Sentences with phrase «affluent children at»

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I had my first child at 46 and my second at 56 — they stepped into an affluent lifestyle.»

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

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

Now I'm not endorsing that both get power careers and leave the child completely unattended, but I have contact with plenty of stay home moms as my child attends a very affluent private school and many of those stay at home moms don't do squat after the kids are dropped off other than yoga.

The disparities between affluent and poor children persisted even though all were treated at the same major hospitals, the researchers said.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

Look, a cult of keeping a child at the breast until advanced age has become a trend among primarily white, educated, affluent women, the blogger is simply making a point that there is no concrete science to back - up the claims being made for the benefits.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

A powder keg of emotions is opened up at the funeral, and hostilities erupt between the brothers and the father's other, more affluent, children.

The study, conducted by McCartney, Boston College Associate Professor Eric Dearing, and Samford University Professor Beck Taylor, looked at reading and math achievement of more than 1,300 children in middle childhood from economic backgrounds ranging from poor to affluent.

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

«Parents who live in affluent suburban communities want their children to learn a second language,» says Hahnel at Education Trust - West.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

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.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

More - affluent parents can also use their resources to ensure that their children have access to a full range of extracurricular activities at school and in the community.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

The Educrats claim this is fair and equitable; children from at - risk populations are often far behind their more affluent peers, and expecting all children to meet the same high standards is unfair, even mean - spirited.

By high school, those leaders assert, their students will be learning at a level just as sophisticated as the children of affluent American families who attend schools like St. Mark's.

In an obvious slap at Campbell Brown, New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee nonsensically claimed that, «If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.»

In high - poverty districts, children often arrive at school needing things that more affluent districts simply don't have to provide — but providing them won't necessarily improve test scores.

«Yet, at the same time, Connecticut has taken steps that prevent these poor and minority children from having viable public - school alternatives — knowingly depriving low - income and minority schoolchildren of the vital educational opportunities available to their more affluent and predominantly white peers.»

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.

To attempt to level the playing field, we should at least be equipping schools to provide supports to needy children that affluent parents provide their children.

, 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.

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.

Research shows that low - come children need more support to achieve at the same level as their more affluent peers.

Cllr Marland says not only are more children travelling further to take up school places, but those from less affluent backgrounds are at a disadvantage in an increasingly complex admissions system.

LOS ANGELES — A half dozen children are gathered around a table for small - group reading day in Claudine Phillips» sunny second - grade classroom at Roscomare Road Elementary in the affluent Bel Air...

Benz is expecting that affluent empty - nesters or younger families with one child or none at all will happily live with these compromises.

Current & Last 6 Books: Galbraith's The Affluent Society; Hunt's Hannibal; Davis» Policing the Black Man, Soni & Goodman's A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age; Child's The Midnight Line; Mievelle's October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.

The general consensus, then, is that this Muscovite artist — the 13th of 14 children — left his affluent, horse - breeding home at the age of 12, earning a living as a jazz guitarist (first in the pre-revolutionary Russian capital, and later across the cafes of Europe after fleeing the bloodshed with his aunt Nadia, a singer).

«My husband and I deliberated for years about whether to have a child at all, partly because parenting in an affluent society is, shall we say, a carbon - intensive activity, and partly because we knew that future generations will probably have to contend with the consequences of a severely disrupted climate.

A recent study published in the Journal of Primary Prevention confirms that PAT measurably improves school readiness, virtually eliminating the achievement gap normally observed between poor children and their more affluent peers at the point of kindergarten entry, and that gap continued to be narrowed in the third grade.

Parenting support programs have been shown to have positive effects among families with young infants at high psychosocial risk.20 - 25 Our results suggest a benefit from the universal provision of parenting and child development support services to an unselected sample of families with health coverage, who ranged from the affluent and employed to those at greater socioeconomic and psychosocial risk.

When children enter kindergarten, half of the achievement gap between low - income students and their more affluent peers that exists in high school is already present.22 The federal government can address the developmental needs of young children through child care reform by implementing policies that improve quality starting at birth and continuing up to age 13.

Low - income children too often begin school without the basic behavioral, emotional, and cognitive skills that they need to thrive academically — putting them at an immediate disadvantage and contributing to the large gap that develops in school achievement between low - income children and their more affluent peers.

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