Sentences with phrase «more affluent parents»

They're going after the more affluent parents and children with big allowances.

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

Policies that often lead to more affluent parents moving to and flooding certain parts of the city.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

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.

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.

TRUTH: Infant adoption is an industry in which young unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded - through force, coercion or outright lies - to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples (and sometimes also single people), and usually strangers.

Because while I don't want my kid eating Go - Gurt either, I do have a lot of sympathy for school personnel and for parents — even these more affluent, private school parents — who believe they are providing healthy snacks when they select applesauce, yogurt and crackers over the many other options out there.

According to the research, only child in the family develops close relationships with parents, builds self - esteem, attains high grasping power, becomes orally advanced, more affluent in education, and receives more support and encouragement from parents.

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.

In more affluent schools, parents are likely to oppose measures that increase the focus on standardized test scores at the cost of student satisfaction.

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.

Single - sex schools are primarily private and most often a choice made by more affluent and better - educated parents.

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.

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

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:

«Surely this question was settled eight years ago in a decision that was the seventh consecutive defeat for the disgustingly determined people who are implacably opposed to any policies that enable parents who are not affluent to exercise the right of school choice that is routinely exercised by more fortunate Americans,» writes George Will.

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.

This customer subsample of parents is, not surprisingly, more educated and affluent than parents who are identically selected except that the costs of their child's attendance are covered in whole or in part by entities outside the family.

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.

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.

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

Charter schools have been seen as a way to give parents in low - income areas a choice in schooling much like what more affluent families have always had by moving into a better school district or putting their children in a private school.

Lower - income African American and Hispanic parents also held a conviction that their kids will need to work in a world with more affluent people.

He acknowledged that the board is frustrated that few schools have applied and that the more affluent schools with heavy parent involvement have raced to ask for independence.

Unfortunately, we could not locate financial data for every PTA, so we could not identify PTA revenues for all of the most affluent and highest - poverty schools.51 Based on available information, however, we expect that, with more financial information, the total PTA revenue for the most affluent schools would be even higher, and students at the highest - poverty schools still would receive minimal parent contributions.

Although a vocal minority of parents whose children tend to be enrolled in more affluent schools around the country have refused to let their kids take the Common Core tests, no Sylvanie Williams families have opted out.

We found that policies that equitably redistribute donations — or divert a portion of the contributions to affluent schools to high - poverty schools with more significant need — did not substantially reduce overall parent contributions.

Parent fundraising tends to exacerbate inequity, since schools with more affluent families are able to raise much more per student.

Students who are not fluent in English and whose parents are not college educated and have low incomes generally fare worse on standardized tests than students who come from more affluent backgrounds and whose parents are highly educated.

Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students.

Reardon's research revealed that the achievement gap between high - income and low - income students has widened in the past three decades largely because income inequality has increased, affluent students arrive to kindergarten better prepared than poor students, and affluent parents spend more on enrichment and tutoring.

If the power of solidarity is going to reclaim our schools, more affluent, predominantly white activists will need to develop an anti-racist understanding of the movement against standardized testing and the barriers that communities of color face to joining — including the very real fear from parents of color that their children's schools will be shut down if they don't encourage them to score well on the tests.

Giving parents more education options, especially parents who are less affluent, increases the likelihood of finding the best school match for their child's learning needs.

Monica Warren - Jones, a parent and Ward 6 representative to the DC State Board of Education, said she is thrilled by the results and looks forward to when there is no achievement gap between poor children and their more affluent peers.

Conversely, more affluent, usually white parents tend to champion an «abstract» approach to education, focusing on abstract ideals like intellectual exploration (Lewis - McCoy, 2014, p. 57).

Parents in the slums of Africa face a daily struggle to survive but a Triple P study suggests their dreams for their children appear the same as those of parents from more affluent couParents in the slums of Africa face a daily struggle to survive but a Triple P study suggests their dreams for their children appear the same as those of parents from more affluent couparents from more affluent countries.

Fact:» [C] hildren who grow up in poor or low - income families tend to have lower educational and vocational attainments, are more likely to become teenage parents, and are more likely to become welfare recipients than more affluent children.