Sentences with phrase «wealthier students»

They compete with each other to attract the same small group of very wealthy students who can afford them.

Unfortunately, you will be competing with the families of wealthy students for the units who are searching off campus.

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.

But should it be for wealthy students more often than for poor ones?

Importantly, the gains were seen in all schools, from those serving mostly wealthy students to those with many needy students.

As a result, the universities that can attract wealthy students offer them more seats at the expense of poorer students.

There is absolutely no question of wealthy students being able to buy their way into university.

It's what scholars have bluntly called an apartheid system: wealthy districts spend more on wealthy students, and poor districts struggle to spend less on the poor students who need the most.

For instance, Amistad Academy in New Haven reported a significant jump in math and reading proficiency scores on statewide tests, with some students performing «almost as well» as wealthier students in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Our nation's public school funding is in a shambles, and the schools attended by the poor are, by and large, funded at far lower levels than even the public schools attended by wealthier students.

After electing a slate of reformers to its school board in 2009, the district pioneered the first voucher program for wealthy students in high - performing, well - regarded public schools.

Worse, it creates a stigma around cafeteria meals if only poor students eat them, while wealthier students grab a few slices of pizza from the student activities sale table.

Hirsch began arguing 30 years ago that the gap in performance between wealthier students on the one hand and poor and minority ones on the other is essentially a gap in knowledge.

Yes, low - income students don't do well on PISA test, but most wealthy students don't, either.

«New York State has one of the most inequitable school funding systems in the nation, with school districts that serve large proportions of low - income students and students of color having on average fewer resources than districts that serve wealthier students.

Other groups see Cuomo's plan as tailored to benefit wealthier students.

«What is likely happening is that private colleges are seeking out high - paying wealthy students even when they're less academically qualified than low - income students.»

And the student union, fzs, although generally supporting the upcoming changes in the university system, tends to be skeptical: «We fear that the new degrees might foster an elite by expelling less wealthy students after the BA to the job market,» says fzs's Kerry Sailer.

Locals love the inside jokes, the reference to wealthy students hanging out at the upscale Pavilion's Shopping Center or living in the tony suburb of Granite Bay.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

Wealthier students also started planning their applications earlier, with 23 % starting during their GCSES, and were more likely to have taken part in non-academic extracurricular activities to support their applications.

Moreover, just as Facebook and MySpace attract different social classes, so wealthy students may gravitate toward certain virtual schools and courses, apart from low income pupils.

However ~ NAEP shows minimalto - no improvement for these students ~ and some losses; whats more ~ white and Hispanic students scores fell by 3 points ~ and black students scores stayed the same ~ so only the influx of new wealthier students with higher scores could account for the small overall gain.

Wealthy students then attend subsidized (free in Brazil) elite public or publicly funded universities.

Wealthier students typically do eight hours of homework a week, about three hours more than low income students.

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

The problem is that low - income children are at a disadvantage when June comes around and they are not intellectually stimulated whereas wealthier students stay stimulated by attending camps and workshops.

This puts wealthier students ahead and adds another barrier for schools with a high poverty rate to overcome.

Yet another study shows that Illinois spends more money to educate wealthier students than it does to educate low - income students and that its school funding system is the most regressive in the nation.

The new tax credit system, by contrast, could be used by states to fund wealthier students — and could be opened up to enrollment at religious schools as well.

Not surprisingly, schools serving the most wealthy students get the highest rankings, so this ranking is more reflective of the school community wealth than the power of a school to support student learning.

Here's the latest, more profound way in which wealthier students have an advantage over lower - income ones: Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades — critical in the competition for college admission — than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows.

Granted, this data may be affected by a number of different factors — merit - based scholarships do not typically take family income into account, for instance — but the research is upsetting enough to leave some educators and families wondering whether universities are targeting and enticing wealthy students with scholarship aid, while not offering as much funding to students in need.

The question of whether Peter Cooper's vision included a few wealthy students who paid their own way is a subject now being debated with the intensity of arguments over constitutional law.

But in the long term, the equity issue could rear its head as wealthier students bring in technology that outstrips their classmates» in speed and performance, said McGraw - Hill (s MHP) SVP Vineet Madan.

They compete with each other to attract the same small group of very wealthy students who can afford...

Poorer students will pay less, while wealthier students will pay more.

And some of those who should be most concerned have a thoroughly secular purpose: education reformers struggling to narrow the divide in academic achievement between wealthy students and poor students, and especially between white children and minorities in urban schools.

«But such messaging can appear to low - SES students as a signal that the institution is more focused on wealthier students,» said Destin, also a faculty fellow at the University's Institute for Policy Research.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

In addition, aid from the government, merit aid from universities and private programs increasingly provide more benefit for wealthier students with high grade - point averages and top scores on entrance exams.

The tracking was often based on class — vocational paths for those from working - class backgrounds and general education paths for wealthier students, said Christina Theokas, research director for the advocacy group Education Trust.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.