Sentences with phrase «between affluent»

Capital and mortgage financing rules being drafted in Washington and elsewhere raise the possibility that the United States will become increasingly split between affluent home owners and less affluent renters, because lenders will be constrained to stay within tight mortgage underwriting rules that many households won't be able to penetrate.

This, in fact, highlights a significant difference between the affluent and the majority of regular investors: the rich have no problem spending a bit of money in order to grow or preserve wealth because they take a long - term perspective on estate management.

This school resides at the border between the affluent southwestern census tracts and the less affluent central census tracts.

Although the observations that follow are based mainly on UK experience, similar trends appear to be emerging across global education systems: increased public accountability in tandem with greater autonomy for schools; an urgent imperative to close the opportunity gap between affluent and poorer communities; national, public or state authority over schools being replaced by stakeholder communities or not - for - profit mission - driven organisations impatient with endemic failures of the status quo.

Supporters of the bill said that the 1993 formula is outdated and failed to consider the costs of skyrocketing health care and special education, and understated the funding to provide the resources necessary to close achievement gaps between affluent and poor students.

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.

Digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged families and schools.

80 % of AP teachers agree that today's digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts.

The results were so controversial they were never made public, because they revealed the true scale of the variation in mean intake cognitive ability between affluent and socially deprived postcodes.

More than 80 % of AP teachers agree that today's digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts (Pew Research Center 2013).

Nor has it done anything to close the achievement gap that exists between affluent and high - poverty children.

That said, the vast majority of the district's oldest schools are located south of Interstate 8 — a line that's often used as shorthand for the division between affluent and poor San Diego neighborhoods.

Only 54 percent of middle school and high school teachers surveyed thought their students «have sufficient access to digital tools at school,» according to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey, and 84 percent said that «today's digital technologies are leading to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts.»

«Our gaps between affluent and high - poverty students are not closing and we are not catching our kids who are behind up at nearly the rate we need to.»

Beyond dollars and cents, promoting partnerships between affluent and higher - poverty schools would improve offerings on both campuses.71 Several school systems already take a similar approach — focused on performance rather than demographics — that could be transferred to high - and low - resource schools.

Still, if students start showing academic gains, California's experiment could provide a blueprint as other states struggle to close their own gaps between affluent and disadvantaged students.

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.

Some 84 percent of teachers worry that technology is contributing to greater disparities between affluent and disadvantaged schools and school districts, according to the Pew Research Center.

On most questions of public policy, differences between the affluent and the public at large are on the margins.

High stakes testing policies requiring students to pass standardized tests for promotion and graduation deepen educational inequity between whites and minorities and widen the educational gap between affluent and impoverished students, according to two studies of education reform in Texas.

The difference between affluent and poor students is around three years of schooling, it equates to about three years of schooling in each maths, science and reading literacy — that is really, very concerning.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

Differences in attitudes and experiences between affluent and poorer areas were also highlighted by the findings.

Segregation between affluent and deprived communities in Britain's cities is reaching «apartheid» levels, a new report has claimed.

The disparities between affluent and poor children persisted even though all were treated at the same major hospitals, the researchers said.

Doing so, it seems to me, would result in terrible disparities between affluent and poor schools, or schools where the administration / school board choses to make nutrition a priority and those where it takes a back seat.

Assessing such evidence, Heckman says policymakers intent on closing the achievement gap between affluent and poor children must go beyond classroom interventions and supplement the parenting resources of disadvantaged Americans.

The disparity in college - attainment rates between affluent and low - income students has also risen sharply.

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

The gap in wealth between the affluent and the poor in each country has greatly increased.

Not exact matches

As the world's largest sourcing and logistics company, Li & Fung plays matchmaker between poor countries» factories and affluent countries» vendors, finding the lowest - cost workers, haggling over prices and handling the logistics for roughly a third of the retailers found in the typical American shopping mall, including Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's.

That point serves as the upper bound threshold between the mass affluent and the rich, imo.

In his November 2011 paper entitled «Financial Overconfidence Over Time Foresight, Hindsight, and Insight of Investors», Christoph Merkle examines relationships between the return / risk expectations of affluent, self - directed private investors and their trading activity, diversification and risk taking.

Knight Frank data reveals that Regent Park house prices are up 9 % between 2014 and 2016 and that over last two years over 75 % of buyers in the local area were aged 40 - 59 with one in ten buyers being affluent purchasers aged under 30.

Residents of Baltimore's less affluent communities have been complaining for years about tax incentives for waterfront development and crumbs for neighborhoods struggling to survive, and no amount of explanation about the difference between tax increment financing and direct city subsidies can...

-- Critics say this trend is deepening the chasm between America's rich and poor because affluent families own the vast majority of the stocks.

How would Jesus speak to affluent young parents, caught between yuppidom and genuine concern for their children's future, and asking how to be «good»?

How was this heard by this affluent congregation in a world where the gap between rich and poor seemed to be increasing rather than diminishing?

In the affluent America that developed between 1952 with its Eisenhower - era religious revival and about 1974 with the beginnings of new - style recession, there was an almost unbelievable increase in weekend leisure, much of it at the expense of Sabbath rest.

In 2010 children in more deprived areas engaged in more physical activity out of school than those in more affluent areas, but between 2006 and 2010 there was an overall reduction in physical activity out of school.

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.

For Levine's latest book is, in fact, a cri de coeur from a clinician on the front lines of the battle between our better natures — parents» deep and true love and concern for their kids — and our culture's worst competitive and materialistic influences, all of which she sees played out, day after day, in her private psychology practice in affluent Marin County, Calif..

I realize, of course, that there have always been sharp disparities between schools in affluent areas and poor areas — reflected in the quality of teachers, the availability of materials, the curricula, facilities and more.

Yet Obama fared better among the most affluent voters — 52 percent of those making more than $ 200,000 voted for him — than he did among those making between $ 50,000 and $ 200,000.

«There is no moral equivalency between the minimum wage, which effects hundreds of thousands of low paid workers in this state, and raising the wages of very affluent people,» Smith said.

So is the achievement gap between students who come from poor backgrounds and their more affluent peers.

A similar gap persisted between poor students and their more affluent peers in Erie County, with a difference of 33 and 35 points in English and math, respectively.

A clear correlation between social grade and pay was revealed: those in the most affluent group, AB, suggest MPs should get # 58,000, C1s suggest # 55,000, C2s # 46,000 and DEs # 45,000.

The capital of Britain and a diverse three way battleground, in the South West are affluent battlegrounds between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, inner London has both exclusive Tory bastions and safe Labour strongholds, the northern and south - eastern suburbs are packed with Labour vs Conservative marginals.

Politics: A reliable Labour seat - the working class areas are strongly Labour and the more affluent areas are just as much the trendy intelligentsia as suburban conservatives, splitting the non-Labour vote here between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.