Jamie Oliver, who campaigns for better school meals, urged the government "to do something positive with the data".
Better school, which we cannot afford, some trips, like abroad, but that is also, uh, out of our price range.
What accountability measures are in place when you have one, two, three or four children leaving that school to go to a better school?
Harvard economist Lawrence Katz, one of the study's authors, agreed that most families in the study hadn't been able to move to better school districts, as initially hoped.
Strategies like closing a school for a time and reopening it under new management, or even shutting it down entirely and sending its students to a better school.
It wouldn't be to invest in more teachers or a better school system, or making college more affordable, or rebuilding our roads and bridges, and finding new ways to create cheap energy.
And parents in London and the North East were most likely to want to move to try to secure a place for their child at a better school - 46% said they were planning to do so.
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Schools also have to send parents regular reports, and parents are theoretically given the chance to transfer their child to a better school, or get money to hire a tutor, if their school fails to improve within the first two-to-three years.
Ms. AMY HANSON (Teacher, Northwestern High School): She's done a good job of trying to convey, like, we have all these changes because we're trying to be a better school, not because, you know, we're like trying to do this mean thing or like ruin your career.
There is a child nutrition bill that's working its way through Congress right now, and one of the things that it's trying to do is to encourage healthier eating, to provide incentives for better school lunches, as one of the previous callers mentioned - healthier, higher nutrition standards, incentives for more fruit and vegetables, things like low-fat milk.
And all students must have the option of leaving a poor public school for a better public school.
Statistically, students who are involved in music (either appreciation or performance) do better in school.
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The more education a mother has, the more likely it is her children will do better at school.
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And what's even more important is to ensure that children do better in school in the first place.
She said the Department for Education should look at ways to better educate school pupils on food shopping and sell-by-dates.
Our research finds that people who are engaged with their communities tend to fare much better in school, jobs and life.
Their children tended to do better in school and go to college, explains James Rosenbaum, a sociology professor at Northwestern University.
Free school breakfasts, says Mr Morgan, not only mean starting early with healthy eating, but help children socialise and concentrate better in school.
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So the more parents are claiming free meals, the better a school appears to be doing in its annual "performance and assessment" report.
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Those kids are more attractive anyway, because they are often doing better in school, and so they end up with a huge leg up.
"These plans will mean more leisure and recreation opportunities for Cirencester residents, along with a bigger and better new school building for Watermoor, " he said.
Over time, my father's lessons empowered me to do better in school, to join the Peace Corps, to become a schoolteacher and to serve my community.
Every big corporation in the world is packed with mid-level managers, many of whom may have done better in school and have higher IQs than their bosses.
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They quoted research carried out in a campaign led by TV chef Jamie Oliver that healthy meals helped children do better at school and cut rates of absenteeism.
If staying close to mothers helps boys to perform better in school, act less aggressively and avoid behaviors that will derail their lives, why is it still so discouraged?
In addition, physically active kids do better in school, with studies showing that physical activity enhances important skills, like concentration and problem solving, which have been shown to improve academic performance.
They are more likely than other Asians to be employed (though they earn slightly less than Indians) and Sri Lankan children do better at school than any ethnic group bar the Chinese.
And perhaps social factors are at work too: the proportion of 16-year-olds whose parents have managerial or professional jobs has risen by 20% since 1988 and middle-class children tend to do better at school.
McCain told the crowd that if he becomes president, he will make sure parents are allowed to pick their children's schools -- whether a better public school, a private school or a charter school.
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The net is starting to change the way we live, enabling families to stay in touch, children to do better at school and even patients to self-manage their illnesses in consultation with their doctors.
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