Sentences with phrase «socioeconomic status urban»

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The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

To rule out other factors that could lead to poor health outcomes, including race and socioeconomic status, the team removed babies born in urban areas like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, which have comparatively high rates of lower birth weight babies.

To look at the rate of change in working memory in relation to different measures of socioeconomic status, the researchers studied more than three hundred 10 - through 13 - year - olds from urban public and parochial schools over four years.

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

But even within the large Census Bureau — defined Core - Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) used as proxies for metropolitan areas, charters are still disproportionately located in low - SES (socioeconomic status) urban areas, while traditional public schools are dispersed throughout the entire CBSA.

Since 2007, the number of districts strongly committed to socioeconomic integration has more than doubled, from 40 to 100 nationwide.75 These districts tend to be large and urban, and today, roughly 4 million students reside in a school district or charter school that considers socioeconomic status in their student assignment system — representing about 8 percent of total public school enrollment.76

His experiences range from working in rural settings to urban schools with varying socioeconomic statuses and academic performances.

His experiences range from working in rural settings to urban schools with varying socioeconomic statuses and academic performances, including the North Montgomery School Corporation in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and the Vigo County School Corporation in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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.

For example, Comer's School Development Project demonstrates that strengthening the connections between urban school professionals and parents of low socioeconomic status can improve their children's academic achievement (Comer, Haynes, Joyner, & Ben - Avie, 1996).

The position of black middle class families is often lost when discussing the intersections between race and class; most of the discourse surrounding socioeconomic statuses is based on the dichotomy between rich and poor, suburban and urban, and black and white.

First, it was found that both fourth - and eighth - grade rural and urban students of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had fewer teachers with recent professional development in computers and mathematics education and had less access to home computers than did suburban students.

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Overall IQ was highly predictive of schizophrenia, and this association persisted after controlling for socioeconomic status, behavioral adjustment in childhood, drug misuse, urban upbringing, family history of psychiatric disorder, and psychiatric disturbance at the time of testing.

Antisocial personality disorder is associated with low socioeconomic status and urban settings.

Antisocial personality disorder appears to be associated with low socioeconomic status and urban settings.

In general, men and individuals who were younger, widowed / separated / divorced, of lower socioeconomic status, and living in urban areas or in the West were more likely to have antisocial syndromes.

The current pilot study investigated an implementation of PCIT with primarily low - socioeconomic status, urban, ethnic minority youth and families.