Sentences with phrase «child from poor families»

«Thus, a positive change in income - to - needs was a powerful protective factor for children from poor families,» they conclude.

If anything, children from poor families generally need extra assistance to do as well as students from more affluent families.

... four in ten bright children from poorer families would go to a top university — today only one in ten do.

By the time children from poor families enter kindergarten, many are already far behind children from higher - income families.

Give three - and four - year - old children from poor families two years of high - quality preschool.

The document will outline «social mobility conditions» that selective schools must meet which includes more flexible entry tests and setting aside places for children from poorer families.

The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago.

Kendall said the figures showed that during the last parliament the number of children from the poorest families who went to university «increased at a much faster rate than those not on free school meals.»

In Afghanistan and Pakistan today the Taliban have created thousands of madrassas, where children from poor families with no access to education can receive food and what passes for learning (but what is in fact quite the opposite).

The authors found that children from poorer families did worse on the tests even if their families» income did not fall below the poverty line.

Because poverty predicts risk for school adjustment problems, low achievement, crime, and other problem behaviors, the effects of the full intervention on children from poor families were investigated using logistic and linear regression methods as appropriate, with terms for intervention and free lunch eligibility as main effects and an interaction term for intervention by participation in the free lunch program.

Research shows that children from poor families start school substantially behind children from more advantaged backgrounds in vocabulary, knowledge of the world, social skills, and pre-academic content such as letter recognition, all of which are strongly predictive of later school success.

Children from wealthier families can afford to take unpaid positions thanks to generous grants from «The Royal Bank of Mom and Dad» while children from poorer families are effectively shut out.

For the first time ever, our schools get given money — our Pupil Premium — to stop children from the poorest families from falling behind — the first time ever.

Moreover, other research has revealed that children from poor families often start school with inadequate social - emotional skills, which can stymie academic progress.

Better known as the Coleman Report after its first author, the eminent sociologist James Coleman, the document provided abundant evidence of large gaps in reading and mathematics skills between black children and white children and between children from poor families and those from more affluent families.

A small amount of money can make a big difference for young children from poor families by increasing their social skills and readiness for school to levels seen in children from middle - class families, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Baylor University.

Panelists discussed how education reform, vocational programs and family police can help children from poor families climb the economic ladder into the middle class.

This is important because Washington's biggest challenge academically is the achievement gap, which shows children from poor families or certain ethnic groups are not keeping up academically with their richer or white or Asian classmates.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

Ministers are considering allowing some schools in England to change their admissions procedures to favour children from poorer families.

Some see Wilkinsburg's plight as evidence of a broken school funding system that shortchanges children from poor families, while others see it as an argument for investing in charter schools instead of trying to turn around dysfunctional school systems.

He said the gap between white British children from poorer families and those from other ethnic groups needed to be closed for England to catch up with the world's leading nations.

State lawmakers established the Innovative School District program (a favorite of school choice supporters) last year, pointing to longtime struggles in some North Carolina schools, most of which primarily serve children from poor families.

Ofsted's chief inspector had warned that children from poorer families who live in the countryside or on the coast in England, do worse at school than those who live in cities.

Federal funds are paying for an expansion of pre-school programs in Springfield, Massachusetts, where children from poor families have historically struggled academically and dropped out before graduating from high school.

Mr Sindall said that many grammar schools already offered «test familiarisation» sessions so that children from poorer families did not turn up at the entrance exam never having encountered those type of questions before.

Among other things, the breakaway group of eight Democratic senators led by Sen. Jeff Klein of the Bronx is calling for early voting, no - excuse absentee voting, dedicating a portion of New York City sales taxes toward MTA repairs, tax relief for many New Yorkers, and protecting health insurance for children from poor families.

Psychologist Fonda Davis Eyler and pediatrician Marylou Behnke studied 300 children from poor families with similar racial backgrounds.

While sponsor academies tended to have a higher proportion of poorer pupils, these figures raise concerns that if the government pushes forward with its focus on academies and free schools it could lead to increased educational inequality across the country and limit the life chances of children from poorer families.

Comparisons between the outcomes of children of married and unmarried parents are then, at least to some extent, comparisons between the outcomes of children from well - off families and children from poorer families.

She is very much involved with a charity in the UnitedStates promoting tennis to children from poorer families and I should have liked to hear her talk about that, as well as on her work in furthering the women's game.

I am determined that children from poorer families should enjoy the same opportunities that the privileged and wealthy have bought for their sons and daughters.

• The Lib Dems have called for children from poor families to be given access to the internet and music lessons.

Children from poor families (where children would be eligible for free school meals) already benefit, but Teather said children with special needs could benefit too.

They list the pupil premium for children from poorer families, income tax breaks for those on low incomes, the scrapping of identity cards, progress on civil liberties, the referendum on electoral reform and more.

It's also more common among black and Puerto Rican kids, and children from poor families.

«From these findings, we know that naturally occurring decreases in family income - to - needs were associated with worse developmental outcomes for children from poor families,» says Dearing, who coauthored the study with Kathleen McCartney, a professor at HGSE, and Beck Taylor, an economist at Baylor University.

It also claims that children from poorer families are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.

«Unless the Government finds more money for schools and fast, today's school children will have severely limited choices at school and children from poorer families will be even further disadvantaged because their parents may struggle to provide the resources schools can no longer afford.»

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

A snapshot survey of a sample of heads, teachers and school support staff who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) reveals the extent to which poverty is damaging the educational opportunities for children from poor families.