Sentences with phrase «affluent children»

Even district leaders may be unaware of how the concentration of senior teachers in schools serving more affluent children results in fewer resources going to schools serving low - income children.

It's different for affluent children, of course.

It's no secret that «regular» schools serving predominantly poor children, who face overwhelming challenges that affluent children never have to confront, have more than their share of behavior problems.

Finding a way to make sure that everyone gets what they need — including affluent children, who will tend to come in far ahead of their peers — is no easy trick.

It's a pivotal point because low - income children tend to score lower than more affluent children.

«Plans to hand free school meals to the under - 8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children... London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans, saying that better - off families should pay for their children's food.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

Alfie Kohn's Education Week commentary about the «pedagogy of poverty» has sparked a renewed debate about which kind of education is «best» for poor kids — and whether it's the same as what affluent children get.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

They also express concern that students without the deep and broad background knowledge and fluency that affluent children generally absorb from their homes and communities first need to develop that core knowledge before they can benefit from a collaborative, project - based approach.

Christian had planned this fall to expand the meals to less - affluent children at McCorkle Elementary in Bronzeville and Hammond Elementary in Little Village.

Madeline Levine and I both draw on the work of Suniya Luthar, a psychologist at Columbia University who has studied affluent children in depth.

The United Kingdom, which has the fourth - largest economy in the world, also has one of the largest educational achievement gaps between poor and affluent children among industrialized nations, according to a recent report.

Is it unreasonable to assume that a child who dutifully goes to school every day will gain access to the same rich, enabling domains of knowledge that more affluent children take for granted?

This is why affluent children who enjoy the benefit of educated parents, language - rich homes, and ample opportunities for growth and enrichment come to school primed to do well on reading tests — and why reading scores are hard to move.

But here's the funny thing: Despite its supposedly universal value and appeal, you'd have to spend quite a lot of time and energy in order to find examples of policymakers and elites urging legislative changes designed to increase affluent children's level of grit.

When I taught in a school with mainly affluent children, the test scores were very high (above the 85th).

But the way affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school: by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most affluent children far exceed those possessed by their low - income peers.

This was especially true for low - income children; in fact, their scores were similar to those of affluent children, even after taking into account a variety of family factors, including parents» education and intelligence.

Researchers such as Sean Reardon at Stanford note that wealthy parents not only can provide basic stability, nutrition and health care for their children, but also tutoring and enrichment that gives affluent children an edge over poorer children.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

He says that if pupils are in families that are struggling with unemployment, bad housing and poor health, the ability of schools to close the gap with more affluent children is going to be limited.

Tough shares research carried out by Columbia psychology professor Suniya Luthar, which finds that affluent children are more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and pot, and use harder drugs than their lower - income peers, presumably to blunt their excessive anxiety and depression.

In «The Stamp of Poverty,» neuroscientist John D. E. Gabrieli of M.I.T. and psychologist Silvia A. Bunge of the University of California, Berkeley, describe recently discovered differences in brain anatomy and function between kids growing up in poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequality.

Affluent children have continuous access to enriched learning opportunities like camp, lessons, sports, travel, technology, and more, while disadvantaged youngsters have limited or no access to such learning.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

Now it needs to take the next step and acknowledge that its low - income students may need something strikingly different than its affluent children do.

It matters not that you're an affluent child living in a first - world country, or a working student trying to eke out a living in a country ridden with unrest.

Democrats argue that without federal oversight, states will return to the norm in earlier days, when some states ignored the achievement gap between poor and more affluent children, and neglected the needs of English - language learners and students with disabilities.

Whether it's high rates of asthma, undiagnosed ear infections or vision problems, low - income children miss more days of school due to health issues than more affluent children.

Thinking they'd found the holy grail to raising student performance and erasing the achievement gap between poor and affluent children, politicians and policymakers in some states sought to shrink class sizes.

Poor children were, predictably, much more likely than middle - class or affluent children to be taught by unqualified teachers.

A consultation published by the government on Wednesday, examining how schools should support such «ordinary working families», shows affluent children are currently much more likely to take places in grammar schools.

, the sickening core belief that certain students (especially Black, Latino and poor children) can not learn at the same levels as White or affluent children.

These people suffer from the belief gap, the sickening core belief that certain students (especially Black, Latino and poor children) can not learn at the same levels as White or affluent children.

While not all affluent children experience these kinds of emotional problems, there's another reason why they might benefit from SEL: the impact of social class on social - emotional skills.

One reason why is the extreme pressure to succeed that affluent children face.