Sentences with phrase «among disadvantaged children»

Schools that receive federal Title I funds to improve learning among disadvantaged children and fail to make AYP for two years in a row are considered in need of improvement and face a range of consequences.

The finding suggests that ridding households of the pests may be a cheap and effective way to reduce serious asthma among disadvantaged children.

Not exact matches

The few young men who do have children with more than one partner tend to be not among the most powerful in their communities but among the most disadvantaged, including suffering from high levels of depression (Bronte - Tinkew et al, 2009).

Since many of these dads were young and poor, this is particularly good news, since these fathers are among the least likely to maintain contact with their children, yet are probably the most important to their children — given that highly disadvantaged children suffer most from «father absence».

Closing the Language Skills Gap Among Children: It's Never Too Soon to Start [September 28, 2016] Many children are at a disadvantage even before they walk into an early Head Start or pre-K Children: It's Never Too Soon to Start [September 28, 2016] Many children are at a disadvantage even before they walk into an early Head Start or pre-K children are at a disadvantage even before they walk into an early Head Start or pre-K program.

URIs are the most common reason that parents take young children to the doctor and lead to massive direct costs, high indirect costs including work absenteeism among parents, and even mortality, especially in disadvantaged groups, say the authors.

They found that in Pennsylvania disadvantage was not concentrated among the US - born children of immigrants.

In the current study, researchers evaluated the Research Based, Developmentally Informed Parent (REDI - P) program which The problem of summer loss has long been known to affect children of all ages, but it is especially pronounced among children from disadvantaged backgrounds who are just starting school.

Indeed, the strongest argument in favor of reading by the end of kindergarten and Common Core's vision for early literacy is simply to ensure that children — especially the disadvantaged among them — don't get sucked into the vortex of academic distress associated with early reading failure.

The Puerto Rico department of education and the U.S. Education Department have signed a consent decree in a class action that requires the commonwealth, by December of this year, to equalize spending among all schools serving disadvantaged children.

The danger is that preschool will become a new middle - class entitlement, displacing the more intensive (and extensive) efforts needed to shrink the achievement gap among severely disadvantaged children.

But I believe a lot of the discussion about the value of children in low - income communities is based on small samples of highly disadvantaged individuals and should not be extrapolated to the half of all births that are now occurring outside of marriage among the youngest generation.

Additionally, Northamptonshire is one of the worst - performing local authority areas in the country for the achievement of disadvantaged children at Key Stage 2, and Derby and Nottingham were among the 10 lowest ranking local authority areas nationally for GSCE examinations.

It is not surprising, then, that high rates of off - task behavior and cycles of negative interactions among adults and children are common in EEC settings in disadvantaged communities (Raver, 2004).

As a result, disadvantaged children prosper academically in Catholic schools, and the schools narrow the gaps among races and social classes.

And among the top priorities should be an expansion of early education for disadvantaged children.

The paper from the University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney and Wellesley College's Phillip Levine finds that the show has left children more likely to stay at the appropriate grade level for their age, an effect that is particularly pronounced among boys, African Americans and children who grow up in disadvantaged areas.

Our failure in this area has shown itself in, among other things, the academic underachievement of disadvantaged children.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

But this suggestion caused concern among the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) nursery sector, which fears children in these settings will be put at an unfair disadvantage.

Child care and the development of behavior problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood.

Providence is among six cities that have been tapped to participate in a multi-year initiative aimed at improving educational outcomes for economically disadvantaged children.

Preschool, small class size and counselors are among the educational resources the plaintiffs in Connecticut's pending school funding case, CCJEF v. Rell, seek for Connecticut's most disadvantaged children.

However, even among those who attend high - quality ECE programs, DLLs begin kindergarten at an academic disadvantage relative to their non-DLL peers; the gap widens as children grow older.

Behaviour problems are significantly more common among children from disadvantaged backgrounds — and are strongly apparent in the pre-school years - according to the preliminary findings of new research commissioned by the Sutton Trust from Dr Liz Washbrook of Bristol University.

I wonder if those people who seem to agree with the premise that an animal is better off dead than in a less than perfect home are among those of the world who would argue that it is better a bloated - bellied child die of starvation in a disadvantaged country than be adopted by a family without a swimming pool, two - car garage and money for summer camp.

