Sentences with phrase «on educational attainment»

The data required to analyze the impact of charter high schools on educational attainment are substantial.

More than 90 percent of the original sample had available data on educational attainment.

These patterns suggest that the positive effects of charter school attendance on educational attainment are not due solely to measured differences in the achievement of students in charter and traditional public high schools.

Let's briefly review the results from the three rigorous examinations of the effect of private school choice on educational attainment.

The effects of choice programs on educational attainment — how far an individual goes in school — are both larger and more consistent than their achievement effects.

We find no effect of participation on the educational attainment or earnings of Hispanic males or black and Hispanic females.

Combining these data sets allowed me to adopt an analytic approach similar to the one I used to examine the effects of more stringent graduation requirements on educational attainment and employment.

But what to do about the persistent effects of social class on educational attainment?

Since you still lack industry experiences, capitalize on your educational attainment.

Some may omit volunteer work for the sake of space, choosing instead to focus on educational attainment and industry - related employment.

Many more students are now old enough that the voucher program's effects on their educational attainment can be tracked.

Since these traits are not easily measured, the estimated impact of charter high schools on educational attainment could be biased.

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

«I have made a clear commitment to raising standards and performance in schools in Wales, improving levels of literacy and numeracy and reducing the impact of poverty on educational attainment.

Research by Alicia Munnell and colleagues at Boston College's Center for Retirement Research, published in 2011, challenges whether public - sector job security has been greater in recent years, noting that «the peak - to - present drops in employment for state - local and private - sector workers can be projected almost perfectly based on the educational attainment of the respective sectors.»

The study also showed that the genetic influences on intelligence are highly correlated with genetic influences on educational attainment, and also, albeit less strongly, with smoking cessation, intracranial volume, head circumference in infancy, autism spectrum disorder and height.

Several of the articles in that issue take a close look at the impact of changes in family structure on educational attainment in the U.S. and in other countries.

Using a population - based Norwegian health survey linked to administrative registry data, this study investigates the impact of adolescents» internalizing and externalizing problems on educational attainment in adulthood (N = 8,113).

Many experts on educational attainment levels have noted that high schools that serve low - income students tend to have overworked counselors who must handle many more students than do their counterparts at wealthier high schools.

The Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey includes information on educational attainment by a variety of economic and demographic factors.

Most impactful factors on educational attainment are instead ones that don't have to do with educational funding; but directly correlate to how well funded the district schools are:

The study on the impact of single - parenthood on educational attainment was published in Education Next last month: «One - Parent Students Leave School Earlier: Education Attainment Gap Widens,» by Kathleen M. Ziol - Guest, Greg J. Duncan and Ariel Kalil.

If conversion schools were better - than - average traditional public schools to begin with, they may be distorting the estimated impact of charters on educational attainment.

The available evidence on the influence of minimum - competency exams and higher curricular standards on educational attainment and employability is not only scant but often contradictory.

Nonetheless, this early evidence of positive effects for these students on educational attainment and earnings in adulthood raises the question of whether charter schools» full long - term impacts on their students have been underestimated by studies that examine only test scores.

Gorard, S., B.H. See, and P. Davies, The impact of attitudes and aspirations on educational attainment and participation.

We use remarkable population - level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long - Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US.

This expands the existing requirement to provide details on the amount of the school's allocation from the pupil premium grant, how it is intended to be spent and the effect of the expenditure on the educational attainment of the pupils.

Three studies have examined these effects so far and found positive effects on educational attainment for at least one subgroup of students.

Frankly, it is not necessary to over-focus on your educational attainment.

The tailwinds behind the market are strong, thanks in part to the evergreen emphasis on educational attainment.

Reading skills The report provides evidence of successful programmes to boost reading skills in primary schools, and shows that targeted support for children who struggle to read in primary school can have a lasting impact on their educational attainment.

Mr Andrews said: «I have made a clear commitment to raising standards and performance in schools in Wales, improving levels of literacy and numeracy and reducing the impact of poverty on educational attainment.

Determining the influence of charter school attendance on educational attainment is difficult because students who choose to attend charter high schools may be different from students who choose to attend traditional public high schools in ways that are not readily observable.

Family and child influences on educational attainment: A secondary analysis of the High / Scope Perry Preschool data

Further, he notes, «the effects of private - school - choice programs on educational attainment — how far an individual goes in school — are both larger and more consistent than their achievement effects,» with programs narrowly targeted to low - income, urban students proving to be the most effective.

Young's point being that in most cases the seemingly egalitarian goal of meritocracy would actually result in further class and societal stratification (and less mobility) by assigning people status based on educational attainment or IQ scores that do not necessarily mean someone is «valuable».

To explore what affects earnings mobility in the UK, ONS researchers looked at data on educational attainment, poverty and material deprivation.

This raises the possibility that the measured effects of attending a charter high school on educational attainment could simply reflect advantages of grouping middle and high school grades together, thereby creating greater continuity for students and eliminating the disruption often associated with changing schools.

On top of this sudden outbreak of generosity, it is claimed - following trial runs in Islington, Newham and Durham - that the meal deal will have an «enormous impact» on educational attainment.

They found that the negative effect of sibship size (the amount of siblings in an immediate family) on educational attainment was cut in half between the beginning and middle of the 20th century.