Sentences with phrase «student than poorer ones»

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

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At 149 schools in the Bronx, less than one in ten can read or do math at grade level, and these schools disproportionately impact poor children of - color — 96 % of the 65,000 students in these failing schools are of - color, and 95 % come from families near or below the poverty line.

Overall, students at richer schools did better than those at poorer ones.

The money that generates substantially covers you, more than substantially covers you, for the policy of no tuition fees, no top - up fees, a reintroduction of grants for poorer students, that we have already successfully pioneered in one part of the UK in Scotland.

One in three high - school students scored less than 0.3 — which is classed as «extremely poor».

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.

In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

The technology gap in public education is narrowing, with one computer for every 5.3 students in America's poorest districtsâ $» less than half a student behind the national average.

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.

The technology gap in public education is narrowing, with one computer for every 5.3 students in America's poorest districts — less than half a student behind the national average.

Even students in the poorest districts appear to do better in a competitive system, as exists in the Boston area, than they do in areas in which one or two districts dominate a metropolitan area, like Miami.

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.

Wealthy children entering kindergarten are now roughly eight months ahead of poor students in childhood development, one month less than in 1998.

But should it be for wealthy students more often than for poor ones?

The NCLB law gives parents the choice to withdraw their students and send them elsewhere, rather than address the concentration of low - performing minority students — typically poor ones — that did not have the resources to get find their way to more distant schools in their own districts.

Teachers and administrators who work with children from low - income families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

And will the new systems they build be better than the current ones, or will they leave poor and minority students behind?

And you can only quickly improve exam results by changing the students you teach, rather than how they're taught — by expelling poor performing students and attracting better ones from elsewhere — and neither of these actions help society in the long run.

Students with longer sleep times report significantly higher grades than students with poor sleeping schedules, according to one recenStudents with longer sleep times report significantly higher grades than students with poor sleeping schedules, according to one recenstudents with poor sleeping schedules, according to one recent paper.

Located in one of the poorest ZIP codes in Texas, Burleson Elementary has a population of more than 450 students, the majority of whom are English language learners (ELL students).

For these students — primarily African American and Latino, but also poor students of all backgrounds — the teachers who believe in and push them, who refuse to accept anything less than the best from them, often make the single greatest difference between a life of hope and one of despair.

California's poor students performed worse on a national exam than needy kids from all but one other state, according to results released this week by the National Center for Education...

To achieve this vision, combined state, district, and school efforts must close significant and persistent achievement gaps, which occur when one student group statistically outperforms another.18 However, data from international, national, and state - level sources all confirm that nonwhite, disabled, poor, and non-English-speaking students perform more poorly than their peers outside of these groups.19

Ohio's «2011 - 12 value - added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value - added results than those that serve more - affluent ones.»

The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked by the fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.