Sentences with phrase «class peers»

But a few began to feel uncomfortable about how their white middle - class peers viewed them.

For most of my working class peers, though, this would be another door shut in their face.

African - American and non-White low - income students still lag far behind their White, middle class peers in reading and math proficiency, high school graduation, and rate of college completion.

TASC President Lucy Friedman noted that poor children are likely to enter middle school 6,000 hours behind their middle class peers in learning time (video and infographic).

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

These standards could be just another weapon with which to attack teachers of students from poor urban and rural communities who don't have the resources to help students reach these standards when they come to school already two or three years behind their middle and upper class peers.

* Whole class peer and teacher assessment tables.

Yet recent research also suggests that neither high - quality charter schools nor pre-K alone may sufficiently level the playing field between children in poverty and their middle - class peers over the long term.

But if elementary - level teachers and administrators are able to move away from a narrow focus on basic skills and give our youngest disadvantaged kids some of the knowledge their middle - class peers often acquire at home, we can still give them a fighting chance.

A 1994 study by the Search Institute examining adopted adolescents concluded some of the following facts: Adopted children score higher than their middle - class peers on indicators of school performance and social competence.

In the past, students were unabashedly tracked, which usually placed middle - class students in academic courses and their working - class peers in vocational programs.

Low - income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement, despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains.»

Diverse students, especially students of poverty, may lack access to the same enrichment experiences and social capital that their middle and upper class peers may enjoy.

But have you tried using edtech to facilitate out - of - class peer review?

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

We are working with people from the community to provide safe, enriching, and engaging environments for children so they can develop just like their middle - class peers.

«So the evidence shows that if a working - class child manages to overcome all the barriers they face and achieve three good A-levels, they're just as likely as their middle - class peer to go to university.»

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

«Lower - income students in China found to have better vision than middle - class peers.»

It's not the kind of ignorance we, well at least I, experienced in school where we were maybe not doing so well as our class peers in a particular subject!

There, Bill works as a math teacher at a fancy prep school, while Wes tries to fit in with his upper - class peers.

An early - childhood - education program in Maryland is helping to narrow the school readiness gap between disadvantaged children and their middle - class peers, says a state education department report.

Over time, KIPP might learn what, exactly, it takes to make their graduates as successful as their middle - class peers.

That's why I'm a big fan of No Excuses charter schools, which are showing great promise for low - income children — even if they might not be a good fit for many of their upper - middle class peers.

Lots of people would choose a diverse school, defined as, say, roughly split 50/50 between poor children and middle - class peers.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

Students who are Black, Latino, and English language learners are disproportionately suspended, expelled, and placed into substantially separate special education programs and lower academic tracks at significantly higher rates than their white and Asian, middle class peers.

The drop - off in learning during these months is much greater for students from low - income families than for their middle - class peers.

This unique charter school is experimenting with choosing the very best master teachers and paying them an annual salary of $ 125,000, to see whether it can reduce the achievement gap between low - income students and their middle - class peers.

The developmental and academic gaps between children of different ethnic, racial, and socio - economic statuses have been detected as early as nine months old, and persist through high school.36 High - quality early education has been shown to help close these gaps through gains in cognitive, linguistic and social - emotional skills that improve low - income children's standing relative to their middle class peers.

On average, by age 4, children from low - income homes are exposed to 13 million fewer words than their working - class peers and 33 million fewer than children of professionals.

Without early education programs, children growing up in low - income households lose ground to their middle - class peers, a gap that only widens as they advance through elementary school.

They point out that D.C. charters enroll a higher proportion of poor children than the traditional public schools and that poor children often come to class with greater needs than their middle - class peers.

Just 32 percent of Carmel's high school graduates in 2011 on free lunch programs (and 20 percent of those on reduced - lunch programs) took an Advanced Placement exam, versus 55.3 percent of middle class peers did so; a mere 26.5 percent of Hamilton Southeastern's high school graduates on free lunch (and 32 percent of reduced - lunch graduates) took AP exams, versus 73.5 percent of middle - class peers.

The percentage of low - income fourth - graders in all three districts passing ISTEP was, on average, 20 percentage points lower than for middle - class peers, just a few points lower than the 24.7 percent gap statewide.

While I expect ICON can maintain its net revenue growth trajectory, earnings growth will clearly slow... but surveying best - in - class peers in the sector, there's no reason to presume 15 - 20 % + operating margins can't be maintained.

Kindergartners who spent their early years at Educare arrived at elementary school ready to learn and on par with their middle class peers.

Summer learning programs can also offer an important strategy in closing the achievement gap between low - income children and their middle - and upper - class peers.