Sentences with phrase «within affluent school»

The result: «these invisible walls often concentrate education dollars within affluent school districts, and ensure that low - income students are kept on the outside.»

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Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

«Research on both inequality across schools and tracking within schools has suggested that students in more affluent schools and top tracks are given the kind of problem - solving education that befits the future managerial class, whereas students in lower tracks and higher - poverty schools are given the kind of rule - following tasks that mirror much of factory and other working - class work.»

Though they all wrestle with personal problems — for example, the affluent student suffers from depression brought on by the death of his father, who suffered from a drug addiction — their experiences within school vary in predictable ways.

Students receive preference within their geographic catchment areas, and students from affluent families are more likely to have the preparation needed for admissions to selective schools.

As noted the one district school in Arizona's top 10, Gilbert's Classical Academy, is designed as an academically rigorous «choice» school within a more affluent community, Gilbert.

Other white and affluent parents choose private schools, either because their children are not accepted to their first choice of public schools, or because they are bothered by the racial separation within and between New York public schools.

BBI, which is located in an affluent suburb of Auckland, has three other schools that serve seventh - and eighth - year students (the equivalent of sixth - and seventh - graders in the U.S.) within a three - mile radius.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

Many Bay Area schools show a large gap in performance not only between low - income students and more affluent peers, but between different racial / ethnic groups within the same economic status.