Sentences with phrase «wealthy background»

Even a mediocre school can expect high test scores if its students come from wealthy backgrounds.

But the difference was most stark when comparing high achieving GCSE pupils from poor backgrounds and low achieving pupils from wealthy backgrounds.

seeing as minorities / women / almost anyone not of wealthy background had alomost no «freedom» to begin with this comment means absolutely nothing.

In a weak, diversionary subplot, Barnum resists temptation by ruthless diva Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson) and stays true to the dull housewife (Michelle Williams) whose wealthy background inspired him.

These calls are backed up by findings of a specially commissioned ComRes survey of over 1,000 undergraduates which found that almost half (47 %) of students from wealthier backgrounds said they always knew they would consider university compared to 28 % of those from low income backgrounds.

«We've known all along that children from wealthier backgrounds tend to do better in math, and children from poorer backgrounds tend to do not so well,» said Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills department at the OECD, during a public webinar on the report.

Successful startup founders continue to come from wealthier backgrounds than the average American.

These days, more and more of the players that go on to play major junior, college and, ultimately, pro hockey are from wealthy backgrounds.

Their advisers are mostly - if not entirely - men, some of them from wealthy backgrounds.

In the last 150 years a substantial majority of national politicianseither had wealthy backgrounds, or had successful careers in a profession orbusiness they could return to.

The belief that when someone from a wealthy background experiences addiction or divorce it's sad, but when someone from a low income family does it is reckless.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings is less progressive and less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts if their families can afford to pay up front or soon after graduation.

One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.

So what if this man is from a wealthy background?

Gordon said he would be a better symbol for the party than someone with a wealthy background.

Keeping singles from wealthy backgrounds, these websites are a gateway to happiness and joy.

Whether it's a rationalization or moral justification for them to date men from wealthier backgrounds, I don't know, but it's a motivation that pushes some of them on to dating sites.

It is a great dating app for all you singles out there.Though the app is open for both men and women — especially from a wealthy background, there are more men on the dating app than women.

There's an age difference of about 10 - 15 years (he's older), and she comes from a wealthy background, while he grew up destitute.

The film picks up, without much in the way of scene - setting, with a trio of individuals: Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), who lives on a self - sustaining eco-friendly commune, Dena (Dakota Fanning), from a wealthy background, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard), a former Marine.

It follows Anders (Anders Danielsen Lee), a thirtysomething from a wealthy background who's just been released from a rehab center, as he reconnects with various friends and family members.

Poor children are more than twice as likely to be behind pupils from wealthier backgrounds.

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

Consider the implications for American society — for equity, for mobility, for prosperity — if its inventors and innovators continue to come almost exclusively from wealthy backgrounds.

Consider, for example, the results of a 2005 TFA survey of its participants showing that 91 percent of them thought schools should expect inner - city students to achieve academically at the same level as students from wealthier backgrounds — a powerful boost to reformers» insistence that all children can in fact learn far more than many are expected to today.

«Tackling absence from school is a key part of the government's determination to close the attainment gap between those from poorer and wealthier backgrounds.

Vince Allen, from the National Union of Teachers said: «The Swedish evidence suggests that those parents that come from a wealthy background and who are themselves well educated are the ones more likely to seek to take their children and those resources out of the education system, leaving the rest of the education system to deal with that.»

Liz Smith, the Scottish Conservative young people spokeswoman, said the biggest challenge in education was the «significant attainment gap between pupils from poorer and wealthier backgrounds».

While minorities and subgroups showed improvements, so did white students and those not from wealthier backgrounds, so the gaps remained at close to the same levels.

They include Malcolm, a light - skinned African American architect from a wealthy background; JB, an occasional drug - using artist of Haitian ancestry (the author does a great job of describing his art — no easy task); Willem, the handsome actor who, as we first meet him, is, of course, waiting tables downtown; and, at center stage, Jude.

«We see other people who have come from wealthier backgrounds and they are used to spending more,» says Ross.

You're going to see more of like, the people who already have established families here, and have a wealthier background.

While it's easy to think that children from wealthy backgrounds have all the resources to set them on a sure path to success, this is not the case at all.

I didn't come from a wealthy background.