Sentences with phrase «from an affluent family in»

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Mariani notes that Stevens had a withdrawn manner at home and an unpleasant one in the office, but none of this stopped him from becoming rich and successful and, eventually, joining affluent society after the family settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1916.

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.

Ryan says many of the young men he works with are already marginalised, from ethnicminority groups or less affluent backgrounds; some may have come from families with a history of abuse or mental health issues, or have been in trouble at school.

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentIn recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescentin any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.

They found a greater persistence of potentially problematic eating attitudes in women from less affluent families.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

, The Oranges — taking its cryptically metaphorical name from the affluent New Jersey neighbourhood in which the film is set — finds two close families rended asunder when Meester's Nina rebounds from heartbreak with her father's best friend, David (Laurie), whose loveless marriage has him sleeping in his «man cave» most nights and counting down the minutes'til his perfunctory mid-life crisis can begin in earnest.

Coming from radically different childhoods and backgrounds (Truffaut came from an unhappy working class home and stints in juvenile detention, Godard from an affluent, educated, supportive family), the directors were close friends and colleagues, sharing many of the same cinematic fathers (Rossellini, Bergman, Renoir), celebrating neglected directors of the past (Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock in a celebrated book, Godard interviewed Fritz Lang in a documentary and cast him in Contempt) and preaching the gospel of a cinema dedicated to presenting the real, the honest and the authentic, first in the pages of film magazines and then on the screen.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

District 4 parents have even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

The improvements in attainment tended to be strongest amongst pupils from less affluent families and amongst those with lower prior attainment.

Children from more affluent families from state schools were almost four times as likely as young people from low - income families (3.8 times) to go on to join a higher - tariff university in 2016.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

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).

[19] These universities have high tuition rates, campuses in the more affluent suburbs of Santiago, and larger shares of students from wealthier families.

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.

A significant body of literature also points to differences in access to reading materials by students from low - income families in comparison to their more affluent peers (Allington & McGill - Franzen, 2008).

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesIn 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income familiesin the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

By making almost $ 150 billion in cuts to grant aid, student loans and work study, the budget would increase the debt of millions of students and make it harder for many to repay — thereby further reducing college access and upward mobility for college graduates, particularly those who come from less affluent families.

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.»

In response to a legislative proposal creating such a program, a spokesman for the governor said «This voucher mechanism is concerning because it shifts public funds away from public schools, and it does so in a way that gives larger vouchers to more affluent families.&raquIn response to a legislative proposal creating such a program, a spokesman for the governor said «This voucher mechanism is concerning because it shifts public funds away from public schools, and it does so in a way that gives larger vouchers to more affluent families.&raquin a way that gives larger vouchers to more affluent families.»

When Andrea Riquetti taught kindergarten in Providence, R.I., the disparity between more affluent students and those from poor families was painfully clear.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

If we want low - income students from less - educated families to get the same kind of high school education their more affluent peers are getting, we need to give them access to the same knowledge those peers are taking in at home.

The findings are important because children from low - income families lose ground in learning over the summer compared to their more affluent peers.

Research shows that teachers of color help close achievement gaps for students of color and are highly rated by students of all races — a fact that is all the more relevant in light of persistent gaps between students of color and students from low income families and their peers who are White or from more affluent families.

Children from more - affluent families get half that amount in vouchers.

Ms. Hoxby's study found that the charter - school students, who tend to come from poor and disadvantaged families, scored almost as well as students in the affluent Scarsdale school district in the suburbs north of the city.

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.

They tend to have about half as many children from families living in poverty, with dozens of the schools located in more affluent neighborhoods of the San Fernando Valley.

A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper - middle - class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.

In this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburIn this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburin their affluent New Jersey suburb.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

For example, the Gulf news newspaper mentioned in a recent article an incident which occurred in the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah: «The «Death Room» gang, which consisted of three people of unknown nationalities and two Pakistanis -LSB-...] the gang loitered around expensive schools and targeted children from affluent families.»

The fact of the matter is that Basquiat came from a relatively privileged unit in the comparison class of black families in New York in the middle of the century; his father was reasonably affluent and his mother exposed him to her knowledge of and interest in art history from a young age.

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

The family of an affluent Colombian businessman who had purchased a kidnap and ransom insurance policy in Florida from a large, international insurance company was tragically killed in an attempted kidnapping in Colombia.

Clearly the aim of this announcement is to soften the blow in the case of any fee rises whilst leaving the door to university open to those from less affluent families.