Sentences with phrase «middle class children»

ALBANY - Governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday unveiled a new Enhanced Middle Class Child Care Tax Credit that he says will help more than 200,000 middle class families make their child care more affordable.

In a recent study, 49 percent of middle class children reported downloading an app, 80 percent of which were educational, while only 30 percent of low - income children downloaded an app, 57 percent of which were educational.

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The Boston and Rhode Island results for universal preschool programs suggest that preschool's benefits for middle class children are 70 % as great as for low - income children.

«I read (Nick Clegg's interview) in the Guardian that we were going to look at middle class child benefit.

Exams and interviews to test children's aptitude would measure intelligence and gauge potential — doing whatever possible to avoid the sorts of tests that reward either extensive coaching or the confidence and eloquence that more middle class children are more likely to receive from their parents.

She adds that in many urban settings there aren't enough middle class children to go around, and that «even in the locations where income mixing is most feasible, integration can prove unstable.»

As a government advisor said to me recently: «Ofsted tells you which schools educate middle class children adequately.»

It's obvious that the harsh disciplinary culture of so many charter schools is racialized in nature, insofar as the schools would be reluctant to practice such tyrannies on middle class children from the suburbs.

Despite the crunch, 69 percent of wealthy children attend a center - based preschool, and 54 percent of middle class children attend such preschools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Most procedures for identifying gifted and talented students have been developed for use with middle class children who are native English speakers.

Eire also wrote a memoir from the point of view of a upper middle class child in Havana which supports Arenas's findings.

They are 50 % less likely to be referred to special education services by the third grade; and they graduate from high school at the rate of middle class children nationally — a 30 % higher rate than their socio - economic peers.

I also propose further relief in a Middle Class Child Care Tax Credit — more than 200,000 families will see their tax benefits more than double on average.

«There is also bipartisan support for the middle class child care tax credit, renovating JFK Airport, and constitutional amendments to limit state legislators» outside income and implement term limits,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

And if the civil rights community is upset that charter schools serve «too many» poor and minority kids, why aren't they upset that these «public» schools serve too many white and middle class children?

But «balanced literacy» is, in reality, and especially as interpreted and applied by Professor Calkins, a fig leaf that (barely) conceals «whole language» — which can work okay with the upper - middle class children of well - educated parents who make them learn at home how to sound out words and such, but which is a disaster when used in classrooms full of poor kids.

No government voucher will be enough for poor or middle class children to be able to afford high tuition to those schools.

It was also suggested that middle class children were more adaptable to changes.

In her study she and her research team followed more than 100 middle class children of preschool - age.