Sentences with phrase «what schools in poor neighborhoods»

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- about whether is it what happens in school or what happens around the school that's most important in determining whether kids from poor neighborhoods achieve, right?

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

And Lyndon Johnson's oft - stated conviction that education was the surest route to vanquishing poverty engaged both the do - gooder inclinations of a 20 - year - old and reflected what I was seeing among children in poor neighborhoods of Cambridge and Boston and the miserable schools they attended.

The Montgomery County school district encompasses two demographically different communities, one composed almost entirely of white and Asian professional families — residing in neighborhoods that school authorities refer to as the «green zone» — and another composed of mainly poor and minority families, who live in what the school district labels the «red zone.»

One of the reasons Finland has consistently stayed at the top of international rankings in education is because it focuses on equity; poorer schools receive more funding than those in more affluent neighborhoods, according to Finnish Lessons 2.0: What can the world learn from educational change in Finland author Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.