Sentences with phrase «at affluent schools»

They tend to employ teachers who are more inexperienced than the hires at affluent schools, and they often are not adequately trained for the intense environments they will face, making them more likely to leave, said Linda Darling - Hammond, a professor emerita at Stanford who heads the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank.

Unsurprisingly, in time, the positions at these affluent schools become coveted by tired and underappreciated educators.

Not exact matches

He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

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.

The vast majority of students at private schools (especially nonparochial ones) come from relatively affluent, educated families.

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.

But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

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.

I had spent the morning at an elementary school in an affluent neighborhood outside of Syracuse teaching kids in summer school.

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.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

But there's a problem: Once changes at a school are underway, how can they be stopped from turning the building into an affluent, white enclave — especially if the surrounding neighborhood becomes mostly affluent and white?

Buchanan said that Prime Minister Theresa May was «knocking at an open door», as independent schools are already delivering substantial programmes to improve state education and create places for less affluent pupils in their schools.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

That school's going to get better and better, and people from the city, even people in affluent neighborhoods like where I live, are going to look at that and say, «I want a school like that.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

Thus systems that look at growth alone sometimes end up labeling affluent, high - achieving schools as mediocre or worse.

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.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

In contrast, less than 7 percent of the poorest performers in more - affluent schools become principals at other schools.

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.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

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.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

At the outset, companies like K12.com expected to serve mostly affluent home schoolers.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

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.

Certainly dilapidated schools appear worse on the surface, but at the same time they don't exercise the same degree of scrutiny that often exists at a more affluent school.

01, feels this is particularly critical at less affluent schools like the ones she has worked at in Boston, Cambridge, Mass., and Los Angeles as a literacy coach.

Many of the students at the public grade 8 to 12 school in affluent Old Westbury, New York, wrack up honors and Advanced Placement courses, while participating in school clubs and community service.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

If it allows an affluent youth to attend a religious school at a lower price instead of your average suburban public, then yes I would be surprised.»

More - affluent parents can also use their resources to ensure that their children have access to a full range of extracurricular activities at school and in the community.

To ensure that low - income schools are funded at equal levels with their more affluent counterparts, Congress should update the law and close the comparability loophole in the following three ways:

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.

The improved rate at Woodson in a low - income neighborhood in Northeast Washington puts the school above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofschool above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofSchool, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part ofschool, located in an affluent part of town.

In addition, districts can help schools create diverse school - site councils, at least in more affluent communities.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famiSchool in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income famischool year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

In 2013 - 14, for example, the 10 most affluent schools in Portland raised at least $ 750,000, while the 10 highest - poverty schools received very little money in parent donations.

But data suggest it has largely failed at that task, perhaps since affluent parents have had the time and skills to game the system, and tend to cluster in certain schools.

In Montgomery County, for example, the PTAs of the 10 most affluent schools raised at least $ 700,000 in 2014, or an average of $ 170 per student, and the PTAs of Anne Arundel County's 10 most affluent schools raised at least $ 240,000, or an average of $ 100 per student.

At the conclusion of presenting data that exemplify how schools that serve more affluent populations will almost always score higher than schools that serve poorer demographics, Lineburg and his colleagues had this to say:

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.

In high - poverty districts, children often arrive at school needing things that more affluent districts simply don't have to provide — but providing them won't necessarily improve test scores.

Finally, there is Emily, an eighth grader in Silicon Valley, whose problems with math will place her on a lower academic track if she remains at the same high school in her affluent community.

Affluent parents still fight for the few slots at elite private schools, but many day schools outside the New York area face weaker demand.

The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.

Activist parents in an affluent part of Mar Vista reported that along with smelling alcohol on him at school, the teacher was verbally abusive to kids, made students cry and helped them cheat on the state standardized test.