Sentences with phrase «more affluent students get»

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He got into coaching to help kids, and left jobs at more affluent suburban schools to so that he could be work to be a positive force in the lives of students and athletes at Richmond High.

No country has achieved anything like equity on this front, but several nations, often dubbed the «Asian tigers,» get more than 10 percent of their disadvantaged students into the top - scoring levels in math, alongside more than 30 percent of their affluent youngsters.

In fact, according to an analysis by Urban Institute, students in Colorado's poorest districts receive only an additional $ 401 per student relative to more affluent districts, a ratio that has remained relatively unchanged for the past 20 years even as we get smarter about the impacts of income inequality and stratification across society.

If we want low - income students from less - educated families to get the same kind of high school education their more affluent peers are getting, we need to give them access to the same knowledge those peers are taking in at home.