Sentences with phrase «affluent communities such»

For example, in North Carolina, children who lived in less affluent communities such as Goldsboro and eastern Raleigh had a strabismus diagnosis rate of 0.55 percent — far lower than the statewide average of 1.11 percent.

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If such relatively affluent communities do in fact attempt to move beyond their technically and psychologically sophisticated understandings of themselves to tell their household stories, they will encounter there the narrative of groups deprived of technical and academic sophistication who have little but story by which to understand and modify their corporate existence.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

He said wide gaps in affluent yet integrated communities like Shaker Heights, Ohio, may stem from «competition for educational success» being «particularly strong in such places.»