Sentences with phrase «of wealthy peers»

A heist - style drama about genius high school students and their task to pull off the ultimate, cheating scam on behalf of dozens of wealthy peers doesn't quite sound like the nail - biter Bad Genius ends up pulling off, but here we are.

They often feel they do not fit in academia because they entered lacking the cultural and social indoctrination that is part of their wealthier peers» educations.

And federal datashows that minority students» teachers on average have less experience than the teachers of their wealthier peers.

At secondary level, only 18 % reached the target level - five A-C GCSE passes including English and maths - while 61 % of their wealthier peers in schools that were not struggling reached the benchmark.

Not exact matches

Just south of Queen Elizabeth Park, the residents around Edinburgh Drive, who are new on the list this year, have a scenic view of their slightly wealthier peers across the North River in Lewis Point (see No. 2).

The residents here are the most likely of their wealthy Islander peers to attend art galleries and museums.

They're also the most enthusiastic skiers of their wealthy Calgary peers, with nearly a third hitting the slopes come winter.

In June, a notice from the Ontario Securities Commission cautioned peer - to - peer lenders that a loan arrangement entered into on their websites «may» constitute a security under provincial regulations, which reinforced the view of players such as Grouplend and Borrowell that they should be sticking with wealthy «prospectus exempt» investors to be on the safe side.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

In private the Lib Dems are very gloomy about their prospects of winning a referendum - they think wealthy peers would fund an effective no campaign - and Clegg seems to be conceding that as long as he secures the election of 120 peers in 2015, he could accept a referendum that might stop any further peers being elected.

The arrogant Turner resists giving handouts and his conversations with his peers in the Royal Academy recall those of the wealthy, snobby bet - making businessmen of Trading Places.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

This discrepancy combines with hunger ~ illness (and a lack of health insurance) ~ mobility and other issues that impact disadvantaged students at a much greater rate than their wealthier peers to form a large opportunity gap.

Low - income students, who may not have the same level of access to books and literacy resources, tend to decline more than wealthier peers.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to

Because we know that when low - income children of color have access to high expectations, effective teachers, and quality schools, they can perform equally as well as their wealthy, white peers.

The news is great for charter schools and well worth celebrating: New York City charter schools are knocking the socks off of the state tests and closing the gap with their wealthy peers in the suburbs.

Low - income students are particularly sensitive to this phenomenon some research suggests that more than half of the achievement gap seen in reading between these students and their wealthier peers can be attributed to summer loss.

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

They even outperformed their peers in the largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district, where 84 percent of third - graders passed.

In England Eligibility is determined by a points system that combines the economic deprivation of pupils and the achievement gap between poorer children and their wealthier peers in the area.

So, a Latino peer from a wealthy Mexican family or the African American daughter of a physician who grew up in a predominantly white suburb are not seen as contributing to the diverse learning environment.

A Black student in a district with below - average property wealth (less than $ 6,363 per pupil) has an adequacy level of 61 %, but his peer in a wealthier school district is only a bit better at 69 %.

In a 2015 Washington Post report, it was stated that for the second year in a row, the school's students showed positive testing results, with their third - graders showing a 95 % passing rate in math, even outperforming the 84 % passing rate of third - grader peers from the «largely wealthy, high - achieving Arlington school district».

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

FEA Launched - The Fair Education Alliance, a coalition for change in education comprising 27 of the UK's leading organisations including Teach First, launches with the goal of ending the achievement gap between young people from our poorest communities and their wealthier peers.

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

If subsidised tuition is focussed only on core subjects, disadvantaged pupils could miss out on the broad range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities for personal development that their wealthier peers enjoy.

Children from low income and underserved communities do not have access to the quality of educational resources enjoyed by peers in wealthier communities.

But achievement gaps between students of color and white / Asian students and between low - income students and their wealthier peers (like our Long Islanders) are stark.

The findings underscore the national struggle to boost the college graduation rate for low - income students and students of color, who lag behind their wealthier, white peers.

In a speech on Thursday, he will highlight the «appalling injustice» of children from poorer homes continuing to fall behind their wealthier peers.

The term «achievement gap» refers to the gap between the test scores of low - income students (or students of color) and their wealthier (or white) peers.

As secondary school choices are allocated, new analysis of Ofsted data by Teach First reveals that poorer children are half as likely as their wealthier peers to be heading to a secondary school rated «outstanding».

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

In the third of a five - part series, John Dickens looks at who exactly is benefiting as schools receive more than # 6bn of pupil premium funding and questions if is really closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers

This followed an earlier study from the department finding that «many high - poverty schools receive less than their fair share of state and local funding... leav (ing) students in high - poverty schools with fewer resources than schools attended by their wealthier peers.»

A new nationwide survey on the state of arts education in U.S. public schools finds that arts offerings haven't declined as much as expected, but that students in high - poverty schools, particularly at the secondary level, do not receive the same rich exposure to arts opportunities as their wealthier peers.

We hear a lot about the academic struggles of low - income students and students of color — particularly comparing them to their White and wealthier peers.

Allington and McGill - Franzen have assembled an impressive array of evidence to document the importance of providing students with access to books, particularly in those critical summer months when low income students lose so much ground to their wealthier peers.

In recent years, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded to underrepresented students has been increasing, but it remains relatively low — and these students continue to have lower odds of obtaining college degrees than their wealthier, well - represented peers.

The teachers» association and school boards fear that if low - income families begin to follow their wealthier peers to private schools that offer an education that parents prefer to that of the public schools, the low - performing public schools will no longer have a captive clientele with no alternative but to accept the inadequate education offered there.

And poorer children in every area of the country are more likely to start school behind their wealthier peers.

Whether the measure is proficiency on standardized tests, graduation rates or college completion, the outlook in terms of school performance is significantly worse for low - income students than for their middle - income and wealthy peers.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

Possibly the starkest example of how wealthy older millennials and their ordinary peers manage their finances can be seen in the realm of student loan debt.

In some cases, the top wealthy have another 11 % or so of their total debt committed to a second house, something not many of their less - wealthy peers would have to worry about — affording even a first home is more of a struggle.

A central figure of the British art scene for almost half a century, David Hockney is remarkably wealthy (with a net worth of some $ 40 million), yet still less so than some of his peers.

A consequence of having a majority - poor public school student population is that these children start kindergarten behind their wealthier peers in private schools, and probably will never catch up.