Sentences with phrase «affluent students tend»

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.

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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.

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.

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

It's unclear whether higher - scoring teachers lead to higher - scoring students or whether affluent districts, which tend to have higher - achieving students, also tend to hire teachers with higher scores.

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

We might not be surprised to find a student newsroom in affluent or resource - rich school districts, where journalism programs tend to be popular.

Students in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent commStudents in schools serving predominantly low - income families tend to endure teacher absence at a higher rate than students in more affluent commstudents in more affluent communities.

Robert Crosnoe and others have noted that, because students are evaluated relative to their peers in the same school, poor students transferred to more affluent institutions tend to experience a «frog pond effect,» losing out to more capable and sophisticated students in the competition for grades and social standing, and reporting a decline in self - perception and emotional well - being.

The impact can be especially consequential for economically disadvantaged students, who tend to enter school trailing behind their more affluent peers academically, continue to lag as they proceed through each grade, and have fewer opportunities outside of school for learning.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

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 benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

Since poverty and race are closely tied in the United States, African - American and Latino students are at a significant disadvantage to the White students who tend to live in more affluent communities.

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

Ms. Hoxby's study found that the charter - school students, who tend to come from poor and disadvantaged families, scored almost as well as students in the affluent Scarsdale school district in the suburbs north of the city.

In particular, low - income students and students of color tend to benefit more from using a school voucher than their more affluent, white peers.