Sentences with phrase «wealthier peers»

As a result, poor students closed academic gaps with wealthy peers by 10 percent in early math and 16 percent in early reading.

A heist - style drama about genius high school students and their task to pull off the ultimate, cheating scam on behalf of dozens of wealthy peers doesn't quite sound like the nail - biter Bad Genius ends up pulling off, but here we are.

Data in the government's new consultation shows that families who are «not captured by traditional measures of deprivation but whose household income is below the national average» find it harder to access outstanding schools and don't perform as well as wealthier peers.

Just south of Queen Elizabeth Park, the residents around Edinburgh Drive, who are new on the list this year, have a scenic view of their slightly wealthier peers across the North River in Lewis Point (see No. 2).

Although the difference was slight, high - income children outperformed their less wealthy peers on both IQ tests and an exam designed to replicate achievement in various academic subjects.

In private the Lib Dems are very gloomy about their prospects of winning a referendum - they think wealthy peers would fund an effective no campaign - and Clegg seems to be conceding that as long as he secures the election of 120 peers in 2015, he could accept a referendum that might stop any further peers being elected.

Long after he became a billionaire, Li wore a simple Seiko (seiko - epson - corp) watch rather than a Rolex or other luxury brands preferred by his wealthy peers.

Madoff just screwed over his wealthy peers.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

By 16, children receiving free school meals achieve 1.7 grades lower at GCSE than their wealthier peers.6 Leaving school with fewer qualifications translates into lower earnings over the course of a working life.

An example might be the pupil premium approach which ensures that young kids from poor backgrounds get much higher funding (at around fee - paying school levels) thus ensuring that they keep up with their wealthier peers at school.

We are losing an entire generation,» said Miner, who says poorer children need the extra assistance to compete with their wealthier peers.

The gap in attainment between poorer pupils and their wealthier peers reduced by 1.3 percentage points last year from 17.3 to 16.1 percentage points, and since 2012, this gap has narrowed by 2.2 percentage points.

The money has been provided by Lord Oakeshott, a wealthy peer, who resigned from the Lib Dems in May after warning that the party was «heading for disaster» under Nick Clegg's leadership.

Meanwhile, Cathy Newman reported that it looks like some of the wealthiest peers are laughing all the way to the bank.

Now, with 44,000 children still on public charter waiting lists and a persistent achievement gap that separates low - income students from their wealthier peers, the public charter sector is working to double in size and reach 200,000 students by 2020.

They often feel they do not fit in academia because they entered lacking the cultural and social indoctrination that is part of their wealthier peers» educations.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

To make sure we go where the need is greatest, we only partner with schools in areas that serve low income communities and where there is a significant attainment gap between these children and their wealthier peers.

This discrepancy combines with hunger ~ illness (and a lack of health insurance) ~ mobility and other issues that impact disadvantaged students at a much greater rate than their wealthier peers to form a large opportunity gap.

Some of the biggest gaps in school readiness between poorer pupils and their wealthier peers are in traditionally affluent areas.

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

Low - income girls tend to start a new family earlier and bear more children than their wealthier peers (Varela, Pollero, & Fostik, 2008).

The poorest children are nearly 13 months behind their wealthier peers by the time they sit their GCSE exams, a new report shows.

Low - income students, who may not have the same level of access to books and literacy resources, tend to decline more than wealthier peers.

Give students from poverty access to the same high - level curricular and pedagogical opportunities and high expectations as their wealthy peers.

Young people from low income backgrounds are less likely than their wealthier peers to undertake an apprenticeship, according to new analysis from Teach First.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to

According to a study by Education Datalab, the Kent Test, the entrance exam in Kent, was a «loaded dice» against pupils on free school meals because they were not coached for the test, unlike their wealthier peers.

The news is great for charter schools and well worth celebrating: New York City charter schools are knocking the socks off of the state tests and closing the gap with their wealthy peers in the suburbs.

Low - income students are particularly sensitive to this phenomenon some research suggests that more than half of the achievement gap seen in reading between these students and their wealthier peers can be attributed to summer loss.

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

Children from low - income families miss more days of school, have lower vocabulary and lag significantly behind their wealthier peers.

In England Eligibility is determined by a points system that combines the economic deprivation of pupils and the achievement gap between poorer children and their wealthier peers in the area.

And federal data shows that minority students» teachers on average have less experience than the teachers of their wealthier peers.

Rather than focusing on how to «fix» poor and working class youth, they challenge us to acknowledge the ways these youth and their families are disenfranchised by educational policies and practices that deny them the opportunities enjoyed by their wealthier peers.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

The report argues that this is because disadvantaged young people are constantly held back by social mobility hurdles their wealthier peers do not face.

Fully funding this program would be a far more effective strategy to ensure that children in poverty receive the supplemental services they need to achieve on par with their wealthier peers.

Yet twice as many of their wealthier peers do so.

FEA Launched - The Fair Education Alliance, a coalition for change in education comprising 27 of the UK's leading organisations including Teach First, launches with the goal of ending the achievement gap between young people from our poorest communities and their wealthier peers.

Disadvantaged young people are nearly twice as likely to drop out of university as their wealthier peers (5 % compared to 8.8 %).

«We must recognize that different colleges provide different experiences for students, and, if we as a society value equal opportunity as we say we do, it's critical that Colorado's low - income students have the same access to elite colleges as their wealthier peers,» said Van Schoales, CEO of A + Denver.

If subsidised tuition is focussed only on core subjects, disadvantaged pupils could miss out on the broad range of extra-curricular activities and opportunities for personal development that their wealthier peers enjoy.

Sheffield Park Academy is only one of 45 schools in the country at which poorer pupils make better progress than their wealthier peers.

Education officials said the tests will provide more timely and detailed information on students» academic progress and help disadvantaged students catch up to wealthier peers.

But achievement gaps between students of color and white / Asian students and between low - income students and their wealthier peers (like our Long Islanders) are stark.

The chances that a poorer child will go to a school rated as Outstanding compared to their wealthier peers.