Sentences with phrase «as wealthier peers»

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

A new nationwide survey on the state of arts education in U.S. public schools finds that arts offerings haven't declined as much as expected, but that students in high - poverty schools, particularly at the secondary level, do not receive the same rich exposure to arts opportunities as their wealthier peers.

As secondary school choices are allocated, new analysis of Ofsted data by Teach First reveals that poorer children are half as likely as their wealthier peers to be heading to a secondary school rated «outstanding».

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

Give students from poverty access to the same high - level curricular and pedagogical opportunities and high expectations as their wealthy peers.

Not exact matches

In June, a notice from the Ontario Securities Commission cautioned peer - to - peer lenders that a loan arrangement entered into on their websites «may» constitute a security under provincial regulations, which reinforced the view of players such as Grouplend and Borrowell that they should be sticking with wealthy «prospectus exempt» investors to be on the safe side.

In private the Lib Dems are very gloomy about their prospects of winning a referendum - they think wealthy peers would fund an effective no campaign - and Clegg seems to be conceding that as long as he secures the election of 120 peers in 2015, he could accept a referendum that might stop any further peers being elected.

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

So, a Latino peer from a wealthy Mexican family or the African American daughter of a physician who grew up in a predominantly white suburb are not seen as contributing to the diverse learning environment.

Across the board, student groups in poorer districts are less resourced than peers in wealthier districts and will receive more new funding as a result.

Standardized test results from 2015 and 2016 show disadvantaged students aren't progressing as quickly as wealthier, English - fluent peers.

As a result, poor students closed academic gaps with wealthy peers by 10 percent in early math and 16 percent in early reading.

The chances that a poorer child will go to a school rated as Outstanding compared to their wealthier peers.

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

In the third of a five - part series, John Dickens looks at who exactly is benefiting as schools receive more than # 6bn of pupil premium funding and questions if is really closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers