Sentences with phrase «upper income peers»

Valor's low - income scholars outperformed their middle and upper income peers in Nashville and the state of Tennessee, inverting the «achievement gap.»

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«Strikingly, however, stressed and non-stressed upper income households reported higher average default likelihood than lower income peers,» UBS said.

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

FITS provides students and their families with unique and engaging learning experiences to reduce and reverse summer learning loss and narrow the achievement gap between lower - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

The program directly addresses summer learning loss and the achievement gap between low - income students and their middle / upper - income peers.

The contrast in access to opportunity is stark for low - income children compared with their upper - middle - class peers.

Created in 1965, the comprehensive preschool program for 3 - and 4 - year olds and their parents is meant to narrow the education gap between low - income students and their middle - and upper - income peers.

Summer learning programs can also offer an important strategy in closing the achievement gap between low - income children and their middle - and upper - class peers.