Sentences with phrase «as disadvantaged children»

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The inspiring changemaker founded the company in 2006 as part of his mission to donate new shoes to disadvantaged children.

Also, with the outreach work that I do for as an ambassador for NASA / JPL, I wanted to be able to have more technical activities for disadvantaged children centered around coding, space technology, and planetary science.

Such children are disadvantaged whatever the income of their parents and whether their trouble is defined as mental illness or something else.

Did you know that they organize and send their children into poor communities every year to help the elderly, the poor and disadvantaged with projects such as building ramps for the disabled, Habitat for Humanity and such?

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

Children who were «born unwanted» prior to the legalisation of abortion not only grew up in more disadvantaged households, but also grew up to be more disadvantaged as adults.»

Let us have as our objective the education and empowerment of all children and especially those in most disadvantaged circumstances.

Maternal and child health, and mental health, remain challenges for poorer countries and the disadvantaged in nations such as India.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

While the conversation lately has been about how many socioeconomically disadvantaged women are having children outside of marriage as well as the rise in choice motherhood, don't be surprised if we start talking instead about how more young couples are finding that it's a much better deal — and a heck of a lot easier — to find someone who'll be a good person to co-parent with than it is finding a soul mate.

My second book, How Children Succeed, considered the challenges of disadvantaged children through a different lens: the skills and capacities they develop (or don't develop) as they make their way through chChildren Succeed, considered the challenges of disadvantaged children through a different lens: the skills and capacities they develop (or don't develop) as they make their way through chchildren through a different lens: the skills and capacities they develop (or don't develop) as they make their way through childhood.

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

As I mentioned above, one of the premises I'm working from here is that childhood is a continuum, and if we want to help improve outcomes for disadvantaged children, we need to look for opportunities to intervene in positive ways at many different points along that continuum.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

Lots of photos, measurements and product dimensions, benefits for you and your child as well as disadvantages and complaints are included in each in - depth review.

However, parents must also be prepared to work through the disadvantages of joint child custody, such as:

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

If your child is entering her preschool years, you'll want to find out more about both preschool and daycare, as each carries with it particular advantages and disadvantages.

As someone who's children are 3rd generation formula fed, all with extremely healthy constitutions, 3rd generation with gifted IQs, I do not feel like we are disadvantaged compared to those who were breastfed.

Overheating can lead your child to have an uncomfortable sleep as well can make them super sweaty and smelly, which is a big disadvantage of other quilted mattress.

The sample was stratified by country and electoral ward type to over-represent families in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and wards with a high proportion of disadvantaged and ethnic minority families.19 Electoral wards were defined as ethnic minority (at least 30 % of population «Black» or «Asian», 1991 census), with the remainder defined as disadvantaged (upper quartile Child Poverty Index20) or advantaged (not in upper quartile Child Poverty Index).

The Maxi Cosi RodiFix Booster doesn't feature cup holders which may seem a disadvantage for some children as they like to have drinks or snack during the trip.

However, a lot of people seem to disagree with the fact that it's still considered as plain bottle feeding and brings disadvantages to a child.

This is after taking account other important factors associated with poor child development such as socioeconomic disadvantage, lower maternal age, maternal smoking in pregnancy and fetal growth restriction.

Improve Comprehensive Early Development and Learning Opportunities: Reauthorize and expand Early Head Start as the centerpiece of promoting the development of the most disadvantaged infants and toddlers, maintaining its intergenerational nature, inclusion of pregnant women, and availability to children independent of parents» employment status.

That study, however, was not (as far as I'm aware) confined to economically disadvantaged children, which may account for the disparate results.

Double strollers are commonly found in households with multiple children, as their added convenience easily outweighs any disadvantages.

Universities obviously have an important role in encouraging children from disadvantaged backgrounds to think about University as an option and to apply.

Children addressing their immigration claims on their own are at a particular disadvantage as the laws, processes and systems governing their circumstances are profoundly complex.

He worked for 47 years as a coach, athletic director and administrator serving troubled youth, disadvantaged children and people with developmental disabilities.

The Pupil Premium, which is known as the Pupil Deprivation Grant in Wales, provides schools with extra money to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Teachers support these children disadvantaged backgrounds everyday and the experience reinforced how important teachers are as role models to young, vulnerable children.

According to Selorm Adonoo, Head of Communications at the NHIA, «the NHIS as a social protection scheme has a mandate to enroll all identified vulnerable people, and our collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has been very useful in helping us reach out to many of the disadvantaged people in the society and bringing relief to them.»

The event is often billed as a fundraiser for disadvantaged children, but in fact the Catholic Archdiocese spends the money as it sees fit.

Children who grew up in disadvantaged households will age in poorer health, even if their socio - economic status improves as adults.»

Similarly, the team found that children with lower executive function were not at a disadvantage in Montessori schools, and performed as well as those with higher executive function.

We need to consider preparing disadvantaged children as early as the preschool level and continuing throughout the high school years in order to complement the college and graduate school programs that focus on increasing minorities in the sciences.

As a child of Jamaican origin growing up in the British city of Nottingham, Mark Richards experienced firsthand the disadvantages that can accrue to ethnic - minority students.

Dr Rebecca Lacey, Research Associate in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and lead author of the study, said: «Our study suggests that it is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation but that it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are important.»

They have found numerous applications in toothbrushes, mattress pads and children's toys, but have a serious disadvantage: They slowly loose their effectiveness over time as the disinfectants dissapate.

While the museum's decision to offer free school visits will allow some children from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to experience Wonderlab, Dawson argues that «it is not enough to use school visits as a panacea for exclusive practice».

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Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

Lawmakers should move beyond Chapter 1's current focus on individual remediation and use the program as a tool to force state and local officials to upgrade the quality of schools that educate disadvantaged children, a panel of Chapter 1 experts has urged.

The guidance document, released Nov. 10, includes sample questions for peer reviewers as they examine a state's ability to assess and disseminate results for populations of disadvantaged children...

If we are serious about helping all disadvantaged children, but especially the most able, to learn well and unlock their full potential, we need to know how they are doing at 14, as well as at seven, 11 and 16.»

The plans were announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and will include a # 1.5 million innovation fund to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds improve in areas such as literacy and numeracy.

Washington — State education officials in New York announced last week that they will seek a federal court order to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (ED) from using 12 - year - old census data as the basis for distributing federal aid for disadvantaged children to the states.