Sentences with phrase «including affluent families»

The Nevada program is explicitly not targeting low - performing schools or low - income families but rather is being made available to all, including affluent families who can already exercise choice by locating in a good school district or paying tuition for a private school.

A new study just came out showing that America's public schools have the highest reading test scores in the world, if you only included affluent families.

Not exact matches

Study limitations include the fact that an observational study can not show cause and effect, and study participants were mostly from more affluent families so findings may not be generalizable to socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

Victims also come from all backgrounds — affluent and educated communities included, says Allison Bressler, a co-founder of A Partnership for Change, a nonprofit dedicated to ending family abuse and intimate partner violence.

This was especially true for low - income children; in fact, their scores were similar to those of affluent children, even after taking into account a variety of family factors, including parents» education and intelligence.

Don't forget that in many urban areas there are clusters of affluent families able to access high performing schools, while others» student bodies include concentrations of the poorest families, for example.

She includes inspiring stories from around the world — of resistance workers who organize to overthrow a dictatorship in Serbia; of groups of families who deepen their religious beliefs in affluent suburbia; of a sisterhood of lower - class women who train to become health workers in rural India; of study groups that raise the calculus achievement of black and Hispanic students on college campuses.

Our full - service approach to the sharing economy includes 24/7 guest support and access to detailed destination knowledge that appeals to young families, corporate teams and affluent travelers alike.

Born at the end of the 19th century in Moscow to an affluent family (of Germanic Baltic ancestry), Kandinsky had been practicing law and economics when, at age 30, he became enamored of the folkloric art of the Vologda province and the French modern art exhibited in Russia (including the works of Claude Monet).