Rogerson says that the number of courses being changed makes buying new resources a stretch, even for a well-resourced school such as hers.
Field-testing included under-resourced schools in Los Angeles and well-resourced schools in the Minneapolis suburbs.
In practice, this means that rich kids from Hobart boarding at Launceston Grammar are collected and delivered largely at a public expense that might otherwise be spent on improving literacy and numeracy teaching in less well-resourced schools.
"If children in the poorest parts of the world can learn how to read and write – as well as do maths and science in schools with dirt floors and tattered textbooks – there is no excuse for the way British children are being failed by well-resourced schools".
The habit of private-school parents voting to defend a system that disproportionately rewards their already well-resourced schools over disadvantaged communities does not actually improve the quality of their own children's education, although it does create serious disadvantages for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
As part of this drive for the 'best of both worlds', in 2004 the community partnered with the Northern Territory Christian Schools Association to provide a permanent, well-resourced school at Gäwa.
Affluent neighborhoods receive selective enrollment and well-resourced schools.
I grew up in a suburban Massachusetts town with well-resourced schools.
Today's increasingly patchwork system, dependent on the whims of billionaires and the extracurricular efforts of parents to maintain, is stacking the deck, such that families with the will or wherewithal to invest in their kids' education create well-resourced schools that are magnets for other driven and deep-pocketed parents.
They were sampled using the database of 359 public high schools in the Province excluding those with Grade 12 pass rates below 40%% (1 school) indicating their inability to deliver on their core educational mandate, and above 97%% (33 schools) indicating well-resourced schools already able to offer students the types of interventions proposed by PREPARE.
Using the database of public high schools in the Western Cape we excluded schools with Grade 12 pass rates below 40% (indicating their inability to deliver even on their core mandate) and above 97% (indicating well-resourced schools already able to offer students the types of interventions proposed by PREPARE).
