Sentences with phrase «school attainment also»

Increasing the average number of years of schooling attained by the labor force boosts the economy only when increased levels of school attainment also boost cognitive skills.

Not exact matches

After finding a suitable dataset (High School graduation rates), I wanted to understand how attainment changes not just by ethnicity but also across the country.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

A report by the NFER also found «no significant difference in attainment progress between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 outcomes after two years between converter academies and similar non-academy schools.»

They also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

The report also suggests schools should consider grouping pupils by attainment rather than age.

There was also praise for the support provided by local authorities and Attainment Advisors in schools.

At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

«I would also encourage all schools to make full use of the PDG advisers and coordinators from the education consortia — they're there to help when it comes to making the best use of the funding and ensuring that we raise attainment across the board.»

Sturgeon also confirmed that 57 schools would get a part of # 2.5 million funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, with the aim of closing the attainment gap between the least and most deprived commuschools would get a part of # 2.5 million funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, with the aim of closing the attainment gap between the least and most deprived coAttainment Challenge Schools Programme, with the aim of closing the attainment gap between the least and most deprived commuSchools Programme, with the aim of closing the attainment gap between the least and most deprived coattainment gap between the least and most deprived communities.

Tuttle, et al's recent evaluation of KIPP charter schools also finds large achievement test gains for charter students but little or no attainment benefit.

A study of 300 schools which increased their EBacc entry rates between 2010 and 2013 found that pupils» average attainment in GCSE English and maths increased following the curriculum changes and that pupils at these schools were also less likely to have left education after the age of 16, than peers at other schools.

Introducing the outdoors into an already busy school curriculum can seem like an impossible challenge, but with the right planning and a whole school approach significant progress can be made that makes a real difference, not only to the health and well - being of the school population, but also to their attainment.

The report also states that funding for low prior attainment means that the lowest performing schools in the country are set to gain # 78.5 million more overall than the top performing schools.

There are also a whole series of very practical management benefits for school leaders, as they continue to raise attainment in a tight financial climate.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

In a further more recent good practice case study they also reported that; «Neston High School secures high attainment and levels of progress through a well - integrated curriculum with a broad programme of learning outside the classroom (LOTC).

«Governments have seemed unwilling to have a key school reform rigorously tested against the evidence, and too often the critics have also wanted to make their case without reference to the emerging data on how structural change is impacting on attainment and value added.

Neston High were also featured in a recent Ofsted best practice report, which praised the school for securing high attainment and levels of progress through a well - integrated curriculum with a broad programme of LOtC.

School meals are also linked to increased academic attainment.

However, despite this progress in children's attainment, the data also shows that more than 200,000 pupils are still being taught in underperforming schools.

With 75 per ‑ cent of children in the UK spending less time outside than prison inmates (survey of 2,000 people commissioned by Persil as part of its «Dirt is Good» campaign) it's going to take more than just schools to get young people outside enough to reap the benefits; benefits that include not just self - development, but also increased academic attainment — one of the core functions of schools.

However, staff have also learnt that actually the most important improvement is in the behaviour and attendance because it is the re-engagement with school that has the most sustainable effect on learning and attainment.

The researchers also found a very strong link between participants» increased school attendance and a rise in academic attainment.

The report also found that whole - school approaches to this, universally implemented for all pupils, strongly correlates with attainment.

In a further more recent good practice case study, Ofsted also reported that: «Neston High School secures high attainment and levels of progress through a well - integrated curriculum with a broad programme of learning outside the classroom (LOtC).

Stronger family aspirations and cultural attitudes to learning are also likely to play a part, as analysis has shown that parents» desire for their children to continue in education post-16 and willingness to be involved in schooling, both positively affect attainment.

This information must also include details of how the school spent the pupil premium funding in the last academic year, and how it made a difference to the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.

Because teacher retention and quality are not the only factors that influence student outcomes, Han also looked at the effects of unionism on an important education attainment benchmark: high school dropout rates.

She also confirmed # 2.5 million for 57 schools that will receive funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities&schools that will receive funding as part of the Scottish Attainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communitiAttainment Challenge Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities&Schools Programme, which the government says is aimed at closing the «attainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communitiattainment gap between children from our least and most deprived communities».

We also looked at whether schools that offered more opportunities to participate in sports had different rates of attainment:

Better school climates and better relations with administration and the community were also reported, as well as greater parent involvement and more parents with high expectations for their children's future educational attainment.

The DfE also claims that a baseline test can be a good predictor of children's future attainment — and that schools can therefore be held accountable for deviations from the prediction that baseline makes.

This process can also be an important professional development tool for teachers and schools given the move away from APP / Attainment Targets.»

They also believe that children in care, who statistically have considerably lower attainment scores than their peers, could be lowering the published outcomes of primary schools in the areas where numbers have dramatically increased.

I also attended sessions on how Minnesota used data to close attainment and equity gaps and on how Kansas aligned high school education with career opportunities.

Parents may also wish to look at schools» Attainment 8 scores to have an overall idea of how they perform on GCSE results.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

Assembly will also launch its first public product today: a free online tool for schools to compare their performance against national benchmarks, including Progress and Attainment 8.

The research also looks at GCSE attainment for pupils at grammar schools.

Given the growing body of evidence in this area, perhaps we are now at the stage where we can also begin to answer the «big question»: what impact are the changing models and structures having on school improvement and the attainment of all children and young people, especially the «unseen» highlighted by Sir Michael's report?

The study, which brought together insights from teachers, universities and academics, also found that schools focus too much on increasing pupils» attainment and not enough on preparing them for interviews, personal statements, and other university admissions tests.

But there is also extra funding for schools with high numbers of children with low prior attainment.

The report also provides a more scientific approach to any early findings on the impact of free schools on pupil attainment and progress.

The report also stated a strength in primary schools was the impact of better teaching on the learning of pupils eligible for free school meals, which Ofsted attributed to helping to close the attainment gap between these pupils and their peers.

You could also imagine a world of selective schools aimed just at the top tip of the distribution, which would in effect be special needs schools for children whose high academic attainment means they find conventional schooling difficult.