Sentences with phrase «recent age cohorts»

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

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In contrast, in a recent poll in Shanghai, 85 percent of parents declared that they expected their children to be in the top 15 percent of their age cohort.

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

The most recent follow - up study reported associations between duration of breastfeeding and childhood cognitive ability and academic achievement extending from 8 to 18 years in a New Zealand cohort of 1000 children.19 This study found that these effects were significant after controlling for measures of social and family history, including maternal age, education, SES, marital status, smoking during pregnancy, family living conditions, and family income, and measures of perinatal factors, including gender, birth weight, child's estimated gestational age, and birth order in the family.

Recent findings from the Millennium Cohort Study indicated that some 31 % of never resident fathers had no contact with the child at age nine months (Kiernan, 2006:664).