Sentences with phrase «helps middle class students»

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At a state Assembly hearing on receivership, held, ironically, just after my visit, experienced educators and sociologists also testified that it takes more than a year or two to break the cycle of poverty and truly help students climb the ladder of success out of poverty and into the middle class.

Johnstone argued that the Excelsior Scholarship would only help «a slice» of the state's middle - class students, per The New York Times.

«SUNY and CUNY have helped countless students and their families to secure their paths to the middle class.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

«It will help a slice of middle - class students, but it's only a slice,» he said.

The research centers on MESA, a 48 - year - old enrichment program operating throughout the United States that uses classes, hands - on competitions, academic support and industry involvement to help first - generation, low - income and socioeconomically disadvantaged students from middle school through college become more involved in STEM fields.

According to the study, 50 percent of the wealthiest students with a learning disability reported receiving accommodations; only 30 percent of low - income, working - class, and middle - class students with a learning disability said they received extra help.

As he explains in his testimony, the mission of Match Beyond «is to help students from low - income households earn quality college degrees at affordable prices and to leverage those degrees into career - track, middle class jobs.»

Match Beyond's mission, it says, is to help students earn degrees that lead to middle - class employment.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

Students work together on cross-curricular projects in every class at Maine's King Middle School, designed around a variation on project - based learning that King helped pioneer.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

These funds also helped reduce class sizes across Kaukauna's elementary, middle, and high schools by two to six students per classroom.

To help their students consider the most recent school shooting, teachers at one New Jersey middle school used the PLAN strategy with their classes, taking the perspective of the students in the school where the tragedy occurred:

Middle - and upper - class white students may need help recognizing their own racial status and the privilege it affords them.

Resource classes were designed to help students in elementary, middle and -LSB-...]

Contrary to the arguments of some conservative reformers, focusing on achievement gaps even helps White middle class children by improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school environments all students experience.

In addition to racial diversity, ABC also has increased its assistance for students of varying economic backgrounds, helping not only students who have significant financial constraints, but also middle - class students.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

On a more concerning note, the survey found that less than half of secondary students feel that what they're learning in class helps them outside of school, with high school students feeling slightly less positively than middle school students.

On the contrary, I worked many years with students with learning disabilities in a middle and high school resource situation, and one of the objectives was always to help students master regular class content.

When the message is only about 20 percent of the students — even if you're talking about the 20 percent who really are those most in need of help (although they all deserve help, and have a civil right to it)-- it's hard to win a popular election with that message; and listening to the candidates» impassioned speeches about those students, even if the speeches are nobly motivated, can feel oddly alienating and exclusive to middle class parents who are concerned about their own children's too often declining prospects.

Many worry that middle - class white educators in particular lack the cultural understanding that could help them work more compassionately with poor black and brown students.

In the Los Altos school district, for example, middle grades students use instructional videos available through the free, online Khan Academy, to help teachers assess their skill level and better prepare them for class lessons.

Noguera cited a 90 - minute math class he had visited at Hollenbeck Middle School whose teacher had complete control of her class and allowed students to help each other.

With 149,817 more fourth - graders reading at Proficient and Advanced levels, systemic reform efforts focused on stemming achievement gaps have also helped children from the middle class and high - performing students as by those who have been given the worst American public education provides.

High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25

By allowing states to ditch racial, ethnic, and economic subgroup categories and replace them with a super-subgroup subterfuge that commingles poor and minority students into one, the administration is making it difficult for families, especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — to get the information they need to make smart decisions for their kids, and impede them from helping to advance systemic reform.

The suburban districts are also doing poorly in helping its poorest students gain the college - preparatory education they need to ultimately move into the middle class.

The influx of white middle - class and upper - class students, however, threatens this funding and endangers the programs that help and support low - income students in these schools.

Today, when White speaks in support of the Common Core, he can seem to talk minimally (or too little) about its impact on middle - class schools, reserving his most impassioned rhetoric for the ways in which the Common Core will help the poorest and neediest in the state, offering those students the caliber of education rich kids in high - performing East Coast suburbs are getting.

After the passing of the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, she said, «The bipartisan student loan compromise the Senate passed today will lower interest rates for all students and help middle class families afford a college education.Student Loan Certainty Act, she said, «The bipartisan student loan compromise the Senate passed today will lower interest rates for all students and help middle class families afford a college education.student loan compromise the Senate passed today will lower interest rates for all students and help middle class families afford a college education.»

«Fair value» reporting is nothing more than a tool to limit the role that government plays in making higher education affordable for students, helping manufacturers export their goods, and keeping middle - class families in their homes.