Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic advantage»

Given the correlation between family socioeconomic advantage and the student characteristics that schools look for, this concern on the part of private schools will restrict access for voucher - bearing students.

Massachusetts holds its own in these comparisons but doesn't always win — despite its considerable socioeconomic advantages.

These include self - esteem, optimism, and good intellectual functioning; support from caring adults and connections to extended family; and socioeconomic advantages such as attending good schools and being involved in prosocial organizations.

Children growing up with parents who have not graduated from high school have fewer socioeconomic advantages and are at greater risk of being born with a low birthweight, having health problems, entering school not ready to learn and having poor educational outcomes.

New data from the 2016 census shows the relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage for every region

Lareau contends that concerted cultivation creates and maintains the socioeconomic advantage of the middle class.

The findings provide the strongest evidence to date that overweight people, especially women, are at a socioeconomic disadvantage — and that taller people, especially men, are at a socioeconomic advantage.

Overweight people, especially women, are at a socioeconomic disadvantage — and that taller people, especially men, are at a socioeconomic advantage, new research shows.

[10] Being able to match children's school records to their birth certificates provides opportunities for a much more detailed measure of socioeconomic advantage or disadvantage than can be observed from school records, which typically include only eligibility for a free or reduced price lunch.

Using CMTs (an achievement test) instead of an aptitude test will likely skew the selected population toward the students who have a socioeconomic advantage.