Sentences with phrase «students from poor»

Open enrollment has had an immediate benefit to California's parents in poor schools, both because individually parents have been able to get their children out of poor schools, and also because the mere ability of parents to remove their students from poor schools provides a powerful incentive for school management to try harder to improve.

Talented students from poor, minority families can easily become nearly invisible in our education system — especially when they attend the often - struggling schools that serve their communities.

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.

Lauver realized that the fight to keep students in school is linked to the drive for increased school achievement, especially for students from poor homes.

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.

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.

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.

These results have been achieved by disadvantaged students from poor minority communities, traditionally the lowest performing students, which makes the KIPP results even more stunning.

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.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

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

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

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

This week's episode of This American Life focuses on some young people who participated in a program that brought together students from a poor public school and a rich private school that are three miles apart.

Yet recent AIR research for the National Center on Education Statistics adds to the mounting evidence - base that shows students from poor and minority backgrounds are systematically shortchanged in their access to qualified, experienced, and excellent teachers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Students from poor families often «undermatch.»

Good information protects students from poor - quality providers and helps high - quality providers expand their impact.

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.

So, how can we capture the benefits of course choice while also protecting students from poor - quality course choice providers?

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.

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).

However, both parents and the general public give lower grades to schools with a high percentage of 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 government gives free education up to a decent age which means a lot of students from poor class enroll there.

The University of Pennsylvania has failed to live up to its promise to provide 125 full - tuition scholarships a year to students from poor and working - class families in Philadelphia, according to a lawsuit filed last week.

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.

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

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.

The First - Generation Gap (Harvard Magazine) Mention of Anthony Jack's work on the diversity among students from poor families

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.

It is also to enable students dropping out at the SHS who otherwise would have continued to acquire functional skills, as well as increase the chances of students from poor background accessing high education to reduce the cost of education of many households.

A # 150 million national scholarships programme is also being set up which will guarantee student benefits such as a free first year or foundation year to the «brightest students from poor backgrounds», officials said.

He says students from poor and working - class families, whose tuition is already free, should be helped with other expenses..

The report argues that an increase in the cap to # 10,000 would deter thousands of students from poorer backgrounds from attending university - with potentially drastic implications for Britain's competitiveness in the labour market.

Exemptions for students from poorer households will continue.

«It is heartening to see that the most recent data shows a narrowing in the gap between learners eligible for free school meals and those who aren't, and this data supports the findings of the survey we undertook in the summer which showed how students from poorer backgrounds are benefiting from this important Welsh Liberal Democrat policy.

But the business secretary will also recommend protection from tuition fee rises for students from poorer backgrounds.

And higher education minister Alan Johnson said the scheme would increase access for students from poorer backgrounds to the top universities.

«The key policy in the Welsh Labour Government's annual budget that will support students from poorer backgrounds is the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

I did indeed pledge to oppose the fee rises under the current system but Lord Browne's report proposes many of the changes I campaigned for, - more support for students from poorer backgrounds, a proper Graduate starting salary before paying money back, and a duty on universities to provide much more information to students about what they get for their money and the likelihood of graduate employment in their chosen sectors.

It is certainly true that students from poorer or less - educated families accumulate more debt than those from richer or more highly educated families.

The study discovered that students from poorer backgrounds are entering secondary schools with better test scores.

«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.

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.

In Britain, too, both Oxford and Cambridge have long pointed to a dearth of students from poorer backgrounds who achieve the standard required in exams at the end of high school to be considered for admission to most courses at those universities.