News tagged with school performance
Closing race, poverty and gender gaps in advanced high school course-taking
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Flo ...
Schoolkids May Need Coaching on Emotions, School Success
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Your 7-year-old may understand that a positive attitude is an asset when taking a spelling test, doing a math problem or tackling a science lesson. But don't expect a kindergartner to make that link.
Extremely premature children at high risk of learning difficulties by age 11
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Children born extremely prematurely are at high risk of developing learning difficulties by the time they reach the age of 11.
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Are school league tables any good?
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Aug 11, 2009 |
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Choosing a child’s school based on league tables is inadvisable because the tables ignore the uncertainty that arises from predicting a school’s future performance based on its past performance, according ...
Undergrad academic performance linked to neural signals
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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Students will have to use their brains to get good grades at school this year, according to new University of Toronto research that relates brain activity to undergraduate academic performance.
Promotional tests can discourage some of the best, says new research
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May 19, 2009 |
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Standardized tests are a common choice for organizations looking for an objective way of fairly evaluating who is the best person for the job.
Women on company boards face stockmarket prejudice
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Companies with female board members fare worse on the stock market, despite performing as well on all other measures as those with all-male boards. This is the finding of a new study by the ...
Performance pay is a good lesson for education, expert finds
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced a new education reform, calling for a merit-pay system for teachers in hopes of improving student performance. As the nation's public schools spend $187 billion in salaries, based ...
Tying education to future goals may boost grades more than helping with homework
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May 19, 2009 |
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Helping middle school students with their homework may not be the best way to get them on the honor roll. But telling them how important academic performance is to their future job prospects and providing specific strategies ...
Cutting greenhouse gases could grow the economy
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Over £14 ($23) billion more in products and services could be produced in Northern Ireland's economy each year if greenhouse gas producing resources were used as efficiently as they are in the rest of the UK, a research group ...
Teacher-designed performance pay programs offer smaller incentives to more teachers
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Performance pay programs designed by teachers, for teachers, tend to offer small incentives to a large number of teachers, new research indicates.
Do good looks get high school students good grades?
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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Do personal traits predict success in school? If so, which dimension of one's outward appearance can tell the most about academic achievement? The answers to these questions are found in a new study by researchers from the ...
Study shows simple writing assignment improves minority student grades
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Apr 16, 2009 |
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In a follow-up to a 2006 study, a University of Colorado at Boulder researcher and his colleagues found that an in-class writing assignment designed to reinforce students' sense of identity and personal integrity increased ...
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