It total, 80% of teachers surveyed said they believed poverty had a negative impact on pupils' attainment - with problems including under-achievement, not having a quiet place to study at home, inability to concentrate and lack of access to computers and the internet.
"Most people are really attached to their lifestyles, " says Esteban Calvo, co-author of the Boston College study that looked at home equity and now an associate professor at Diego Portales University in Santiago, Chile.
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Studies have shown that students with broadband at home study more, watch less television, and improve their grades.
Many Jewish immigrant kids had had European musical training, and first generation Jewish-American children were often encouraged to study music, whether at home with a piano or in the synagogue, where texts were routinely meant to be sung.
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The women who went to university before the second world war faced formidable obstacles: ridiculed by fellow students, refused teaching by some lecturers, denounced in newspaper editorials and often pulled out of study unceremoniously because of problems at home.
The maths study examined the availability of resources at home - such as books - with pupils in South Korea, Norway, Sweden and the US being the best equipped.
She slept, when she slept at home, in the study, downstairs.
David Ould, deputy director of Anti Slavery International, said a Home Office study had concluded that at least 1, 500 women were trafficked into the UK sex trade each year.
Or the Gallup study released in May that found stay-at-home moms were more likely to experience stress, worry, anger, and sadness than those who worked paying jobs.
The authors of the study conclude that giving women the opportunity to give birth at home or in a midwifery unit saves the NHS money and is safe for baby and mother, resulting in fewer expensive interventions.
She had left her home in Kingston, Jamaica to train and study at Laval University in Quebec.
Study after study shows that families are stronger when one partner in the relationship stays at home to help raise the children.
The same study found that 75% of senior male executives had spouses who stayed at home, while 74% of the female executives had a full-time working partner.
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Some students also are passing on dorm life, choosing instead to live at home to save on room and board, according to the study.
Adolescents eat 65 percent of their meals at home, according to a 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association study.
By the time the requirement of home recruitment was relaxed, a new leadership had taken over the study at NIH, creating a second problem.
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The same study found that most workers spend an extra three to five hours a week working at home when they have notebooks, Dulaney said.
While Americans with disabilities already enjoy these rights at home, they frequently face barriers when they travel, conduct business, study, or reside overseas.
And a joint study by the Home Office and the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions will look at whether sentences imposed for motoring offences need to be tougher.
She's a retired Navy captain and a fellow at the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, joins us by phone from her home in Knoxville.
When they began the study 14 years ago, researchers focused on mothers because it was difficult to find fathers who spent as much time at home with their young children.
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Worse, according to a recent National Association of Home Builders study, New Hampshire's real estate taxes are among the highest in the nation, at a median 1.6% of home value, double Massachusetts' median rate.
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