Sentences with phrase «for affluent children»

It's different for affluent children, of course.

Not exact matches

It might be tempting for some of us not to cry any tears for overprivileged colleges, run by wealthy administrators to serve the children of the affluent, which waste vast sums of money to prove how much better they are than everybody else.

But «the timing of this recession coincides with a pretty significant cultural change,» Edin says: a fast - rising material threshold for marrying, but not for having children, in less affluent communities.

Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

How would Jesus speak to affluent young parents, caught between yuppidom and genuine concern for their children's future, and asking how to be «good»?

Designed to meet the demands of «Boise's growing numbers of affluent families, who sought high - status schools filled with high - status children,» it is a school «created by elites for the children of elites.»

This is no longer true for children born to less educated and less affluent women.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

Of course, affluent couples may decide that for a period, one parent will devote more of their time to parenting than to career, especially when the children are young.

Affluent parents could conceivably decorate for baby No. 1, a girl, and start all over when the next child was a boy.

Unlike a large urban district like my own, where close to 90 % of children qualify for free / reduced price lunch, in these affluent areas only a handful of children are economically disadvantaged.

Look, a cult of keeping a child at the breast until advanced age has become a trend among primarily white, educated, affluent women, the blogger is simply making a point that there is no concrete science to back - up the claims being made for the benefits.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

«Plans to hand free school meals to the under - 8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children... London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans, saying that better - off families should pay for their children's food.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget proposal takes some positive steps forward in clearly acknowledging, for the first time in his tenure, the incredible child poverty and income inequality that exist in our generally affluent state and recognizing the need to give greater property tax relief to those who need it most rather than spreading it too thinly.

«If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.»

For example, in North Carolina, children who lived in less affluent communities such as Goldsboro and eastern Raleigh had a strabismus diagnosis rate of 0.55 percent — far lower than the statewide average of 1.11 percent.

The data shows that across Scotland's 32 councils, children in the least well - off areas are seven times less likely to get the grades needed for university compared to those from the most affluent areas.

A related question is why most affluent, well - educated young adults wait till their late 20s or 30s, and for marriage, before having children.

The elites, the wealthy families that have a disproportionate influence on politics, clearly recognize the dysfunction of large urban school districts and have sought refuge in affluent suburban districts for their own children.

The push for bilingualism often comes from English - speaking parents who live in affluent suburban communities and want their children to learn a second language, according to Education Trust - West.

This was especially true for low - income children; in fact, their scores were similar to those of affluent children, even after taking into account a variety of family factors, including parents» education and intelligence.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

For many children living in deprived areas — who are more than twice as likely to be obese than those in more affluent areas — school and community playgrounds are often their only chance to play outdoors.

As a movement, knowledge - rich schooling has the potential to promote excellence, inspire passion, and enhance educational equity — particularly for children from homes with limited access to books and fewer opportunities than their more affluent peers to travel or visit museums.

Because property taxes play such an important role in school funding, affluent communities have an incentive to establish school district borders around their neighborhoods in order to ensure that the benefit of their wealth is reserved for their children alone.

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 fact that skills in these areas can not be easily assessed should not trouble us since most middle - class and affluent children receive such an education already and typically no one asks for evidence that such an approach has an impact on their test scores.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

In an obvious slap at Campbell Brown, New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee nonsensically claimed that, «If hedge fund millionaires and celebrity dilettantes were truly interested in guaranteeing students a quality education, they would join parents and unions in fighting for fair funding for all children, not just the affluent.»

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White 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.

One hundred and sixty black leaders, part of the charter lobby, signed a letter encouraging the NAACP to back off, saying: «For many urban Black families, charter schools are making it possible to do what affluent families have long been able to do: rescue their children from failing schools.»

That kind of system — if it is truly against any form of expanded school choice options for every child, not just the affluent or the lucky — stands behind the disempowerment of that family and the academic suffering of that child.

In an affluent, well - educated, profoundly aspiring suburb of a major American city, teachers meet to select children from their school for a districtwide gifted program.

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The state's Private School Tuition Tax Credits program covers the cost of private education, often for children whose parents could afford to pay it themselves — while allowing affluent families to reduce the amount of income tax they pay into the state's general fund.

To overcome the achievement gap that still exists between poor and minority children and their more affluent peers, we must stay true to the law's core tenet — that all students, regardless of income, race, ethnicity or disability should have access to a quality education that prepares them for success in college and a career,» he said.

Ensuring that children from low - income or other challenged backgrounds are ready for school and can keep pace with their more affluent peers is one of those problems that is ripe for Pay for Success funding.

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

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«Black and Latino families want world class public schools for our children, just as white and affluent families do.

This allows families with more modest incomes to access more and diverse schooling options for their children, a luxury only affluent families could enjoy before educational choice began to take hold in the states.

Giving parents more education options, especially parents who are less affluent, increases the likelihood of finding the best school match for their child's learning needs.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.