Sentences with phrase «children at a significant disadvantage»

Many substances contain unseen elements to amplify their addictive qualities, may muddle an expectant mother's thinking, and overall put an unborn child at a significant disadvantage.

This language gap puts poor children at a significant disadvantage and hampers many of them throughout their school and work careers.

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This has been done effectively at local public schools such as PS 396 in the Bronx, where a significant percentage of children have special needs and all of the students could be characterized as economically disadvantaged.

Education policy needs to take account of the differing experiences that children have in their communities and at home, and not assume that schools alone can overcome the multiple and significant challenges posed by poverty and social disadvantage.

Children from low - income households face a broad range of obstacles to classroom learning, which, taken together, place them at a significant disadvantage compared to higher income students.

Without the foundation created by secure attachments, half of all children enter the classroom with insecure attachment and are at a significant disadvantage in the classroom and in life.

«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.

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.

Downey, Ainsworth - Darnell, and Dufur (1998) found mixed evidence of gender differences among single - parent families on a comprehensive list of child outcomes; all of the significant differences, however, occurred in educational measures and consistently showed a disadvantage for children living with single fathers... I find support for the hypothesis that, at least in early childhood, mother changes have more lasting influences on college expectations and school disciplin ethan father changes...»