Sentences with phrase «affluent kids in»

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.

Not exact matches

But despite the sisters» affluent upbringing in one of the best - known Norwegian families, they aren't just any rich kids.

In my case, I live in a cozy, affluent suburb where the biggest issue is that the planes flying overhead are too noisy (I kid you not — that is what people want politicians to fixIn my case, I live in a cozy, affluent suburb where the biggest issue is that the planes flying overhead are too noisy (I kid you not — that is what people want politicians to fixin a cozy, affluent suburb where the biggest issue is that the planes flying overhead are too noisy (I kid you not — that is what people want politicians to fix).

«It took a judge seven years and 607 pages,» the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «to explain why children in New Jersey's poor cities deserve the same basic education as kids in the state's affluent suburbs.»

Perhaps public education needs to be replaced with the more affluent private education, where kids are still being taught effectively, and passing entrance exams in record numbers over the public kiddos.

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.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

For Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Calif..

An interesting — and encouraging — new British study finds that economically disadvantaged kids are making better choices in the school cafeteria compared to their more affluent peers.

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

It's the brand all the affluent suburban moms outfit their kids in so you know it's top stuff.

As a result, low income kids have fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating behavior.

I have gone into my own kids» public school lunch room, in a relatively affluent neighborhood in central Houston, btw, and have seen (and photographed) poorly prepared food — items that are still frozen, items like green vegetables that are grossly overcooked, to the point of almost being brown, etc..

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

The surprise is that Clinton, which routinely smacks down affluent schools in these competitions, is not full of college - bound kids from fancy neighborhoods; it is full of everyday kids whose parents work in blue - collar jobs.

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.

In «The Stamp of Poverty,» neuroscientist John D. E. Gabrieli of M.I.T. and psychologist Silvia A. Bunge of the University of California, Berkeley, describe recently discovered differences in brain anatomy and function between kids growing up in poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequalitIn «The Stamp of Poverty,» neuroscientist John D. E. Gabrieli of M.I.T. and psychologist Silvia A. Bunge of the University of California, Berkeley, describe recently discovered differences in brain anatomy and function between kids growing up in poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequalitin brain anatomy and function between kids growing up in poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequalitin poverty and more affluent children — findings that add urgency to the issue of extreme income inequality.

Love, Simon, Berlanti's first film since the 2010 rom - com Life As We Know It, traffics in similar vibes: Good kids meaning well and fucking up anyway, idyllic setting (an affluent suburb in Georgia), swears saved up for only the most fevered moments.

The core of that mush is Thomas (Callum Turner), a kid who just graduated from college and is trying to make his own way in the big apple — without the help of his affluent parents.

Not here: The guiding joke in The Kids Are All Right is not that Nic and Jules are a same - sex couple, but that they're so utterly conventional — the kind of healthy - eating, meticulously recycling, solid citizens you might find in any affluent metropolitan enclave.

Jim (Cillian Murphy) and Danielle (Eva Birthistle) enjoy a comfortable, affluent life with their two kids in Dublin 6.

Married affluent doctors Brian (Cage) and Angela (Gina Gershon) can't have kids the old - fashioned way (and not because Gershon is in her mid-fifties, a fact she hides well).

Justin Lin's comedy of manners onsiders a group of affluent Asian - American kids in high school, who get straight As and supplement their incomes by selling term papers and eventually escalating to drugs and murder.

Poor kids in rural and urban communities got drivel, while affluent youngsters were expected to pass Advanced Placement exams.

So, again, you're starting off with this gap when they start school — you've got your affluent kids and your disadvantaged kids, one of whom has far more exposure to literacy, books, learning, all of those things, and the other has far less, and that's reflected in the results completely.

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.

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.

How might we change that and make it likelier for poor kids to take part in high - quality enrichment along with their affluent peers?

So I hire a highly qualified online teacher, and my kids get the same opportunity for a quality education as kids in Eagle, an affluent suburb outside of Boise.»

In a way, he's right, but affluent parents shopping for private schools for their kids might shrug.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&raKids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

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 numeracIn 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 numeracin low - income neighborhoods were happy with basic literacy and numeracy.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

«I had this drive to know that there's millions of kids out there like me who are not served well by the existing system,» says Hay, who over his career worked in a range of environments from affluent communities to a struggling district turnaround school.

Brooks focuses his concern on the parenting style of privileged Americans, coining a brilliant neologism in the process, «pediacracy,» by which he means the determination of affluent parents to give their kids a leg up.

Public schools in affluent communities «backfill,» but when mobility is low and the kids who come in are on grade level, it's simply not a significant issue.

In reality, senior teachers can and do choose better schools and classes, while parents in affluent towns fight to get their kids into classrooms of teachers with good reputationIn reality, senior teachers can and do choose better schools and classes, while parents in affluent towns fight to get their kids into classrooms of teachers with good reputationin affluent towns fight to get their kids into classrooms of teachers with good reputations.

Lower - income African American and Hispanic parents also held a conviction that their kids will need to work in a world with more affluent people.

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.

You have to ace an entrance exam to get in, but affluent parents send their kids to rigorous test prep centers and now few poor black and Latino students can get in.

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.

However, they're usually only ever attached to schools or educational programmes in particularly affluent areas — and are hardly ever spoken about when thinking of kids in extremely rural locations where kids might not even go to school.

Yet other anti-violence advocates and those active in the Black Lives Matter movement say the attention given to Parkland students illustrates that white, more affluent students are more relatable to the mainstream than African - American kids from Chicago.

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.

But I have not seen concerted attention to the schools and teachers serving poor kids to make sure they get the extra resources they need to implement the Common Core as effectively as it will be in affluent districts.

As Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests increased.

But the way affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school: by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most affluent children far exceed those possessed by their low - income peers.

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.

Then you should be intellectually honest and tell them that you are glad that their kid's seat went to some white kid from an affluent family living in West Hartford.