Sentences with phrase «affluent kids at»

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He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

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.

I had spent the morning at an elementary school in an affluent neighborhood outside of Syracuse teaching kids in summer school.

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.

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.

In the bad old days, before statewide standards, affluent communities tended to ask their kids to shoot for the moon (or at least 3s, 4s, and 5s on a battery of Advanced Placement exams), while too many schools in low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

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.

«Our gaps between affluent and high - poverty students are not closing and we are not catching our kids who are behind up at nearly the rate we need to.»

Activist parents in an affluent part of Mar Vista reported that along with smelling alcohol on him at school, the teacher was verbally abusive to kids, made students cry and helped them cheat on the state standardized test.

At the same time, Americans are more likely to live in the suburbs today than they were in 2000, and even the young, affluent ones drawn to cities tend to move once their kids reach school age, Kolko's research shows.