Sentences with phrase «child from disadvantaged backgrounds»

It is particularly powerful for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Evidence suggests that they often take far less than their share of children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

But the concern is that increasingly tight school budgets may dominate the agenda and hold back much - needed progress in helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds to realise their potential.

Its effects are most powerful among children from disadvantaged backgrounds — and it's brilliant with boys especially.

Yet too many children from disadvantaged backgrounds fall behind soon after they start school and never catch up.

Because class - size reduction has been shown to have larger effects for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, this provides another possible explanation for our overall results.

Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds may rarely get the opportunity to go beyond their immediate neighbourhood let alone visit a working farm.

The project will extend the evidence on the efficacy of the intervention from two previous randomized efficacy trials of the KITS Program with special needs populations to examine the impacts of the intervention on the broader population of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in general education.

«Over the last decade we have made substantial progress in narrowing the gap between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and the rest - the average achievement for those pupils has risen more sharply than for others,» she claimed.

A lot of gifted children from disadvantaged backgrounds don't do as well as they should in the education system», he said.

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

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled new plans to help tackle inequality in education and help ensure children from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve their full potential.

Priority admission: Grammar Schools Heads» Association chief Shaun Fenton says children from disadvantaged backgrounds should be offered places first

In addition to this, the party has promised to triple Early Years Pupil Premium to # 1000 in order to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds «the best start in life».

FHS provides free facilities and books for children from disadvantaged backgrounds at the annual Beanstalk Book Festival.

Some # 5bn is to be targeted at schools which take children from disadvantaged backgrounds over the four years of the comprehensive spending review period, according to the Department for Education report.

Too often children from disadvantaged backgrounds still trail behind their wealthier classmates, and once they have fallen behind it can be extremely difficult to catch up.

That's the philosophy behind the Pupil Premium which will put more money into the schools which take on children from disadvantaged background.

Education and health The «pupil premium» was one of the areas of agreement David Cameron flagged up in his initial speech offering talks with the Lib Dems last Friday, and under it schools will receive extra funding for teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

By age 3, the study found children from disadvantaged backgrounds had cognitive and psychomotor development scores «statistically indistinguishable» from children in the study who were in high - resource families.

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.

A study by Sutton Research has revealed that children from disadvantaged backgrounds struggle with GCSE examinations despite being high achievers in primary school, scoring in the top ten per cent.

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.

The public was relatively optimistic about the chances of a bright child from a disadvantaged background getting into a grammar school — 45 per cent of respondents thought there was some chance and 18 per cent thought there was a high chance.

A Centre of Excellence for Literacy Teaching has been announced by education secretary Justine Greening to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds master the basics of reading in primary school.

Tiny numbers of children from disadvantaged backgrounds pass their tests because they are the preserve of the privately tutored.

The Washington law gives priority to charters that have a mission of serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Ofsted will be sharpening its focus even more in the coming months on the progress and achievement of the most able children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The government is understood to be considering allowing schools to prioritise children from disadvantaged backgrounds in their admissions policies.

While writing The Secret of the Sacred Scarab, Fiona fostered (and later adopted) a young African child from a disadvantaged background.

The School Meals Programme aims to supplement the diets of school - going children from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them fulfil their potential within the educational system and to reduce the risk of early school - leaving.

Chapter 3 described the fact that children from disadvantaged backgrounds face a double burden of health inequality in terms of their own increased risks of negative outcomes as well as those of their immediate family.

Grammar schools in Kent have been encouraged to provide up to 700 more places for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

However, the chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Alliance has claimed that a «great deal» had been done to improve the admissions process and encourage children from disadvantaged backgrounds to join grammar schools since the research was conducted.

«Improvements in primary education would have far - reaching effects by ensuring children from disadvantaged backgrounds aren't left behind,» he said.

Dr Armstrong said children from disadvantaged backgrounds, or with disabilities such as autism, are most at risk of behaviours that lead to exclusion, poor school attendance or self - withdrawal from school.

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.

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

School nurses can be an effective ally in improving the conditions of children from disadvantaged backgrounds given their unique position as first responders.

The Department for Education said it was unacceptable that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to do well in school than their peers.

The Conservatives would use it to provide extra funding for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

It provides # 300 for every child from a disadvantaged background in a maintained early years education setting to help tackle the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils which develops from an early age.

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed.

The Pupil Deprivation Grant provides schools with extra money to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

In the last Assembly term the Welsh Liberal Democrats had secured over # 282million for the Pupil Premium (Pupil Development Grant), giving each year over 65,000 children from disadvantaged backgrounds the extra support they need to get ahead in life.

They recommended longer school days and school years, and all day pre-kindergarten for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The negative outcomes are significantly more likely for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.