Sentences with phrase «how affluent the parents»

This is in contrast to the usual ranking of schools by test score averages, which is more of an indication of how affluent the parents are than of how good the school is.

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Doug Lockwood, a financial planner at Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Ind., says he is having many more conversations with clients lately about young people saving money — although mostly these involve affluent parents expressing their fears over how their grown children will get by in more trying times.

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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.

How are affluent parents preventing their children from developing grit?

How exactly is Midtown West not skewing the diversity of the neighborhood schools or stealing away top performers and their affluent, involved parents?

Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent schools, we found that few of the districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the wealthiest schools.30 A couple of districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be spent, such as banning their use to pay for school staff.

An evaluation study of the district's equity fund highlighted several implementation challenges.65 Some PTAs simply did not comply with the district's policy to give back some dollars, and the district had difficulty figuring out how to exempt some PTA expenses fairly from redistribution.66 The evaluators did not examine how this policy affected PTA revenues, but there was significant pushback from members of the community, with some parents threatening to reduce donations during initial policy negotiations.67 A group of parents voiced that the approach was punitive, and that instead, parents should be encouraged to donate to a separate equity fund or to other, less affluent schools.68 Other districts that have considered establishing an equity fund have feared similar pushback, worrying that rich parents will threaten to leave the district, disinvest in their schools, or decrease their overall contributions.69

How did this small group of affluent parents come to have so much information and buy - in so quickly?

You might recall from a post I released approximately 1.5 years ago a story about how a person who self - identifies as «Virginia SGP,» who is also now known as Brian Davison — a parent of two public school students in the affluent Loudoun, Virginia area (hereafter referred to as Virginia SGP), sued the state of Virginia in an attempt to force the release of teachers» student growth percentile (SGP) data for all teachers across the state.

Given that schools in choice systems focus marketing efforts on affluent parents because of the social capital that they can offer (Cucchiara, 2008), we're led to the question: Are schools aware of how these parents think about theme?

The number one financial concern for affluent Gen X parents is how to pay for college, yet most advisors have never been taught how to do it the right way.

-- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids - by Madeline Levine, PhD «This should be required reading for all young affluent parents.»

In this study of affluent, middle school youth, we examined how perceptions of parents» emphases on achievement (relative to prosocial behavior) influenced youth's psychological adjustment and school performance, and examined perceived parental criticism as a possible moderator of this association.