Sentences with phrase «across socioeconomic lines»

The research cuts across socioeconomic lines finding, «low income African American children whose families maintain high rates of parent participation in elementary school are more likely to complete high school.»

Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across socioeconomic lines.

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Exceptions to this rule include Shakespeare in Delaware Park, whose founder, Saul Elkin, was on hand to extol what now seems to be the radical idea of a free outdoor theater festival that draws 40,000 people from across all racial and socioeconomic lines to see professional - level theater every summer.

So let me begin with this disclaimer: a simple, foolproof method for ensuring that a group is well represented across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic or gender lines does not exist.

School officials in Richardson, Texas, wanted a math program that could lift up low - performing middle schools and close a yawning achievement gap across racial and socioeconomic lines when they asked for help from the city's largest employer, Texas Instruments (TI), in 2004.

In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and socioeconomic level.

NCLB has been widely praised for its requirement that states and schools break down their test results by subgroups — across racial, socioeconomic and other lines — to highlight achievement gaps.