Sentences with phrase «from wealthy backgrounds»

It is the privilege of elderly natural history broadcasters from wealthy backgrounds to pronounce on what people with dark skin are doing wrong: existing in such numbers that offend him.

But the difference was most stark when comparing high achieving GCSE pupils from poor backgrounds and low achieving pupils from wealthy backgrounds.

Consider the implications for American society — for equity, for mobility, for prosperity — if its inventors and innovators continue to come almost exclusively from wealthy backgrounds.

Even a mediocre school can expect high test scores if its students come from wealthy backgrounds.

Keeping singles from wealthy backgrounds, these websites are a gateway to happiness and joy.

One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings is less progressive and less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts if their families can afford to pay up front or soon after graduation.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

Their advisers are mostly - if not entirely - men, some of them from wealthy backgrounds.

These days, more and more of the players that go on to play major junior, college and, ultimately, pro hockey are from wealthy backgrounds.

Successful startup founders continue to come from wealthier backgrounds than the average American.

As quick to fire off a barbed tweet as he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson Fury.

So what if this man is from a wealthy background?

It is a great dating app for all you singles out there.Though the app is open for both men and women — especially from a wealthy background, there are more men on the dating app than women.

It is the best choice for all you singles out there.Though millionairematch is open for both men and women — especially from a wealthy background, there are more men on the dating site than women.

There's an age difference of about 10 - 15 years (he's older), and she comes from a wealthy background, while he grew up destitute.

Poor children are more than twice as likely to be behind pupils from wealthier backgrounds.

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

They include Malcolm, a light - skinned African American architect from a wealthy background; JB, an occasional drug - using artist of Haitian ancestry (the author does a great job of describing his art — no easy task); Willem, the handsome actor who, as we first meet him, is, of course, waiting tables downtown; and, at center stage, Jude.

«We see other people who have come from wealthier backgrounds and they are used to spending more,» says Ross.

I didn't come from a wealthy background.

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And do they come from more or less wealthy background with parents who will be able to support them and the school?

Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.

Sir Steven Runciman (1903 — 2000) descended, on both sides of his family, from a wealthy commercial background of shipping and public service.

There is no typical gambler: SI found students from wealthy and modest backgrounds alike who had thrown themselves into betting.

An example might be the pupil premium approach which ensures that young kids from poor backgrounds get much higher funding (at around fee - paying school levels) thus ensuring that they keep up with their wealthier peers at school.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

As it currently stands, pupils from deprived economic backgrounds have lower levels of attainment than their wealthier counterparts.

And I will never accept the idea that it's ok for children from poorer backgrounds to do worse at school than their wealthier classmates.

Too often children from disadvantaged backgrounds still trail behind their wealthier classmates, and once they have fallen behind it can be extremely difficult to catch up.

At the moment, that perception isn't exactly unfair; David Cameron and George Osborne, for their strengths, both come from a background of privilege unrecognisable to most Brits, even relatively wealthy Brits.

While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teacher performance only to student growth, not raw test scores, so as not to disadvantage teachers whose students hail from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds versus teachers in wealthy districts.

Take one look at the MP's on the Tory benches — they are universally wealthy, even the select few from working class backgrounds

Contrary to some hypotheses, adult - onset offenders in this study were not found to come from significantly wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds, nor were they any more intelligent than those who were caught younger.

«They don't have to be raised in a wealthy, cultured family and can come from a humble background or have a childhood filled with adversity,» said Wilmer.

«About Time» is a light - touch comedy, not free of sentimentality, about a young man, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), from a wealthy, boho background in Cornwall, who bumbles his way through life and love but who has a power inherited from his dad (Bill Nighy): he can hold his eyes shut and go back in time.

The PISA results identified that generally students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are educationally three years behind their wealthier counterparts.

Students who are most willing to contribute to the discussion from the start are not only more confident and extroverted; they also tend to come from more privileged backgrounds — white, male, straight, or wealthy.

Young people from low income backgrounds are less likely than their wealthier peers to undertake an apprenticeship, according to new analysis from Teach First.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

Bright children from poorer backgrounds are far less likely to go to university or study A-levels that could get them into top universities than their wealthier counterparts — even if they live in the same neighbourhood and achieve similar results at GCSE.

«Tackling absence from school is a key part of the government's determination to close the attainment gap between those from poorer and wealthier backgrounds.

Bright children from poorer backgrounds are far less likely to go to university or study A levels that could get them into top universities than their wealthier counterparts - even if they live in the same neighbourhood and achieve similar results at GCSE.

Liz Smith, the Scottish Conservative young people spokeswoman, said the biggest challenge in education was the «significant attainment gap between pupils from poorer and wealthier backgrounds».

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

And, once again, it is worth noting that, although many no - excuses students appear to outperform public - school students from similar backgrounds, their scores fall well short of those achieved by wealthier students.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

Research shows that young people from low - income backgrounds are three times more likely to not be in education, employment or training (NEET) than their wealthier peers.

«We know that many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to receive the same high - quality advice and guidance than their wealthier peers, which makes it harder for them to make informed decisions about their future,» she told Schools Week.