Sentences with phrase «between affluent schools»

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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.

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.

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.

Affluent students who receive a top - notch education may acquire this skill as a matter of course, but this capacity is often lacking among low - income students who attend struggling schools — holding out the hopeful possibility that retrieval practice could actually begin to close achievement gaps between the advantaged and the underprivileged.

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.

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.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

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.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

«We are plenty in technological resources to enhance our education, yet the lack of equity and amount of resources that kids have in America is amazing,» he said, citing the vast difference between technology use in poor and affluent schools.

Most of these families, I suspect, will be relatively affluent and well - educated — either capable of paying the difference between private school tuition and the value of the ESA or able to afford for one parent to stay home with the kids and play teacher.

Meanwhile, the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students is remarkably similar between schools with comparatively affluent student bodies and those with comparatively disadvantaged student bodies.

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

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.

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.

Both counties are criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more affluent families.

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Considerable research shows that the primary reason the achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers widens over the course of their school careers is the long break in learning over the summer.

The plans of both candidates offer a smorgasbord of remedies to close the achievement gap between poor and affluent school districts, including approaches to help schools close the digital divide.

Such an approach is likely to discourage good teachers from working in high - need schools and to widen the gap between poor and affluent students.

Educrats all over the country have begun to persuade federal education officials to grant waivers from NCLB, adopting the position that it is unfair to label schools as failing when the performance gaps between ethnic groups are so wide and when minority children lag so far behind their White, more affluent peers.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

Montgomery County's policy ensures that parent dollars do not exacerbate these inequities, but it does not address deeper staffing disparities that frequently occur between the most affluent and the least affluent schools.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

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.

However, there's plenty of evidence that shopping for schools is complicated by information asymmetries between schools and parents and extensive stratification in access to information between low - income and more affluent parents.

Last year the gap between richer and poorer students reached a record high, with pupils eligible for free school meals — a long term indicator of poverty — said to be less than half as likely to go on to higher education than their most affluent peers.

Students in low - income schools are more likely to be given an «A» for work that would receive a «C» in a more affluent school, according to «Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last Noschools are more likely to be given an «A» for work that would receive a «C» in a more affluent school, according to «Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last NoSchools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last November.

We know there is a positive correlation between property value and school quality, a correlation that penalizes families without the means to live in an affluent area.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

But Mills challenged that assumption, as well, stating that building strong relationships between school administrators and teachers can minimize the disparity in quality teachers between lower - income and more affluent schools.

While there always have been inequalities among the nation's public schools, the gap in spending between public schools in the poorest and most - affluent communities has grown during the past decade.

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.»

The case also spotlighted the financial gulf between working - class, minority districts like Edgewood and predominantly white, affluent ones such as the Alamo Heights Independent School District, just five miles away.

We also recognize the inequality of facilities, supplies and «extras» between what a public school in City Heights can offer when compared to what public schools offer in our more affluent communities.

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.

In fact, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, half of the school achievement gap between economically - disadvantaged young children and their more affluent peers starts before kindergarten.

There have been a set of studies done out of John Hopkins University that track student gains in learning over time, and they find that in general the slope of learning gains for low - income kids and more affluent kids in this country is pretty equivalent between September and June of every school year.

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).

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

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

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.

«There is a big disconnect between perceptions of high school quality and the reality of college preparation, and that stems even to those who come from middle - class and affluent backgrounds.»

Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.

In other words, the consequence of being out of school is to increase the already unacceptably large achievement gap between low - income students and their affluent peers.»

Unfortunately, low - income students are less likely than more affluent peers to be immersed in secondary school environments that encourage open interaction between them and their peers and teachers, both inside and outside of class.

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

A recent study published in the Journal of Primary Prevention confirms that PAT measurably improves school readiness, virtually eliminating the achievement gap normally observed between poor children and their more affluent peers at the point of kindergarten entry, and that gap continued to be narrowed in the third grade.

When children enter kindergarten, half of the achievement gap between low - income students and their more affluent peers that exists in high school is already present.22 The federal government can address the developmental needs of young children through child care reform by implementing policies that improve quality starting at birth and continuing up to age 13.