Sentences with phrase «counterpart affluent students»

But for students that live on education loans, it will be like building castle in the air if they try to live big like their counterpart affluent students.

Not exact matches

The city's many impoverished African American and Hispanic students continue to lag far behind their white counterparts, who typically live in much more affluent families.

«Unfortunately, there is simply no evidence that efforts to raise test scores will provide poor, minority, and bilingual students with the kind of high quality education that their more affluent counterparts receive,» said Mindy L. Kornhaber, the volume's co-editor.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

The hallmark of no - excuses schools is a frankly paternalistic and unapologetic commitment to acculturating low - income students to the achievement - oriented habits and norms typical of their middle - class and affluent counterparts.

Overall, Black, Latino, and low - income students have significantly lower college graduation rates than their White and more affluent counterparts.

In 1998, the future AF founders started Amistad Academy, a public charter school in New Haven, CT with the goal of proving «that urban students can achieve at the same high levels as their affluent suburban counterparts» (Achievement First, 2017a).

Because such charter schools inculcate their students with an urgency to perform as well, or better than, their affluent counterparts, such a statement warrants celebration because it proves that they are achieving their stated goals.