Sentences with phrase «more affluent ones»

In response, the more affluent ones such as Saudi Arabia, China, and South Korea are leasing and buying large tracts of land in developing countries on which to grow food for themselves.»

«Most important,» Thorpe added, «we have to make sure that quality teaching is as prevalent in schools serving poor communities as it is in more affluent ones.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

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

District 4 parents have even gone so far as to accuse the school of deliberately keeping local families away in favor of more affluent ones from other districts via a manipulated waitlist.

She has told him about the guilt she deals with because she left a high - poverty school for a more affluent one.

The more affluent one does not spend much on its schools but posts high test scores on the state assessment.

It's about using democracy to resolve our differences the best we can, while building bridges between the «two Americas» that have come into sharp relief — a liberal, urbanized, mostly coastal, and generally more affluent one, and a conservative, rural and exurban, generally poorer, heartland one.

Republicans want the money to «follow the child,» so that if a poor student transfers from a high - poverty school to a more affluent one, the federal dollars would follow.

Not exact matches

Things that are regarded as luxuries in one economic bracket are considered necessities in the more affluent circles.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

As more and more affluent Chicagoans left the high taxes of Illinois for the pristine lakeshore of Kenosha, Wisconsin, a sixty - something African American man, lounging on his porch all day and watching the world go by one cigarette drag at a time became increasingly out of place.

The USDA knew all along that the Paid Meal Equity provision of the HHFKA would likely drive participation downward, and while the intent is well - meaning (to make sure that reimbursements for low income kids» meals are not unintentionally subsidizing lower prices for slightly more affluent paying students), no one benefits when fewer kids eat the school lunch.

But one of the complaints I most often hear from parents at more affluent schools is that their kids are «double - dipping» at breakfast, eating a full meal at home and then eating some or all of the school meal as well.

Of course, affluent couples may decide that for a period, one parent will devote more of their time to parenting than to career, especially when the children are young.

«In affluent areas, or those where there are self - interested groups that want to take over, a voluntarist approach to providing services for one's fellow citizens might have more traction,» Yeowell adds.

He's the top elected leader in one of New York's more affluent counties, where a mix of high - tech industries, rural charm and proximity to New York City generally have shielded it from the economic stagnation still plaguing many upstate counties.

Subjects were approached on a street in an affluent Dutch city; in one case, the street was orderly, but in the other the same street had been made more disorderly by the removal of a few paving slabs and the addition of a badly parked car and an «abandoned» bicycle.

Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low - income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows.

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The world doesn't need any more movies about angry, aimless, and affluent white men in their late 20s... however, it's hard to dismiss a movie with as many good elements as this one has.

He's the archetypal cable - TV antihero — white and affluent, a master in his field with impulse - control issues; a charismatic asshole — with one exception: he's exhausting, made all the more so by the actor playing him.

So, again, you're starting off with this gap when they start school — you've got your affluent kids and your disadvantaged kids, one of whom has far more exposure to literacy, books, learning, all of those things, and the other has far less, and that's reflected in the results completely.

«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?»

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.

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.

The less affluent one spends more on its schools but posts low test scores on the state assessment.

Though the surface takeaway is that the Douglas affair is one of conservatives and reformers taking over an affluent district, there's a much bigger story here: We are likely to see many, many more episodes like this in the months and years to come, though there will be variations on the theme.

As noted the one district school in Arizona's top 10, Gilbert's Classical Academy, is designed as an academically rigorous «choice» school within a more affluent community, Gilbert.

The top public comprehensive district high schools all serve more affluent communities with one notable exception:

The residents in the more affluent districts are the ones paying the new taxes and the majority of the money is not going to their schools and districts.

Given that financial data was not available for every PTA, we could not identify PTA revenues for every one of the top 10 or bottom 10 schools.63 With more financial information, it is likely that overall PTA revenues for the most affluent schools would be even higher.

One reason for this may be that more affluent individuals tend to have better access (e.g. through stronger social networks) than less affluent ones.

Ensuring that children from low - income or other challenged backgrounds are ready for school and can keep pace with their more affluent peers is one of those problems that is ripe for Pay for Success funding.

Such claims are an attempt to explain away the fact that charters like Success are out - performing district schools; in fact, Success ranked in the top one percent of all New York state schools in math and the top three percent in English, outperforming schools in far more affluent areas.

As the report says: «One has a better chance of attending a distinguished school in grades 6 - 12 if one is willing to leave Denver's more affluent neighborhoods.&raqOne has a better chance of attending a distinguished school in grades 6 - 12 if one is willing to leave Denver's more affluent neighborhoods.&raqone is willing to leave Denver's more affluent neighborhoods.»

While the school system's more affluent elementary schools could boast of dozens of students who were identified as gifted, the gifted enrollment at some of Seminole's poorer schools could be counted on one hand, with fingers left over.

For one, nearly all of the top schools were clustered in the downtown or South Los Angeles areas, while a majority of the top middle schools were located in more affluent areas of the Westside and the San Fernando Valley.

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

One of the reasons Finland has consistently stayed at the top of international rankings in education is because it focuses on equity; poorer schools receive more funding than those in more affluent neighborhoods, according to Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland author Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

(Connecticut also has one of the widest test score gaps in the nation between low - income students and their more affluent peers.)

(Why can't a car company be happy with older, more affluent buyers, one wonders?

It is one of the fastest - growing segments of the car market, and one in which it is important for Land Rover to have a presence, not only to grow overall sales but also to introduce younger, less affluent buyers to the brand in the hope that they can be retained and buy more expensive models as their families and salaries grow.

The young professionals and affluent hipsters that buy the A4 should get a pretty good buzz from its infotainment setup, but as we all know, intelligence applies to more than one facet of the automobile.

Tablet owners tended to have more education, with 31 % of college graduates owning a tablet, and more affluent, with 36 % of those making more than $ 75,000 a year owning one.

(That's one of the reasons that Amazon picked books as its gateway product — to collect data on educated, affluent shoppers to whom they could then sell more expensive products.)

The city of Overland Park is one of the more affluent cities in Kansas as well.

East of the downtown core are newer, more affluent neighbourhoods such as Poet's Hill, which is only a five - minute commute into town and boasts larger, more energy - efficient homes that sit on one - acre lots.

In contrast, the lower level room offers a more intimate viewing space; compact and carpeted, it feels as though we have walked into a domestic setting, although obviously an affluent one.

The bottom line was that there had to be a transfer station somewhere, and if it wasn't to remain in this more affluent neighborhood, it would be sited in a less affluent one, one less capable of making its case.