Sentences with phrase «in affluent communities»

Now imagine you're the superintendent of schools in an affluent community that contains members of all three groups.

That story is that students in affluent communities score significantly higher than students in poor communities do.

The percentages are higher in some areas, particularly in affluent communities.

Start searching and looking at homes for sale in affluent communities before you begin seriously looking.

Generally speaking, policymakers long ago resigned themselves to quality schools in affluent communities — and mediocrity, or worse, for everyone else.

Their findings show that close contacts among parents primarily benefit students in affluent communities.

Associate Veterinarian Needed: Scottsdale Animal Healthcare is a 4 year old, rapidly growing small animal hospital located in the affluent community of North Scottsdale, Arizona.

Especially in affluent communities, parents are hyper - involved in their children's academic and social lives, so it's unusual for teenagers to study, arrange a meeting about a bad grade, or even resolve a disagreement with a friend without parental help.

Savills Studley's National Retail Services Group successfully sold The Terraces, a + / - 172,913 - square - foot regional shopping center located in the affluent community of Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles County, California.

But the agreement's housing provisions, when considered in light of defendant's current responsibilities as a custodial parent of two grade - school age children who have been raised in luxurious accommodations and attend school in an affluent community on Long Island's North Shore, were «plainly inequitable.»

A recently released Reuters analysis shows that between 2006 and 2010, mortgage guarantees by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac increased as much in affluent communities as they did in poor ones.

A San Diego company brokering the sale of two multimillion - dollar homes in the affluent community says it will accept bitcoin as payment.

Even more disturbing, an updated report by the Center for Responsible Lending on payday lending in Colorado found that even in affluent communities of color, the likelihood of a nearby payday store is greater than in low - income, predominantly White areas.

(Wellesley, Massachusetts) A Wellesley Middle School field trip to a local mosque has sparked controversy in the affluent community west of Boston after a video surfaced showing some of the students praying inside the hall.

This would seem to be a simple matter of common sense in affluent communities, but it represents a form of privilege, it seems, in schools serving low - income, urban children.

But it's not hard to fathom the potential appeal of such an approach in an affluent community, where the vast majority of children read at grade level, graduate, and attend college.

The fact is that there will always be a gap between children in affluent communities and youngsters who grow up in poverty, because well - educated parents will always use available knowledge to give their children a competitive advantage.

In Connecticut, the judge noted, nearly all high school students in affluent communities like Darien and Westport scored on state tests as «advanced» in math and approached the same level in reading.

ForTheRecord says: At least when it comes to Michigan, the author's suggestion that schools in affluent communities gets more overall funding than those that are poorer towns is not true.

By the 1960's, a second wave of interest in Montessori began first in affluent communities.

The Early Learning Success Initiative is research - proven to dramatically improve student learning outcomes, can be developed for use with any high quality curriculum and instructional materials, and can be used in affluent communities, or with students living in poverty.

The effort is similar to those of three other institutions in affluent communities — the Dallas Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. — whose passionate trustees have made promises of art, considerably boosting the institutions» holdings.

He turned his attention to Sacramento, calling out the injustice in the state leaders» sluggish response to the Exide cleanup — a sharp contrast to their swift reaction to a massive gas leak in the affluent community of Porter Ranch.

«A lot of people said to us that it's a very affluent area and we serve Boca Raton, which is another affluent area, but there is certainly pockets of need in every affluent community.»

Blake Hunt Ventures, a Walnut Creek, Calif., developer that previously concentrated on projects in affluent communities, is working with the San Jose Redevelopment Agency to turn two underperforming retail centers into a 26 - acre project targeted to Latinos.

Larger, more urban school districts with historically lower dollar - to - pupil spending will receive greater proportions of the proposed funding in order to help alleviate what is known as a «digital divide,» in which students living in affluent communities have greater access to computers, advanced software and other technological learning enhancements in classrooms than students in less affluent communities.

Obviously, it helps to already be located in an affluent community or state, but as long as you keep your wits about you, and you are determined, the rich women you desire could be right under your nose.

Especially in affluent communities, their parents are hyper - involved in their academic and social lives, so it's unusual for teenagers to study, arrange a meeting about a bad grade, or even resolve a disagreement with a friend without parental help.

So the actual achievement gap will widen between the students in the affluent communities and the students in the cities with their increased test prep due to the low 2015 SBAC scores.

Public schools in affluent communities «backfill,» but when mobility is low and the kids who come in are on grade level, it's simply not a significant issue.

It's even located in Studio City, miles away from their actual neighbourhood, in the affluent community of Calabasas.

Uintah Elementary School is in an affluent community.

Finally, there is Emily, an eighth grader in Silicon Valley, whose problems with math will place her on a lower academic track if she remains at the same high school in her affluent community.

Kensington Elementary, located in an affluent community, has suspension rates, English Learner progress, ELA and Math assessment proficiency in the blue or highest performance category.

An «A» at a school serving low - income students, for instance, often means something very different from an «A» at a school in an affluent community.