A. The first priority should be improving the 30 percent of schools serving the least advantaged children.

What could be done to improve the upward mobility chances of less advantaged children?

The school is based on Christian principlesand caters to the orphaned and least advantaged children.

What we need is an education body with the authority to balance intake between schools, in terms of advantaged and disadvantaged children.

We are thinking of the advantaged children.

These advantaged children are not always good students, but they can be counted upon to take the regulations and rewards of formal schooling quite seriously.

By age 4, the best that can be expected from education or intervention programs is to keep less advantaged children from falling even further behind, she said.

Imagine that schools further narrow achievement gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

Federal evaluators could find little evidence that the new federal money had reduced the educational achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children.

The study revealed that intellectual development was heavily influenced by genetic ability, especially among more advantaged children.