Sentences with phrase «most affluent children»

But the way affluent parents raise their kids equips them to do better in school: by the time they enter kindergarten, the skills and knowledge of the most affluent children far exceed those possessed by their low - income peers.

Not exact matches

However, more affluent muslim countries have on average the same amount of children as most in the modern western world... that is, 2.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's Executive Budget proposal takes some positive steps forward in clearly acknowledging, for the first time in his tenure, the incredible child poverty and income inequality that exist in our generally affluent state and recognizing the need to give greater property tax relief to those who need it most rather than spreading it too thinly.

The data shows that across Scotland's 32 councils, children in the least well - off areas are seven times less likely to get the grades needed for university compared to those from the most affluent areas.

A related question is why most affluent, well - educated young adults wait till their late 20s or 30s, and for marriage, before having children.

Yet we should also concede that intact families, communities with strong social capital, and households with plentiful resources for good health care, healthy meals, enrichment programs, and the like give affluent children an advantage that most of their poor peers will never be able to overcome.

But the goal of most state private school choice programs is to draw children from less affluent families into good quality, tuition based private schools.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not get to benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

In Chapman (the most affluent suburb in Weston Creek) the gap was even wider, with 15.4 per cent of children developmentally vulnerable in that domain.

The fact that skills in these areas can not be easily assessed should not trouble us since most middle - class and affluent children receive such an education already and typically no one asks for evidence that such an approach has an impact on their test scores.

Despite the prohibition, the most affluent families in Montgomery County still provided hundreds of thousands of additional dollars to enrich their children's school experiences.

It's time we set the record straight: Charter schools are doing important work to raise the level of performance for children who need it the most and to close the achievement gap between our inner - city students and those in our more affluent communities.

In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.

These positive effects are seen most notably seen among low - income children, but gains are also demonstrated among children from more affluent families.

This is particularly important for low - income students, who tend to learn most content in school and, unlike affluent children of college - educated parents, generally do not benefit from trips to museums, story times at the library, and other opportunities.

The third, which is by far the most important, is that children from less affluent households suffer a double whammy.

The evidence shows that investment in early years is the best way to close the attainment gap between the most disadvantaged children and their affluent peers.

There are children on CPPs or in out - of - home care from neighbourhoods across all levels of deprivation from the most affluent to the most deprived but each step increase in deprivation brings an increased rate of these extreme children's services interventions.

The study reported in these papers was conducted in a relatively affluent population and it is not clear whether the results are generalisable across the country, especially in severely deprived areas where the problems of parenting and child mental health are most prevalent.