Sentences with phrase «affluent parents -lsb-»

-- 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.»

But this reminded me of something I read recently, a complaint that «affluent parents have become role models for luxury and licentiousness, and have moved far away from caring about whether their children develop habits of discipline and self - restraint.

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

For example, ESAs raise serious equity concerns: affluent parents could, if the policy allows, supplement their vouchers to purchase high quality educational services inaccessible to low - income families.

Given that schools in choice systems focus marketing efforts on affluent parents because of the social capital that they can offer (Cucchiara, 2008), we're led to the question: Are schools aware of how these parents think about theme?

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.

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.

Studies have shown that even highly functional low - income parents speak far less to their children, on average, than affluent parents.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides 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.»

When Phoenix - based Great Hearts Academies pitched a charter school in West Nashville after a push by affluent parents, it sparked a raging debate last summer.

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.

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.

«The affluent parents can work that system very, very well.

«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.

To attempt to level the playing field, we should at least be equipping schools to provide supports to needy children that affluent parents provide their children.

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.

Affluent parents still fight for the few slots at elite private schools, but many day schools outside the New York area face weaker demand.

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

Common Core supporters haven't considered the possibility that their political strategy is flawed because they are trying to impose a top - down reform on a hostile and well - organized opposition of teachers and affluent parents.

However, there's plenty of evidence that shopping for schools is complicated by information asymmetries between schools and parents and extensive stratification in access to information between low - income and more affluent parents.

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.

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

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?

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.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

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.

We learned through our in - depth interviews that many white, affluent parents want to enroll their children in racially diverse public schools, but they struggle to find schools in New York City that are racially diverse.

Even if districts successfully implement policies to redistribute parent dollars and reduce funding inequities, they might still risk broader disengagement by affluent parents.

Our research suggests that districts can establish and grow equity funds based on parent donations without seeing a significant reduction in affluent parents» contributions.

In short, racially diverse, vibrant public school options in which teachers think of student diversity as an asset to explore and build upon in the classroom would keep more affluent parents and their resources in public schools.

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.

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.

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.

Proposals are being put forth for small, niche - oriented charters that appeal to affluent parents.

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

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

Upper - middle - class parents have the means to spend two to three times more time with their preschool children than less affluent parents.

More - affluent parents can also use their resources to ensure that their children have access to a full range of extracurricular activities at school and in the community.

And what makes it easier for affluent parents to do these things isn't mostly money (more on that below) but numbers one and two above: getting married, and staying married.

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.

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

Affluent parents regularly augment their schools» budgets with contributions for extra programs.

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:

On what basis do these D.C. education analysts believe that a significant number of parents, especially affluent parents, are gaming the special education diagnostic system to get access to advantageous accommodations or expensive private placements?

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.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

It's time to give less - affluent parents the same opportunity.

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.

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

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.