Sentences with phrase «affluent parents»

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

How did this small group of affluent parents come to have so much information and buy - in so quickly?

They generally do a good job of describing the study but they express doubts about our findings because they believe that parents, especially affluent parents, have considerable influence over special education placements.

Research shows that white or affluent parents often avoid schools that have high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Programs like this help alleviate some of the discomfort less affluent parents feel when their children first enter B - CC.

Many school districts with affluent parents and a history of good test scores pay lip service to the Common Core and continue with their own curricula.

Many educators fear losing support from affluent parents, who have the option to quit the public schools altogether and enroll their children in private schools — or flee to suburban schools.

Policies that often lead to more affluent parents moving to and flooding certain parts of the city.

How are affluent parents preventing their children from developing grit?

This is in contrast to the usual ranking of schools by test score averages, which is more of an indication of how affluent the parents are than of how good the school is.

I knew I was doing a good job when the more affluent parents started asking to have their children in my class.

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.

Not a big step for many affluent parents with more power to stir change in their communities — or to sustain success.

But one thing is certain: If you are the bright son or daughter of affluent parents, chronic classroom disruption is largely foreign to your school experience.

They're going after the more affluent parents and children with big allowances.

What is the power of affluent parents who continue to see charters as a threat to the traditional public schools they have nurtured?

District leaders should promote awareness of the discrepancies in funding and resources prior to the rollout of the policy and carefully select key messengers who are well - respected by affluent parent groups.

Of course, if the governor had not peevishly insisted in the first place on holding teachers» feet to the fire on test scores while simultaneously making watershed changes in their practice, New York would likely never have experienced the immune response we have seen — particularly among affluent parents in the state's politically powerful suburbs.

As proven by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.

Over time, it became clear that this kind of rating method punishes schools that serve disadvantaged communities; indeed, in California, the single score was so highly correlated with student demographics that it was sometimes referred to as the «Affluent Parent Index.»

And who is this Cambridge Education, who has a penchant for making cookie - cutter recommendations just when more affluent parents want to take over a school?

Louisiana Federation for Children president Ann Duplessis discusses how the Louisiana Scholarship Program empowers low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

Corcoran isn't the only affluent parent trying not to raise kids who act entitled.

Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

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.

NYC school officials call it «academic diversity,» but a well - meaning plan to equalize access to good schools has sparked an ugly racial debate that pits white, affluent parents against poor blacks and Latinos.

It's every casually affluent parent's nightmare — no, not seeing their children devoured by monsters (that fear and / or nightmare belongs to this weekend's other new release, A Quiet Place)-- helplessly witnessing the passage from childhood to young adulthood symbolized by their children's exploration of their respective sexuality.

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

Affluent parents busy juggling work and family are increasingly turning to Uber and other app - based car services to transport their kids to and from school and afterschool activities.

From my own personal experience (Fordham is working on collecting more rigorous, non-anecdotal data — stay tuned for that), affluent parents break down into at least three groups:

This how - to article accompanies the feature «Affluent Parents Return to Inner - City Schools for Educational Opportunities.»

In order to replicate the benefits affluent parents afford their children, our schools must be able to provide the enriched environments that develop well - rounded students.

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

But data suggest it has largely failed at that task, perhaps since affluent parents have had the time and skills to game the system, and tend to cluster in certain schools.

Reardon's research revealed that the achievement gap between high - income and low - income students has widened in the past three decades largely because income inequality has increased, affluent students arrive to kindergarten better prepared than poor students, and affluent parents spend more on enrichment and tutoring.

Beginning Tuesday (Jan. 10), students from across Louisiana can apply to participate in the program, which empowers low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents -LSB-...]

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.

Most affluent parents in America — and many more who aren't — now put their kids in private schools from day one, and the smart ones give their kids no TV and minimal junk food and no video games.

-- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids - by Madeline Levine, PhD «This should be required reading for all young affluent parents.»

Much of the growth in the U.S. and Canada is the result of international buyers who want to take advantage of favorable exchange rates, are relocating for work, are using real estate as an investment, or who may be affluent parents purchasing a home or condo for their children who attend North American universities.

«For affluent parents who are concerned about the test scores, they have an exit strategy — their exit strategy is to hire a private tutor,» Ms. Moskowitz said.

For example, Washington, D.C., and New York City currently contend with substantial abuse of special education by affluent parents.