Sentences with phrase «parental education families»

For example, CREDO compares two students with similar prior test scores both coming from low income and high parental education families, but one student now attends a charter school and the other attends a traditional public school.

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Considering the high costs of having of a child, coupled with the tension in balancing family - work life matters, states and companies are starting to invest in family support policies, parental benefits and competitive education.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

Third, applying simple legislative solutions to complex social issues also seems attractive, but ignores other relevant factors such as the role of the family and parental supervision, the place of education, and broader social determinants such as employment and access to social and economic opportunity.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family family types.

Most developed countries support families better than America — which has no comprehensive family policy for paid parental leave or flexible work, daycare, or early childhood education.

Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

Growing Generations is a Los Angeles - based company dedicated to creating lives and supporting families through egg donation, gestational surrogacy, and parental education.

By looking within families, research takes into account factors like parental education, household income and race

Demographic differences across families that can bias studies in favor of breast - feeding include parental race, age, marital status, family income, insurance coverage, the mother's education and employment, and whether a woman smokes or drinks during pregnancy.

Family Choice Education Credit This $ 70 million portion of the Parental Choice in Education Act will provide credits to families of nonpublic school students.

Therefore, the Parental Choice in Education Act will support important alternatives for parents across the state — especially important for low - income families and families living in overcrowded or failing districts.

Therefore, the Parental Choice in Education Act will support important alternatives for parents across the state — especially important for low - income families.

Additionally, the survey assessed family resources, including income and education, and other measures that impact children's psychological functioning and behavior, such as parental distress, family conflict, non-corporal discipline, parental monitoring, and deviant peer affiliation.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

This association remained significant after previous aggressive behavior, childhood neglect, family income, neighborhood violence, parental education, and psychiatric disorders were controlled statistically.

They measured total socioeconomic adversity by weighing factors such as average parental education, family economic hardship, family make - up and employment status.

After accounting for children's age, parental education levels, household income, family structure and family health outcomes such as maternal mental health, and type of health insurance used, the differences remained.

Children of all ages and their families will have an opportunity to experience science in a way that stimulates children's interest and encourages parental involvement in science education at the MDI Biological Laboratory's annual Family Science Night on Thursday, July 13, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of schooling children completed through five factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of education, the number of siblings, and parental income.

Why Attention Will Return to Non-School Factors Education Week, May 25, 2011 «When thinking about their own families, parents take it as a given that nonschool factors — good health, good food, emotional well - being, safety, stability, enrichment activities, positive peer influences, parental encouragement, and guidance — affect whether their children will thrive,» write Senior Lecturer Paul Reville and Columbia University Professor Jeffrey R. Henig.

The full paper — Building school capacity to support students from Australian Defence Force families during parental deployment — is free to access in the Australian Journal of Education until the end of May.

For instance, the family background variables we used to control for such differences may have failed to capture more nuanced variations in parental interest in education.

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

Dozens of studies point to one important conclusion: What the family does is more important than family background (income, parental education, marital status, family size, etc.).

He is entirely correct in observing the strong evidence showing that family income, parental education, family composition, housing stability, and other social factors have a substantial effect on student achievement.

This pattern holds even when other factors such as family income, parental education, gender, geographic region, and race are considered.

These indicate how well a teacher's students did relative to other teachers» students, controlling for prior student achievement and for student and family background characteristics (for example, age, race and ethnicity, disability, free or reduced - price lunch status, and parental education level).

If the problems are concentrated in ways that some would have us believe, U.S. students from families with high parental education should compare favorably with similarly situated students abroad.

For students from families with low parental education levels, Texas (28 %) and New Jersey (25 %) have the highest proficiency rates, well ahead of Massachusetts and Minnesota (both at 18 %), putting them in 7th and 8th place among U.S. states for this category of students.

The percentage proficient of 15 - year - olds from families with high parental education is conventionally thought to be the exception to this bleak picture.

More than 62 percent of students from Massachusetts families with high levels of parental education are proficient in math, placing that state just behind Germany (64 %) and Switzerland (65 %), two of the top - five OECD countries.

Parental Involvment Still Important for High Schoolers The Pitt News, 11/23/2014 «The research team, which consists of Wang, Tara Hofkens, a graduate researcher in Pitt's Learning Research and Development Center, and [Professor] Nancy E. Hill, a professor of education at Harvard University, asked more than 1,400 families in the Eastern region of the United States about how involved the parents were in the school lives of their teenagers.»

Low - resource families have limited parental education, very low family incomes, and / or parents unable to consistently provide high - quality learning opportunities essential for normal brain and behavioral development.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

Student and family background characteristics used in the analysis include a student's gender, immigration status, exposure to early childhood education, the number of books in the home, and parental occupation and work status.

Family structure and parental education, not shown, have no predictive power in this sample once the above covariates are included.

Understanding the deep - rooted importance of family and parental involvement in education and its effect on the academic performance of a child requires recognizing the fact that parents are childrens first teachers.

Rather, as is the case for the previously described relationship between parental education and price, families with more economic advantage are paying more.

The impact of parental involvement, parental support and family education on pupil achievement and adjustment: A literature review.

It reconstitutes the Parental Information and Resources Center — not funded since 2010 — into statewide Family Engagement in Education Programs.

Family income is now nearly as strong as parental education in predicting children's achievement.»

The strongest correlates of achievement gaps are local racial / ethnic differences in parental income, local average parental education levels, and patterns of racial / ethnic segregation, consistent with a theoretical model in which family socioeconomic factors affect educational opportunity partly though residential and school segregation patterns.

State policies on parental involvement and support structures for families are prevalent, as is federal policy through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

The impact of ethnicity, family income, and parental education on children's health and use of health services

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146