Sentences with phrase «school than their peers»

Transgender students are especially vulnerable, facing more hostility in school than peers who identify as gay or bisexual.

And unlike black graduates, first - generation college graduates and Pell - recipient graduates are substantiallyless likely to attend graduate school than their peers.

We find that children who have been investigated for maltreatment perform worse in school than their peers who have not been referred.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

As a result, our scholars spend approximately 25 percent more time at school than their peers in traditional public schools.

Secondary pupils with special educational needs (SEN) are more likely to be unhappy at school than their peers, a new wellbeing study has found.

«The fact that, on average, students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school than peers from more advantaged backgrounds has been documented at all levels of education,» said Fiske and Ladd.

These FCAT grades are clear: Charter students are at a dramatically higher - risk of attending an F school than their peers are at traditional public schools.

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

Results from a study conducted by a nonpartisan research team at the University of Arkansas showed that students in private - choice schools were more likely to graduate from high school than their peers at Milwaukee Public Schools.

But at the same time, a second study from the university released in tandem with the first shows that charter school students tend to be loyal to their schools: They were up to 80 percent less likely to leave their charter schools than their peers at traditional public schools.

Studies have found rural students whose parents did not attend college are more likely to drop out of school than their peers.

The results show that kids in United Way's after - school programs attend 6,100 more days of school than their peers and their GPAs were.87 points higher than their classmates.

A state - by - state analysis of NAEP testing data shows that students who miss more school than their peers score lower on the NAEP tests in grades 4 and 8.

Each year, Central Texas students are absent 2.4 million days of school and miss more days of school than their peers across the state in every grade.

And these victimized teens were about twice as likely to bring guns and knives to school than their peers who were not bullied, finds a study of 15,000 students in the medical journal, Pediatrics.

Not exact matches

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers.

In an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a Stanford School of Medicine professor criticizes the company for operating in «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journals.

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

For more than a week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have held the country's attention as they join with peers across the country to demand a change in America's gun laws.

More perhaps than by formal schooling, the young male is influenced by peer relationships.

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.

Nobody thought much of religions other than Christianity; as was obvious by our public school pledge — which admonished us all to be good Christian citizens... Sure, I had questions too, but our church was pretty low - key so I was safe from some of the more radically - minded (read: brainwashed) of my peers.

We now know that, in all socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of high school, end up in prison and experience serious psychological distress.

In their research, economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz determined that an individual who had a college degree could expect to make $ 1.2 million more from ages 22 - 64, than their peers who have just a high school diploma.

I was always younger than my peers, and I was short to begin with, so I was extra extra extra short for most of my schooling.

Our recent pilot found that FRED children were four times more likely to exceed their school achievement targets than their peers.

An independent evaluation of the impact of the Fathers Reading Every Day programme on more than 300 children at nine south London schools, found that for children who participated in FRED there was marked improvement at above expected levels in reading, writing and numeracy, when compared to peers who did not take part.

How this relates to the comments above:» Paly... been a Challenge Success poster school for as long as I can remember: TA, block scheduling, pre-break finals, many class projects, homework free days, now homework time limits, a school climate coordinator, more de-laned subjects, fewer APs / student than peer high schools I've read, and a later start / no zero period that promotes sleep.

For example, you could say, «I know you hear bad language at school and on the bus, but I expect you to behave better than your peers and to find more appropriate words to use when you're angry or trying to make a point.»

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Middle - schoolers are more influenced by their peers than at any earlier age.

Homeschooled students have been shown to have higher average scores on the ACT test (26.5) than their public school peers (25).

Texas requires schools with more than 80 percent of students eligible for free and reduced - cost lunch to serve universal free breakfast, but not necessarily Breakfast in the Classroom, a program where students eat the hot breakfast or cereal in the classroom with their teacher and peers.

The idea is that your child sees this older, «cooler» kid focusing on school work and learns organization and focusing skills from a peer, rather than a parent.

Whether children are bullied or not, they absorb a huge amount of artificial information about their peers in school, which may actually cause more harm than good in adult life.

They may be more unruly in school due to the lack of boundaries in the home, and may be less academically motivated than many of their peers.

You can rest easy here as well as research again indicates that homeschoolers» scores are typically higher than that of their public school peers.

In high school and college, young people are usually communicating with peers who are nearby and living lives with similar patterns, but as they all move into adulthood, their lives will scatter and diverge in ways that often make delayed / deferred communications more useful than immediate communications.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Students who are just learning English are far more likely to miss school and drop out than their peers, a probable contributor to their poor graduation rates.

Children from low - income families tend to do worse at school than their better - off peers.

Children who are victimised both at home and by school peers are even worse off — being four times more likely to develop psychotic disorders than those not involved in bullying at all.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Those who do not master the language and remain English learners tend to score lower on academic tests and graduate high school at lower rates than their native - English speaking peers.