Sentences with phrase «on wealthy students»

«But such messaging can appear to low - SES students as a signal that the institution is more focused on wealthier students,» said Destin, also a faculty fellow at the University's Institute for Policy Research.

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The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

Although, certain «elite» universities seem to strongly favour overseas students (mostly American), especially on postgraduate courses, no doubt because they are far more lucrative than home - based students (highly ironic, considering the recent funding outcry - more money from the taxpayer for the best tutors to tutor the wealthier overseas students).

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

De Blasio gained ground on his opponents in recent weeks with a liberal platform that included a promise to radically reform stop - and - frisk and hike taxes on the wealthy to pay for free pre-K and after - school programs for city students.

That money should be used to invest in infrastructure, affordable housing and student debt relief, not on tax cuts for the wealthiest of Americans, Rhodes said.

Many educators on both sides of the divide acknowledge that these inequities have an adverse effect on all students, both those in poor districts and those in wealthier ones.

Another group of students was exposed to «chilly» promotional statements that suggested that their university was focused on serving wealthier families as opposed to a socioeconomically diverse range of students and families.

The sugar daddies of the foreign college students often take their sugar babies on numerous trips to one of the kind components of Australia, to lead them to acquaint with the wealthy subculture of this country.

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The relationship, which is based on grounds of mutual benefits, is ideal for wealthy businessmen and female students who seek a better lifestyle in foreign land.

The Sugar Daddy Dating Site focus on helping students to find wealthy benefactors including chiefly bankers, entrepreneurs and chief executives

A «sugar daddy» sponsors «sugar baby», often penniless student, which focuses on a wealthy man to fund his rent or his studies in exchange for visits to restaurants or the theater.

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.

It's set at Oxford University, where the elite Riot Club (including Douglas Booth, Sam Reid, Freddie Fox, Matthew Beard, Ben Schnetzer and Olly Alexander) are on the lookout for wealthy white students to complete their 10 - man membership.

The thin plot centers on the various romances within a wealthy family in New York, as narrated by one DJ (spunky newcomer Natasha Lyonne), a Columbia University student who falls in love with a new guy just about every month.

The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student's interest, encourage them to: -: interact and share what they know -: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics -: view information critically -: check the credibility and validity of information -: develop online research skills -: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations The lessons cover a range of topics including: -: Advertising and how it influences us -: Body language and how to understand it -: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ -: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships -: Facts about hair -: Happiness and what effects it -: Developing study skills -: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing -: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people -: The history of marriage and weddings Each lesson includes: -: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key -: Worksheets to print for students

The high scores of students in a wealthy suburban New Jersey school will reflect the contributions of well - educated parents, a communal emphasis on academic achievement, a stable learning environment at home, and enriching extracurricular opportunities.

Given that time, our scholars consistently out - perform wealthy Westchester County on their Regents exams in nearly every subject and our first class of graduates outperformed white students on their SAT's.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

Located on the bottom floor of a housing project in one of the wealthiest counties in the country, a small after - school program is helping low - income students flourish.

Many experts on educational attainment levels have noted that high schools that serve low - income students tend to have overworked counselors who must handle many more students than do their counterparts at wealthier high schools.

Chile's voucher program has led to widespread socio - economic stratification and a decline in public school enrollment, all while making little to no impact on student achievement.63 The program's design essentially creates three school systems: public schools attended mostly by the lowest - income students; voucher - subsidized private schools attended by more middle - class students, as they can charge additional fees or tuition; and nonsubsidized private schools attended by the wealthiest students.

Many of these revisions will help close the equity gap of over $ 1,000 per student between the wealthiest and poorest school districts that is inherent in Texas's continuing over-reliance on disparate property tax values across the state, as noted in the chart below.

I created a table and some basic scatterplots to show how charter high schools in New Jersey compare on SAT results to public high schools that serve students in some of New Jersey's wealthiest and poorest towns.

Table 1 presents the mean SAT scores in Verbal and Math, plus the percentage of students eligible for FREE lunch (not Free and Reduced because the negative influence on achievement comes from FREE lunch eligibility), percentage of students who are limited English proficient (LEP) and the percentage of students with special needs for districts located in the A, B, (NJ's poorest communities) and I, J DFG's (NJ's wealthiest communities), plus those for charter schools (denoted by an «R» on the scatter plots).

On average, the wealthiest districts educate fewer economically disadvantaged, students of color and English learners than the poorest districts.

Budget Analysis Mary Levy also developed revealing charts based on the NAEP scores that show clearly that whites and wealthier students have been the only beneficiaries.

The fact is that wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.

Public school students in wealthier towns like Windham and Bedford perform highly on standardized tests while their low - income peers in Claremont and Stratford lag behind.

This is a terrible disservice to magnet families, who will be on the hook for anywhere from $ 1000 to $ 2500 each year for poorer families, and $ 3000 to $ 6000 for wealthier families depending on which district operates the school and how much it gets for each student from the state's basic magnet subsidy.

Yes, low - income students don't do well on PISA test, but most wealthy students don't, either.

IUPUI has found the students who take at least 15 credits per semester tend to be wealthier, have fewer outside commitments, and are more academically prepared than those who take 12, and are more likely to be female and live on campus.

As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders huddle over rival plans to restructure school funding, lawmakers in Colorado have devised a novel approach to directing more state money to disadvantaged students while calling on wealthier communities to raise their taxes if more is needed.

Ms. Moskowitz and a number of her teachers saw the network's exacting approach in a different way: as putting their students on the same college track as children in wealthier neighborhoods who had better schools and money for extra help.

We in CT have some very wealthy areas where students score extremely high on tests - higher than students in many other states - which creates a wider gap between low poverty and high poverty students.

Those politicians who fall for the «ALEC treatment» become puppets who push the conservative, right - wing group's education policies and proposals back home — legislation designed to benefit ALEC's wealthy benefactors and turn a profit on the backs of students without any regard for their educational wellbeing.

When high school students from a small, wealthy Massachusetts school district known for its excellent schools were found to have messaged each other on Facebook earlier this month using racial and homophobic slurs, school officials and law enforcement immediately stepped in.

While we believe a focus on Pell completion is laudable and absolutely called for, the proposal fails to account for the percentage of Pell - eligible students enrolled within institutions; and, as a result, any new funding will likely benefit wealthy, selective campuses where low - income students are the least likely to enroll.

Streets will not necessarily be safer nor families wealthier if a subset of city students score a half of a standard deviation, for example, higher on a government - issued test (though that would be nice).

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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On average, poorer students are still 3 times more likely to be low performers in science than wealthier students.

Chasing prestige and battered by state funding cuts, many public colleges and universities with a historic responsibility to provide access to an affordable education have turned to «financial aid leveraging,» offering wealthy or high - scoring students discounts on tuition.