I have to assume that somebody in the process suggested that the post-high
school education factor simply be described by some phrasing indicating that the school will take into account the number of post high - school years and what was taken, without suggesting some sort of necessary advantage in having more years.
Not exact matches
There are a host of
factors that understandably keep high
school seniors from continuing on with their
education, most notably rising tuition costs.
Then I
factored in private
education costs for two kids to be conservative given I may not have two kids and public
schools are often good enough.
The
school data used for the ranking by the FT measures such several
factors that have little, if anything, to do with the actual quality of the
education received by graduates.
The
education tax paid by homeowners depends on a variety of
factors, including the per - pupil spending in their local
schools, the type of property (residential homestead or other) and the state - determined common level of appraisal (CLA).
Bertolini, who joined Aetna in 2003 as head of specialty products and rose to CEO in 2010, joked at a 2010 awards ceremony at Wayne State about his
education at the Detroit
school, «probably the single most important
factor» in his success as an executive.
Those who had completed higher levels of
education were more opposed to the tariffs, but a majority was opposed across all levels of
schooling, when controlled for other
factors.
When I ask Carter to describe the kind of young person who commits violent crime, he says there are some recurring themes: «The common
factors will be a broken family at home, someone who isn't fully engaged in their
education — absenteeism from
school and truancy — and domestic abuse is a key
factor as well.
The single strongest
factor predicting how well a person does on the religious knowledge quiz is
education - the more years of
schooling a person has, the more they are likely to know about religion, regardless of how religious they consider themselves to be, Pew found.
Although there are certainly many excellent and devoted science educators in Catholic K - 12
education, these
factors inevitably lead to a situation whereby Catholic
schools simply can not attract the best scientific educators in the long term.
Dad
Factor INSET training for
schools The Dad
Factor is a package of INSET training for
schools, family learning and extended
school services and the staff who work in these settings including head teachers, teachers, learning assistants, mentors, family learning teams, community
education staff,
school nurses and counsellors.
We need caring dads and other men who are involved at
school and at home to help kids recognize that a good
education is often a major
factor in propelling them to long - term success in life.
In the end, it all comes back to
education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high
school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high
school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk
factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.
More than one third of children eating
school lunches already have one of three disease risk
factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels or obesity, said Deborah Rees, a dietitian for the Illinois association's nutrition and
education training program.
In addition to supporting children's music development, our in -
school curriculum raises the overall quality of a child's
education by touching many important
factors all at once:
school readiness, family engagement, parent - child relationships, and teacher professional development.
We've known from the start that the HHFKA was grossly underfunded, so why isn't the SNA getting in there and fighting hard for more money, logistical help, better kitchen equipment, nutrition
education and all of the other
factors that would support better
school meals?
Other
factors include varying caloric needs and access to nutrition
education, food presentation and marketing, the length of the lunch period, and the structure of the
school day.
Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary
school or prevocational secondary
school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk
factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no
education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use
New York
education policymakers will begin looking at ways to measure
school success and failure based on
factors other than test scores.
David Cameron will identify discipline, «freedom for
schools» and «high expectations» as the key
factors that make for a good
education system as he opens one of the first «free»
schools today.
Basically,
school quality varies because
schools predominantly draw from quite narrow geographic areas and neighborhoods are extremely segregated by
education, income, race and other demographic
factors, by design.
Mostly, this means the
education and income of students, but it also captures
factors like the percentage of students learning English as a second language, and the percentage of students who change
schools during the course of the
school year due to parental job shifts.
A New York Observer editorial discusses several
factors de Blasio will need to consider when selecting the next
schools chancellor including mayoral control of the
education system, UFT pay contracts, and charter
schools:
The Assembly budget would increase
education spending without those proposals, which include increasing the degree to which standardized tests
factor into teacher evaluations and raising the charter
school cap.
The research also finds that black students are 54 percent less likely than white students to be identified as eligible for gifted -
education services after adjusting for the students» previous scores on standardized tests, demographic
factors, and
school and teacher characteristics.
The number of Southern natives and the average
education level in a county are the most influential
factors on the odds of a U.S. public
school using corporal punishment, according to new Penn State research.
Steven Demorest, a professor of music
education at Northwestern's Bienen
School of Music, looked at the attitudes and beliefs that influence whether or not children choose to continue studying music and how those
factors related to their actual singing ability.
