Sentences with phrase «more affluent one»

As a movement, knowledge - rich schooling has the potential to promote excellence, inspire passion, and enhance educational equity — particularly for children from homes with limited access to books and fewer opportunities than their more affluent peers to travel or visit museums.

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers, and it's acute even in higher - income towns like West Hartford.

When school district budgets are cut, parents in more affluent neighborhoods essentially tax themselves to provide librarians, after - school programs, field trips and other needs.

of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

Considerable research shows that the primary reason the achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers widens over the course of their school careers is the long break in learning over the summer.

Both counties are criticised for an «unacceptably wide» gap between the achievements of young people who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and those from more affluent families.

The comparability requirement in ESEA is the mechanism through which the federal government can ensure that the public education offered to poor students is at least as well resourced as that offered to their more affluent peers.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

It turns out that some districts spend far more of their state and local funds on their more affluent schools.

At the same time, gaps persist among students from low - income families and their more affluent peers, for English language learners, and for many minority students when compared with their Asian and white classmates.

At the same time, as made clear by previous graphs, more affluent families are spending more on center - based in absolute terms.

Or that nationally, low - income students in more affluent schools are two years ahead of low - income students in high poverty schools.

In other words, the financial pain of purchasing daycare and preschool services is less for more affluent compared to less affluent families, whereas the absolute price of the service is higher for more affluent families, with likely impacts on quality.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

Driver wants to ensure that her students are afforded all the opportunities that are available in other more affluent districts.

The more affluent students have access to the latest and greatest, while those in poorer neighborhoods don't even have pencils and paper.

For many children living in deprived areas — who are more than twice as likely to be obese than those in more affluent areas — school and community playgrounds are often their only chance to play outdoors.

With all of the state's progress, however, Massachusetts — like all states — continues to have yawning achievement and opportunity gaps between low income students and their more affluent peers.

Schools with more affluent student bodies tend to produce high test scores.

Critics claim that it is mainly the more affluent schools that offer computer science courses, thus denying those who attend poorer schools the chance to learn necessary skills.

Legislators from the more affluent areas in and around the state's cities tend to be white Republicans.

Where a school with minimal resources may use cameras with fisheye lenses, a more affluent school will have state - of - the - art color cameras with superior optics.

Certainly dilapidated schools appear worse on the surface, but at the same time they don't exercise the same degree of scrutiny that often exists at a more affluent school.

The majority of these schools are in more affluent districts, where parents have college degrees and encourage their sons and their daughters to do well academically, or in less advantaged communities where the community itself has rallied behind educational goals.

Many of the education policies he would pursue as governor were designed to help close the achievement gap between students from low - income families and those from more affluent circumstances, a goal most voters shared.

For example, security firms that offer drug sniffing dogs market their services to inspect the lockers of students in the more affluent school districts.

In the NCLB era, schools could narrow the proficiency gap by helping students reach a relatively low bar, even if more affluent students were achieving well over that bar.

As Matt Barnum put it in a recent Chalkbeat article, «black and poor students have substantially higher suspension rates than white and more affluent peers.

Although specific numbers aren't available, it's clear that Bingham and White helped draw more affluent Society Hill families to McCall.

The same should hold true for more affluent families choosing to opt out of the annual assessment.

The research examined the incidence of inequality in education and found four per cent of teachers in the most deprived primary schools did not specialise in the subject they taught, compared to two per cent in more affluent areas.

Children who live in poverty often come to school behind their more affluent peers in terms of literacy and language development.

Other analyses showed KIPP schools, and other high - poverty charter schools, narrowing the reading proficiency gap compared with schools in more affluent areas.

Taking into account place and location, «Background to Success» suggested that students who lived in poor neighbourhoods were less likely to go on to advanced level courses than students who lived in more affluent neighbourhoods.

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

Though, he noted, even in successful cases, law can't fix all problems; inequity of revenue generated by taxes in lower income communities versus more affluent communities is one issue that some states do not fix.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

A significant body of literature also points to differences in access to reading materials by students from low - income families in comparison to their more affluent peers (Allington & McGill - Franzen, 2008).

Later, as the program was amended, more affluent families were enticed to poorer schools via the broader educational options offered.

In the more affluent northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Mt. Airy, Kimberly Newman, principal of Henry H. Houston Elementary School, started a prekindergarten program this year to provide a neighborhood school to serve young families.

Children who live in poverty are as worthy of attending good schools as their more affluent counterparts, and much is known about what it takes to transform schools into places that better meet their needs.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

But in more affluent parts of the city there was some evidence of meaningful progress, both in terms of student learning and in community buy - in.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

«The question I keep returning to, as firm believer in education equity, is a simple one: Are you comfortable allowing more affluent families to choose their schools while denying poorer families similar opportunities?»

(Better teachers tend to self - select into programs with children from more affluent and better educated families, and that is why the children may do better).

As Success expands into more affluent neighborhoods, will upper - income parents support its program?

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.