Sentences with phrase «gives affluent children»

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.

Not exact matches

Affluent children showed the greatest uncertainty about what to do and how to act in given circumstances.

It is very rewarding to give back my time while working tirelessly so that all the children in Mt. Vernon benefit, whether they live in an affluent household or in a shelter.

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.

More support is needed to ensure these pupils are given vital additional support with their learning in order to keep up with children of similar ability from more affluent backgrounds.»

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

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.»

Poor children are not given the same high - quality education that children from affluent neighborhoods are given, and certainly not ever without a struggle from parents.

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.