While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.
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There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.
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The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.
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Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
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One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.
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Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.
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Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.
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More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.
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Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.
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Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.
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Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.
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In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.
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Higher-income families and working-class families now tend to live in different neighborhoods.
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Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems.
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Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
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High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
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He disagreed with the governor on higher education policies.
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Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.
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Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.
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Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.
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Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.
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But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
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71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.
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Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
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When I was in high school, dozens in my class alone would have answered differently.
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Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
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The high cost of medical services and unnecessary tests and treatments have driven up medical expenses.
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The gold standard study by Harvard and Columbia University scholars found that even in high-poverty schools, teachers consistently had a huge positive or negative impact.
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Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.
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On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand.
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Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.
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Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.
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I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.
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Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved readymeals.
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Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
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Demand higher pay for teachers.
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Contrary to some stereotypes, most adolescents believe they must be tolerant of differences among individuals ( ' , though they do not always find this easy in the cliquish ( ' , 拉帮结派的) environment of high school).
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Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.
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And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.
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A place where high technology could be applied.
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He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.
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You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.
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They do not attract the media attention the high-risk group does.
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They are almost as liable to depression as the high-risk group.
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There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.
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The high-risk group and low-risk group are obvious.
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The group that scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors was most likely to show symptoms of depression; in all, nearly 15% of this group reported being depressed, compared with just 4% of the low-risk group.
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The study's authors surveyed 12,395 students and analyzed nine risk behaviors, including excessive alcohol use, illegal drug use, heavy smoking, high media use and truancy ( ' , 逃学 ).
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Some 13% scored high on all nine of the risk behaviors.
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Science has shown a clear correlation between high stress levels in workers and absenteeism ( ' , 旷工 ), reduced productivity, disengagement and high turnover.
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Research finds that if employees suffer from high stress, they will be less motivated, less productive and more likely to quit.
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Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.
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Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.
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Of the 300 employees participating in the study, those who experienced high levels of telepressure were more likely to agree with statements assessing burnout, like I've no energy for going to work in the morning, and to report feeling fatigued and unfocused.
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Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.
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Encouraging high-emitting nations to take the initiative.
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Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.
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But the invisible group wasn't far behind the high-risk set, with more than 13% of them exhibiting depression.
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And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.
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And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.
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The bodies of fish and other meat eaters can build up high levels of the chemicals.
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Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.
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Sports drinks which are often high in sugar and calories made up most of the food and drink deals, with soft drinks and fast food filling out the reminder.
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It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.
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have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.
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When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.
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There wasn't really a college-bound culture at my high school,she said.
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The current situation in American higher education may not last long.
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Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.
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So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once be is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.
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Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.
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People should not expect too much from American higher education.
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Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.
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Like other students new to the intimidating higher-education world, she often struggled on her path to college.
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Like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.
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Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.
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Jones became involved with a college-access program through Princeton University in high school.
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It will take a long time to change the current trend in higher education.
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Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.
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In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.
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Imagine how intimidating it be for prospective students unfamiliar with the complexities of higher education to navigate this kind of information and then identify which schools are the best fit.
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Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.
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Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.
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For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.
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Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.
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College graduates will still fare better than those with only s high school education, of course.
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Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.
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As a former high school teacher, I saw students choose familiar, cheaper options year after year.
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And while Rubinoff believes there are a good number of four-year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough.
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American higher education has lost its global competitiveness.
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While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.
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Some U.S. schoolsacknowledge the rigor of European secondary training, and will give up a year’s credit to foreigners who have passed their high school exams.
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\I’ve seen very expensive protein supplements that claim to be high quality but they might not really be beneficial for the average healthy adult,\ she says.
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\In theory,\ says Vallentine, \this can create a high enough temperature to generate super-heated steam.
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\The yield is never going to be high,\ Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa
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\There wasn't really a college-bound culture at my high school,\ she said.
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A new study from michigan State University, though, argues that all students—including high achievers—see a decline in performance when they browse the Internet during class for non-academic purposes.
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According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.
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