Sentences with phrase «school and life outcomes»

The children in this program were the subjects of the influential HighScope longitudinal study, which identified significant, positive school and life outcomes and became a key piece of evidence for the importance of early childhood education.

Adding to a growing body of evidence of overall progress made by Newark's public schools and life outcomes for Newark students, two studies released this month by Harvard University and MarGrady Research reveal significant gains made by the school district.

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They are just beginning to understand the bigger world around them, to navigate the daily routines of their home and school life, and to test boundaries to see what the outcome may be.

If parents would pay more attention to their children and invest quality time in the daily life of their children the child would have a better learning outcome at school.

Empowering local school districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara Cschool districts to produce and serve nutritious, scratch - cooked meals was at the heart of the School Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara CSchool Food Initiative's efforts to improve the health and life outcomes for children in Santa Barbara County.

These effects are 1) pervasive, being reflected in a range of measures including standardized tests, teacher ratings, and academic outcomes in high school; and 2) relatively long - lived, extending throughout childhood into young adulthood.»

«Increasing competition between schools undermines outcomes and life chances for children with SEN.. The Government needs a SEN strategy which urges schools to work in partnership, to build collaboration and to share resources and specialist SEN knowledge.

These behaviors predict more serious adverse outcomes later in life, such as substance abuse, delinquency, and violence, explains study leader Anne Riley, PhD, professor in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.

The researchers also want to add to this current observational study to establish, through randomized controlled trials, that eating fish can lead to better sleep, better school performance and other real - life, practical outcomes.

«National school - based mental health intervention improves outcomes for at - risk students: Participation in Chilean Skills for Life program reduced mental health symptoms, improved school attendance and promotion.»

Graham Moore's screenplay portrays the struggle to unravel the Enigma machine and gives us flashbacks to Turing's school days, as well as the outcome he met in the sad, final days of his life.

I've identified 10 rigorously designed studies of charter and private school choice programs with later life outcomes.

This helps to prevent the overweight / obese children from being singled out and supports and encourages parents to follow suit, as schools have the power to influence and ultimately change health and educational outcomes for life.

Using our highly trained staff to support areas of school life that are either not currently provided for or are covered by a number of different staff will lead to improved educational outcomes and deliver cost savings in multiple areas.»

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Other than the general disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes (in both directions), I notice that the No Excuses charter model that is currently the darling of the ed reform movement and that New York Times columnists have declared as the only type of «Schools that Work» tend not to fare nearly as well in later outcomes as they do on test scores.

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

While research has shown that the increased roll out of 1:1 mobile devices could have the potential to improve learning outcomes and help schools to better take advantage of the connected world we now live in, the successful implementation does face a number of barriers.

Taken together, these results highlight how improved access to school resources can profoundly shape the life outcomes of economically disadvantaged children and thereby reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty.

He advocated for state databases containing college and career outcome information of public school graduates, so parents can see the life outcomes of former students of their children's current or future schools.

It is a story about how scholars have tried to unravel the tangled relationships between race, income, school, and children's academic and life outcomes.

People have been very slow to accept the fact that test scores are only weakly correlated with later life outcomes because it would be so convenient if readily available and relatively inexpensive test scores could capture something as complex as school quality.

Visit the Digital Learning Video Gallery on the website for the Alliance for Excellent Education to view real - life, practical stories about how district and school leaders are improving learning outcomes through effective use of technology.

Except, in school (and life), we can't always risk the outcome.

As research points out, small schools improve life outcomes by helping more students graduate, thus providing them with the opportunities to attend college, find meaningful employment, and become productive citizens.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

Well, I've been making the argument for a while now that there is remarkably little evidence linking near - term changes in test scores to changes in later life outcomes for students, like graduating high school, enrolling in college, completing college, and earnings.

Teamwork is a major outcome of a great many aspects of school life, but unlike activities that are school - based, in the outdoors the consequences of a lack of teamwork are immediate and possibly dangerous.

PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) is best known for its data on learning outcomes, but it also studies students» satisfaction with life, their relationships with peers, teachers and parents and how they spend their time outside of school.

How do the social contexts of family, neighborhood, and school in the early years relate to life outcomes for urban youth?

She acknowledges in the introduction that her last effort, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, failed to offer a positive plan for improving student outcomes.

«As a Committee dedicated to promoting social justice, we are committed to examining these issues in our inquiry and pressing government, local authorities, schools and others to do all they can to improve educational outcomes and life chances.

While we live in a market - driven economy ~ where winning and wealth accumulation are desired outcomes ~ education advocates on all sides of the political aisle currently assert that public schools are failing our children ~ especially minorities and low - income students.

Evidence indicates that school choice programs can improve the educational and life outcomes of low - income students, but not all programs are equally effective.

This same disconnect between test scores and later life outcomes exists in several rigorously conducted studies of charter schools, including those of the Harlem Promise Academy, KIPP, High Tech High, SEED boarding charter schools, and no excuses charters in Texas.

The governance and financial management of these schools is fundamentally important to pupils» educational outcomes and future life prospects.

And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earninAnd even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earninand reading tests only captures a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earninand earnings.

SMSC assessments - Good, systematic values education provides both a clear strategy and impressive outcomes to demonstrate to Ofsted inspectors how the school is working to give its pupils an enjoyable and engaging grounding in life - enriching values and thereby preparing them well for the modern world.

Training for your school organization on educational technology integration and how it can facilitate work - life balance and higher learning outcomes

Because the randomized controlled trial approach has the important feature of generating comparable treatment and control groups, we can use a straightforward set of analytic techniques, designed for use in social experiments, to estimate the impact of a school field trip to see live theater on student outcomes.

To sum up, our evidence confirms that the students of high - VA teachers benefit not just by scoring higher on math and reading tests at the end of the school year, but also through improved outcomes later in life.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said: «Technology is an integral part of school life and this new agreement will help schools around the country save money and improve outcomes for all.

Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances» document these patterns and present evidence that the increase in income inequality contributed causally to the increase in inequality of children's educational outcomes.

With good focus on the key factors and processes implicated in resilience and by leveraging appropriate sites (such as schools), methods, and points in a child's life, the outcomes of structured resilience interventions are likely to be optimised.

When school shrinks to be about only the business of comparative outcomes, test results, and efficiency, all our lives are diminished.

Recent evidence also shows that exposure to disruptive peers during elementary school worsens student achievement and later life outcomes, including high school achievement, college enrollment, and earnings (see «Domino Effect,» research, Summer 2009).

Civic engagement tends to rise with educational attainment, which is another non-surprise: If our relationship with school is productive, successful, and contributes to a good life outcome, we are more likely to feel invested in civil society.

That same conventional wisdom also suggests that the type of community in which a student lives and attends school will exert a strong and pervasive influence on a variety of educational outcomes.

The aims are to build a strong evidence base that will support four key Learning Away propositions, ie to demonstrate that high - quality residential learning: has a strong, positive impact on academic achievement and a wide range of pupil - level outcomes, including emotional well - being, learner engagement, behaviour and personal, social, employability and life skills; can transform the learning experience of pupils; can help to transform schools; does not need to be expensive.

Working in collaboration with a diverse group of educators, advocacy groups, community organizations, and policymakers, the project ultimately aims to grow the number of quality schools where all children can have equitable learning outcomes, feel like their culture is valued, learn to live together with appreciation of differences, and be engaged in understanding how to dismantle racism and systemic oppression.