Sentences with phrase «than poor kids»

Do we really still believe that wealthy kids are naturally smarter than poor kids?

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

Instead we spend billions on testing that tells us what we already know — rich kids are better off than poor kids; without addressing that inequality.

As a Washington Post article put it, rich kids who do everything wrong are better off than poor kids who do everything right.

«Poor kids in 2010 were living in worse economic circumstances than poor kids in 1998,» said Reardon, a faculty affiliate of the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis.

Curriculum and content matter — and for no one more than poor kids who get too little of that knowledge and vocabulary at home.

Not exact matches

Poor kids grow up to make better entrepreneurs than rich kids.

As insufficient as provincial support for poor children may be, they enjoy on average 22 % more child welfare resources than on - reserve kids.

The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

the problem is not with sanchez but the reluctance of others to move up with him; the guy showed more energy and effort than all the others on saturday; ramsey was poor on saturday but to his credit he continues to get in to scoring positions but we need to have attack minded players who do the same; the ox is still work in progress in this respect but ozil should be encouraged to stay high and another attacker brought in... reus the colombian kid somebody who can link up with sanchez....

Part of the article is absolutely correct in saying that Sanchez and a lot of the phenomenal talent we see today (C.Ronaldo, Suarez) etc all come from extremely poor homes from third world countries and I believe this is one of the reasons why English talent is dwindling because kids would rather sit indoors and play on the xbox than go outside and do the real thing.

Should stop worrying about left back and bring in quality attacking option... If isco is available should get him Sanchez giroud / welbeck isco ozil should be ok to keep us there or thereabouts... With Campbell as back up... ox on loan Walcott sold to some Middle East team with more money than sense... Or test Bilbao on the Williams kid suspect they might take 25 even with his buy out clause upped... need something... We r 2 points above spurs right now with a much poorer goal difference

After looking at more than 60 studies of kids ages 5 — 17, the team found that over 90 % of them showed that «more screen time is associated with delayed bedtimes, fewer hours of sleep and poorer sleep quality.»

Unsurprisingly, the results of the study revealed that both teachers and mothers caring for their children reported that kids who were poor sleepers in the toddler years had more behavioral problems than those who slept longer.

They're often thought to be a sign of poor parenting, but parents are more likely to harm kids by overdoing it with pesticide shampoos than by not preventing infestation in the first place.

Amazon.com: What makes Geoffrey Canada's approach to educating poor city kids different than the many reforms that have come before?

For instance, in the United States, researchers usually confirm that children with permissive parents tend to have poorer outcomes than do kids with authoritative parents.

make easier to share the kids (live close to each other give each other extras for living ie date nights) and accept you will be a bit poorer than you were before... and keep the friendship.

In fact, good single moms are 62 percent better at lowering the risk of drug abuse by their kids than two - parent households where the father - child relationship is poor.

And it works both ways: a la carte lines can mean that poor kids lose access to less - than - healthy but highly - kid - popular junk food like Flamin» Hot Cheetos and tater tots, and it can also mean that only kids with money can access better food, like yogurts, salads and fresh sandwiches that are only offered a la carte.

Kids would rather go hungry than perceived as «poor» or «needy».

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children from poorer neighborhoods who are hospitalized are more likely to die before discharge than kids from wealthier areas, according to a new study.

The simple fact is kids from poorer socioeconomic environments are going to have poorer educational outcomes than those from better socioeconomic environments regardless of the quality of teaching.

The Gap Elimination Adjustment took much more aid back from kids in poor districts than in places like Scarsdale and Chappaqua.

Wearing red T - shirts emblazoned with «Don't Steal Possible,» more than 18,000 parents, kids and charter school advocates rallied at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn Wednesday to call for better schools in poor neighbors.

«Accumulation of research evidence such as ours may one day help us identify kids who might be at risk for dyslexia, rather than waiting for children to become poor readers and experience failure.»

«Kids also eat more sugar than adults, so fructose may be even more of a risk factor in children, which would add to their years of poor health.»

I slumped farther down in the car and at the dinner table, rolling my eyes and proudly accepting my role as a slouchy kid who had more important things to care about than poor posture.

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.

Margaret Blood: In the absence of a public policy commitment, we've allowed the market to take over and provide very high - quality services to a limited number of wealthy children and, for the most part, less - than - quality services to poor children, with lots of kids stuck in between.

Rather than getting mad at a student with poor working memory who constantly forgets to write down homework assignments, a teacher could easily help that kid by verbalizing assignments and writing them down on the white board.

Whitehurst, G.J. «This policy would help poor kids more than universal pre-K does.»

Paul Tough: Poor kids need different types of support than middle - class kids.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&raKids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rakids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

Hedy Chang, who heads a research project called Attendance Counts, has calculated that children living in homes without enough food missed two days more than better - fed kids, children whose mothers are unemployed missed two more days than those whose moms had jobs, children whose mothers had less than a high - school education missed 1.5 more days, and those whose mothers are in poor health missed two days more.

But it's not racist to say that poor kids — who generally come to school with much less vocabulary, exposure to print, and much else — might need something different — more intense, more structured — than their well - off, better - prepared peers.

It's taken as an article of faith in the education reform community: we're screwing poor kids by giving them less effective teachers than their more affluent peers enjoy.

For poor kids, the loss is typically worse than for their middle class peers since they usually don't have enriching summer activities.

The other irony, as Tony Bryck and the co-authors of the now - classic 1992 study, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, discovered, is that by virtue of their rigor Catholic schools (once) did a better job educating ordinary kids, including the poor, than did public schools.

Poor kids can do so much better than most of them are doing in the U.S. today.

The brainchild of President Obama's Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr., the program had attracted interest from 26 school districts across the country that believed kids would be better off in schools that educate rich and poor, and white and minority students, together rather than separately.

«When all kids get the same, rigorous high school curriculum, we know that poor and minority students can more than hold their own in college,» said Education Trust Director Kati Haycock.

Friedman would have allowed schools to charge parents more in tuition than what a voucher could cover, potentially allowing rich parents to send their kids to better - resourced schools than poor parents could.

Our poorest kids simply must learn more in the next decade than they did in this one.

Poor schools can see what resources they're entitled to and use their fair share of these funds in ways that will better serve their kids, rather than standing last in line for what the district has to offer.

Thirty - three percent of suburban kids — and three out of every five black and Latino kids in suburbia — attend schools where more than half their peers are on free and reduced lunch (which essentially means that there is at least a one - in - two chance that they are poor themselves).

So for these districts and their respective states, especially those in the Beltway where Hess and Petrilli live, there is greater motivation to eviscerate the accountability provisions (and go back to ignoring poor and minority kids) than to get rid of the compliance rules that actually get in the way of systemic reform.

By being more concerned about how accountability supposedly feels to those working in schools than on the demonstrable benefits to the poor and minority kids who deserve high - quality education, Petrilli and others have failed a key tenet of being school reformers.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.