Sentences with phrase «as affluent families»

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Which is why more and more of Canada's most affluent people turn to what are known as family offices.

Family income splitting, costing $ 2 billion this year in lost revenues, will proceed as planned, again primarily benefitting the most affluent while making it much more difficult to balance the budget.

I often tell the story about my family in 1969, moving into Harrington Park, New Jersey, this relatively affluent town, as the first black family.

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.

As a result, low income kids have fewer opportunities to become accustomed to those more challenging foods, while children in more affluent families are offered the multiple exposures almost all kids need to overcome initial picky eating behavior.

Rockefeller, an environmental lawyer and member of the affluent Rockefeller family, doesn't mention the governor's party affiliation in the new ad, but instead refers to him simply as «mainstream.»

Alwitt and Donley also have posited that when more affluent families moved out of many inner cities in the U.S. during the 1970s and 1980s, supermarkets left as well.

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Dr. Neberich also explains why, from an evolutionary perspective, women desire financial compatibilty at the more affluent end of the scale «This desire for security... may be explained by women's natural role as the more dependent person during the phase of starting a family.»

Critic Consensus: Donald Sutherland delivers a powerful turn as the titular Getty in Trust, yet another telling of the affluent family's saga.

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Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

They were friends as girls; now nearing the end of their high school years, they drifted apart, particularly after a grisly incident involving Amanda and one of her family's horses essentially made her a pariah in their affluent Connecticut community.

As Florence — assistant, dog walker and minder to Roger's affluent brother's family — Gerwig is that impossible mix of gorgeous and totally real: she oxygenates an otherwise airless story.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

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.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

Among many affluent families who want their offspring to attend elite colleges, the school / home / culture values are quite well aligned, and as a group these youngsters have high levels of academic achievement.

«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.»

Importantly, low - income families participate at about the same rate as their more affluent peers; the same is true of ELL and non-ELL families and of special education and non-special education families.

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.

Children from more affluent families from state schools were almost four times as likely as young people from low - income families (3.8 times) to go on to join a higher - tariff university in 2016.

First, as noted in the previous section, the distributional characteristics of the benefit are heavily tilted to affluent families who have a significant state tax burden and can save for private school tuition.

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.

Nearly three out of four of the highest - scoring students from the most affluent families completed a college degree as of 2014.

«The question I keep returning to, as firm believer in education equity, is a simple one: Are you comfortable allowing more affluent families to choose their schools while denying poorer families similar opportunities?»

Later, as the program was amended, more affluent families were enticed to poorer schools via the broader educational options offered.

Many of the education policies he would pursue as governor were designed to help close the achievement gap between students from low - income families and those from more affluent circumstances, a goal most voters shared.

As the incomes of affluent and poor families have diverged over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children.

And, as before, to the extent that price is associated with quality and long - term outcomes, the disparity between affluent and poor families in the price being paid for center - based care is of concern.

At the same time, as made clear by previous graphs, more affluent families are spending more on center - based in absolute terms.

If we push ahead as - is, some of these costs will be forced upon — in the short term at least — affluent families.

This isn't just wishful thinking; all around the country, affluent families are choosing to send their children to racially and socio - economically integrated schools, in places like Cambridge and Berkeley, but also in less likely spots such as Alexandria, Virginia; Stapleton, Colorado; and Miraloma Park, California.

By high school, those leaders assert, their students will be learning at a level just as sophisticated as the children of affluent American families who attend schools like St. Mark's.

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.

If anything, children from poor families generally need extra assistance to do as well as students from more affluent families.

But, he added in the same radio interview as Huff, that most of the departing students were from affluent families, «and that is having a negative effect on our culture and economic diversity.»

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students.

But as the neighborhood gentrified, affluent families began flooding the school's lottery.

As the Washington Post wrote in a recent editorial, «The scholarships provide a lifeline to low - income and underserved families, giving them the school choice that more affluent families take as a given.&raquAs the Washington Post wrote in a recent editorial, «The scholarships provide a lifeline to low - income and underserved families, giving them the school choice that more affluent families take as a given.&raquas a given.»

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

«Black and Latino families want world class public schools for our children, just as white and affluent families do.

Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems — attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students.

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

But if DC officials want to keep more affluent families in the District, they'll need to figure out a way to make high - quality school pathways more convenient and predictable for them as well.

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.

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

It is one of the fastest - growing segments of the car market, and one in which it is important for Land Rover to have a presence, not only to grow overall sales but also to introduce younger, less affluent buyers to the brand in the hope that they can be retained and buy more expensive models as their families and salaries grow.