Sentences with phrase «child from disadvantaged families»

Notice from the table that positive long term results were only obtained for children from disadvantaged families who were at the high end of the low birth weight dimension.

The figures show only 54 per cent of children from disadvantaged families reach a good level of development, compared with 72 per cent of the age group overall.

Maternal relationship instability and the school behavior of children from disadvantaged families..

We want to see more children from disadvantaged families get into grammars - that's vital.»

She will also say that she wants to see more children from disadvantaged families getting into grammars.

This study sets the stage for further investigation regarding the arts as a vehicle for promoting well - being among children from disadvantaged families.»

He started Smart Start to better prepare children from disadvantaged families for first grade.

The research will look into «how best to ensure more children from disadvantaged families benefit from healthy meals and enrichment activities during the holidays, including through targeted pilots», Zahawi said.

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

Children from disadvantaged families suffer disproportionately from many similar problems — lead poisoning that diminishes cognitive and behavioral capacity; toxic stress, with similar harms to student outcomes, from experiencing or witnessing violence; housing instability; parental incarceration; and many others.

On the other hand, estimates from the Nurse Family Partnership suggest that home visiting programs from the pre-natal period up to age 2 have stronger effects on children from disadvantaged families.

Award winning photographer Jessica Fulford - Dobson will present her series of striking portraits, Skate Girls of Kabul, which will tell the extraordinary story of Afghan girls who took up skateboarding, thanks to Skateistan, an Afghan charity that provides skate parks as a hook to get children from disadvantaged families back into the educational system.

«Children from disadvantaged families arrive at kindergarten with a significant achievement gap in the knowledge, vocabulary and social skills necessary to compete and succeed in school.

Children from disadvantaged families have been welcomed to our day camp to the tune of 30 to 50 campers each year.

Extensive study of two model programs (the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program and the Carolina Abecedarian Study) has shown that high quality early childhood education can have significant and long - term positive effects on school readiness, and are significantly more beneficial to children from disadvantaged families.

Every one of the school nurses interviewed mentioned unmet basic needs as the main challenge they have to work with when caring for children from disadvantaged families.