Sentences with phrase «more affluent students»

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

The ones who remain in the profession often move to schools that serve more affluent students whose needs are less overwhelming.

In too many districts, more affluent students get more resources in their schools.

The choice options offered by public school districts, particularly magnets, are primarily used as tools to entice more affluent students to attend lower performing schools.

Meanwhile, across town, more affluent students take and pass the test with ease.

However, during the same time, the percentage of the state's more affluent students reading proficient or above grew from 76 to 80 percent.

A new report out this week says that while North Carolina and other Southern states made major advances in education in recent decades, achievement gaps between more affluent students and historically disadvantaged classmates have widened.

The practice also compounds the advantages enjoyed by more affluent students such as Mayor Bill de Blasio's children, Chiara and Dante, who interned under their dad during his first summer in City Hall.

«While more affluent students do better in school than children from lower income backgrounds, we are finding that musical training can alter the nervous system to create a better learner and help offset this academic gap.»

But it hardly seems fair that, in order to entice the slightly more affluent students (those with a choice of getting school lunch or bringing lunch from home) back into the cafeteria, the nutrition standards for those at the bottom of the heap, the poorest students whose only choice is to eat free school lunch or go hungry, should be compromised.

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.

American Indian Public Charter ranks fifth among all middle schools in California, with the top four serving more affluent student bodies.

On the less anecdotal side, here in DC the first year of our IMPACT system that is born out of this ideology found that teachers with more affluent students saw more growth in their students test scores.

The Drew elementary test scores compare well with the best metro Atlanta elementary schools including those serving significantly more affluent students.

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.

The project of income integration assumes that attending school with mostly poor classmates depresses achievement, and that being surrounded by more affluent students enhances it.

When Andrea Riquetti taught kindergarten in Providence, R.I., the disparity between more affluent students and those from poor families was painfully clear.

Despite the new labels, the differentiated curricula resembles tracking that previously placed minority and low - income students into vocational curricula, while more affluent students were routed into the college - bound track.

Research also shows that teachers hold differing and lower expectations for students of color and low - income students, as compared with more affluent students, which is a key link to our educational achievement gap.

In his first book, about the antipoverty work of the Harlem Children's Zone, Tough stressed the importance of early cognitive development in bridging the achievement gap between poor and more affluent students.

«Regarding urban performance, I think that our state is not unique, in that disadvantaged students have not performed as well as some more affluent students,» Norton said.

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

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

Most often, more affluent students are zoned to schools filled with the affluent peers in their neighborhood, and lower - income students are zoned to schools with students of similar backgrounds.

Comparing Oakland with Livermore, which serves fewer and more affluent students, might not be a helpful benchmark.

More affluent students, as always, will have parental support.

It means that teachers who seek a bonus, or fear getting fired, must plot to get the more affluent students because, as history shows, these are students with winning records.»

Yet other anti-violence advocates and those active in the Black Lives Matter movement say the attention given to Parkland students illustrates that white, more affluent students are more relatable to the mainstream than African - American kids from Chicago.

Thus, large numbers of California's middle - class and more affluent students are not proficient in the core subjects.

That test - focused approach served to highlight the vast difference in scores between more affluent students — who, in D.C., are almost all white — and poor and minority students.