Sentences with phrase «with poorer school attendance»

A number of sociodemographic factors were significantly associated with poor school attendance (tables 4 and 5).

While any diagnosis of an alcohol use disorder was associated with poor school attendance, in the final models there was little difference between the timing of diagnosis relative to pregnancy and the strength of association with attendance outcomes.

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.

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So this poor woman's going to be giving birth with a «midwife» who probably has a high school diploma and no backing in biology and a husband who's going to be smashed during the delivery in attendance.

Breakfast skipping in children is also associated with poor memory, lower test scores and poor school attendance.

Differences in test scores, college attendance, and graduation rates between wealthy and poor students are reaching an unprecedented disparity, with tremendous implications for the American public schooling system.

According to Goodman a «likely explanation is that schools and teachers are well prepared to deal with the coordinated disruptions caused by snow days — much more so than they are to handle the less dramatic but more frequent disruptions caused by poor student attendance.»

Those strategies include getting every student at the school to track their own attendance every five weeks, putting in place a system of rewards and positive reinforcement, and individually case managing students with poor attendance - working with families and support agencies.

As the «school employer,» I know that I am far more likely to motivate an uninterested student with poor attendance to show up, and therefore make it more likely that she will pass my class and graduate, by telling how much we missed her during her absence rather than by giving her a zero on missed assignments.

Dr Armstrong said children from disadvantaged backgrounds, or with disabilities such as autism, are most at risk of behaviours that lead to exclusion, poor school attendance or self - withdrawal from school.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

But it seems to be that as long as the majority of public - school kids in this country remain poor, with unstable housing and massive day - to - day challenges, perfect attendance will remain an elusive goal.

Local afterschool leaders could be using this data gathered during the school year — both the in - school attendance data and afterschool attendance data — to make improvements in afterschool programming and to enhance partnerships with schools, families, and other child - and family - focused community organizations in order to address poor attendance.

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

Virtual Schools with virtually no attendance compliance, or any compliance, and universally poor track records for preparing students are exploding in every education market

National averages on the 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading tests were between 12 and 18 test - score points lower for students with poor attendance than for their peers who hadn't missed any school in the reporting period, the analysis found.

For schools with poor attendance, the district is providing financial incentives for a vigorous outreach campaign to tell parents how important school attendance is.

Supt. John Deasy and the board have together brought an unrelenting focus on poor children of color and there has been much progress as a result of his leadership including increased graduation and attendance rates, increases in the numbers of African American and Latino students taking Advanced Placement courses and exams, and reduced suspensions along with an overhaul of the school discipline policy.

A lot of students come to Diploma Plus schools with a poor attendance record.

* Read the previous blogs in our series, ESSA Implementation: Keeping Students with Disabilities In School, A Sea Change in Defining and Responding to Poor Attendance, High Quality Attendance Data is More Important Than Ever, and Making the Most of Attendance Indicators.

Research shows that students with access to good nutrition have higher school attendance records, are better able to focus, and are consistently more engaged than students with poor nutrition.

«We [Attendance Works] promote tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schooAttendance Works] promote tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schooattendance is a problem for students or schools.»

Poor oversight when it comes to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology were only some of problems the report found with CAVA and were echoed by Golovich, who was not involved in the compilation of the study.

Posted March 15, 2018 School districts throughout Oregon are aiming for a share of about $ 170 million in new state support to address the needs of high school students with poor attendance rates who are at - risk of droppinSchool districts throughout Oregon are aiming for a share of about $ 170 million in new state support to address the needs of high school students with poor attendance rates who are at - risk of droppinschool students with poor attendance rates who are at - risk of dropping out.

Maintain communication with school officials, if poor academic performance, and attendance become an issue

Hierarchical generalised linear mixed models with a logit link were used to analyse the relationship between poor attendance and maternal alcohol use, and sociodemographic and school characteristics, with models nested at the child and family level.

There were a number of school factors that were significantly associated with poor attendance in both the non-Indigenous and Indigenous cohorts (tables 6 and 7).

As attendance distributions were highly skewed, and with the aim of reducing the impact of children with very low attendance records who were not attending school, poor attendance was treated as a binary outcome (non-Indigenous: < 80 % days attended, Indigenous: < 60 % days attended).

Further, it was evident that there was a strong relationship between type of school and attendance, with children in secondary school at greater odds of poor attendance compared with children attending primary school.

A higher number of schools attended within the semester and a suspension record (non-Indigenous: OR = 2.36 95 % CI 2.19 to 2.54; Indigenous: OR = 1.43 95 % CI 1.33 to 1.52) were also positively associated with likelihood of poor attendance.

While the data do not provide detailed information about the family or household circumstances prebirth or postbirth, previous research demonstrates that households with heavy parental alcohol use are at risk of instability, as well as concomitant risks such as abuse, poor family functioning, mental health problems and illicit substance use.13 17 29 This is likely to be an environment in which school attendance is not prioritised.

Implemented in 1967 in response to poor attendance, low achievement, and parent disengagement with schools, the CPC Education Program provides comprehensive education and family support services from preschool to third grade (Pk - 3) that aim to improve school readiness skills and early school achievement and increase parent education and home support for learning.