Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status reduces»

Thus adjusting the data for the effects of socioeconomic status reduces the estimated racial gaps in test scores by more than 40 percent in math and more than 66 percent in reading.

Not exact matches

«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.

Forty to 60 percent percent of the students at the schools qualified for free or reduced lunch, a marker for low socioeconomic status.

Policy to reduce bullying in the schoolyard needs to span all levels of society, say researchers from the University of Warwick, who warn that socioeconomic status is not a reliable indicator of whether a child is likely to become a bully.

Children of higher socioeconomic status show a similar brain response to adults, whereas children from lower - income families generally show a much reduced response or none at all, Neville says.

While it's important to recognize that diet is frequently associated with other factors that may impact cognition in aging, Fargo says — such as smoking, education levels, and socioeconomic status — he does believe that there is «sufficiently strong evidence to conclude that a healthy diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline.»

The strengths of the present study include the large size and the relatively homogeneous nature of the cohort, which reduced confounding by several variables, such as access to medical care, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status.

Furthermore, by restricting to educated participants with a higher socioeconomic status, and by consistently adjusting for major confounders across all three cohorts, we were able to reduce residual confounding by these factors and increase statistical power.

While the district was also beginning to see a greater range in terms of students» socioeconomic status, at the time of the initial course implementation, the district's rate of free and reduced lunch was approximately 10 - 12 percent.

One of the primary objectives of NCLB was to reduce inequities in student performance by race and socioeconomic status.

Because the administrative files provide only a very coarse measure of family socioeconomic status — eligibility for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program — we constructed an additional proxy for family income by matching each student's residential address to U.S. Census data on the median household income in the student's neighborhood.

Although between - school differences in student performance are closely associated with socioeconomic status in all OECD countries, some countries have been more successful than others in reducing the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage.

In particular, socioeconomic data based on free - and reduced - price lunch status are weak and getting worse.

- The school attended - School year - Minority status - Eligibility for free or reduced - cost lunch (a proxy for low socioeconomic status)- Date of birth - Assigned teacher - English language proficiency - Testing exemption status - Test scores on the annual TAAS exam in each year in which the student was enrolled in a Texas school

We used percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunch as a proxy for socioeconomic status (SES).

The national average of students who qualify for free or reduced - price lunch — the best indicator of socioeconomic status — is 50 percent; 26 almost all these schools served school populations in which less than one - third of students were eligible for free or reduced - price lunches.

The DOE also issued a regulation permitting schools to use to information about children's eligibility for the Free and Reduced Lunch Program as a means of determining students» socioeconomic status for school assignment purposes.

They examined a variety of factors, such as student gender, age, health, socioeconomic status, education of parents, whether the school was urban or suburban, the number of years of experience among teachers, the school's average test performance and the rate of free - or reduced - price lunch program participation.

Changes in curriculum significantly reduced the gaps demonstrated by students of low socioeconomic status.

A number of factors have been associated with poor school attendance, including low socioeconomic status and low levels of parental education.1 3 In Australia, Indigenous young people have been identified to have significantly worse attendance and school retention when compared with non-Indigenous children, and it has been suggested that this is a key driver of the gap in academic outcomes between non-Indigenous and Indigenous young people.6 — 8 In addition Moore and McArthur9 identified that maternal and family risks, such as family instability, mental illness and drug and alcohol issues, are associated with reduced child participation in school.

Weaknesses include the response rate of 59 %, possibly reducing the generalizability of our findings to children of lower socioeconomic status postcodes, non — English - speaking backgrounds, and lone - parent families (all known to be underrepresented in the LSAC).

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.

Delayed marriage has elevated the socioeconomic status of women, especially more privileged women and their partners, allowed women to reach other life goals, and reduced the odds of divorce for couples now marrying in the United States.

School lunch eligibility status (free, reduced price, and full price) also served as a proxy for socioeconomic status.

The authors explore the question further: If Jane knows that her credit scores will be affected by the «financial quality» of her Facebook friends or Twitter followers, she would not accept deadbeat friend requests, but also reduce online friendships with individuals of lower socioeconomic status.