Sentence examples for educational ambition from inspiring English sources

Naturally, this may include socioeconomic confounding; during the 1970s, for example, maternal education was likely to increase incentives for paid work and the child's educational ambition, which generally increases support for a gender-equal society.

Their educational ambition was used as an indicator of social class of destination.

Adolescents' educational ambition has been used as a social indicator by others and is found to correlate with school marks and parents' education level [ 53, 54].

While some young general school/university women have succumbed, most have resisted, probably driving male peers to seek to exploit status advantages over women of more modest familial circumstances and educational ambition.

We now need a new drive to raise the country's educational ambitions, improve the quality of early years education, attract and retain good teachers and develop the next generation of leaders, ensure that academies policy is driven by a focus on quality and not just numbers, and do more to spread outstanding practice from 4,000 schools to all 24,000.

Our survey findings on the question of educational expectations for sons versus daughters corroborate this: Muslims and Christians in our sample have similar educational ambitions for their daughters, and these ambitions lie somewhere between some college education and postgraduate education.

The festival has political and educational ambitions.

The show's music and quick cuts concealed its educational ambitions.

She said Mr. Chambers had encouraged her educational ambitions from prison.

All his academic hopes will transfer to sponsoring his two brothers' educational ambitions.

He said the theater would continue but would have to curtail its theatrical and educational ambitions.