Sentences with phrase «more affluent populations»

Those that remain frequently do not stay at high - poverty schools, trading difficult - to - lead schools for less demanding leadership roles that serve more affluent populations.

And although there are poor students in many — if not most — schools, schools serving more affluent populations have larger budgets overall.

This perhaps explains why, in another OECD report («Education at a Glance, 2010»), the countries and regions that top the international league table of reading standards are those that are both high - spending and have more affluent populations.

At the conclusion of presenting data that exemplify how schools that serve more affluent populations will almost always score higher than schools that serve poorer demographics, Lineburg and his colleagues had this to say:

According to a new analysis by Empire Center health policy director Bill Hammond, a $ 1.1 billion - dollar state program to reimburse hospital charity care is shortchanging hospitals that serve poorer patient to the benefit of those that serve more affluent populations.

Those with more affluent populations such as East Aurora, Williamsville and Clarence, rise to the top of the pack.

To feed the world's growing and more affluent population, global agriculture will have to double its food production by 2050.

Jefferson County: Cindy Stevenson, who served as the award - winning superintendent from 2002 - 2012, focused efforts on better supports for teachers, a «strive for greatness,» and more attention towards district managed schools (rather than on charters in the district who tend to serve a more affluent population).

Not exact matches

The much more salient point is that Whole Foods gives Amazon ready access to affluent parts of the population.

THE SILVER LINING: It takes no more work to attract customers from the explosively growing Mass - Affluent, Affluent, and Ultra-Affluent populations eager to pay premium prices in return for exceptional expertise, service, and experiences.

A recent report by the Academy of Finland warned that some schools in the country's large cities were becoming more skewed by race and class as affluent, white Finns choose schools with fewer poor, immigrant populations.

«It continues to be the largest growing consumer market in the world and so it has the power of population, but that population is growing more affluent, as well.

With the world's population growing and becoming more affluent, our energy and food requirements are also growing rapidly.

Even as the affluent population in the U.S. has increased in size and financial resources (according to the Ipsos Survey USA»), a shrinking middle class is looking to more cost - effective options.

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.

-LSB-...] districts fortunate enough to have the assistance of groups like WITS in New York City, or with affluent populations able to pay higher meal prices, better food is more achievable.

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

Study participants were younger, more educated, more affluent and fewer were Hispanic whites than in the U.S. population.

Air quality is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent, urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

People with low incomes and racial / ethnic minority populations experience greater levels of stress than their more affluent, white counterparts, which can lead to significant disparities in both mental and physical health that ultimately affect life expectancy, according to a report from the American Psychological Association.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as a more affluent urban population turns against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has besmirched much of the country's air, water and soil.

If that is the case, studying New York City students, who arguably come from less advantaged backgrounds than, say, the students in New York City suburbs, may have led us to find a larger middle - school effect than had we followed a more - affluent student population.

The Levittown system serves a more - affluent population that is about 85 percent white.

The Educrats claim this is fair and equitable; children from at - risk populations are often far behind their more affluent peers, and expecting all children to meet the same high standards is unfair, even mean - spirited.

What had been a largely white and affluent population became predominantly non-white, with more than half of the students in the district receiving free and reducedprice lunches.

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

In the review of the dynamic Flickr map and the photographs, teacher candidates quickly realized that more instances of walkability examples were identified in neighborhoods that were close to the university or that housed affluent populations.

Students in schools serving a low - income population are more than 2.5 times more likely to have a novice teacher than their more affluent peers.

In this article, Petrilli looks at what poor students and their more affluent peers need and want from a school — and the challenge this presents to diverse schools that are trying to meet the needs of both populations of students.

Out of the 300 largest cities (based on school - age population), about 500 schools (or around 4 percent) have students from low - income families who are outperforming their peers from more affluent backgrounds, according to the group's 2017 Education Equality Index.

The 2017 test results show Texas struggling to keep pace in fourth and eighth grade reading compared to past years, even when accounting for a student population that is less affluent and more in need of specialized education programs, such as bilingual education, than those of many other states.

And while many have applauded their meteoric rise in North Carolina since a 100 - charter cap was lifted in 2011, some critics have accused the charter movement of serving a more affluent and white student population while exacerbating segregation in North Carolina schools.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

The Catera is designed to appeal to new customers for GM's luxury division: affluent baby boomers who now drive German and Japanese luxury or performance cars.Cadillac promises an innovative marketing campaign to reach out to a younger and more culturally diverse population.

And with over 190 million inhabitants, Brazil's general population growth pushes lower - income people to the borders of affluent city centers, making the differences in socio - economic status even more obvious.

Books are a luxury item bought by a small portion of the population on the more affluent side of the scale.

Today, with little room for expanding the output from rangelands and the seas, producing more beef and fish for a growing and increasingly affluent world population has meant relying on feedlots for fattening cattle and on ponds, nets, and pens for growing fish.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

Results are often inconsistent among polls; it is important to make comparisons only within polls asking exactly comparable sequences of questions and among comparable populations (for example, surveys in the developing world usually reached only the more affluent).

After several decades of Lrapid rise in world grain yields, it is now becoming more difficult to raise land productivity fast enough to keep up with the demands of a growing, increasingly affluent, population.

This is also an inherently regressive tax policy simply because a substantial share of the U.K. population can not afford to fly very often if at all, yet they help subsidize this high - cost mode of transportation for their more affluent compatriots.

The non-Indigenous populations of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States — the most affluent of those former colonies — have more to lose than anyone else if, through the recognition of Indigenous rights, historic inequities arising out of Europe's international law are redressed.

In the United Kingdom, IMD incidence and mortality are socially patterned, with IMD incidence in the most deprived quintile being twice that of the most affluent quintile.10 In New Zealand, significantly higher rates of IMD have been reported in Maori (relative risk = 2.2) and Pacific Islander people (relative risk = 3.8) when compared with the European population.11 Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged group in Australia.12 Two important risk factors associated with increased risk of IMD are more common among Aboriginal people, namely having a smoker among close contacts, including maternal smoking, and sharing a bedroom.13 — 15 It is not possible to explore the causal interaction of these factors from notifiable disease data.