Sentences with phrase «even wealthy kids»

Peter Cunningham, Education Post — «What begins as a program for low - income kids could become a program for middle - income and even wealthy kids.

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It will take a Sandy Hook every week, where children of wealthy and powerful kids get blown away — week after week, and where Zimmerman wannabes respond and the crossfire kills even more.

Even in wealthy areas, kids can go hungry.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

That many an educational leader has used these annual results to push hard conversations (and even harder actions) to ensure we are holding ourselves and each other responsible for educating all kids — not just the kids from wealthier zip codes — to high levels?

Even the kids of wealthy people can't afford to have children, that means we don't get grandchildren.