Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic background as»

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.

I want my teams to have as much diversity of thought, experience, gender, race and socioeconomic background as possible.

It is our hope that normalizing parenting education for all socioeconomic backgrounds as a community effort will help shape healthy childhood experiences.

Not exact matches

As an African - American man from a low - income socioeconomic background who moved a lot during his childhood, Sueing says he acquired a self - starting, strong work ethic.

She says there are initiatives on the horizon, such as universal lunches like those recently passed in the Boston public schools that provide all kids, regardless off socioeconomic or racial background, with free school meals.

As an inclusive camp, we serve children ages 7 - 17, from all socioeconomic backgrounds, races and religions, with programs that challenge, educate, and inspire.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

As part of that effort, he recently found that children from lower - income families responded much better to a summer reading program than children from a higher socioeconomic background.

Children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds had thicker cortex in a part of the brain known as Broca's area, which is necessary for language production and comprehension.

The findings held true for all students, regardless of whether they appeared likely or unlikely to attend selective schools, as predicted by student background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and pre-college test scores.

«Because peanuts [which do not grow on trees] are much less expensive than tree nuts, as well as more widely available to people of all races and all socioeconomic backgrounds, our study finding suggests that increasing peanut consumption may provide a potentially cost - efficient approach to improving cardiovascular health,» Shu said.

Researchers used highly faithful audio recorders — a system called Language Environment Analysis (known as LENA)-- to capture every word spoken or heard by 36 4 — 6 year olds from various socioeconomic backgrounds over two full days.

The opposite — a «fixed mindset» — is a belief that external factors such as students» socioeconomic backgrounds, available school resources or current levels of achievement limit what is possible and make further improvement unlikely.

For example, 43 per cent of Indigenous children are identified as developmentally vulnerable compared with 21 per cent of non-Indigenous children, and 28 per cent of children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are identified as developmentally vulnerable compared with only 8 per cent of children from high socioeconomic backgrounds.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

The NSIT was built on research into the practices of highly effective schools, defined as schools that make rapid improvements in student performance over time or that perform unusually well given the socioeconomic backgrounds of their student intakes.

Lecture halls of hundreds of students are as much a feature of undergraduate education as an achievement gap between different races and socioeconomic backgrounds (PDF, 1.2 MB).

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Children typically enter school with a wide range of background knowledge and oral - language ability, attributable in part to factors such as children's experiences in the home and their socioeconomic status.

Schools have the potential to serve as a corrective, a way to bring students of different socioeconomic backgrounds together and to bring resources and opportunity into the lives of needy kids.

As great as this need may be, there is no less need to lift more students, no matter their socioeconomic background, to high levels of educational accomplishmenAs great as this need may be, there is no less need to lift more students, no matter their socioeconomic background, to high levels of educational accomplishmenas this need may be, there is no less need to lift more students, no matter their socioeconomic background, to high levels of educational accomplishment.

As Levinson details in her 2012 book, No Citizen Left Behind, talking about race necessitates bringing students» own racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds into the conversation.

Of course, it may be argued that schools are counteracting socioeconomic factors that would otherwise lead to ever - growing inequality (if, for example, family background becomes increasingly important for scholastic success as children age and homework becomes more important).

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.

After all, as recent studies of the now - abolished No Child Left Behind Act has shown, focusing on socioeconomic achievement gaps improves outcomes for minority and White children (as well as struggling and high - achieving children of all backgrounds).

Schools serving students from lower socioeconomic and diverse linguistic backgrounds experience retention problems among teachers and administrators, and often transiency within the student population as well.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

East Asian systems such as those in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Taipei, Taiwan, are relatively meritocratic; students» socioeconomic background has little effect on students» success.

Going back to the famous Coleman report in the 1960s, social scientists have contended — and unquestionably proved — that students» socioeconomic backgrounds vastly outweigh what goes on in the school as factors in determining how much they learn.

As a magnet school, it has selective admissions and attracts students from a wider range of socioeconomic backgrounds (fewer than half its students receive free or reduced - price lunch, for example) than the city's other project - based learning schools.

If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard and Stanford will try hard to find talented high school students from poor families in a push to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus and to counter the growing concern that highly selective colleges cater mainly to students from privileged backgrounds.

Freshman year course performance — more than background characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, or prior achievement — predict which students with disabilities are most at risk for dropping out of high school, according to a new report from the National High School Center at AIR and the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.

The fifth section of the report examines whether certain groups of students, such as males or those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, have different outcomes of participation in dual enrollment programs.

Factors such as race, gender, ethnicity, level of English proficiency, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and gender identity should not become barriers to opportunities for gifted students.

While having high - quality teachers with research - based teaching methods will improve student learning outcomes, it is just as important for teachers to have an understanding of the socioeconomic background of their students.

Because CTL is a non-profit demonstration school, a place where other teachers come to learn about innovative methods, we work hard to attract a student body that represents a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds and ability levels, and we fundraise twelve months a year so we can set a tuition rate that's as low as possible.

Then I insert a group of teachers (as Audrey described) who represent 20 % of a population and teach a disproportionate number of students who come from relatively lower socioeconomic, high racial minority, etc. backgrounds, and I assume this group is measured with negative bias on both indicators and this group has a moderate correlation between indicators of r = 0.50.

As education leaders strive to promote excellence for all students, they confront sharply contrasting schools of thought about the best way to close achievement gaps between students of different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Looking for: — Dark, twisty narratives that explore human complexity — YA Contemporary featuring lower socioeconomic backgrounds; poor kids who get in as much reckless mischief as their rich counterparts!

«The first three years of this program have been very successful, as we awarded scholarships to students from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds studying across a diverse array of species and veterinary disciplines.»

My lectures included something about climate change as background material for energy policy, and I was the editor and one contributor to a book on socioeconomic dimensions of climate change mitigation in 1999, but I didn't make any real effort to understand much more about the atmosphere and the physical climate before retiring.

We in the non-profit environmental community must take his points seriously and invest in deeper efforts to empower youth from all socioeconomic backgrounds to achieve their full potential as environmental leaders.

However, the greatest challenge is that the industry is still not a meritocracy as evidenced by the prevailing underrepresentation by gender, racial and socioeconomic background.

She understands that in order to accomplish a more diverse legal field, scholars from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds need exposure to legal education and careers as early as possible.

As above, other factors (race / ethnicity, socioeconomic background, family status, age, and income) will influence answers to these questions.

And as someone from a lower socioeconomic background I was hit harder than many of my law school colleagues by the demand that I buy new suits so I hear a lot of what this article is saying with regards to classism.

Therefore we must consider factors such as gender, geographic location, ethnic background and socioeconomic status, as these all impact pay, career opportunity and career development.

As metro Detroit's largest suburb, Warren is the home of thousands of renters from tremendously varied socioeconomic backgrounds.