Sentences with phrase «with economic disadvantages»

Worse yet, we apply the greatest pressure to districts with the greatest challenges, plagued with economic disadvantages and generational poverty.

For universities, a major benefit of active learning is lower failure rates and possible increased retention of science students, including underrepresented minorities and students with economic disadvantages.

24 percent of economically disadvantaged students were chronically absent, compared to 6 percent of those with no economic disadvantage.

Mineola ISD serves over 1,600 students including 63 % living with economic disadvantage.

Based on PREP, it is especially tailored for those who have struggled with economic disadvantage or other groups of adults who may not have had access to such services.

Not exact matches

When looking at the data we saw that people with a lower IQ were less likely to be happier because of higher levels of socio - economic disadvantage such as lower income.

Second, with our world in economic, political, sociological and psychological turmoil, are we Christians willing to place the needs and welfare of disadvantaged peoples ahead of maintaining our own plush standard of living?

The Jamaica experiment makes a strong economic case for the potential effectiveness of some kind of home - visiting intervention with disadvantaged parents.

To start off with, this grouping will cover four policy areas — promoting local economic growth, reducing crime, bettering the lot of disadvantaged children, and looking after the elderly — that amount to # 200 billion - worth of public spending.

Steele writes that many Americans have come to view the disadvantages associated with being black as disadvantages primarily of social and economic resources and opportunity.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

In the Seattle system, a «basic student,» assigned a weight of 1.0, is a native English speaker with no special needs or economic disadvantage.

In particular, they will be looking to support teachers in schools serving communities with the highest levels of social and economic disadvantage.

The problem starts with the use of the free - and - reduced - price lunch program (FRL) as a marker of economic disadvantage.

This groundbreaking book illuminates the ways rising inequality is operating through disadvantaged neighborhoods, insecure labor markets and schools to undermine one of the most important goals of public education — the ability of schools to provide children with an equal chance at academic and economic success.

Special education vouchers have a political advantage that vouchers for low - income students lack: they can benefit not only the poverty - stricken disadvantaged, almost never a politically potent interest group, but also anyone who has a child with disabilities, a population that crosses all social and economic boundaries.

Evidence shows that patterns of participation in the arts are determined in childhood, and that participation varies considerably between different socio - economic groups, with the most disadvantaged children the least likely to have access to the arts outside school.

The best thing I have witnessed in education in 2008 is the indefatigable attempt of many local and international players to close the gap of socio - economic disadvantages around the world with a lot of courage and personal engagement despite many political, bureaucratic limits and shortfalls of investment in the sector of education.

We have yet to take sufficient note of a historic development in public education: A critical mass of schools is establishing, with more assurance than ever, that children can achieve at high standards regardless of race or economic disadvantage.

«We have teamed up with the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources to give disadvantaged high school students the opportunity to learn about current projects such as drought programs, infrastructure projects and transport programs,» he said.

While most WSFs weight economic disadvantage, they often give higher weights to other student categories, such as students with disabilities (SWDs), English learners (ELs), and foster care or homeless students.

«We must ensure that changes being made to our qualifications system do not unfairly disadvantage specific groups of students, including those with special educational needs or those from backgrounds of economic disadvantage.»

There are substantial equity concerns with this forced feeding of technology - based testing, with substantial concerns that underserved populations such as English learners, students with disabilities, and socio - economic disadvantaged students having less access to technology and thus being at a disadvantage due to the premature forced technology - based testing protocol, thus widening the perceived achievement gap for these students.

It answers these questions by looking the attendance of grammar schools by different socio - economic and ethnic groups; examining access to grammars for disadvantaged students and those from Just About Managing families, along with examining the proportion of privately educated pupils vis - à - vis state educated pupils.

This was not just economic disadvantage, but also geographic, with some parts of England having much lower attainment, she said.

Countries with low levels of selection, such as England and Canada, have similar levels of pupils who attain strong academic results despite their socio - economic disadvantage, as countries with highly selective systems such as Germany, according to the data.

Much of the gap is accounted for by socio - economic disadvantage, with pupil performance also differing depending on whether they attended independent schools, grammar schools or comprehensive schools, said a national report by the Department for Education (DfE).

