Sentences with phrase «wealthy families attend»

«It is a social tragedy that a majority of children from wealthy families attend college, but only 10 percent of children of poor families attend college,» the governor said.

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Born to a wealthy New York family, Lex Barker took time off from being a high - profile playboy to attend Princeton University and pick up theatrical experience in a stock company.

Ironically, these trends leave brilliant children who live in poverty with even fewer opportunities to develop their talents than they had before; their families can not afford the private schools and summer enrichment programs wealthier children have the option to attend.

Students from low - income families who score in the top testing quartile are no more likely than their lowest - scoring peers in the wealthiest quartile to attend college.

But wealthy students (in the highest quartile of family income), who attended schools that served the wealthiest families (schools in the lowest quartile of students receiving free and reduced lunch), scored a mean of 528.

Students from low - income families are vastly less likely to attend top colleges than wealthier Americans with similar academic ability.

On average, low - income students pay more than three - quarters of their annual family income out - of - pocket to attend a four - year, public or private nonprofit institution — nearly five times the proportion of wealthier families, according to a new report by the nonprofit Education Trust.

Born in London's Mayfair district into a wealthy family, Fleming led an extremely dissolute lifestyle, attending (and being asked to leave) several educational institutions.

In Angie Thomas» The Hate U Give, 16 - year - old Starr also attends prep school in a whiter, wealthier area, and she has to learn to speak up in an even - harder environment: she's the only witness to a policeman's unprovoked shooting of her unarmed friend, placing her and her family between the police, the media, and a local gang.

Born in Manila, Philippines, to a wealthy sugar family, Ossorio was schooled in English boarding schools early on, then in the 1930s attended Harvard University.

Inside Cambridge Analytica, Mr. Nix, the scion of a wealthy family who attended Eton College, the exclusive secondary school, had a reputation for lashing out at staff members, and for aggressively pursuing deals.