We can now predict — with a remarkable degree of accuracy — which students are more likely to
struggle with academic achievement, timely graduation, and college admission.
We all understand that eating right is an important aspect of keeping our children physically healthy, but many parents do not know that proper nutrition is strongly
linked with academic achievement.
Student engagement is critical to academic success; researchers have found that student engagement is one of the strongest predictors of student outcomes and is highly
correlated with academic achievement.
«Just as schools need
help with academic achievement data for effectiveness, they need guidance on ways to incorporate SEL data into school improvement planning and strategies.
The research, published in Child Development, found the cognitive advantages of bilingualism tend to help
with academic achievement only if English skills are sufficient at school entry for the child to be fully engaged.
«Just as schools need help
with academic achievement data for effectiveness, they need guidance on ways to incorporate SEL data into school improvement planning and strategies.
School Counselors are highly - prepared educators who are trained in mental health who work in a K - 12 public and private school settings to help
students with academic achievement, personal and social development, career / college readiness and planning.
The study investigated the associations of body fat percentage and other cardiometabolic risk
factors with academic achievement among 175 Finnish 6 -8-year-old children.
This short letter accomplishes so much — it promotes the school meal program and lets people know that there is fresh fruit being served; it highlights the «vision» of two key players whose support you need to move forward; it connects student
health with academic achievement; and it lets people know that your group exists and has a voice.
Commenting on the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee report into apprenticeships, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The MPs» report into apprenticeships is right when they say that high quality vocational training should be seen on a
par with academic achievement and should be promoted within schools as such.
In addition to comparing computer use at
schools with academic achievement, the report also released results from a 2012 computerized PISA test that assessed digital skills.
Author Samuel Casey Carter examined 3,500 schools for more than a year and identified 350 high - performing institutions that had earned a reputation for instilling strong personal character
along with academic achievement.
Volunteer activities: if you have been involved in volunteer or community activities that enhance or match your industry of choice, you can put that
together with your academic achievements on the first page of your resume.
Research findings indicate that learned behaviors in competence, motivation, general attitude towards learning, attention, persistence, social skills, and motivation have a distinctive and unique relationship
with academic achievement beyond cognitive ability and academic competence.
The research, published in Child Development, found the cognitive advantages of bilingualism tend to help
with academic achievement only if English skills are sufficient at school entry for the child to be fully engaged.
Finally, that charter schools, on average, have such large negative impacts, and yet are still able to attract and retain students suggests either that the decision to enroll in a charter school is not motivated solely by
concerns with academic achievement or that there are information deficits in the charter school market
But if parents are worried that their child doesn't have enough schoolwork to do after school, they should encourage reading for pleasure — especially since that has been clearly shown to correlate
with academic achievement, according to Pope.
At best, he says, homework shows only an association, not a causal relationship,
with academic achievement.
The other point — which David presumably left out because it's undoubtedly well known to anyone reading this — is that it's a universal truth that demographics and other outside - school factors closely correlate
with academic achievement.
And the trend is to emphasize socio - economic as well as racial diversity because using economic status avoids the legal problems associated with using race and because social science research suggests it is the economic status of classmates that most powerfully correlates
with academic achievement.
Supported by research showing that socioeconomic integration correlates
with academic achievement, more district leaders are looking at new levers, like housing and student assignment policies, to diversify schools.