Sentences with phrase «on socioeconomic background»

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

Information on socioeconomic background, maternal diseases and obstetric history, parity, gender, fetal exposure to alcohol (at least 2 drinks a week during the entire pregnancy) and cigarette smoking (at least 1 cigarette a day during the last trimester), type and duration of breastfeeding, and maternal intelligence (Raven Progressive Matrices) was obtained through questionnaires administered in person after delivery and at 13 months.

The survey saw differences in teacher attitudes depending on the socioeconomic backgrounds of the students in the schools they teach.

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The latter two automatically signal race and, in our biased society, socioeconomic background, which can impact a child's education or employment opportunities later on.

Launched in the Bay Area in 2006, Sprouts Cooking Club teaches children from all socioeconomic, physical and mental health backgrounds the importance of healthy, nutritional foods through hands - on cooking with REAL chefs using REAL ingredients in REAL restaurants.

There was something about watching Max and J.J., two kids from vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds, not only become pick - and - roll partners on the court but also best buddies away from it.

JIM MORA COUNT ON ME FAMILY FOUNDATION: The Foundation, created in 2005, is a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) organization which supports children in need, primarily in three target areas: children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, mentally and physically - challenged children, and children at - risk.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

The mission of the Julie Foudy Leadership Foundation is: Building on a foundation of sports and fitness, we empower young women from all socioeconomic backgrounds to become leaders who positively impact their communities.

Background: Despite numerous population - based randomized intervention trials, the impact of such interventions on socioeconomic inequalities has rarely been examined.

She says there are initiatives on the horizon, such as universal lunches like those recently passed in the Boston public schools that provide all kids, regardless off socioeconomic or racial background, with free school meals.

They carefully matched these FRI students with peers who did not participate but were otherwise comparable in terms of socioeconomic background, gender, race, ethnicity, scores on standardized tests and other factors.

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

The paper also shows that the impact of education on these skills is even more dramatic for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

The researchers looked at 156 studies on the effectiveness of parenting programs for reducing disruptive behavior in children ages 2 to10; the studies involved more than 15,000 families from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds in 20 countries.

Receiving compliments on their house was a way for us to evaluate their socioeconomic background.»

«The findings add a biological perspective on what it means to come from a lower socioeconomic background,» says Gabrieli.

«Because peanuts [which do not grow on trees] are much less expensive than tree nuts, as well as more widely available to people of all races and all socioeconomic backgrounds, our study finding suggests that increasing peanut consumption may provide a potentially cost - efficient approach to improving cardiovascular health,» Shu said.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

Nine multicultural youths from different socioeconomic and religious backgrounds meet and over the course of an afternoon execute a multi-target terrorist attack on the city of Paris.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

The outcomes on standards - based social studies and content literacy assessments indicated that the project - based learning curriculum virtually erased the achievement gap between second graders of high and low - socioeconomic backgrounds (Halvorsen, Duke, Burgar, Block, Strachan, Berka, & Brown, 2012).

PISA shows that, in Australia, the effect of socioeconomic background on performance in scientific literacy was higher than on average across the OECD.

The final report is based on responses from 414,000 students within 569 schools in 32 states from various socioeconomic backgrounds.

School principals who have led significant improvements in low socioeconomic areas often report that their first challenge was to confront low expectations based on students» backgrounds.

They define equity, disadvantage and student needs along socioeconomic lines; allocate resources to schools at least partially on the basis of students» backgrounds; and design programs and interventions specifically for low socioeconomic and Indigenous students.

One response to this observation has been to assume that the closing of achievement gaps requires group - based solutions — for example, special initiatives aimed at boys (or girls), educational solutions for Indigenous students, or government programs targeted on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

More subtly, concluding that students in a particular school are performing well «given their socioeconomic backgrounds» or «given the proportion of Indigenous students in the school» reflect reduced expectations based on group membership.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

Other schools, often with students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds, have more of a focus on the «academic» side, being more concerned with results at the expense of the individual.

Studies show that school and community relationships have positive results on students stretched across all racial, socioeconomic, and education backgrounds.

Initially, in addition to observing, she also conducted a survey of 2,273 teenagers in 1999 (average age 16 at the time), which focused on their attitudes, educational histories, family structures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and interactions with parents.

Historically, research surrounding the literacy achievement gap has focused on three major themes: socioeconomic and sociocultural factors, linguistic background, and quality of instruction.

The NSIT was built on research into the practices of highly effective schools, defined as schools that make rapid improvements in student performance over time or that perform unusually well given the socioeconomic backgrounds of their student intakes.

These activities help parents from different socioeconomic, cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds come together on a common platform and share experiences and information.

Each school was given a grade based on a comparison between its actual scores and its predicted scores, which in turn were based on its students» socioeconomic backgrounds.

... the difference between advantaged students and disadvantaged students (those in the lowest quartile of socioeconomic background) is even larger: 90 score points on average across the OECD and 87 score points in Australia.

The Obama administration will announce plans on Monday to enforce a long - ignored federal mandate: a decade - old requirement that states give students of all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds equal access to good teachers.

After scores on the 2014 New York State English language arts assessment at P.S. 52 Sheepshead Bay School in Brooklyn were unsatisfactory, first - year principal Rafael Alvarez searched for a way to improve academic outcomes for his students, who come from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and about a quarter of whom are English language learners.

Howell and West find that these differences in opinion based on exposure to key information are consistent across a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, views about the local public schools, and political ideologies.

In a speech this evening at the National PTA Convention in Orlando, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr. will call on parent and teachers to create diverse schools where students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds have access to good teachers and learning opportunities like he did.

The background survey will include five core areas — grit, desire for learning, school climate, technology use, and socioeconomic status — of which the first two focus on a student's noncognitive skills, and the third looks at noncognitive factors in the school.

After all, as recent studies of the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act has shown, focusing on socioeconomic achievement gaps improves outcomes for minority and White children (as well as struggling and high - achieving children of all backgrounds).

All students who apply after the date of the lottery are accepted on a first - come, first - serve basis, regardless of socioeconomic background or academic record.

The magazine notes, «Ana represents the growing number of extraordinary school leaders working to provide a transformational education that puts children in low - income communities on a different life trajectory than their socioeconomic background would predict.»

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

My teachers support the Common Core because they have seen its positive impact on the performance of our students regardless of their socioeconomic background.

Students who have educated parents and are from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to do better on standardized tests.