Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic background not»

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All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Birth defects do not respect ethnic, religious or socioeconomic backgrounds.

There was something about watching Max and J.J., two kids from vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds, not only become pick - and - roll partners on the court but also best buddies away from it.

JIM MORA COUNT ON ME FAMILY FOUNDATION: The Foundation, created in 2005, is a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) organization which supports children in need, primarily in three target areas: children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, mentally and physically - challenged children, and children at - risk.

This diversity gap between students and teachers creates a divide from the very beginning of a student's education that stifles progress and doesn't empower them to overcome the low socioeconomic backgrounds they often come from.

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.

They carefully matched these FRI students with peers who did not participate but were otherwise comparable in terms of socioeconomic background, gender, race, ethnicity, scores on standardized tests and other factors.

In analysing 28 studies that reported an association between socioeconomic status and bullying, and adjusting for bias, the review showed that bullies were not more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and were only marginally less likely to come from the highest socioeconomic levels (2 % less likely).

Contrary to some hypotheses, adult - onset offenders in this study were not found to come from significantly wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds, nor were they any more intelligent than those who were caught younger.

Existence of underserved or inaccessible populations: Another type of person who might try CAM approaches is one who is not well served by the medical establishment because of socioeconomic status, class, ethnic background, or geographical isolation.

The researchers interviewed 100 women from British Columbia who were largely from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and were not considered at high risk of postpartum mental health problems.

Stereotype threat doesn't just seem to apply to race and gender — it seems to extend to socioeconomic background too.

«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.

The nice thing about knitwear is that it's not exclusive to a certain style or socioeconomic background.

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.

Not surprisingly, socioeconomic background is associated with digital reading performance.

Sharing a cultural and socioeconomic background with them helps, although not always.

«This is not just a course for advanced placement students who want to be doctors - the content is for everyone,» Mowschenson says, noting that the class» 24 students come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds and academic levels.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

Discussing educational disadvantage, it cites 2015 research suggesting many students are not able to access «taster» work experience for a variety of reasons — including gender, disability, cultural background and socioeconomic status.

It gave him an opportunity to interact, engage, and work with peers from different races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures and learn about racism in ways that his «desegregated» high school did not provide.

But it is not only magnet schools that can attract families from all along the socioeconomic spectrum: Charter and traditional public schools can also implement specialized programs that join students from diverse backgrounds.

Diverse schools don't guarantee understanding, empathy, and compassion among students from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Data were collected not only about the students» personal school histories, but also about their parents» socioeconomic backgrounds, their neighborhoods, the curricula and facilities of their schools, and the qualifications of the teachers within those schools.

«When students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds you have to think differently, and you have to teach differently to get students interested and parents engaged — you're not lowering expectations, you're just doing your work differently.»

These include, but are not limited to socioeconomic status, ethnic differences, previous learning, family background, and other characteristics, known and unknown.

Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. is in charge of making sure the state hasn't forgotten about the Leandro case, a decades - old landmark lawsuit that says all children - regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds - deserve a «sound, basic education.»

My «fairest» interpretation of the current albeit controversial research surrounding this particular issue is that bias does not exist across teacher - level estimates, but it certainly occurs when teachers are non-randomly assigned highly homogenous sets of students who are gifted, who are English Language Learners (ELLs), who are enrolled in special education programs, who disproportionately represent racial minority groups, who disproportionately come from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and who have been retained in grade prior.

Preservice teachers began to understand that overly formal, rigid approaches to teaching and learning were often inconsistent with the needs of their mentees, particularly in multicultural settings where students might not share similarities in language, customs, traditions, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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 the NAEP tracks socioeconomic data, it does not weight test scores based upon a student's socioeconomic background.

Moreover, international experience confirms that it is possible to make progress in closing these gaps: not only have two dozen countries made substantial progress in overall achievement, but 17 countries that exceed US performance levels also have a narrower gap among children of divergent socioeconomic backgrounds.

Also in 1966, the Coleman Report said that family background and socioeconomic factors play a role in «achievement» — but it was interpreted to mean that «school resources» don't matter.

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.

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.

I see a socioeconomic shift happening; anyone who does not come from an affluent background is either not at law school or has taken on a significant debt load.

But not only family socioeconomic background predicted problem behaviour in the sample; classroom social position appeared to be related to depression as well.

Limitations include SAAF trial was not designed with epigenetic aging as an endpoint, may not be generalizable to rural African American families in other geographic regions or from dissimilar socioeconomic backgrounds, and lack of follow - up.

Limitations include reliance on self - reported measures and may not be generalizable to rural African American families in other geographic regions or from dissimilar socioeconomic backgrounds.

Mothers of preschoolers (N = 451) from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds participated at two sites.