Not exact matches
There is little pressure to improve academic performance when the
student body by dint of having
students from
affluent, well educated, stable families will perform
very well even with mediocre academic instruction at school.
The difference between
affluent and poor
students is around three years of schooling, it equates to about three years of schooling in each maths, science and reading literacy — that is really,
very concerning.
While many
affluent suburban districts have lower achievement than we might expect, some districts are producing
very high achievement even when compared with that of
students in other developed countries.
In both districts, schools serving the most
affluent students received tens of thousands of dollars in additional funding each year from parents, while the highest - poverty schools received
very little, if anything, from their PTAs.