Sentences with phrase «affluent schools with»

He acknowledged that the board is frustrated that few schools have applied and that the more affluent schools with heavy parent involvement have raced to ask for independence.

«We started coveting the underdog role because we knew we weren't a private or affluent school with unlimited resources,» Fulwiler said.

Not exact matches

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

«How to Succeed takes readers on a high - speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths.»

Ryan says many of the young men he works with are already marginalised, from ethnicminority groups or less affluent backgrounds; some may have come from families with a history of abuse or mental health issues, or have been in trouble at school.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

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.

For example, what if districts with lower property values received more federal reimbursement dollars for school meals than districts with higher property values, with the affluent districts making up the difference via a higher lunch price for paying students?

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.

I realize it's not popular to «give» money to school nutrition programs which are in affluent systems, but those systems are struggling for funding more than systems with high free and reduced price.

Now I'm not endorsing that both get power careers and leave the child completely unattended, but I have contact with plenty of stay home moms as my child attends a very affluent private school and many of those stay at home moms don't do squat after the kids are dropped off other than yoga.

There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the student body by dint of having students from affluent, well educated, stable families will perform very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.

Since a significant share of school funding is local, and communities with lots of students from affluent backgrounds tend to be affluent communities that pay more in taxes, «good schools» also tend to be better funded.

However, an analysis of the 32 free schools set to open in the next academic year shows 13 are in the most affluent half of England with only two in the 10 % most deprived areas and 10 in the 20 % most deprived areas, as ranked by the government's English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, 2010.

I was lucky enough to be raised in an affluent suburb, St. Charles, but as with most wealthy communities, not too far away, there are school districts that are severely underfunded.

The man known as Andre 3000 in his music career also discussed his own experience of being an African - American family engaged with an affluent private school.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

Affluent schools may be able to get away with a more relaxed approach.

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.

Then, of course, there is the most common tactic for sorting out the hardest to teach: the iron reality of the real estate market, which prohibits low - income families, statistically the lowest achieving, from any hope of moving to affluent neighborhoods with «high performing» public schools.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

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.

Voucher supporters, charter advocates, standards nuts, teacher - effectiveness fanatics — we all fundamentally believe that fantastic schools staffed by dedicated educators can help poor kids climb out of poverty and compete with their affluent peers.

There are an endless number of interesting stories that could be told with this information, but the one that really stood out to us is that achievement in many of our affluent suburban public school districts barely keeps pace with that of the average student in a developed country.

But it can be hard for schools with high academic achievement (typically those with affluent populations) to show much progress over time.

She has told him about the guilt she deals with because she left a high - poverty school for a more affluent one.

As Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution argues, affluent high - achievers who come into school with so many advantages typically enjoy opportunities that prepare them well for college: gifted - and - talented programs, accelerated courses, and classes with high - achieving peers.

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.

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.

One in 4 middle schools in the Duke study were among those with the highest absence rates, but that dropped to 1 in 12 among middle schools serving the district's most affluent students.

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 views about teachers unions held by the affluent are more negative, with no less than 56 percent saying unions have a negative impact on their schools.

Although set in an affluent area of Preston, a high proportion of Corpus Christi Catholic Sports College students come from the most deprived local areas, with 33 per cent on free school meals.

Still, it is the case the affluent are more skeptical of online learning and more satisfied with their local schools than is the general public.

The affluent are by far the toughest graders, with only 15 percent of them giving the nation's schools the highest marks.

He sees hope that a revolution will occur, as Jonathan Kozol predicted in a visit to Central, after the affluent white oppressors in privileged schools are enlightened by their encounters with the rapping Kansas City debate team.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

Meanwhile, the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students is remarkably similar between schools with comparatively affluent student bodies and those with comparatively disadvantaged student bodies.

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 numeracy.

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

It finds, for instance, that attending a charter school from kindergarten to 8th grade can close the achievement gap with a similar student in the affluent suburb of Scarsdale, N.Y., by 86 percent in mathematics and 66...

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

Other analyses showed KIPP schools, and other high - poverty charter schools, narrowing the reading proficiency gap compared with schools in more affluent areas.

The findings suggester poor children who attended after - school clubs developed better social, emotional and behaviour skills, with children from disadvantaged homes participating in the activities equally as much as those from affluent ones.

Though they all wrestle with personal problems — for example, the affluent student suffers from depression brought on by the death of his father, who suffered from a drug addiction — their experiences within school vary in predictable ways.

Where a school with minimal resources may use cameras with fisheye lenses, a more affluent school will have state - of - the - art color cameras with superior optics.

Schools with more affluent student bodies tend to produce high test scores.

«But many of our affluent suburban school districts are barely keeping pace with the average student in our international comparison group.»