Sentences with phrase «poorest fifth schools»
The poorest fifth schools, as defined by the number of pupils eligible for free school meals, spent on average 31 per cent more per pupil than the richest fifth.
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Poor academic performance will not be tolerated, the government said today, as latest figures show a fifth of schools would face closure under the prime minister's own criteria.
«While Lisfranc injuries have a reputation for resulting in poor player performance in the NFL, our study is the first to fully assess their career impact, including effect on athletic performance following return to competition,» said lead author Kevin J. McHale, MD, a fifth - year orthopedic resident at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the Arab States, one fifth of the poorest girls have never been to school, compared to one tenth of the poorest boys.
South Carolina has hired Edison Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County school system, a poor rural district entering its fifth school year under state control.
Under a law passed in 2015, any school district with a campus that receives a fifth straight «improvement required» rating for poor academic performance this year would be subject to the sanctions.
A poor - performing North Carolina school under Needs Improvement for a fifth consecutive year (and forced to develop a restructuring plan) improved reading performance by six percent of a standard deviation, while math achievement improved by nearly three percent of a standard deviation.
Rocketship has grown over the last decade into a network of thirteen schools around the country, serving nearly 8,000 kindergarten through fifth - grade students who are overwhelmingly poor and Latino.
As their Clark County School District exploded to become the country's fifth - largest district, poor and minority students found themselves shut out of its top schools and concentrated in the county's lowest - performing district and public charter schools.
One - fifth of the middle schoolers in Providence, Rhode Island, for example, entered kindergarten in 2003 suffering from some level of lead poisoning, which disproportionately affects the poor and is associated with intellectual delays and behavioral problems such as ADHD.
As Davis found out, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100 million donation to the Newark school system never went toward patching holes in buildings that «need a district - estimated $ 1.3 billion in repairs,» or hiring counselors, social workers or nurses for «the fifth - poorest youth population in the country.»
The fifth of schools in the poorest areas were four times as likely to have been assessed as «inadequate» by inspectors, compared with schools in wealthier areas.
When McLanahan and Sandefur entered parenting into the regressions (instead of income), they found that the poorer parenting skills and behaviors in single - parent families explained about half the gap in high school dropout rates, but only a fifth of the gap in teen birth rates (again controlling for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).