Sentences with phrase «schools with low levels»

A Century Foundation study, «Housing Policy Is School Policy,» found that low - income students in Montgomery County who attend schools with low levels of poverty significantly outperform low - income students who attend schools with high poverty rates.

Our partnership has been logistically smooth and strategically important for schools with low levels of reading achievement.

The first is the quality of teachers: Research shows that the country's best and most experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with low levels of poverty.49 On the other hand, new and inexperienced teachers disproportionately work in high - poverty school settings.

Children who enter school with a low level of readiness are at greater risk of difficulties with reasoning and problem solving.

KKJ: We are proud that our graduation rate of 80 percent is significantly higher than New York City's overall rate of 73 percent, despite our students coming into our schools with lower levels of academic proficiency and higher levels of academic need.

Children arriving at school with lower levels of oral language proficiency, for whatever reason, are therefore at a distinct disadvantage for learning.

A school with low levels of deprivation, in an area of low funding will be spending at a minimum level.

• An already financially efficient school with low levels of deprivation has little room for manoeuvre — core funding levels (the lump sum and the per pupil funding in the formula) will make the difference between survival and insolvency.

All else equal, teachers with more experience and higher degree levels are more likely to host student teachers, as are schools with lower levels of historical teacher turnover but with more open positions the following year.

Not exact matches

A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.

Conversely... an open Catholic school in a neighborhood (correlates) with lower levels of serious crime....

Murray draws on those studies, but in Coming Apart, Fishtown, like Belmont, is shorthand for a statistical cohort: people with blue - collar or low - level office jobs and no academic degree more advanced than a high - school diploma.

The reason being is I've been so busy with school work, my low energy level, and health.

McGaughey's connection to racing began with his after - school visits to the mutuel windows at Keeneland and continued with low - level jobs on the backside.

It'd be surprising if an incoming player with the talent level of Price — and from a school with a long history of producing successful NFL linemen — would slide too far, especially considering the relatively low cost of a rookie deal.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

It could do so by requiring school districts that charge lower prices to increase prices gradually so that, when combined with the federal subsidy provided for such meals, they eventually at least equal the federal reimbursement level for free meals.

Students who eat dinner with their families often are more likely to do well in school (40 % more likely to earn As and Bs in school), be emotionally content and have lower levels of stress, have positive peer relationships and healthier eating habits, refrain from smoking, drinking, and doing drugs, and believe their parents are proud of them.

Students at Stuyvesant High School, justifying and rationalizing what was described as a culture of «low - level cheating» there to a New York Times reporter, could not have been more preoccupied with numbers.

It would also slow efforts to make pizzas - a longtime standby on school lunch lines - healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower levels of sodium.

«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

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.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

«Class size is a major issue, for example at School # 6 they have class sizes in elementary level of over 30 - students with students that have a high amount of students with special education needs, ELL - English Language Learners, and so lowering class size is something that has been priority and that's been a part of those plans.»

That ad, and more like it (along with fliers and other attention - grabbers in what will likely be a low - turnout primary) was the product of an independent expenditure effort backed by the California Charter Schools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aSchools Association, which has been a big force in battles with teachers» unions over charter schools in Los Angeles and at the state level aschools in Los Angeles and at the state level as well.

Dr Richard Oram, of the University of Exeter Medical School, who led the study, said: «It's extremely interesting that low levels of insulin are produced in most people with Type 1 Diabetes, even if they've had it for 50 years.

«Female athletes with exercise - induced menstrual dysfunction (associated with low estrogen levels) often have disordered eating behavior, which may impact their reproductive and bone health,» said lead researcher Madhusmita Misra, M.D., M.P.H., professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a pediatric endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass..

«In our study, it did not matter whether their sodium levels were high at the beginning of the study or if they were low to begin with, then gradually increased over the years — both groups were at greater risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Tomonori Sugiura, M.D., Ph.D. the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Cardio - Renal Medicine and Hypertension at the Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in, Nagoya, Japan.

of Public Health, Midland, MI and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, School of Human Medicine, «Our study group consists of premature infants with birthweights at the lowest level that is compatible with life.

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

Dr Genevieve Healy, senior research fellow at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia, who led the study, said: «We found that time spent standing rather than sitting was significantly associated with lower levels of blood sugar and blood fats.

The schools in the district remain considerably diverse, and while there is evidence of a slight growth in racial segregation, Jefferson County's policy is more effective than most, with segregation levels remaining considerably lower than most large school districts.

«We showed that the way we think about pain is associated with opioid use even if our pain levels are low,» says Patrick Finan, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

For years, Pearson struggled to carve out a niche for himself in his community, dropping out of school, fathering a child while still very young, experimenting with drugs, and moving from low - level job to low - level job.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

We also know that cancers with low levels of WWOX tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment,» says Professor Rob Richards, Head of Genetics and Evolution in the University's School of Biological Sciences.

In fact, compared with elementary schools, middle grade schools often have more students per grade, lower levels of student autonomy, less positive teacher - student relationships, and more competition and less cooperation among students.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Mario Castro, M.D., M.P.H., of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and colleagues randomly assigned adults with asthma and low vitamin D levels to vitamin D3 (100,000 IU once, then 4,000 IU / daily for 28 weeks; n = 201) or placebo (n = 207), which was added to treatment with the inhaled corticosteroid ciclesonide.

«Prior studies in patients with Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis had linked low vitamin D levels to disease flare - ups,» said senior author Alan Moss, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Digestive Disease Center at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Men who ate fruits and vegetables with higher levels of pesticide residues — such as strawberries, spinach, and peppers — had lower sperm count and a lower percentage of normal sperm than those who ate produce with lower residue levels, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

The researchers note that being out of biological sync with school schedules forces adolescents to wake up when they are at their lowest level of alertness (the equivalent of 3 a.m. for adults).

The finding builds on an earlier surprise from the Joslin Medalist Study program, which looks for clues on how some people live with type 1 diabetes for more than 50 years with unusually low levels of complications, says George King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

It may stave off dementia Among patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (age 60 and older), those with lower physical fitness levels (measured by cardiovascular tests on a treadmill) had four times more brain shrinkage when compared to normal adults than those who were more physically fit, according to a recent study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

In fact, Harvard Medical School researchers reported in 2012 that women with carotenoid levels in the top 20 % of the measured range had a 15 to 20 % reduced risk of breast cancer compared with those who had the lowest levels.

In a 2008 study, scientists at the Peninsula Medical School in the U.K. assessed the well - being of nearly 10,000 people over the age of 50 and found that smokers in the group reported lower - than - average levels of pleasure and less satisfaction with their lives than the nonsmokers.

In contrast, there was more concern over the ability to fund learning resources, with over a quarter of secondary schools showing a low level of confidence.

With the passage of time, states may be tempted to race to the bottom, lowering expectations to ever lower levels so that fewer schools are identified as failing, even when no gains are being made.

I did attend school with other children like me; children who had «hidden handicaps» (students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders, etc.) We were shuffled into lower level programs and did not receive special services.

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.