Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status kids»

The low socioeconomic status kids were actively engaged with smiles on their faces.

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Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

When kids from lower socioeconomic status see football as one of their only shots at a college education or a successful career, they don't have a choice — they're forced to take the hits for a chance at college.

«Even when the studies did look at free and reduced lunch or socioeconomic status of the kids... they still in many cases did not find a correlation between AP and college success,» Pope said in an interview.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

They found that women who reported low socioeconomic status as kids and who struggled with family support as adults were biologically older, as indicated by shorter telomeres.

They sat in front, and waited patiently while we adults debated away about what kids of lower socioeconomic statuses need in their education.

For example, describing these students as living in homes with a low income or with low SES (socioeconomic status) is very different, and more accurate, than calling them «low - income students,» «low - SES students,» or «high - poverty kids.»

We believe that accountability matters because it supports the belief that all kids — regardless of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status — can learn and succeed.

The school's score is as much proof that kids can learn despite their socioeconomic level and English - language - learner status as it is an endorsement of Hiawatha per se.

An author of books for young adults points to research showing that strong school library programs led by a certified school librarian help ALL students do better in school, including students whose parents can't afford to provide all the resources kids need to do well in school: «[Research] tells us that even after adjusting for factors such as parental education, father's occupation, and social class, the impact of having books available in the home is as strong a predictor of school success as socioeconomic status.»