Sentences with phrase «same socioeconomic backgrounds»

If public and private schools served students with the same socioeconomic backgrounds, public schools would actually out - perform private schools.

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

Not exact matches

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

He says that pursuing a career in education, starting with TFA, is important to him because he wants to give students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds the same educational opportunity he had at Harvard — a sentiment echoed by many students from Merseth's class.

What he found was that while many things stayed the same — the socioeconomic background of the students,...

Several more recent studies have shown that the same image of a scientist persists over a range of socioeconomic, racial, and gender backgrounds.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

Design an algorithm to match parental preferences with schools, while considering socioeconomic backgrounds at the same time.

The treatment and control classes were matched on CAT Total Reading and Total Language scores, and the research team also attempted to match the groups on ethnic background and socioeconomic status by selecting classes from schools in the same or similar neighborhoods.

A multi-year study of students enrolled in two - way dual - language programs in North Carolina between 2007 and 2010, found that low - income black children in these programs scored higher in reading and math than their classmates of the same race and socioeconomic background who were being taught in one language.

Children sharing the same classroom come from a broad range of cultures, languages, and socioeconomic backgrounds.