Sentences with phrase «wealthy kids do»

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«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

If you want to do well by your kids find out what wealthy, educated people (not entertainers) are naming their kids and use those names, at least for the first names.

He was, instead, a spoiled rich kid who wanted to give tax breaks to his wealthy buddies and mercilessly fire innocent workers like he did at Bain Capital.

One of my highlights of my time in coalition was... that the attainment gap, namely how well poor kids do in school as opposed to their wealthier classmates, was closing for the first time in a very long period of time and the reason why that appears to be the case, was because of the effect of policies like the pupil premium.

I went to school with all the wealthy kids, and I was on financial aid, and they all seemed to grow up a lot quicker than I did.

The problem, Lenz says, was that he «kept hearing how project - based learning was nice for wealthy, suburban kids, but, «kids in urban settings aren't going to be able to do this kind of work.

Or a school so new that the state hasn't ranked it, one that doesn't prioritize smart kids or students from wealthy neighborhoods.

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Taking job creation, workforce development, transportation, healthcare, etc out of the conversation about kids in poverty (these aspects get little attention compared to schooling, even health doesn't come close) because schooling will take care of all that is just playing into the hands of corporate and wealthy interests.

Then access to the newly «nationalized» schools would have to be distributed on some fair basis to local students, with the wealthy kids who don't make the cut into their old schools being sent to the regular ones, without air conditioning or libraries.

Do we really still believe that wealthy kids are naturally smarter than poor kids?

Even the kids of wealthy people can't afford to have children, that means we don't get grandchildren.