Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic makeup of»

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).

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.

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

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

Thus the socioeconomic makeup of the school does not appear to affect whether parents make a request, although the socioeconomic status of the family does.

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.

Not exact matches

Every city recruits its police force differently based on budgets, existing crime rates, density, and a number of other complex socioeconomic factors (like the area's racial makeup).

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.

The study included more than 100,000 adults from the general populations of 17 countries, providing a broad sample of people that varied greatly in socioeconomic, geographic and demographic makeup.

This is quite different from the authors» contention that today's charters should «aspire in most cases to reflect the socioeconomic and racial makeup of a metropolitan region.»

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.

Critics of international comparisons, including many practitioners and a number of researchers, argue that it is impossible to accurately compare US students» performance against that of their international peers because the students selected by their respective countries vary widely in their demographic makeup (not all countries include language learners and students with disabilities in their samples) and the sample size of students from various socioeconomic groups can vary widely.

The plot races as fast as the track runners in it, and — without ever feeling like a book about «issues» — it deftly tackles topics like isolation, diverse family makeup, living with illness, losing a parent, transcending socioeconomic and racial barriers, and — perhaps best of all — what it's like for a tween to love their little sister more than all the cupcakes in the world.

REALTOR ® leadership disputes and challenges normally focus on loss of image, not becoming president of the current association, disagreement over the name of the new entity, cultural differences (sometimes ethnic makeup or socioeconomic disparity), community projects (i.e., pet projects), as well as a host of smaller issues we can simply call «politics.»