Sentences with phrase «affluent schools often»

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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.

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

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.

Finally, we find that a majority of teachers often takes positions contrary to those of a plurality of both the public and the affluent on key issues such as teachers unions, the rights and prerogatives of teachers, and school vouchers.

Single - sex schools are primarily private and most often a choice made by more affluent and better - educated parents.

But less affluent families» choices are too often limited to the schools in the high - poverty neighborhoods where they can afford to live.

Children who live in poverty often come to school behind their more affluent peers in terms of literacy and language development.

Certainly dilapidated schools appear worse on the surface, but at the same time they don't exercise the same degree of scrutiny that often exists at a more affluent school.

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

For many children living in deprived areas — who are more than twice as likely to be obese than those in more affluent areas — school and community playgrounds are often their only chance to play outdoors.

Doing so can help address a common concern, which is that middle - class and affluent communities often feel like school reform isn't about them and their kids.

Most often, more affluent students are zoned to schools filled with the affluent peers in their neighborhood, and lower - income students are zoned to schools with students of similar backgrounds.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

Disadvantaged students generally grow up in less verbal home environments, often with less access to enrichment activities.16 They enter formal schooling academically behind their more affluent peers.

Thousands of families in Chicago Public Schools, affluent suburban districts and downstate allowed their children to forgo the exams, often citing the length of the tests and concerns about the amount of testing in sSchools, affluent suburban districts and downstate allowed their children to forgo the exams, often citing the length of the tests and concerns about the amount of testing in schoolsschools.

In high - poverty districts, children often arrive at school needing things that more affluent districts simply don't have to provide — but providing them won't necessarily improve test scores.

They tend to employ teachers who are more inexperienced than the hires at affluent schools, and they often are not adequately trained for the intense environments they will face, making them more likely to leave, said Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor emerita at Stanford who heads the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

The result: «these invisible walls often concentrate education dollars within affluent school districts, and ensure that low - income students are kept on the outside.»

The state's Private School Tuition Tax Credits program covers the cost of private education, often for children whose parents could afford to pay it themselves — while allowing affluent families to reduce the amount of income tax they pay into the state's general fund.

That said, the vast majority of the district's oldest schools are located south of Interstate 8 — a line that's often used as shorthand for the division between affluent and poor San Diego neighborhoods.

Our current system of school districting often punishes economically disadvantaged families because, if they can not afford to move to a more affluent neighborhood, their children can be stuck in underperforming or failing schools.

Often the affluent urban citizens don't send their children to public schools, leaving schools less diverse and less supported.

In a speech, Sir Michael Wilshaw said such pupils were often an «invisible minority» in schools rated good or outstanding in quite affluent areas.

Substantial personal and business assets are often involved with extensive categories of expenses that may include luxury primary residence, second and third homes, businesses with their own assets, investment portfolios, pension plans, private schools, nannies and an affluent lifestyle that must be properly addressed.

Low - income children too often begin school without the basic behavioral, emotional, and cognitive skills that they need to thrive academically — putting them at an immediate disadvantage and contributing to the large gap that develops in school achievement between low - income children and their more affluent peers.