The report also stated there was little support for the «notion that pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to succeed if they live in a country with an academically selective secondary education system», based on the OECD's definition of resilience [which measures how many pupils in the bottom quarter of socio - economic status are in the top quarter of attainment].

The researchers compared pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England with disadvantaged pupils in other countries using PISA's economic, social and cultural status index.

«The gaps are too big in terms of achievement for students with disabilities, they are too big in areas of race, students with socio - economic disadvantaged backgrounds,» he said.

We are known for working collaboratively with our partners to increase innovation and remove barriers that can disadvantage some in our society and jeopardize their ability to achieve education and economic success.

Her research has been guided by an interest in the relationship between the social environment and psychological adjustment in childhood, with a particular emphasis on children growing up in situations of social and economic disadvantage.

Each of the charts shown via the links to state pages (above) permits users to get a bird's - eye view of how their school's 3rd graders compare with all other schools in terms of both achievement and economic disadvantage.

These adjustments give more value or «weight» to compensate for higher educational cost associated with these characteristics (e.g. economic disadvantage or limited English proficiency).

However, 32 % of disadvantaged students in the United States performed above expectations scoring as well as the top quarter of students with the same socio - economic status across all countries and economies in PISA.

, it began to issue state waivers that focused school improvement status on a Targeted Achievement Gap Group (TAGG) which was comprised of (a) students at risk due to economic disadvantage; (b) English Language Learners (ELLs); and — once again (c) Students with Disabilities (SWD).

Perhaps less obvious but just as important are costs associated with social and economic exclusion of certain communities, many of whom were disadvantaged by poor transportation decisions in the past.

Under the laws concerning social and economic disadvantage, people with disabilities are not a group presumed to be disadvantaged.

It makes several changes to the DBE program, concerning such subjects as uniform application and reporting forms; implementing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Small Business Administration (SBA); substantive amendments to provisions concerning personal net worth, retainage, size standard, proof of ethnicity, confidentiality, proof of economic disadvantage, DBE credit for trucking firms, and eligibility of firms owned by Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs); and clarifications concerning multi-year project goals and the use of the new North American Industrial Classification System («NAICS»).

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Tiny homes and micro-apartments may have their detractors, but it's becoming clear that as society's socio - economic fabric is changing, more and more young people are seeing the disadvantages of being bogged down by debt, wasteful habits and a conventional home in the suburbs stuffed to the gills with «stuff».

Depending on location, this alternate is cost competitive with today's coal price (no carbon tax needed), so there would be no net cost disadvantage for going this route (i.e. it makes economic sense).

Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

Winrock International supports ACR's comprehensive approach to rigorous carbon accounting paired with stringent safeguards for REDD +, towards fulfilling the organization's global mission of empowering the disadvantaged, increasing economic opportunity and sustaining natural resources.

Named for philanthropist Winthrop Rockefeller, Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

And they're certainly unlikely to reverse the deeper problem: years of shoddy transportation planning that have led to «11 - hour rush hours» beneath perpetually mucky skies.To be fair, Beijing, with an official population of 16 million, is at a planning disadvantage for historical and economic reasons.

And with a robust emissions trading program, Pennsylvania could generate significant carbon revenues that could be used to support high - quality jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency, strengthen disadvantaged communities, make buildings and infrastructure more resilient, and boost economic development in regions dependent on the fossil - fuel economy.

To establish that the law «create [s] a disadvantage by perpetuating prejudice or stereotyping,» patients with rare diseases may point to the economic disadvantage they shoulder by paying out - of - pocket for medical expenses.

Their experience of disability and therefore the barriers they face differ because of their disadvantaged social and economic conditions; the additional disadvantages they may experience because of their identification with other groups, for example, ethnic groups; further disadvantages they may experience due to the status they are accorded within these groups, for example, status resulting from age, gender, and sexual orientation; the type and severity of the disabilities they experience; and other disadvantages experienced because of the way that laws are written and implemented.

Until more focus on the benefits of shared parenting on reducing possible economic disadvantage occurs, we encourage spouses to think very hard about putting their financial eggs into one basket with a breadwinner / homemaker formula versus a modern marriage.