Sentences with phrase «than poor students»

And state test scores to be released Tuesday, which for the first time include 10,600 Milwaukee voucher students, could suggest they are testing no better than poor students in the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Poor students in mixed - income schools do better than poor students in high - poverty schools.

Factors such as selective teacher referrals, high attrition rates, and an overrepresentation of girls and siblings mean that the students at no - excuses schools are more capable and determined than poor students generally.

Reardon's research revealed that the achievement gap between high - income and low - income students has widened in the past three decades largely because income inequality has increased, affluent students arrive to kindergarten better prepared than poor students, and affluent parents spend more on enrichment and tutoring.

«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.»

Not exact matches

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

Additionally, this is an education system that promotes inequality and therefore injustice: Schools in the United States are twice as likely to pair poor and minority students with brand - new teachers and almost four times more likely to suspend black students than white students.

Why is poor, searching Binx the stockbroker so much more to us than Professor Schwartz's happily married medical student at the end of the book?

For example, when Los Angeles USD rolled out an ambitious new menu in 2011, the early, negative student response seemed, in my view, to have more to do with poor preparation than the changed offerings.

Some even have the potential of becoming a better reader than a gifted student with poor educational experiences and lack of practice.

In justifying the raising of the cap on tuition fees to # 9,000, the coalition has made it a cornerstone of their argument that universities which charge more than # 6,000 will have to demonstrate they are increasing access to poorer students.

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

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a depoor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a dePoor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

There are fears now that students could face charges of up to # 12,000 a year to study at a university in England, although the review suggests that universities which charge more than # 6,000 a year will face a further levy, aimed at funding poorer students.

The legislation would give the city the power to base teacher firings on factors other than seniority, including chronic absenteeism and poor student test scores.

Students who are just learning English are far more likely to miss school and drop out than their peers, a probable contributor to their poor graduation rates.

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.

If the grant only serves districts with more than half their students from families poor enough to qualify for the free and reduced lunch program, as some of the grant programs do, J - E, at 34 percent, would not qualify.

He said his platform was dominated by his belief that the school was giving scholarships to wealthy students with influential parents rather than to poorer students like himself.

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.

In addition, poor students are 25 times less likely to attend a highly prestigious college than students from rich families.

The results show that in every respect, the Greek students reported poorer health than the Swedish students.

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

Another fallacy is that students entering higher education courses in physics and engineering are poorer in quality than students in other subjects.

How the Government's inflation trick makes pensioners, commuters and students poorer The financial crash has left the poor even poorer than they were before the recession — while the rich have got richer, a new report has revealed

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.

He plays Jim White, a disgraced football coach whos no sooner moved to McFarland, CA than he spies the running potential of some of his dirt poor Mexican students, and starts a crosscountry team.

does not, and that reducing prices across the board will have more political durability than programs limited only to poor students.

The portion of at - risk students was less than 10 percent at about 15 traditional schools in affluent neighborhoods and greater than 75 percent at more than two dozen schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River.

The proportion of students in poverty in the majority - black elementary schools has increased over time, and remains at higher levels (currently at 91 percent poor) than the district's other elementary schools (76.6 percent poor.)

For this to happen it is necessary for our financial institutions to invest in the sustainable low carbon economy of the future, rather than repeated casino capitalism leaving the poor in the community to bear a disproportionate burden of the banks bailout, including high youth unemployment and extortionate university fees for many post school students.

But he neglected to mention that the city had received more than $ 260 million in new dollars for poor students alone under NCLB in the previous two years (see «Who Got the Raw Deal in Gotham?»

Using this proxy, we find that the applicants to charter schools are much more likely to be poor than is the average New York City student (93 percent versus 74 percent).

The school has far more poor students today than it did before it began to participate in the EdChoice Scholarship program.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

The report stated that students who used computers frequently in school were attaining poorer results than those who used computers infrequently - once or twice a week.

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.

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 average Massachusetts student misses eight school days per year, according to Goodman, but student absences vary by poverty status, with poor students being absent ten days per year on average, three days more than nonpoor students.

As I switch the metric from per - Title I eligible (i.e., from child poverty counts) as in the district - level calculations in Table 1 to per - FRPL - eligible student, the grant amounts shrink as more students participate in free and reduced - price lunch than are poor (and counted for district - level allocations).

Though Lee's writing appears to be anexample of bad taste and poor judgmentrather than a sign of mentalimbalance or danger to others, a case from Long Island, New York, could be the bestexample of how attentionto a student's writing mayhave foiled a plan to attack aschool.

According to Goodman a «likely explanation is that schools and teachers are well prepared to deal with the coordinated disruptions caused by snow days — much more so than they are to handle the less dramatic but more frequent disruptions caused by poor student attendance.»

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

Higher - performing middle schools share many of the same practices and attributes, concludes a study of 15 New York state middle schools that serve larger - than - average percentages of poor students.

• Duke researchers Charles Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, and Jacob Vigdor found that being taught by a sub for 10 days per year has a larger effect on a child's math scores than if he'd changed schools, and about half the size of the difference between students from well - to - do and poor families.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

For the subset of teachers who can be linked to their students, we find that teachers who received a layoff notice are more likely to be teaching poor, non-white, and lower - scoring students than other teachers.

Schools do matter a lot, and more than a few exist that have achieved phenomenal results for poor and minority students.