«It will be valuable to learn whether improvements in earnings by families with pregnant women, improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all
factors associated with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of
Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's
School of
Education and Social Policy.
«Previous research tends to be polarized between the argument that students of color are overrepresented in special
education due to racial bias in
schools, and the argument that they are actually underrepresented in special
education once you account for socioeconomic status and other related
factors.
Liliana Garces, assistant professor of higher
education at Pennsylvania State University, said racial diversity has fallen significantly at
schools that are barred from considering race as a
factor in admissions.
The team at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Mainz University Medical Center led by Professor Norbert Pfeiffer and PD Dr. Alireza Mirshahi found strong evidence that attaining a higher level of
education and spending more years in
school are two
factors associated with a greater prevalence and severity of nearsightedness, or myopia.
The one
factor with a statistically significant link to minor depression was having a high
school education or less.
According to new research out of the University of Edinburgh, two big contributing
factors to longevity include
education (each year of
school added a year of life in this particular experiment) and maintaining a healthy weight.
It's a more important
factor for women (43 %) than men (32 %) and college graduates (47 %) than those with just a high
school education (29 %).
Figure 2 shows the results of our efforts to explain the amount of
schooling children completed through five
factors: family structure, mother's age at child's birth, mother's years of
education, the number of siblings, and parental income.
No less important are the main
factors that generate the gap: students entering charters may differ from those entering district
schools (with respect to their special
education needs), and students leaving charters may differ from those leaving district
schools.
It's about having your ear to the ground about the skills these kids will need to know, and the determination to teach to those skills even if the world of
education or your
school site or your fear
factor is not on board.
We believe that one of the greatest
school - based
factors for improving
education today is empowering educators with opportunities to develop a growth mindset by working together to build skills and strategies to increase the impact of their instruction in the classroom.
Declining enrollments and the consolidation of small
school districts have been major
factors in the closings of 424 West Virginia
schools since 1989, according to a report given to the state board of
education earlier this month.
Neither
factor indicates that charter
schools are driving special
education students away from their doors.
I. N. Berlin, a professor of psychiatry and psychiatric consultant to
school districts in San Francisco, San Joaquin County, and Stockton, California, argued that some mental pathologies that were causal
factors in teacher maladjustment and ineffectiveness in the classroom were, unfortunately, exacerbated rather than alleviated by teacher
education.
In this study, I examine data on all elementary -
school students in certain years in New York City and Denver, Colorado, to estimate the relative importance of various
factors that appear to be contributing to a special
education gap.
All of these
factors affect the quality of
education provided in these
schools.
The study was carried out by
Education Datalab and found that
schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses pupils progress in addition to
factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first language.
«Access to tools and resources is a key
factor in
education, and by providing Spark with premium features to K - 12 (primary and secondary)
schools and colleges for free and by offering single sign - on, Adobe is empowering educators to teach the critical skills their students need both in the classroom and when they enter the workforce.»
OECD Director of
Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher explains there are several
factors that impact student wellbeing, and much comes down to teachers, parents and
schools.
State would include four
factors in this indicator: chronic absenteeism for all
schools; time spent in arts, library, and physical
education programs in K - 8; advanced coursework in grades 11 - 12; postsecondary enrollment rates
Psychologist and
education academic Dr Amanda Mergler, Senior Lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, and co-author Professor Susan Walker, also of QUT, has published the results of a study into the factors that affect parents» decisions about whether to voluntarily delay their child's entry into formal s
education academic Dr Amanda Mergler, Senior Lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology's (QUT)
School of Early Childhood and Inclusive
Education, and co-author Professor Susan Walker, also of QUT, has published the results of a study into the factors that affect parents» decisions about whether to voluntarily delay their child's entry into formal s
Education, and co-author Professor Susan Walker, also of QUT, has published the results of a study into the
factors that affect parents» decisions about whether to voluntarily delay their child's entry into formal
schooling.
«We can draw several important lessons from our findings about
factors that support quality in prekindergarten,» said Weiland, incoming assistant professor at the University of Michigan's
School of
Education, who was at HGSE when she led the study.
A number of significant
factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree;
education is well funded by the state and free to all;
school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in
education.