Sentences with phrase «similar socioeconomic backgrounds»

Among black students with similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who attended an integrated school with more white students scored higher.

She says that couples from similar socioeconomic backgrounds often have an easier time.

Black kindergartners and white kindergartners with similar socioeconomic backgrounds now achieve at similar levels.

Nevertheless, the fact that blacks stay in school at least as long as whites from similar socioeconomic backgrounds seems inconsistent with the idea that the youth culture of blacks is much more anti-academic than that of whites.

Through our collective hard work and commitment, KIPP students complete college at a rate that is above the national average for all students and four times higher than students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds.

In some communities where both blacks and whites or Hispanics and whites came from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, academic gaps persisted.

Located in one of Melbourne's most disadvantaged suburbs, the school's NAPLAN results in all areas are not only above those recorded by schools serving students from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, but are also above the average for all Australian schools.

Even in districts where white students and their minority classmates had similar socioeconomic backgrounds, academic gaps persisted.

To examine whether the emotions in the emotion picture book were interpreted as they were intended, we asked 67 respondents (36 % male) between 20 and 63 years of age (M = 34.0, SD = 12.9) with a similar socioeconomic background as the participants in the main study to label the emotions of the children in the pictures.