Sentences with phrase «student socioeconomic levels»

We can not control student socioeconomic levels, school funding, our salaries, our teaching assignments, increasing class sizes, difficult parents, or a host of other important issues.

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Likewise, homeschooling seems to mitigate the negative effects of low levels of parents» education on student achievement — a finding that's especially intriguing since these parents are the educators — as well as the negative effects of family socioeconomic variables and race displayed in public schools.

But then I think of the enormous student population within HISD, representing every ethnicity and socioeconomic level and coming from every conceivable background with respect to food.

«We do want to test at these higher cognitive levels, but we don't want to increase the performance gaps between male and female students, as well as between lower and higher socioeconomic status students.»

It also accelerates an upward - sloping population trend in agreeableness for students from low socioeconomic status, boosting agreeableness scores from the lowest levels observed at baseline to the highest levels at the eight - year follow up.

Similarly, disadvantaged students in advantaged schools are more than one year of schooling higher than those in average socioeconomic level schools.»

The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) shows that some countries have been successful both in lifting overall levels of achievement and in reducing differences related to socioeconomic background.

The opposite — a «fixed mindset» — is a belief that external factors such as students» socioeconomic backgrounds, available school resources or current levels of achievement limit what is possible and make further improvement unlikely.

Disadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantaged schools.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

To me, the biggest issues are the achievement gaps, as you said, and the achievement gaps are still there, according to socioeconomic background — disadvantaged students are still achieving at a much lower level than advantaged students or affluent students — and Indigenous students are still performing at a much lower level than non-Indigenous, and rural and remote students are still not achieving at the same levels as metropolitan students.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

The author adds, «School practices to encourage parents to participate in their children's education are more important than family characteristics like parental education, family size, marital status, socioeconomic level, or student grade level in determining whether parents get involved.»

Outcomes from the Knowledge in Action (KIA) project - based learning (PBL) Advanced Placement (AP) course (s) were compared with outcomes from traditionally taught AP courses among student groups who were matched for school - level achievement and socioeconomic status.

With a few exceptions, our analysis sample closely resembles the nation in terms of student demographics (e.g., percentage African American and percentage Hispanic), observed socioeconomic traits (e.g., the poverty rate), and measures of the levels and pre-NCLB trends in NAEP test scores.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

Based solely on their race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, there are students at high, middle, and low levels of achievement who are not receiving the educational challenges they need to succeed and excel.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and socioeconomic level.

But it is unclear to what degree they reflect racial bias as opposed to differences in socioeconomic status and levels of academic preparation between white students and black students that could influence both expectations and outcomes.

«This is not just a course for advanced placement students who want to be doctors - the content is for everyone,» Mowschenson says, noting that the class» 24 students come from varying socioeconomic backgrounds and academic levels.

Thomson says most of the difference in scores is due to the lower socioeconomic level of Indigenous students and their weaker performance in mathematics and reading.

In general, the higher the level of a student's socioeconomic background, the better the student's performance in financial literacy.

Superintendent Jeffrey Young, Ed.D.» 88, says he proposed the move in December 2010 to level the academic and socioeconomic field of Cambridge students as they enter the middle and high school years.

The graph shows that students in these three ICSEA - based groupings of schools have different average reading levels and gives some indication of the influence of socioeconomic factors on between - school differences in student performance.

The number of books in the home is used as a proxy in this study for student - level socioeconomic status.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Students and teachers in 11 schools of varying socioeconomic levels in Connecticut, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Texas participated in Project M ² over a 5 - year period.

As great as this need may be, there is no less need to lift more students, no matter their socioeconomic background, to high levels of educational accomplishment.

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 study also found a student's level of reading engagement was more highly correlated with their reading achievement than their socioeconomic status, gender, family structure, or time spent on homework.

Georgia's program also promised to designate scholarships for students in «failing public schools» from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private schools at the expense of needy children.»

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).

While summer learning loss varies across subjects, grade levels, and socioeconomic groups, students on average score lower on assessments administered after summer break than on those given at the end of the school year.

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

The relationship of socioeconomic background to scientific literacy achievement and the influence of other student - and school - level factors are also examined in this report.

An award winning preK - 12th grade school, Haynes pledges that every student of every race, socioeconomic status and home language will reach high levels of academic achievement and be prepared to succeed at the college of his or her choice.

Far more relevant than race or gender in predicting academic achievement are family socioeconomics and the education levels of students» parents (and of other adults close to them).

When parents are involved, students achieve more, regardless of socioeconomic status, ethnic / racial background, or the parents» education level;

A new strategy paper from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project — Reducing chronic absenteeism under the Every Student Succeeds Act — reviews «the literature and present novel analyses of the factors at the school and student levels that relate to chronic absenteeism,» and finds «that health problems and socioeconStudent Succeeds Act — reviews «the literature and present novel analyses of the factors at the school and student levels that relate to chronic absenteeism,» and finds «that health problems and socioeconstudent levels that relate to chronic absenteeism,» and finds «that health problems and socioeconomic...

Even fewer people know that poor nutrition is not only a problem for impoverished families — children of all socioeconomic levels can suffer from lower student achievement due to nutritional problems at home.

This issue will explore how educators can address the barriers that create opportunity gaps for students on the basis of their socioeconomic level, race, ethnicity, and gender.

Planners can gain additional insights by analyzing the performance of subgroups of students, in particular the learning progress of students of different socioeconomic backgrounds, ability levels, language experiences, ethnicities, races, and genders.

Similarly, a study of public library summer reading programs found that these programs raised reading scores but also found that participants were from a higher socioeconomic level than students who did not participate (Roman, Carran, & Fiore, 2010).

Overall, discrepancies in academic performance between white and black or Hispanic students across all socioeconomic levels show that there is a gap in achievement levels.

These approaches include using students» socioeconomic status, parental education levels, the socioeconomic status of neighborhoods, and the composition of an area's housing including its share of subsidized or rental housing.

The ability of a highly qualified teacher to address the learning needs of all New Mexico's students, including those students who learn differently as a result of disability, culture, language, or socioeconomic status, forms the framework for the New Mexico Teacher Competencies for Licensure Levels I, II, and III - A Assessment Criteria Benchmarks.

My students come from varied backgrounds and socioeconomic levels: the majority coming from white or Latino backgrounds, and over half of them qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch.

The most conclusive finding of the research is that students from lower socioeconomic levels can benefit from a year - round calendar — if the school intentionally plans to include extra learning opportunities during the breaks.