Sentences with phrase «affluent families tend»

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Why do kids from low - income families tend to score so much lower on average than their more - affluent peers?

The improvements in attainment tended to be strongest amongst pupils from less affluent families and amongst those with lower prior attainment.

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.

(Better teachers tend to self - select into programs with children from more affluent and better educated families, and that is why the children may do better).

Although a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests, no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out.

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Students in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent communities.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

Ms. Hoxby's study found that the charter - school students, who tend to come from poor and disadvantaged families, scored almost as well as students in the affluent Scarsdale school district in the suburbs north of the city.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

Fact:» [C] hildren who grow up in poor or low - income families tend to have lower educational and vocational attainments, are more likely to become teenage parents, and are more likely to become welfare recipients than more affluent children.

Perhaps not surprisingly considering the cost of international and private domestic adoptions, adopted kids tend to live in more affluent and educated families.

Compared to SFR owners, SFR renters tend to be younger, less - affluent families.