The phrase
"affluent students" refers to students who come from wealthy or prosperous families. These students have more financial resources and opportunities compared to those from lower-income backgrounds.
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Indeed, the
most affluent students are still six times more likely to complete college than low - income students.
I struggle when I hear critics suggest that this type of integrated, project - based approach is great
for affluent students, but doesn't work well with low - income students.
Schools that serve both poor and
affluent students tend to have an enormous range in student achievement levels, which makes it hard for teachers to instruct all students together.
Those
less affluent students — and minority groups underrepresented in the scientific workforce — increasingly are served by local, 2 - year community colleges.
However, during the same time, the percentage of the state's more
affluent students reading proficient or above grew from 76 to 80 percent.
The ones who remain in the profession often move to schools that serve more
affluent students whose needs are less overwhelming.
But for students that live on education loans, it will be like building castle in the air if they try to live big like their
counterpart affluent students.
The choice options offered by public school districts, particularly magnets, are primarily used as tools to entice
more affluent students to attend lower performing schools.
There «s a lot of talk in Connecticut about closing the achievement gap between
affluent students who are predominately white and poor students who are predominately black or brown, but there have been no effective actions taken and none are on the horizon.
If parents are constantly pressuring a school to stay on its toes and strive for excellence, is it such a surprise when
affluent students do well?
«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.»
Heckman's thinking informs the book, which includes many examples of failing disadvantaged students who turned things around by acquiring character skills that substituted for the social safety net enjoyed
by affluent students.
Christopher Jencks and Susan Mayer, in their 1990 review, describe as inconclusive the evidence on whether
affluent students suffer academically from infusions of poor or minority students.
You are far less likely to find
affluent students in failing schools - yet, quite often, anti-choice clamor is coming from privileged and affluent groups.
Many other measures evaluate the performance, or growth, of all students in a school, and thus a school can still be highly rated if
affluent students perform well, even if low - income students do not perform well at that same school.
On the PARCC test, for example, School Without Walls — a selective DCPS school with a
relatively affluent student body — saw 97 % of its students reach the «college and career ready» bar in English and 76 % in math.
The report never questioned whether postal codes were drawn mostly from university campuses and student neighbourhoods where even
very affluent students bunk down for a while.
«(Chile) seems to be mainly a story
of affluent students and affluent families leaving the public sector,» he said.
The practice also compounds the advantages enjoyed by more
affluent students such as Mayor Bill de Blasio's children, Chiara and Dante, who interned under their dad during his first summer in City Hall.
If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more -
affluent student population.
Higher education is becoming more stratified:
Many affluent students do very well in college, while most middle - and low - income students struggle to attend at all or, if they go, to complete a degree.
On the less anecdotal side, here in DC the first year of our IMPACT system that is born out of this ideology found that teachers with more
affluent students saw more growth in their students test scores.
While growing research shows that
affluent students benefit from income diversity, most Americans are not aware of these shared benefits.
It means that teachers who seek a bonus, or fear getting fired, must plot to get the more
affluent students because, as history shows, these are students with winning records.»
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.
The project of income integration assumes that attending school with mostly poor classmates depresses achievement, and that being surrounded by more
affluent students enhances it.
Lacking such options, and faced with the choice between classrooms filled with mostly white and relatively
affluent students versus those enrolling mostly black and Latino lower - income students, the parents we interviewed opted for the former, all the while lamenting the distinctions between the choices.
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.
Third Semester: A Point of Privilege Real Clear Education, 3/25/16 «There is now an ample body of research that documents statistically significant gains in learning
for affluent students with access to quality learning experiences and, by contrast, shows learning declines in those who, by the accident of birth, have no such access,» writes Professor Paul Reville.
«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.»
American Indian Public Charter ranks fifth among all middle schools in California, with the top four serving more
affluent student bodies.
Black students benefit from race - matched teachers regardless of whether they qualify for subsidized school meals, though the advantage is somewhat larger for
less affluent students.
To close the achievement gap between poor and
affluent students in Tennessee, some students may need to learn at double the rate of their high - performing peers, according to Tennessee Department...
«While more
affluent students do better in school than children from lower income backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap.»
On the institutional side, they note that schools dominated
by affluent students have more elaborate and better - kept facilities, better - educated and effective teachers, less teacher turnover, more capable principals, and a richer variety of academically demanding courses and extracurricular offerings.
A new report out this week says that while North Carolina and other Southern states made major advances in education in recent decades, achievement gaps between
more affluent students and historically disadvantaged classmates have widened.
It didn't help matters when Ogden's parents, both of whom have graduate degrees, decided to send him to St. Alban's, an exclusive private school in Washington with a predominantly white,
affluent student body.
In his first book, about the antipoverty work of the Harlem Children's Zone, Tough stressed the importance of early cognitive development in bridging the achievement gap between poor and more
affluent students.
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