Sentences with phrase «affluent parents in»

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 a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

Not exact matches

Jones, 38, grew up in an affluent white suburb of Austin, but her parents grew up in rural Mississippi.

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.

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

Yet before it degenerates, it is a cultural regime that serves to keep birthrates high among the affluent, while also maximizing parents» investments in their children.

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.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

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..

The study, analyzing data on almost 5,000 students in 8th - grade in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, found that higher risks of substance abuse occurred in two - parent as well as single - parent households and in affluent as well as poor homes.

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.

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

TRUTH: Infant adoption is an industry in which young unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded - through force, coercion or outright lies - to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples (and sometimes also single people), and usually strangers.

Adoption exists for several reasons: to keep down the number of welfare recipients (i.e. single parents on welfare), for the North American adoption industry to profit (to the tune of $ 1.4 billion in 1999 alone) from the spending - power of the affluent, and (formerly) as a way of punishing young unwed mothers for their «loose and immoral» behaviour.

And the fact that his child is in an affluent private school, in which the administration has already allowed him to express his concerns with other parents, signals to me that he's likely to make great strides.

This thread makes me think of nearly every parent I've encountered working as an educator in an affluent area.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

Her parents, who lived in an affluent neighborhood of Long Island's Suffolk County, found her in the shower when they heard the water running too long.

«If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.»

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.

Their findings show that close contacts among parents primarily benefit students in affluent communities.

Affluent parents would send their children to prep school in hopes to increase their chance of getting into a prestigious university.

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.

Some of these parents were able to do this because they were affluent, for instance, or because they were teachers themselves and worked in the school.

The push for bilingualism often comes from English - speaking parents who live in affluent suburban communities and want their children to learn a second language, according to Education Trust - West.

Unfortunately, student achievement in many affluent suburban districts is worse than parents may think, especially when compared with student achievement in other developed countries.

For virtually all of these items, we've got evidence that affluent parents are much more likely to engage in these behaviors than poor parents.

This was especially true for low - income children; in fact, their scores were similar to those of affluent children, even after taking into account a variety of family factors, including parents» education and intelligence.

«Parents who live in affluent suburban communities want their children to learn a second language,» says Hahnel at Education Trust - West.

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.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

District 4 parents have even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

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

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

The findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of approximately 550 adults (age 18 years and older) and representative oversamples of roughly 350 members of the following subgroups: the affluent (as defined below), public school teachers, parents of school - aged children, residents of zip codes in which a charter school was located during the 2009 — 10 school year, African Americans, and Hispanics.

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.

«Surely this question was settled eight years ago in a decision that was the seventh consecutive defeat for the disgustingly determined people who are implacably opposed to any policies that enable parents who are not affluent to exercise the right of school choice that is routinely exercised by more fortunate Americans,» writes George Will.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

The majority of these schools are in more affluent districts, where parents have college degrees and encourage their sons and their daughters to do well academically, or in less advantaged communities where the community itself has rallied behind educational goals.

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.

This customer subsample of parents is, not surprisingly, more educated and affluent than parents who are identically selected except that the costs of their child's attendance are covered in whole or in part by entities outside the family.

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.

When school district budgets are cut, parents in more affluent neighborhoods essentially tax themselves to provide librarians, after - school programs, field trips and other needs.

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

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

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.

In these various consultations, there is a group of parents and community members — white and relatively affluent — deemed very influential by district staff members.

In an obvious slap at Campbell Brown, New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee nonsensically claimed that, «If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.&raquIn an obvious slap at Campbell Brown, New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee nonsensically claimed that, «If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.&raquin guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.&raquin fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.»