Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic makeup»

Or do they instead reflect such factors as the racial or socioeconomic makeup of their students?

In an analysis of the landmark 1966 «Coleman Report,» researchers Geoffrey Borman and Maritza Dowling determined that both the racial and socioeconomic makeups of a school are 1 3/4 - times more important in determining a student's educational outcomes than the student's own race, ethnicity or social class.

We heard from directors and managers working in districts of every size and socioeconomic makeup, and in schools large and small, disadvantaged and affluent we heard many of the same issues and concerns echoed.

But as for the program's original aim of diversifying the legislature's racial, gender and socioeconomic makeup, the results are inconclusive, he said.

Another study, by Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, found positive, but by their admission «not great,» results: Detroit charter high schools performed somewhat better than predicted based on their socioeconomic makeup, while Detroit Public Schools performed worse than predicted.

I was able to adjust for observable changes in student composition, such as the district's racial and socioeconomic makeup and its students» prior achievement.

These include students» grade level, Limited English Proficiency status and eligibility for subsidized school meals, their teachers» years of experience in North Carolina public schools, class size, school size, schools» racial and socioeconomic makeup, and schools» average math and reading scores on statewide tests.

The country's education funding system labels each school as decile 1 through 10 based on the socioeconomic makeup of its students.

When education insiders pick apart the factors that make a school successful, there's often a lot of conversation about academic rigor, resources, quality of teachers and even, in some cases, the socioeconomic makeup of the students within the school.

And because there's a strong correlation between a school's socioeconomic makeup and which schools are closed, the decision can further hurt a struggling area.

Almost 50 years ago, the congressionally authorized Coleman Report found that the single most important predictor of academic achievement is the socioeconomic status of the student's family, with the second most important being the socioeconomic makeup of the school (Coleman et al., 1966).