Sentences with phrase «among lower income children»

Leading Educators» programming is the backbone of an ambitious strategy to significantly increase academic achievement among lower income children who attend the nearly 120 district, charter, and religious schools in the Greater Grand Rapids urban area.

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It means looking at the complete tax system (the rate structure, the child care expense deduction, the working income supplement, the child tax benefit, among others) and how it penalizes low - and middle - income families with high punitive marginal tax rates.

ABOUT BOOKS FOR KIDS The mission of Books for Kids is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

Of course, the huge rise in separating families means that more fathers are living apart from their children and this trend is stronger among low income families.

Indeed, among low income fathers, vigorous child support enforcement may even increase workforce participation (Freeman & Waldfogel, 1998).

Last week I shared on TLT's Facebook page and Twitter feed news of a Center for Disease Control report finding that rates of childhood obesity among low - income children have fallen modestly in 19 states between the years 2008 - 2011, the first such... [Continue reading]

In 2010, teen pregnancy and childbirth accounted for at least $ 9.4 billion in costs to U.S. taxpayers for increased health care and foster care, increased incarceration rates among children of teen parents, and lost tax revenue because of lower educational attainment and income among teen mothers.

In her current role as senior child nutrition policy analyst, she works with a diverse group of national and state partners to expand the use of the School Breakfast Program among low - income children and increase the number of schools offering breakfast in the classroom free to all students in target states, school districts and schools.

Heather's work primarily focuses on obesity, dietary quality, and health outcomes among low - income and food - insecure children and families, with emphasis on how the federal nutrition programs improve health, nutrition, and well - being.

Even among low - income families, mothers with greater social and economic resources were more supportive in parenting their children than those with fewer resources, which...

Television viewing and television in bedroom associated with overweight risk among low - income preschool children.

Results published in the American Journal of Public Health were based on evaluation data from Legacy for ChildrenTM, a public health intervention program designed to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

It is an evidence - based program whose aim is to improve child outcomes by promoting positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young children.

Legacy for Children ™ (Legacy) is CDC's evidence - based public health approach to improve child outcomes by fostering positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young cChildren ™ (Legacy) is CDC's evidence - based public health approach to improve child outcomes by fostering positive parenting among low - income mothers of infants and young childrenchildren.

This annual report analyzes participation in the School Breakfast Program among low - income children nationally and in each state and the District of Columbia for the 2016 - 2017 school year.

The National School Lunch program exists to serve low - income children (those receiving federal meal subsidies), and among that group, participation has actually increased.

A school salad bar increases frequency of fruit and vegetable consumption among children living in low - income households

The mantra among universal pre-K advocates is its supposed benefits to young children, especially those coming from low - income families.

The mantra among universal pre-K advocates is its benefits to young children, especially those coming from low - income families.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's Fiscal Year 2016 executive budget, unveiled Thursday, allocates $ 100 million to fix roofs in 66 New York City Housing Authority buildings, a move health officials said will combat asthma among children in low - income families.

For the first time in decades, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity rates declined among low - income preschool children, a particularly vulnerable demographic group.

Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services is holding the «Bridging the Word Gap Challenge» that will award $ 300,000 in prizes for innovative solutions that promote language development skills among children from low - income families, Doggett said.

The intervention was most effective among children who are considered at highest risk for struggling in school — those from low - income backgrounds who are learning English as a second language.

Low - income children's exposure to Medicaid throughout early childhood relative to no exposure is associated with a 22 percent decrease in the prevalence of high blood pressure among adults.

Signe Sorup, Ph.D., of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether the live MMR vaccine was associated with lower rates of hospital admissions for infections among children in a higher - income setting (Denmark).

Children of color accounted for approximately 49 percent of all young people in 2015, but were overrepresented among those living in poor and low - income families.

From 2003 to 2007 obesity increased by 10 percent in United States children but 23 to 33 percent among low - income kids, according to an Annals of Epidemiology report.

To promote health among low - income single mothers, Dr. Chavkin adds, the government should focus on providing subsidized child care, increased wages, and better health insurance for working moms — none of which, she says, is provided by «the current welfare apparatus.»

In addition, the working conditions in urban schools serving low - income children are likely to be rigid, rule - bound, and unpleasant, none of which facilitates enthusiasm among teachers or fosters academic learning.

Over the next five years, Kim will work with a team of researchers including Thomas White, senior research scientist at the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning; and Jonathan Guryan, associate professor at Institute for Policy Research of Northwestern University, along with Communities In Schools of North Carolina and Durham Public Schools to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combat summer reading loss among low - income children.

Yet even a preliminary assessment is remarkable, beginning with John Walton's major contribution to the nationwide Children's Scholarship Fund, which revealed to a broad public the desire for school choice among low - income families.

New findings coauthored by Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, published today in the September / October 2009 issue of Child Development, reveals the quality of early childcare may play a role in boosting reading and math achievement among low - income youth.

For example, they suggest that the parents of low - income, minority, and low - achieving children are much less likely to take advantage of informal opportunities to exercise choice from among teachers.

Over five years, we will work with Communities in Schools of North Carolina to implement, validate, and scale up an innovative approach to combating summer loss among low - income children.

But development is a very complex thing, she says, and she and Mancilla - Martinez have demonstrated in their research that there is immense variability among children from lowincome backgrounds, that risk factors can be balanced out by other strengths, and teachers should always be aware that low - income children are not destined to fail academically.

The issue seemed most pronounced among low - income parents and children in need of a strong foundation as they embarked on their early years of schooling.

Less is known about variation in vocabulary growth among children from low - income families, or what factors contribute to that variation.

However, as Pan's study demonstrates, not all children are alike, and there is a good deal of variation in word use among children from low - income families.

Shattuck Professor Catherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development and the primary investigator of a 15 - year longitudinal study of language and literacy skills among low - income children.

Support for STCs was even higher among respondents who were parents of school - aged children (67 percent), low - income (67 percent), black (72 percent) or Hispanic (80 percent).

A modern conservative columnist, Kate O'Beirne, writing in the National Review, has questioned the value of food stamps, school breakfasts and lunches, and the WIC programs (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children): «With rates of excess weight and obesity highest among low - income households, budget officials should be asking themselves why tens of billions of dollars are being spent each year by federal nutrition programs aimed at boosting food consumption by the poor.»

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.

Helping Low - Income Children Succeed New York Times, 3/24/14 «Diverging incomes among families lead to diverging destinies among children, undermining the promise of equal oppoChildren Succeed New York Times, 3/24/14 «Diverging incomes among families lead to diverging destinies among children, undermining the promise of equal oppochildren, undermining the promise of equal opportunity.

When it comes to targeted vouchers aimed at low - income children, however, there is plurality opposition among both Democrats and Republicans.

Working in close collaboration with school - and community - based partners, a team of researchers and program developers at Harvard University is developing, implementing, and evaluating a dual - generation program that supports low - income children's academic and social - emotional development while simultaneously building skills and social capital among low - income parents.

For educators, the upshot of Hirsch's inventory is this: When schools fail to build a common knowledge base among our children — and particularly for those who come from low - income homes or are English - language learners — we are essentially condemning them to something less than full literacy and citizenship.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

Studies have shown that the mother's education level strongly predicts the achievement of the child, and among low - income families, the mother's education level usually does not exceed a high school diploma.29

In fact, one study found that this housing policy yields stronger outcomes among low - income children than any school - level reform.107

Hanes was among a handful of Democrats who rankled some liberals in 2013 when they backed the GOP - launched Opportunity Scholarship Program, a controversial program of public vouchers that helps pay for low - income children to attend private schools, most of them with religious backgrounds.