Sentences with phrase «of 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.

Not exact matches

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.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

We do have a several districts on the NSLP, and most of them, admittedly, are in more affluent areas with none more than 10 % of the students qualifying for free & reduced meals.

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.

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.

The USDA knew all along that the Paid Meal Equity provision of the HHFKA would likely drive participation downward, and while the intent is well - meaning (to make sure that reimbursements for low income kids» meals are not unintentionally subsidizing lower prices for slightly more affluent paying students), no one benefits when fewer kids eat the school lunch.

Since a significant share of school funding is local, and communities with lots of students from affluent backgrounds tend to be affluent communities that pay more in taxes, «good schools» also tend to be better funded.

A similar gap persisted between poor students and their more affluent peers in Erie County, with a difference of 33 and 35 points in English and math, respectively.

With 100k members and the number still growing, TheSugarBook has more women members than men in which most of them are students willing to have relationship with affluent partners to subsidize their degrees.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

«Unfortunately, there is simply no evidence that efforts to raise test scores will provide poor, minority, and bilingual students with the kind of high quality education that their more affluent counterparts receive,» said Mindy L. Kornhaber, the volume's co-editor.

Enrollment, meanwhile, has risen in recent years, after four decades of decline, and more affluent families are putting their students in the city's public schools, a sign of growing confidence in a DCPS education.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing contributed to affluent districts» ability to spend more per student.

Contrastingly, figures are much higher in Rutland, a more affluent area, where 36 per cent of students have taken triple science as a GCSE choice.

What they saw was sobering but not surprising: Despite attempts to close achievement gaps between students of color, immigrant students, and low - income students and their more affluent white peers, wide disparities persisted in student performance on state tests, graduation rates, school attendance, and college - going rates.

Because the local property tax base is typically higher in areas with higher home values, and there are persistently high levels of residential segregation by socioeconomic status, heavy reliance on local financing enabled affluent districts to spend more per student.

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

«Plaintiffs still could have demonstrated a facial equal protection violation, however, by showing that the challenged statutes, regardless of how they are implemented, inevitably cause poor and minority students to be provided with an education that is not «basically equivalent to» their more affluent and / or white peers.»

[19] These universities have high tuition rates, campuses in the more affluent suburbs of Santiago, and larger shares of students from wealthier families.

I'd never heard the term, but suddenly we envisioned McCarver as a school of excellence — good enough to pull in white students from the more affluent neighborhoods.

But in more affluent parts of the city there was some evidence of meaningful progress, both in terms of student learning and in community buy - in.

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

A significant body of literature also points to differences in access to reading materials by students from low - income families in comparison to their more affluent peers (Allington & McGill - Franzen, 2008).

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.

For example, security firms that offer drug sniffing dogs market their services to inspect the lockers of students in the more affluent school districts.

Many of the education policies he would pursue as governor were designed to help close the achievement gap between students from low - income families and those from more affluent circumstances, a goal most voters shared.

In fact, groups of less - affluent students out - performed groups of more - affluent students on standardized tests in the eighth grade if they attended a smaller school

With all of the state's progress, however, Massachusetts — like all states — continues to have yawning achievement and opportunity gaps between low income students and their more affluent peers.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Or that nationally, low - income students in more affluent schools are two years ahead of low - income students in high poverty schools.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

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.

This further NUT / CPAG research ranks schools according to the three most common measures of deprivation and shows that whatever deprivation measure is used, the schools with the most deprived students lose considerably more than the most affluent schools.

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.

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.

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.

In fact, I believe low - income students who have fewer opportunities outside of school need integrated learning that builds academic, social, and emotional skills even more than their more affluent peers.

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.

The figures quoted above about the availability of computers in schools do not provide details about the types and quality of computer technology available to students and teachers in high - poverty urban school settings as opposed to those in more affluent suburban schools.

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.

We found that a teacher receives a higher value - added score when he is teaching students who are already higher - achieving, more affluent and more versed in English than when he is assigned large numbers of new English learners and students with fewer educational advantages.

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.

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.

By providing resources to schools without factoring in the role of outside dollars, Washington allows the most affluent students and their schools to receive more money than the students and schools who have the highest need.

A majority of the more affluent districts are receiving thousands less per student and many can not make up the difference in donations.

In more than half of the states, there are hundreds of high - poverty schools that receive less funding than schools that serve more - affluent students.

But fewer than half of states saw gaps shrink between low - income children and their more affluent peers; between English language learners and native English speakers; and between children with disabilities and all students.

Research shows that it costs more to educate low - income students, many of whom start school academically behind their more affluent peers.4 These students may need, for example, help to build vocabulary and background knowledge, extra learning time, or links to other services, such as healthcare, to meet the full range of their needs.5

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?