Sentences with phrase «student from poor families»

First, the current formulas do not focus on concentrations of poverty; rather, they consider both concentrations of poverty and absolute numbers of students from poor families.

The benefits were most obvious for students from poor families.

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

Federal money intended to help students from poor families is being spent to serve students who don't qualify for the program, a new analysis suggests.

Just 8 percent of the Black students from poor families and 15 percent of those from more prosperous families score at the proficient or above levels.

If this is like most years, administrators at top schools such as Harvard and Stanford will try hard to find talented high school students from poor families in a push to increase the socioeconomic diversity on campus and to counter the growing concern that highly selective colleges cater mainly to students from privileged backgrounds.

She also found a widespread belief that their academic setbacks were not the schools» responsibility but, rather, the result of too many students from poor families with «home life» issues.

January 9, 2013 • Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families.

In the New York Times, David Kirp writes about efforts to raise college enrollment and graduation rates among students from poor families by texting the students regularly with helpful information and reminders.

The Baltimore city school system is considering sweeping changes to its funding formula that would direct more money to schools with many students from poor families.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

Since students from poorer families already get these kinds of subsidies in New York, Cuomo's plan holds the biggest boost for middle - income families in the suburbs, according to an analysis by the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

Bullying is frequently associated with discrimination against students from poor families or ethnically marginalized groups, or those with particular personal characteristics (e.g. appearance, or a physical or mental disability).

Imagine two classrooms: one with well - behaved, highly motivated students from well - to - do families, the other with poorly behaved, unmotivated students from poor families.

Students from poor families often «undermatch.»

Many academically talented students from poor families do not attend more selective universities because they do not even apply to these universities, even though the study finds that the selective universities would be very likely to admit them.

By tapping philanthropist and school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary, Trump has signaled that he intends to make good on his pledge to use $ 20 billion in federal funds to give students from poor families more options.

As part of today's Higher Education Summit as presented by The Australian Financial Review in Melbourne, Education Minister Simon Birmingham is expected to present a report that indicates students from poorer families may be disadvantaged by issues of clarity regarding university entrance.

The naming of that category makes students from poor families visible and vulnerable in a whole new way.

-- Why have conservative leaders shown so little interest in bringing greater equity to funding regular public schools where students from wealthy families can have twice or more spent on their education than is spent on students from poorer families in less fortunate school districts?

«We are concerned about the prospects of students from poorer families following the announcement of the withdrawal of the Educational Maintenance Allowance and would like to see more detail about what is meant by «more targeted support» for these young people.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

D.C. charters, like those in Massachusetts and California, benefit from a funding system that favors students from poor families.

However, both parents and the general public give lower grades to schools with a high percentage of students from poor families.

Top schools often offer scholarships that not only include free tuition, but also free room and board for top students from poor families — meaning it can be less expensive for these students to attend Harvard than a state school or a community college, says Caroline Hoxby, an economist at Stanford who tracks these students.

«The one sure way to end cycles of poverty is for students from poor families who are capable, willing and able to go to college,» Richard Kogan, a senior fellow with the CBPP, told the Fiscal Times.

And he hasn't sugarcoated the challenge, noting that white students from poor families were doing better in school than black students from families with money.

And by 1961, a study of the Detroit public schools found that students from the poorest families in the district were eight times more likely to be in the general track than children from upper - income families.

The I Have a Dream Foundation, also based in New York, provides mentoring, tutoring, and enrichment programs nationwide for students from poor families.

We then linked the grades given to each school to data on the school's characteristics: its size, the size of classes at the school, the racial and ethnic composition of its students, the percentage of students from poor families, and the percentage of students performing at proficient levels on state reading and math tests.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Title I schools that fail to reach state goals for making adequate yearly progress must offer such tutoring to students from poor families.

«Some of the students from poorer families say that with limited resources, they are glad they didn't have a sibling and now they don't want their child to go without.

On the other hand, the Fairfax County Public Schools Dissimilarity Index is just 47 and Black students typically attend schools where just 38 percent of their students from poor families.

A student from a poor family is much more likely to succeed academically in a school filled mostly with middle - class students than in one filled mostly with lower - income students.

And students from middle - income families maintain their achievement when they go to school with students from poor families, if the school maintains a majority of middle - class students.

The group said that urgency is needed to make sure schools deliver better results to students from poor families, children of color, and those with language barriers or special learning needs.

(2010) to understand how a high school can successfully address the needs of large numbers of ELLs and students from poor families.

It's also about creating a level playing field so that students from poor families have the same opportunities to succeed as those from more privileged backgrounds.

Oklahoma schools would have faced similar restrictions on about $ 29 million in federal funding through Title I funding of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which distributes money to schools and school districts with a high percentage of students from poor families.

While a student from a poor family or community in the United States is more likely to fall behind academically than his or her peers, the same isn't true of poor students in Shanghai.