Sentences with phrase «repeating fewer grades»

Children of involved fathers do better at school, including better grades, fewer expulsions, and repeating fewer grades.

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

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Now I look at my daughter's 3rd grade class, and I see few repeated names, including the most common ones.

Since 2006, the number of Houston schools earning one of the state's top ratings has more than doubled to exceed 200 campuses, fewer students are repeating a grade level, and more are testing at the highest levels of academic achievement.

These students perform better in third grade reading and math tests, have larger test score gains over time, have fewer absences and disciplinary incidents, are less likely to repeat grades, and are more likely to graduate from high school in four years.

Finally, increasing the share of adolescents in two - parent families to the 1960 level suggests that nearly three - quarters of a million fewer children would repeat a grade.

Correspondingly, increasing the share of adolescents living with two biological parents to the 1970 level, as illustrated in the third column, would mean that 643,264 fewer children would repeat a grade.