Sentences with phrase «upper income students»

So it's interesting to see that the lowest income students are not driving the gains as much as the middle class and upper income students are.

He finds that Chile should expect a 20 percent decline in the number of low - income students that enroll in universities relative to the number enrolled before gratuidad, as upper income students crowd them out of the admissions process.

Beyond conserving costs, lowering the cap further may preserve many of the hoped - for benefits of the program while minimizing potentially harmful side effects: for low income students, the «free» message is more likely to tip the scales towards attending college at all, while for upper income students the same message might simply change where they choose to go.

Not exact matches

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

The majority of minorities entering science and engineering are from the middle - and upper - income families, but considerable debt and modest earnings (compared to business, law, and medicine) may deter even some high - achieving minority students from choosing these fields.1 Up to 25 % of academically qualified low - income students either do not apply to college2 or drop out, unable to keep pace with escalating prices.3

Up until now, research on the impact of musical training has been primarily conducted on middle - to upper - income music students participating in private music lessons, she said.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

Middle - and upper - income students pay a modest amount in net tuition, but that is because government aid is progressive.

Organized by partnerships between school districts, nonprofit organizations, universities, and others, they provide a more diverse group of students with the enriching science, art, and community - based activities that middle - and upper - income parents can provide by paying for fee - based summer sessions.

For states, that means closing gaps in achievement and making sure English - language learners and special education and low - income students have the same access to education as middle - class and upper - class college - bound kids.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

[31] However, because most free college proposals in the U.S. include an income cutoff around $ 125,000 for upper - income students, free college would not apply to these students, as is the case in Chile.

[8] While the Broward district is overwhelmingly low - income, black and Hispanic, its gifted program was filled with upper - income, white students when it relied on teacher and parent referrals to fill seats.

[30] It is students from upper - middle and high - income families who typically pay full tuition.

The incremental change in student aid for low - income students who received scholarships and heavily subsidized loans prior to gratuidad is arguably small, and upper - income students still must pay tuition.

Not surprisingly, fewer than 10 percent of low - income children earn a four - year college degree, compared to about 80 percent of upper - income students.

But state - funded voucher programs rarely catapult low - income students into elite private schools with upper - income whites and Asians, education experts say.

We further believe that while education systems should be attuned to the needs of all students, including high - performing students and students raised in middle - and upper - income homes, policy makers must be particularly sensitive to the needs of student groups whose choices have historically been limited by law or by circumstance, including students of color, students raised in low - income homes, students with English language needs, and students with disabilities.

New research, however, suggests that what really works is winning a different kind of lottery: the one jurisdictions like Montgomery County, Md., hold to provide a chance for low - income public - housing students to live in upper - middle - class...

Forty - five percent of those students came from middle and upper income families, according to Out of Pocket: The High Cost of Inadequate High Schools and High School Student Achievement on College Affordability, a new research report from Education Reform Now and Education Post.

Yet quality pre-K is especially important for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who often lack the exposure to literature, reading and numeracy that is common in middle - and upper - income homes: It can help ensure that these kids don't show up to kindergarten already far behind other students.

Research demonstrates low - income students struggle to learn at the same pace as middle and upper income white students do.

Unfortunately this has not proven to be the case, but that argument did make vouchers more acceptable so that now they are expanding beyond inner - city, low - income students to children of middle class and upper income families.

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.

Beach Court saw a dramatic change in CSAP proficiency scores from the low 40's to the upper 60's in 2007 with numbers growing into the upper 80's, amongst the highest in Denver, and certainly the highest for any elementary school serving so many low - income students (growth was also in the 80 and 90 percentage points for many of those years).

For example, a 2010 New York state charter school law requiring charter schools to mimic the demographics of the surrounding neighborhood — implemented to address gaps in English language learner and special education enrollment at charter schools — might mean, if enforced, that a school in upper Manhattan's District 6 would need to enroll a student population in which 98 percent are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, a commonly used measure of low - income status.64

The challenges faced by these students are incomparable to children from most upper - income families.

It reported that in 2011 - 2012 in New Jersey, 75 percent of low - income students graduated, while 90 percent of students at mid - and upper - income levels finished high school.

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.

The influx of white middle - class and upper - class students, however, threatens this funding and endangers the programs that help and support low - income students in these schools.

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

Although more students got placed in high schools in the first round, the process heavily favored middle to upper income, college - educated families who would be familiar with this type of higher education matching model.

An instructor at Pratt since 1999, Vigneri - Beane teaches a range of studios and media courses for both incoming and upper - level students that explore relationships among contemporary design techniques, architectural categories of production, and the history of discourse in the discipline.

Rise is a non-profit organization providing free family law services for low - income women through a legal clinic staffed by upper year law students from UBC's Peter A Allard School of Law.

Accordingly to the respite of students, income tax laws allow you to claim interest paid by you in respect of an education loan against your taxable income without any upper limit.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, the largest growth in student debt between 2007 and 2010 was in upper - middle - income families, those earning $ 94,500 to $ 205,000 a year.

-- Student loan interest deduction (permitting a deduction of up to $ 2,500 of loan interest, phasing out at upper income levels) is repealed.