Sentences with phrase «race and income»

This study has limitations, including that the findings might not be applicable across races and income levels.

While you did cite an article that looked only student results within one district, ed experts also try control for variables like race and income.

Creating more open - enrollment magnet schools would also bring families of various races and incomes into well - funded and themed schools.

With enough data, we can look to see if judgement outcomes change when race and income change.

But scores are still low, and achievement gaps between students of differing race and incomes remain wide.

The scientists did note that race and income appeared to affect male to female surgery ratios within certain populations.

And how can policymakers design education systems that will result in healthy race and income integration in schools?

The waivers have allowed states to set race - and income - based goals, that is, to lower expectations for student achievement by race and income.

Included were data from schools of all sizes, both public and private and various races and income levels.

Additionally, we found that parents who did not complete the Wave 3 survey differed significantly on race and income in 2002 compared to those who completed Wave 3 which may have biased our results.

There was another variable relating to defendant demographics, sex, which I included.11 I could have looked through previous years» data to construct a defendant's criminal history along with a myriad of other features, but given that my question was aimed at the influence of race and income on outcomes, I was content to focus primarily on these features, along with seriousness.

In fact, charter schools in Boston and Lynn are generating gains in achievement that are large enough to close achievement gaps by race and income in a few school years.

Gender, specific age, race and income did not influence the association; the study found that all demographic groups were equally affected by the link between social media and eating and body image concerns, indicating that preventative messages should target a broad population.

«We have an opportunity gap along race and income lines that continues to widen in this country.

The facts don't hide the glaring disparities in school quality across the country nor the sickening gaps in both achievement and preparedness across race and income lines.

Segregation by race and income continues to menace our public schools, as does inequitable allocation of resources.

The results are that math scores on National Assessment of Educational Progress declined for the first time since 1990 and reading scores are flat or decreased, the achievement gaps based on race and income persist, teachers are demoralized, causing teacher shortages, and, most tragically of all, children are receiving an education which harms them.

Ms. Ravitch has a new book coming out, called «Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools,» in which she criticizes what she sees as a useless distraction from the problems of race and income inequality.

A 2011 study of two EL middle schools and one EL elementary school in New York State found that they fared better at reducing race and income achievement gaps, particularly in English, when compared to similar schools.

The conversations were interesting, but they didn't delve into DC's context, instead staying at the national level, and I found Fordham's stance — that it is too difficult to provide adequate supports to schools in lieu of suspension, so it is not worth raising the bar for what constitutes suspension — to be a frustrating one that does not sufficiently address disproportionality in suspensions by race and income level.

How do race and income level factor into education opportunities in present - day America?

This graph shows the way SAT scores in the state of Texas correlate with race and income.

Florida proved that there was a clear correlation between Race and Income / Education levels, and made the case that insurance companies were indirectly using race as a factor, a practice that is illegal under both State and Federal guidelines.

According to the Houston Chronicle, ``... the lack of affordable housing is being viewed as a crisis that affects Americans of all ages, races and income groups.»

Sadly, the Board of Teaching s one of the rasons we have such a large gap between students of different races and income levels.

Dr. Rajagopal's students have consistently closed the achievement gap in mathematics in terms of race and income.

Much like disaggregating test score data by race and income in the early 2000s revealed inequities in what were generally considered to be good school systems, breaking apart graduation rates by school district shows that even high - performing states have pockets of failure.

«This study shows that severe food allergies are beginning to impact children of all races and income,» said lead study author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an attending physician at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

Hawkins Calls for Action on Desegregation in Westchester, Statewide While Governor Cuomo and his Republican challenger exchanged barbs over a housing discrimination case in Westchester County, Green Party gubernatorial candidate announced two measures he would take as Governor to desegregate New York's housing and schools, which are the most segregated in the nation by both race and income.

«There's a crisis taking place in cities and towns and neighborhoods throughout New York State,» said Stewart Cousins who says its effecting New Yorkers of all «backgrounds, races and income levels».

Television watching, for example, turns out to be a better predictor of bad eating habits than does parental weight, race and income, and a child's gender and ethnicity — together — according to a study by Harrison and her team.

He created the Algebra Project to make college - preparatory algebra the standard for students of all races and incomes, and until age 70 flew from Massachusetts to Mississippi every week to teach high school math.

But I think it's unfair to discount the views of those who disagree, and it would be untoward to suggest they don't care about other kids or are insensitive to issues of race and income.

Residential segregation may decline somewhat in most regions of the country, but residential segregation by race and income will almost certainly remain a defining feature of the U.S. and a sizable impediment to greater school integration.

Don't settle for knowing that many, too many, schools remain separated by race and income.

Charters ranging from the Denver School of Science and Technology network to the E. L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., intentionally draw a mix of families, by race and income.

A report examining whether students are using the school choice mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act highlights these districts, where it says choice is helping to integrate schools by race and income.

Washington, however, is a city starkly divided by race and income, which prevents Haynes from achieving significant diversity.

All that distinguishes the groups is their randomly drawn lottery numbers, so we can be confident that the groups are comparable not only in observable ways (like race and income), but also in less tangible ways, such as motivation to succeed.

This Hogwarts - style «sorting hat» that had begun with apprenticeship programs of Colonial America, continued through the 1970s and early 80s, until two landmark government reports (Work in America by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and A Nation at Risk from the National Commission on Excellence in Education) lambasted the tracking model for failing to educate half the student population — generally by race and income.