Sentences with phrase «many affluent parents»

Corcoran isn't the only affluent parent trying not to raise kids who act entitled.

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.

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

My audiences (often made up of affluent parents and always of aspirational ones, no matter what their socioeconomic level) invariably nod and applaud.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

Her teenage patients were bright, socially skilled, and loved by their affluent parents.

Affluent parents could conceivably decorate for baby No. 1, a girl, and start all over when the next child was a boy.

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.

How are affluent parents preventing their children from developing grit?

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

Affluent parents would send their children to prep school in hopes to increase their chance of getting into a prestigious university.

The core of that mush is Thomas (Callum Turner), a kid who just graduated from college and is trying to make his own way in the big apple — without the help of his affluent parents.

But one thing is certain: If you are the bright son or daughter of affluent parents, chronic classroom disruption is largely foreign to your school experience.

For virtually all of these items, we've got evidence that affluent parents are much more likely to engage in these behaviors than poor parents.

And what makes it easier for affluent parents to do these things isn't mostly money (more on that below) but numbers 1 & 2: Getting married, and staying married.

As a result, more - affluent parents in the transitioning neighborhoods — squeezed out of schools west of the park and unable to afford private schools — are taking a shot at either the elementary school down the street or a diverse charter school nearby.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

In a way, he's right, but affluent parents shopping for private schools for their kids might shrug.

Of course, if the governor had not peevishly insisted in the first place on holding teachers» feet to the fire on test scores while simultaneously making watershed changes in their practice, New York would likely never have experienced the immune response we have seen — particularly among affluent parents in the state's politically powerful suburbs.

It's time to give less - affluent parents the same opportunity.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

They generally do a good job of describing the study but they express doubts about our findings because they believe that parents, especially affluent parents, have considerable influence over special education placements.

On what basis do these D.C. education analysts believe that a significant number of parents, especially affluent parents, are gaming the special education diagnostic system to get access to advantageous accommodations or expensive private placements?

From my own personal experience (Fordham is working on collecting more rigorous, non-anecdotal data — stay tuned for that), affluent parents break down into at least three groups:

Affluent parents regularly augment their schools» budgets with contributions for extra programs.

Research shows that white or affluent parents often avoid schools that have high concentrations of minority and low - income students.

Brooks focuses his concern on the parenting style of privileged Americans, coining a brilliant neologism in the process, «pediacracy,» by which he means the determination of affluent parents to give their kids a leg up.

And what makes it easier for affluent parents to do these things isn't mostly money (more on that below) but numbers one and two above: getting married, and staying married.

More - affluent parents can also use their resources to ensure that their children have access to a full range of extracurricular activities at school and in the community.

Upper - middle - class parents have the means to spend two to three times more time with their preschool children than less affluent parents.

I knew I was doing a good job when the more affluent parents started asking to have their children in my class.

What is the power of affluent parents who continue to see charters as a threat to the traditional public schools they have nurtured?

Proposals are being put forth for small, niche - oriented charters that appeal to affluent parents.

As proven by Stanford's Sean Reardon, the widening of the achievement gap results from additional opportunities affluent parents provide their children out of the K - 12 environment: high - quality pre-K, tutoring, and after - school and summer enrichment.

Many educators fear losing support from affluent parents, who have the option to quit the public schools altogether and enroll their children in private schools — or flee to suburban schools.

District leaders should promote awareness of the discrepancies in funding and resources prior to the rollout of the policy and carefully select key messengers who are well - respected by affluent parent groups.

In order to replicate the benefits affluent parents afford their children, our schools must be able to provide the enriched environments that develop well - rounded students.

(That's why persons with high irony levels refer to the Academic Performance Index as the Affluent Parent Index.)

In short, racially diverse, vibrant public school options in which teachers think of student diversity as an asset to explore and build upon in the classroom would keep more affluent parents and their resources in public schools.

Our research suggests that districts can establish and grow equity funds based on parent donations without seeing a significant reduction in affluent parents» contributions.

Even if districts successfully implement policies to redistribute parent dollars and reduce funding inequities, they might still risk broader disengagement by affluent parents.

We learned through our in - depth interviews that many white, affluent parents want to enroll their children in racially diverse public schools, but they struggle to find schools in New York City that are racially diverse.

But they have helped create a two - tier education system — one in which affluent parents can help their schools weather state budget crises and maintain programs less affluent districts can only dream about.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

But data suggest it has largely failed at that task, perhaps since affluent parents have had the time and skills to game the system, and tend to cluster in certain schools.

And who is this Cambridge Education, who has a penchant for making cookie - cutter recommendations just when more affluent parents want to take over a school?

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

You have to ace an entrance exam to get in, but affluent parents send their kids to rigorous test prep centers and now few poor black and Latino students can get in.

However, there's plenty of evidence that shopping for schools is complicated by information asymmetries between schools and parents and extensive stratification in access to information between low - income and more affluent parents.