Sentences with phrase «poverty as the explanation»

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

Many educators and others interested in the mediocre performance of the American education system point to poverty as the explanation.

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As for the being which has an extreme sensibility for that color perception, it is questionable whether it would be open to any explanation at all, but rather, by reason of the poverty of its inclinations or out of fear of being disturbed in its pleasant feelings, it would have nothing to do with anything else.

Dennis Van Roekel offers the poverty hypothesis as an explanation.

Hanushek points out that actual spending increases during the time period they studied was more like 100 percent, gaps have not closed, and other explanations for low performance such as increases in the numbers of students in poverty don't explain the difference.

Many factors, including broken families, poverty, exposure to violent media, and an increasing amount of pressure on students, have been proposed as explanations for high bullying rates.

Stripped of rhetoric, Respondents» explanation is that a complex computer program — the operation of which is not transparent as required by New York State Education Law § 3012 - c (2)(j)(1)-- which purportedly takes into account the effects of poverty, English language fluency, and learning disability in crude and undisclosed ways, 4 predicted that Petitioner's 4th grade students would score better than they did.

Also the conditional acceptance of fossil fuels as sometimes necessary to alleviate poverty needs far better explanation.

Next to food security, urban agriculture contributes to local economic development, poverty alleviation and social inclusion of the urban poor and women in particular, as well as to the greening of the city and the productive reuse of urban wastes (see below for further explanations and examples).

An alternative explanation for the association between poverty, family instability and children's cognitive functioning is that all of these factors might be associated with each other due to their association with previous characteristics of the parent (such as mother's age and education).25, 30 According to the selection hypothesis24 parents» own characteristics may affect their ability to maintain a stable income or a stable and committed partnership, and impact on the characteristics of their children, either through the environment in the home, through genetic transmission, or more likely the combination of both.