Sentences with phrase «affluent kids»

Wiseburn Unified School District in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, for example, did a particularly good job preparing its low - income black students to compete with more affluent kids across the state.

If we moved to using these richer measures in all of our schools, it could mean that not just upper middle class and affluent kids at schools like Sidwell Friends School, where President Obama's children attend, but poor public school kids too would be taught and expected to demonstrate the ability to think, express original ideas, problem solve, work in teams, do research papers and other kinds of projects requiring critical thinking.

Once that process started, word got out that the schools were safe for affluent kids, and the floodwaters opened.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

(The Lunch Tray wrote a good post about that here: «Universal Free Breakfast: Can We Feed Hungry Kids Without Overfeeding Affluent Kids?».)

An in - depth analysis by ProPublica last year praised Florida as being a leader in giving low - income students the same access to AP classes as affluent kids.

There have been a set of studies done out of John Hopkins University that track student gains in learning over time, and they find that in general the slope of learning gains for low - income kids and more affluent kids in this country is pretty equivalent between September and June of every school year.

In areas where housing prices have long been high, that has a lot to do with the fact that schools enroll affluent kids, who tend to score better than low - income kids on standardized tests.

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.

Few parents have the time, energy or education policy experience to go hunting for the facts on which schools are actually helping all their students learn, which ones are in desperate need of support, and which ones are eking it out for affluent kids but still failing to deliver an equal education to every child.

«Affluent kids,» he said, «are in suspended animation throughout college without every hitting road bumps.

As Annette Lareau pointed out in Unequal Childhoods, affluent kids are scheduled to the hilt, while poor and working class kids» spare time is largely self - organized.

Affluent kids are spending their days (and often their nights) at camp or traveling the world with their families, picking up knowledge, skills, and social connections that will help them thrive at school and beyond.

«The achievement gap is not the gap between low - income and affluent kids,» Bhasin said.

«I don't just automatically jump to the conclusion that the only way to make sure they have a quality education is that poor kids sit next to affluent kids,» said Benton.

That's largely because, as King also mentioned in his speech, beginning at birth, low - income kids are exposed to far fewer words and concepts at home than more affluent kids.