Sentences with phrase «at areas of disadvantage»

These meals must be targeted at areas of disadvantage or at children with special needs.

Not exact matches

Mr Cameron has also announced that former party leader Iain Duncan Smith would be in charge of a new social justice policy group aimed at tackling problems in deprived and disadvantaged areas.

Hotspots like Lake Placid have ample lodging, but the lack of facilities elsewhere put outlying areas at a competitive disadvantage, the governor said.

«Research has long suggested people with heart disease in rural areas are at a disadvantage when it comes to access to health care and longevity,» says Dr. Sacha Bhatia, lead author of the study and a cardiologist at Women's College Hospital.

A disadvantage of monomorphic ancestral area reconstruction methods, including Fitch parsimony, is that these methods disallow geographic ranges at ancestral nodes that include more than one area [18].

The gap in levels of obesity is now at 6.2 per cent between those living int he most disadvantaged areas (14.9 per cent) and the least disadvantaged (8.7 per cent).

Those include a reduction in class size at the primary level, a back to basics movement, the return to a phonics - based reading program, and the provision of incentives for teachers who agree to work in disadvantaged areas.

Housed at the University of Buffalo, the program identifies disadvantaged but talented minority children, places them in academic - enrichment classes, and then finds them spots at private schools and a more selective public high school in the area to complete their precollegiate careers.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

At the end of the selection process, some 80 percent of NLP schools were located in LEAs in inner - city, urban areas, where the most disadvantaged and poorly performing schools in England are concentrated.

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.

This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country — including the Department for Education's Opportunity Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best start in areas of the country — including the Department for Education's Opportunity Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best start in Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

The levy, which the government has said will raise # 520 million, will also pay for an extended school day at 25 per cent of secondary schools in the most disadvantaged areas of England, and fund the expansion of healthy breakfast clubs.

Teach First's programme is designed to offer staff at schools in areas of disadvantage the skills and support they need to succeed and deliver improvements for pupils» education — at no cost to the school.

Lower - income school communities in Washington, D.C., are at a clear disadvantage when the largest parent - teacher associations in the area can mobilize millions of private dollars to substantially enhance their schools.

As Youth United for Change (YUC) Executive Director and Organizer Andi Perez explains to the new recruits, they have a chance to get involved in a campaign to remedy the systemic inequalities in the Philadelphia public schools — inequalities that place them, as students of color in a rough area of the city, at a disadvantage.

Disadvantages Computer software for simulations can be expensive Some students may be easily distracted by the medium at the expense of the subject matter Not suitable for some subject matter areas such as mathematics

In WSI schools that effectively implement arts integration, a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students score «Proficient or Above» when compared to all students (not just economically disadvantaged students) at the district and state level, across multiple grade levels, and across multiple subject areas on standardized tests.

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.

Many of these sponsored academies were established to boost standards at under - performing schools in disadvantaged areas under Tony Blair's Labour government.

The tax was initially expected to raise in the region of # 520 million which, as well as the premium, was earmarked to pay for an extended school day at 25 per cent of secondary schools in the most disadvantaged areas of England, and fund the expansion of healthy breakfast clubs.

The tests would allow «proper credit to schools, often in disadvantaged areas, whose pupils achieve outstanding rates of progress while at the school».

In fact, teachers» critical role is at the heart of three cases before state courts in the U.S. Students in California have sued the state over employment practices that make it difficult for students in disadvantaged areas to access quality teachers (Vergara v. California).

If the training was targeted at the third of schools in the most disadvantaged areas, the cost would be # 13.05 per child per year, or overall training costs of # 10.5 million.2

His particular areas of interest are mathematics, music, performing arts, leadership at all levels and strategies to improve outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.

Indiana State Teacher's Association Vice President Teresa Meredith says while the ISTA agrees teachers should be held accountable for student learning, teachers in areas of high poverty or high need are at a disadvantage.

We then consider areas of future inquiry and practice that are particularly relevant to the Australian context, including (1) the need for research and applications to expand to diverse populations, such as Indigenous Australians, migrants, refugees, at - risk students, and disadvantaged groups, (2) systems approaches to implementation and research, and (3) strategies to produce and evaluate lasting change.

The 64 schools selected to be part of the trial had to be in areas of social disadvantage and have at least 20 pupils in years 2 and 5.

«There are also serious concerns that removing local authorities from the planning of education across an area could further disadvantage children who are already vulnerable because they have special educational needs, mental health problems or are at risk of missing education,» it said.

One Tail at a Time («OTAT») is a no - kill, 501 (c) 3 all - breed dog rescue committed to lowering euthanasia rates in the greater Chicagoland area through the rescue and adoption of dogs in need; comprehensive support of adopters; and community outreach through humane education programs and assistance for disadvantaged and low - income families.

One Tail at a Time One Tail at a Time is an all - breed dog rescue group that is committed to lowering euthanasia rates in the greater Chicagoland area through the rescue and adoption of dogs in need; community outreach through humane education programs; and assistance for disadvantaged and low - income families.

I'm at a bit of a disadvantage in this area — as I don't have a 5x card right now.

If you use the teleporter to jump forward to an area you unlock you will be given a small number of tokens to use to level up but will be at what feels like a severe disadvantage.

If you don't yet know what kind of lawyer you want to be, you can still go to a general - interest law school — but you'll be at a competitive disadvantage if you eventually want to focus in any area where specialized law degrees are available, and there'll be more than a few.

«Higher rates of disadvantage, over-policing, more restrictive approaches to bail, mandatory sentencing, and a lack of non-custodial sentencing options in regional and remote areas are having a disproportionate impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and bringing them into contact with the criminal justice system at a greater rate.»

That calls for Indigenous people to move «beyond welfare dependency» and the frustration at the perceived lack of progress in crucial areas of Indigenous disadvantage, «appear to lay blame and place the onus for redressing this disadvantage on Indigenous people themselves».

Such a partnership at the national level is critical because there is currently no overarching dedicated strategic response to closing the mental health gap that both pulls together all the causal threads and recognises mental health as a potential «circuit breaker» in so many areas of disadvantage.

People in the most disadvantaged areas also reported financial barriers to seeing a range of medical professions at rates that were higher than those living in the least disadvantaged areas

Following discussions with Ratna Dhamija at ACER India, the ACER Foundation is assisting students from disadvantaged areas of Delhi in non-government schools to have access to ACER asssessment instruments.

Hundreds of children in some of the poorest parts of Dublin will receive intensive support under a programme aimed at creating better prospects for young people in disadvantaged areas.

However, compared with the weighted NATSISS, our sample had higher proportions of participants who were from less disadvantaged areas, were unemployed, had completed Year 12 at school, and reported speaking an Indigenous language at home or being treated unfairly because they were Indigenous (Box 2).

Compared to other areas, the 3 % of most disadvantaged post codes has at least twice the rate of unemployment; criminal convictions; imprisonment; child maltreatment; disability support recipients; and psychiatric admissions.

While area - based initiatives of this sort have significant potential to improve outcomes at key developmental time points and thereby to equalise the life changes of disadvantaged children, they require significant investment and no further attempts to implement such initiatives have been made in the UK until the recent A Better Start (ABS) initiative.

At the end of the formal phase of the reconciliation process the need to overcome Indigenous disadvantage was perhaps the only area of significant agreement between Government and Indigenous representatives.

Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes including maternal psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.