Sentences with phrase «wealthier students also»

Wealthier students also started planning their applications earlier, with 23 % starting during their GCSES, and were more likely to have taken part in non-academic extracurricular activities to support their applications.

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Your book also describes two different schools — a wealthy one and a charter school that caters to low - income students.
He also claims that New York's education budget is too high, without noting that because of the wide disparities of income in the state, children in wealthy districts benefit from much higher spending and students in poorer districts have to make do with far fewer resources.
The district also includes students from both low - income and wealthy households and also is one of the nation's most desegregated systems, a product of a 1970s court - order merging of city and suburban districts to further desegregation.
The report also recommends reorganising student funding to form a more coherent system across further and higher education, increasing loan entitlements to students living away from home from # 3635 to # 4100, and redistributing funding to increase access opportunities for the least well off, whilst requiring the wealthiest parents to fully support their children.
«But such messaging can appear to low - SES students as a signal that the institution is more focused on wealthier students,» said Destin, also a faculty fellow at the University's Institute for Policy Research.
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Students who are most willing to contribute to the discussion from the start are not only more confident and extroverted; they also tend to come from more privileged backgrounds — white, male, straight, or wealthy.
In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.
The percentage of students with special needs served by charter high schools is also more representative of the public high schools serving the wealthiest towns.
Budget Analysis Mary Levy also developed revealing charts based on the NAEP scores that show clearly that whites and wealthier students have been the only beneficiaries.
The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations but would also help close the gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.
Schools where students feel safe, engaged and connected to their teachers are also schools that have narrower achievement gaps between low - income children and their wealthier peers.
«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»
The standards would not only catapult American students ahead of other developed nations, but would also help close the gaping achievement gaps between low - income students in the U.S. and their wealthier counterparts.
He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.
«We just worry that if that complacency builds or expands, it's both going to hurt the pocketbooks of the upper middle - class and the wealthy, and it also impedes greater efforts to improve student preparation.»
The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17
«Studies have found that students from low - income families lose ground academically over the summer, and also are less likely than students from wealthier families to have access to enriching, non-academic experiences,» said Lucas Held of The Wallace Foundation, which released the guide in partnership with Crosby Marketing Communications of Annapolis, Md. «Many of these parents and students aren't used to thinking of summer as an opportunity for learning, so it was important to listen to them and to market voluntary summer learning opportunities in ways that would appeal to them and to their children.»
Wealthier borrowers also rely less heavily on student debt to finance college, according to left - leaning think tank Demos.
There is also the inequality factor with unpaid internships since only students with financial means are able to do them because those students that are not wealthy need to make money for the summer.
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