other factors that typically influence levels of religiosity, including age, gender, race and ethnicity, region, state, socioeconomic status, marital status and child - bearing status.

Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

It doesn't make you do anything: It amplifies your best and worst traits, all of which are shaped by your childhood, your socioeconomic status, and your education level, among other things.»

My audiences (often made up of affluent parents and always of aspirational ones, no matter what their socioeconomic level) invariably nod and applaud.

But then I think of the enormous student population within HISD, representing every ethnicity and socioeconomic level and coming from every conceivable background with respect to food.

Bed sharing mortality has been linked with markers of lower socioeconomic status (SES), including overcrowded households, adolescent mothers, economic deprivation, and low levels of maternal education (e.g., Carpenter et al 2004; Fleming 2006; Ostfeld et al 2006).

Area and individual maternal characteristics included country of residence, ward type, socioeconomic status, ethnicity (defined by Office for National Statistics guidelines and classified for this analysis as British / Irish white3 or of other ethnic origin), maternal age in years at cohort child's birth, level of education (attainment of qualification at GCSE grade G or above), parity (whether cohort child is first live birth), and lone parent status.

Analysis of the milk of mothers from different cultures, diets and socioeconomic levels has shown little difference in quality or quantity.

Some of these studies involved large representative samples from the United States; 2 some studies controlled for potential confounders, such as parental stress3 and socioeconomic status; 4 and some studies examined the potential of parental reasoning to moderate the association between physical punishment and child aggression.5 Virtually without exception, these studies found that physical punishment was associated with higher levels of aggression against parents, siblings, peers and spouses.

Focus group participants were recruited across several settings via posters inviting participation in the study, at child health clinics, child care centres and early learning centres, to obtain women with a range of experience, socioeconomic levels and occupations.

Many people of all different socioeconomic levels are uninsured or underinsured, incurring painfully high out - of - pocket costs for even a simple doctor visit that doesn't meet a deductible.

Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

The conclusion from my answer is that increasing funding to bad school districts above a minimum baseline level would NOT cause them to catch up to the good districts, because that would not address the underlying socioeconomic disparity differences of populace.

Exceptions to this rule include Shakespeare in Delaware Park, whose founder, Saul Elkin, was on hand to extol what now seems to be the radical idea of a free outdoor theater festival that draws 40,000 people from across all racial and socioeconomic lines to see professional - level theater every summer.

After controlling for factors including socioeconomic status and levels of physical activity, the results were still significant (PLoS Medicine, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pmed.1001703).

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Children with higher levels of self - control were more likely to have a higher socioeconomic background and a higher IQ.

After controlling for factors including socioeconomic status and levels of physical activity, the results were still significant.

Also since 2003, the foundation has funded socioeconomic studies on scheduling of entry - level retail jobs and case studies of decisions to hire unregulated («off - the - books») workers in New York and Chicago.

«There have been several studies relating cortisol levels in teenagers and adults to socioeconomic status, but this is the first to look at this relationship among pregnant women and their babies,» said study author Zaneta Thayer, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology at CU Denver, a major center of timely, topical and relevant research.

Collegiate - level African - American women outnumber men at every economic level.6, 7 The chairwoman of Georgia's African American Male Initiative (AAMI), Arlethia Perry - Johnson, cites the disproportionate labeling of African - American men as discipline and behavioral problems at a young age as possible causes for such problems regardless of socioeconomic status.6

Five measures of socioeconomic status were assessed: age completing full time education, degree level education, job class, annual household income, and Townsend deprivation index (a recognised social deprivation score).

«We propose that modifying features of the urban environment could offer an intervention point between extensive socioeconomic programs and less sustainable individual - level intervention programs,» added Culyba.

Policy to reduce bullying in the schoolyard needs to span all levels of society, say researchers from the University of Warwick, who warn that socioeconomic status is not a reliable indicator of whether a child is likely to become a bully.

The researchers also measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.

The researchers also found that compared with white women, Asian / Pacific Islander women had higher odds of presenting with HER2 - overexpressing breast cancer, a difference that was also observed at every level of socioeconomic status.

African Americans at lower socioeconomic levels, particularly women and younger adults, are at greater risk of heart disease and stroke than those in higher socioeconomic positions, according to research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Measures of socioeconomic status included poverty - income ratio, a ratio of self - reported income relative to the poverty line, and attained education level.

They found that increasing maternal C - reactive protein levels were significantly associated with development of schizophrenia in offspring and remained significant after adjusting for potential confounders such as parental history of psychiatric disorders, twin / singleton birth, location of birth, and maternal socioeconomic status.

Kraus's team tested the auditory abilities of teenagers aged 14 or 15, grouped by socioeconomic status (as indexed by their mother's level of education, a commonly used surrogate measure).

Key drivers of vulnerability include the attributes of certain groups (age, socioeconomic status, race, current level of health — see Ch.

Although we addressed this issue in several ways, including the use of a natural experimental design exploiting the quasi-randomized assignment of patients to hospitalists, it is still possible that unmeasured confounding (eg, residual differences in socioeconomic status of patients that are not explained by patient race / ethnicity, Medicaid eligibility, and household income level) could explain the observed differences in patient outcomes.

Additionally, potential associations between averaged blood oxygen level - dependent signals in the regions of interest identified in Experiment 1 and potential confounds, such as age, IQ, and parental socioeconomic status were also assessed.

While it's important to recognize that diet is frequently associated with other factors that may impact cognition in aging, Fargo says — such as smoking, education levels, and socioeconomic status — he does believe that there is «sufficiently strong evidence to conclude that a healthy diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline.»

It is my ongoing desire to provide a healing space that is safe for individuals of any skin color, ethnicity, religion, spiritual practice, national origin, appearance, political conviction, sex, sexual preference, gender identification, mental and physical ability, culture, education level, socioeconomic level, body size, substance use, personal and family history, or age.

«Health care providers and the yoga community need to continue to reach out to people of color and in lower socioeconomic levels — populations that suffer more stress and higher rates of lifestyle - related diseases,» says McCall.

The prospective relationship between psychosocial factors and risk of developing hypertension may be confounded or mediated by demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors.47 In general, younger persons, blacks (except for TUI), women (except for ASC or hostility), and less educated individuals (except for TUI or ASC) reported higher levels of measured psychosocial attributes.

«Of course body fat, dietary fat, education level, depression, socioeconomic standing, and so many more characteristics are interrelated and interactive with one another and with our bodies» systems.

If you are comfortable in the circle of individuals coming from a higher socioeconomic level then it will be advantageous.