Sentences with phrase «between high poverty»

I think one trend that isn't listed here, and is important, is the ever widening gap between high poverty and low poverty students at the 12th grade level.

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Because many businesses benefit from higher consumer spending, the economy index includes state poverty rates and the individual earnings gap between men and women, both from the 2015 ACS.

Links between poverty and HIV / AIDS are obviously very complex: Many wealthy people succumb, and, most tragically, intelligent people like teachers have higher incidence levels.

«Not just in one country but in numerous Muslim countries, I have been able to walk in, head held high, no covert cover story and not only identify passively as a Christian but identify openly, work openly and hold serious talks about faith between Muslims and Christians, and not just at the grassroots level of poverty — people who needed my help — but also with the powerful and influential people who could have, in that moment, had me arrested and had me taken out back.»

With a high number of students living below the poverty level, Ferrua had been giving a lot of thought to the connection between nutrition and education outlined in Jensen's writings.

«As parents, we want to shield our children from the pains of growing up and facing difficult situations, but long term we must honor our kids» desire for some struggle,» Tough said, adding that the struggles between those with high incomes and high poverty are different and require distinct supports.

We find that public pensions are vital to ensuring a decent standard of living for black retirees: the poverty rate among black retirees without public pensions is nearly 20 percent higher than the poverty rate among black retirees with public pensions — almost double the difference in poverty rates between all retirees with and without public pensions.

The Nigerian style of personality is deeply drawn to high value for education yet it is oiled with enduring mindset for corruption and crushing income inequality.The Nigerian style of personality appears formed within, between and around religious violence, dire health concerns, devastating poverty, ailing institutions, and death - designed roads; yet this style of personality appears happy both in mood and spirit.

The figures reveal the high levels of poverty in London, and the wide disparities between local areas.

(Near - poor is between the poverty line and double that income level; moderate income is between 200 and 400 percent of the poverty line; higher income is above that level.)

There are still high levels of poverty and unemployment and there are also big differences in the distribution of wealth between the north and the south.

New York, NY — StudentsFirstNY today issued a brief analysis comparing the difference in teacher effectiveness between New York City's high poverty and low poverty districts following the State Education Department's recent release of teacher evaluation data.

The number of high - poverty census tracts in Syracuse more than doubled to 30, from 12, between 2000 and 2013.

«The country remains impoverished by many indications... In the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.»

«We found that higher rates of poverty and lower levels of education helped explain breastfeeding gaps between black and white women, especially in determining whether mothers started breastfeeding in the first place,» said Sharon Landesman Ramey, a professor and distinguished research scholar at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and an author of the paper.

In contrast, Rank said, the risk of poverty for an individual between the ages of 25 - 29, who is nonwhite, not married, and with an education of high school or less, is «a whopping 72 percent.»

The young teenager is forced to choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that could take his mother and him out of poverty.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Between 1991 and 2007, the Washington, D.C. - based Center for American Progress found that more than 300 initiatives across 30 states had expanded learning time, primarily in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

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.

Because test scores are not necessarily the best measure of learning or of likely economic success, we examine instead the relationships between SFR - induced spending increases and several long - term outcomes: educational attainment, high school completion, adult wages, adult family income, and the incidence of adult poverty.

Between fall and winter of 2010 and 2011, we identified and gained approval to study six high - poverty schools in Boston.

These differences are even more pronounced in high - poverty schools, for which the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile principal is more than one - third of a standard deviation.

In particular, the poverty rate of a state didn't seem to matter; some poor states have high ID rates, other have low ones, and others are in between.

Almost half of the teachers in Ohio's charter schools quit their schools in the four - year period between 2000 and 2004, in comparison with about 8 percent in conventional public schools and 12 percent in high - poverty, urban public schools, suggesting that new organizations are not a magic formula for school stability.

Probably the most convincing argument for the fundamental difference between start - ups and turnarounds comes from those actually running high - performing high - poverty urban schools (see sidebar).

the achievement gap between high - and low - poverty high schools has widened. . .

You can draw a straight line... between unfair funding, serious resource deficiencies, particularly in high - poverty schools and districts across the country and low outcomes,» said David Sciarra, executive director at Education Law Center.

Successful high - poverty schools provide protective factors that help build a bond between students and school.

Only the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Ohio EdChoice scholarships require parents to meet the difference between the voucher amount and tuition, and that only applies to families with incomes more than 200 % higher than the federal poverty line.

In Pennsylvania, home to a wide digital - training divide between its high - and low - poverty schools, the numbers tell part of the story.

There is a clear correlation between reading proficiency and poverty when it comes to high school graduation rates.

Similar disparities existed between students in high - and low - poverty schools.

From a concentration of poverty perspective, the highest per - pupil school allocation is for schools with between 70 percent and 80 percent of students qualifying for free or reduced - price lunch, not the highest levels of poverty.

«It's shocking how different it is between lower - poverty and higher - income districts,» said Lytle, who noted that this reflects his experience working in the market.

Yesterday, I discussed the recent Ed Next forum between Kati Haycock and Rick Hanushek, noting that I agree with Haycock's focus on sensible strategies to get more good teachers into high - poverty schools but that I worry about the casual heavy - handedness with which some advocates tackle the issue.

They can also differentiate between high - poverty schools where kids are making steady progress and those where they are not.

As shown in the graph below, accounting for pension spending doubles the funding gap between high - and low - poverty schools.

The demographic data suggest that charter high schools serve a student population with poverty and special education characteristics somewhere between those served by high schools located in «A» or «B» communities.

In fact, in a study of a project - based approach to teaching social studies and content literacy to 2nd graders, my colleagues and I were able to close the gap, statistically speaking, between students in high - poverty school districts — who experienced project - based units — and students in wealthy school districts — who did not.

On average the funding gap between high - and low - poverty schools is $ 582 per pupil.

There's a much wider gap between high and low poverty schools in terms of students who actually complete college within six years.

Indeed, a close look at MCAS results shows there is surprisingly little difference between the quality of teaching in so - called «good» schools (wealthy, suburban schools with high MCAS scores) and «bad» schools (inner - city schools with low scores) when the results are averaged across all teachers in the district and disaggregated by student demographics, specifically race and poverty.

If the average salary gap between a poor and a wealthier school is $ 5,000, a higher poverty school with 30 teachers would be shortchanged $ 150,000 a year.

Take our first finding — the presence of large teacher salary gaps between the highest - and lowest - poverty schools in most of the 20 districts.

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.

On - time graduation rate rose from 48 % to 65 % between 2010 and 2014, enrollment has grown from 830 students in 2010 to 1300 in 2015, and Stall High School (91 % poverty rate) reported discipline referrals dropped 50 %.

In the current program, Mr. Smith tracks America's search for schools and school districts that have been effectively raising student performance in high poverty areas and closing the achievement gap between minority and low - income students and the educational mainstream.

The report examines the distribution of state and local education expenditures at the school level, including comparisons between Title I and non-Title I schools and between higher - poverty and lower - poverty schools.

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.