Sentences with phrase «from affluent families»

Most minority and disadvantaged students will not get that extra support to accelerate, and whatever is left of those advanced classes will be filled mostly with student coming from affluent families.

Students from affluent families, for example, tend to enjoy exposure to a range of experiences outside school that build their knowledge without them even realizing it.

A lot of young girls are there who come from affluent families but currently, may be facing a financial issue.

«Because, as a result, children from low - income families are less likely to attend schools with children from affluent families, and this ultimately isolates the poor kids.»

Her New York Times best - selling book, The Price of Privilege, explores the reasons why teenagers from affluent families are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems.

A trained architect from an affluent family in Santiago, Downey moved to Paris in 1963 to study engraving and see European art first - hand.

Then you should be intellectually honest and tell them that you are glad that their kid's seat went to some white kid from an affluent family living in West Hartford.

Originally from Ghana, Kwaku was a surgeon at a prestigious Boston hospital when he was asked to perform an emergency operation on an elderly white woman from an affluent family of longtime hospital donors.

Ellen comes from an affluent family; Richard is a writer.

Students receive preference within their geographic catchment areas, and students from affluent families are more likely to have the preparation needed for admissions to selective schools.

In America, the use of wet nurses was more common and had already been used for generations in the south where slaves regularly breastfed and took care of the children from affluent families.

Children from affluent families are much more likely to attend private schools than those from middle - income or low - income households; and the gap has been widening in recent decades (likely a reflection of broader economic inequality).

But, he added in the same radio interview as Huff, that most of the departing students were from affluent families, «and that is having a negative effect on our culture and economic diversity.»

Greg Duncan, George Farkas, and Katherine Magnuson demonstrate that a child from a poor family is two to four times as likely as a child from an affluent family to have classmates with low skills and behavior problems — attributes which have a negative effect on the learning of their fellow students.

See Our Kids, Harvard political scientists Robert Putnam's new book, where he talks up the importance of mentoring for low - income kids, who find it hard to make the same connections that students from affluent families can.

The fact that Pachauri was educated in America back in the 1970s demonstrates that he comes from an affluent family.