And of course, the most vulnerable among us — the poor, young children, the elderly, pregnant women, the disabled, and the otherwise disadvantaged — will undergo the most suffering.

High - quality pre-K programs produce both short - and long - term benefits for children and can also contribute to narrowing the achievement gap through building increased academic skills among disadvantaged groups.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expechildren were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expechildren.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful expeChildren's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

In 1986, Olds et al published the results of a rigorous trial showing that nurse home visitation extending from pregnancy to the child's second birthday can produce positive effects on maternal and child health among disadvantaged families.1, 2 The study was conducted in a semirural area and involved predominantly white women.

While ECE has become increasingly common, Zambia continues to record marginal increase in children attending ECE from 15.3 % in 2004 to 27 % in 2016 although attendance among children from rural communities and disadvantaged backgrounds remains relatively low (MoGE, 2016).

Where both parents are depressed, the child is at far greater disadvantage and poorer outcomes have been observed in children up to the age of 7.32 Heightened parental anxiety may result in adverse outcomes for the child, who is also put at increased risk of anxiety.33 Given that children born preterm are already at some disadvantage in comparison to their peers born at term, an increase in the prevalence of PD among this group of parents could compound the negative impact of an early delivery on child outcomes.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are among the most disadvantaged in Australian society, with Indigenous children significantly more vulnerable to a range of adverse life outcomes stemming from this disadvantage.

The primary difference between the United States as a whole and Chicago neighborhoods (indexed by census tracts) is the prevalence of exposure to concentrated disadvantage among Chicago children.

All of these outcomes are linked by the theme that they are more frequent among children and young people who have been exposed to adverse childhood and environments characterized by multiple social, educational, economic, and related disadvantages.1 — 3

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

Various factors appear to compromise the development of supportive father - child relations among couple families, including a high level of family socio - economic disadvantage, adverse family events, an unsupportive partner relationship, a more disruptive or less cohesive family climate, and the presence of a non biological father figure rather than the biological father.

Especially among families with high levels of socio - economic disadvantage or family adversity, children's relations with both parents might benefit from greater family access to professional parenting support.

There is a higher incidence of depression and anxiety in women with young children, particularly among those who are young, unsupported and living in socio - economically disadvantaged circumstances (Brown and Harris, 1978; Petterson et al., 2001).

Other research indicates a negative association between adverse life events and children's socio - emotional wellbeing, independent of family socio - economic disadvantage, among young children and older age groups (Flouri & Kallis, 2011; Flouri, Mavroveli & Tzavidis, 2010).

The higher - than - population normal levels of psychological distress found among families of children with ID might therefore be attributable to pre-existing socioeconomic disadvantage (the distal cause), rather than child ID per se.

Parenting is a proximal variable in the causal pathway to adverse outcomes in childhood and adolescence, of which material disadvantage and economic hardship are distal variables.32 Behavioural problems and temper tantrums among young children have been shown to increase as a result of parenting changes associated with economic hardship.33 Economic deprivation has also been associated with decreased respect for the father and increased dependence on peer group for adolescent boys, and lowered feelings of self adequacy and reduced goal aspirations for adolescent girls.15 Economic hardship appears to have direct and indirect effects on adolescent functioning.

Table 4.5 Factors significantly associated with avoiding negative outcomes among more disadvantaged children

Lundahl et al. 16 reported that among disadvantaged families, individual PMT was associated with more positive child and parent behavioural outcomes than group PMT.

In particular, her research interests focus on language and literacy development of dual language learners, and the relation between the classroom context and academic and socioemotional outcomes among children from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Downey, Ainsworth - Darnell, and Dufur (1998) found mixed evidence of gender differences among single - parent families on a comprehensive list of child outcomes; all of the significant differences, however, occurred in educational measures and consistently showed a disadvantage for children living with single fathers... I find support for the hypothesis that, at least in early childhood, mother changes have more lasting influences on college expectations and school disciplin ethan father changes...»

Other measures of general health, such as children's nutritional status, would also be interesting, especially among economically disadvantaged populations.

In the present study, parenting stress, family conflict, and child difficult temperament are examined as predictors of maternal harsh discipline among a group of 58 mothers from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds and their young children between the ages of 1 - to 4 - years - old.