The negative effect on school performance was of similar size to the positive one associated with America's Head Start, an early-years education programme.One explanation for such ill effects is that poor prenatal health retards the growth of the fetus or causes premature birth.
REPORTS on school performance usually compare test scores of the same grade from one year to the next.
"This feeling of not belonging has a negative impact on school performance and learning".
Mr. Sicat said district officials would rely on school performance as the primary factor in determining which schools to overhaul.
It is difficult to demonstrate conclusively what impact these programs have on school performance, because of all the variables.
One of Michael Gove's first acts on being appointed education secretary, meanwhile, was to place information on school performance prominently on his department's website.
The governor and the mayor have also talked about teacher and administrator accountability, and improved data on school performance — Mr. Christie, in particular, has advocated merit pay.
Treating them would ameliorate some of poverty's symptoms and probably have a modest effect on school performance, but it wouldn't noticeably reduce poverty.
But when the California Department of Education issued its annual report on school performance several months later, Del Sol Academy was nowhere to be found.
As a poor child growing up in the Bronx of the 1950's, I can assure you that the physical surroundings had little bearing on school performance.
And coming from a poor family background, notes the France Stratégie study, seems to have a stronger impact on school performance in France than it does in other comparable countries.
