Sentences with phrase «school factors contribute»

Teachers and school leaders are the two most important in - school factors contributing to student achievement.

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Another contributing factor: the extra tasks sitters take on during those periods, like getting the kids ready for school, supervising drop - off or pick - up at the bus stop, and helping with homework

Along with the possibility of raising the age for purchasing a gun, the commission will study the effects of factors such as violent video games that contribute to what DeVos called a «culture of violence» in U.S. schools.

Among the many factors that influence my choice of milk to use in this recipe are several long - term studies (including the Harvard's Health Professionals Study and the one by Catherine S. Berkey of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital) that have shown that even low - fat dairy products can contribute to weight gain.

Food found in most of the school are a major contributing factors to the child's unhealthy eating habits.

Immaturity is one of the factors that can contribute to the overall picture of a school child who would benefit from repeating a grade, but grade retention by itself does not encourage maturity.

This report serves to provide a better understanding of possible factors that may contribute to difficulties in a school environment following a concussion and serves as a framework for the medical home, the educational home, and the family home to guide the student to a successful and safe return to learning.

Barry — It's absolutely true that there are many factors contributing to childhood obesity and school food is just one of them.

School choice is likely a contributing factor to racial segregation in New York City elementary schools, according to a new report by...

Although there are not enough free schools to have had a strong impact on the 2012 PISA results, they are nevertheless a contributing factor.

This latest study from Bristol's School of Experimental Psychology sheds fresh light on the issue, while still cautioning that the results ought to be considered in the wider context of other contributing factors of mental health.

Despite evidence that environmental factors contribute to many health problems, medical students report fewer than six hours of environmental health training, according to University of Texas School of Medicine researchers.

Although school shooters often report feeling a desperate need to make up for having been inadequate as men, many factors contribute to their actions, argues clinical psychologist Peter Langman.

Previous research on the pandemic found that environmental factors, timing of the end school holidays, population sizes and air travel contributed to its spread, but this new research has found that transmission occurred primarily over short distances and that school age children may have catalysed the spread.

Therefore, starting an exercise program, regardless of one's age, can not only contribute to the more obvious physical health factors, but may also contribute to memory performance and brain function,» explained corresponding author Scott Hayes, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Neuroimaging Research for Veterans Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System.

However, it is apparent that a large component of the school food environment — foods brought from home — has not been thoroughly investigated and could be a contributing factor to child overweight status,» the study concludes.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

School district boundaries are a key factor contributing to segregation among families with children.

«Understanding which risk factors contribute to back pain and controlling exposure to these risks is an important first step in prevention,» explains Associate Professor Manuela Ferreira, Ph.D., with The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School at The University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

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.

The Chronic Candida Syndrome (also, Candidiasis Hypersensitivity Syndrome [CHS], or Candida Related Complex [CRC]-RRB- is characterized by a collection of diverse symptoms, and there are several schools of thought about contributing factors.

According to research presented at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in January 2011 (PDF, 168KB), «No other factor contributed to the change in student's achievement further than the intervention of DI.»

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.

Antidotes to the modern world When we spoke to schools with a high rate of outdoor learning, about the «secret to success», those surveyed ranked a number of important contributing factors.

In this title, Lisa Delpit, whose previous book — the acclaimed yet controversial Other People's Children — was published 16 years ago, delves into the school factors that have contributed to the achievement gap.

Among the many factors contributing to Shanghai's success is a districtwide program called Empowered Administration, where low - performing schools get long - term mentoring from high - performing schools or groups of retired expert educators.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

Of all the factors that contribute to what students learn at school, leadership is second in strength only to classroom instruction.

«Many factors contributed to these schools» success — careful hiring, frequent feedback on instruction, strong norms for both students and faculty, student supports, and skilled management — but it was teams that knit these components together for the good of students.»

Hence, Rothstein suggests, if only the study had asked proper questions, instead of obsessing over income, it would have found those factors (like parents) that really contributed to the schools» academic success.

The Coleman Report revealed substantial achievement differences by school racial composition and emphasized the importance of considering various factors that contributed to those differences:

We don't learn of any other factors at the school that may have contributed to the gains, nor do we know how those students will fare next year and the next.

Three factors have contributed to the muddled view regarding the effectiveness of school choice: ideology, the limitations of individual studies, and flawed prior reviews of the evidence.

Yes, I know, there are other factors that contribute to their better score on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)-- longer school days, advanced science and math starting earlier in elementary school rather than high school, extra tutoring in Korean hagwons, less to learn with a more focused curriculum, no non-essential learning activities such as sports, home ec or computer applications courses.

External supports, including a stable home, a stable school environment, and role models are basic contributing factors.

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

Those are among the factors that contribute to a school's ability to create a sense of family and community within its walls.

This is because many factors aside from the quality of a school district contribute to students» academic performance.

As the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has noted, studies «that look back at factors that may have contributed to [a] school's success» are «particularly weak in determining causal validity for several reasons, including the fact that there is no way to be confident that the features common to successful turnaround schools are not also common to schools that fail.»

«Of course there are other contributing factors outside of school to consider when it comes to addressing the gender gap, but giving our children the best possible environment in which to learn — and the encouragement, support and motivation they need — gives them a solid foundation and the confidence to aim high.»

The study, carried out on behalf of the School Food Trust, highlighted several environmental factors that contribute to low school meal uptake, including cramped canteen layouts, poorly - managed queuing systems, inefficient payment methods and high noise lSchool Food Trust, highlighted several environmental factors that contribute to low school meal uptake, including cramped canteen layouts, poorly - managed queuing systems, inefficient payment methods and high noise lschool meal uptake, including cramped canteen layouts, poorly - managed queuing systems, inefficient payment methods and high noise levels.

The evaluation report highlighted the inclusion of ATSI people in leading projects, and connections to school systems, universities, governments and communities as factors contributing to their success.»

That decision is not as odd as it sounds, as we are interested in Catholicism only insofar as it was a factor contributing to the creation of a private sector, something that clearly was not the case in those countries where Catholicism was the state religion and Catholics had no reason to object to the education provided in state - run schools.

If the disability is ruled to have been a contributing factor, the student is returned to school without consequence.

As a seventh - and eighth - grade math teacher in a K — 8 charter school in Massachusetts, he points to several factors that he believes contribute to the success of his school, including ongoing communication and collaboration among staff of all grade levels, as well as the development of a curriculum that «ramps up» each year, preventing gaps or holes in nine consistent years of academic preparation.

The statistics do not reveal any significant difference in pass rates for fluent readers, but do show that there are two measurable factors which contribute to difficulty passing the check: free school meals and presence of SEN.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

None of this is meant to suggest that schooling is the only factor contributing to a society's cognitive skill development.

The school that falls well short might start by inquiring into and adjusting any school - based factors that contribute to those results.

While there are inevitably differences in the nature, quality and extent of distributed leadership from one school to another, it is still within the amalgam of factors contributing to high performance.