Sentences with phrase «children drop out of high school»

When one out of every three American children drop out of high school and into poverty and prison, there is no time to wait.

children drop out of high school every year or one every 26 seconds.

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We now know that, in all socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of high school, end up in prison and experience serious psychological distress.

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.

There are huge correlations between a child's attachment style in that first year and what they'll be like in kindergarten, how well they'll get along at camp with peers, even how likely that child is to graduate or drop out of high school.

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci noted in the weekly Republican radio address that children without fathers living at home are twice as likely to drop out of high school.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

While father absence has been associated with a host of negative children's outcomes, including increased risk of dropping out of school and lower educational attainment, poorer physical and mental health, and behavioural problems,36 - 40 higher levels of involvement by nonresident fathers may assuage the negative effects of father absence on children's outcomes.41, 42 Quality of the parents» relationship before divorce, or of the pre-divorce father / child relationship, can also be an important factor: children fare worse following divorce when pre-divorce relationships were good and fare better when pre-divorce relationships were poor, 43,44 suggesting children are sometimes better off without a father if the father's relationship to the child or the mother was not good.

Touching on the initiatives undertaken by his government, he stated that the Free Senior High School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this School policy has resulted in an increase of over 90,000 children who have entered secondary school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this school this academic year, who would otherwise have dropped out at this stage.

«Year after year we have seen cuts or small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city schools including large class sizes, schools closing, the high drop out rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.

She told lawmakers at a joint legislative budget hearing in January that it is a top priority, citing studies that indicate children who participate in high - quality preschool programs are 50 percent less likely to be placed in special education courses, 25 percent less likely to drop out of school, and 60 percent more likely to attend some college.

Previous research cited in the study suggests that children placed in special education are at higher risk for dropping out of school and for committing crimes as adults.

Those who push high academic standards for all students are scolded for supposedly forcing poor children to drop out of school.

In the U.S., for instance, parents without a high school diploma are much more likely to be in poverty than their better - educated peers, and their children are much more likely than their peers to be low - performing and to drop out of school themselves.

Moreover, children who fall substantially behind in reading in the early grades are unlikely to catch up — meaning that the long process of dropping out of high school often starts in the early years.

It is possible that parents whose children are at risk of dropping out are more likely to choose charter high schools in a belief that the traditional public school environment would make it more likely that their child leaves school early.

• Children who are not reading proficiently in third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.

Of those children who experience serious problems with reading, 10 — 15 percent eventually drop out of high schooOf those children who experience serious problems with reading, 10 — 15 percent eventually drop out of high schooof high school.

Children living in households that had the lowest incomes were four times as likely to drop out of high school as were children living in households from the top 20 percent of income distrChildren living in households that had the lowest incomes were four times as likely to drop out of high school as were children living in households from the top 20 percent of income distrchildren living in households from the top 20 percent of income distribution.

Support for online education declines precipitously, however, when the subject turns to «children who drop out of high school.»

When parents are involved in their student's transition to high school, they tend to stay involved in their child's school experiences (Mac Iver, 1990); and when parents are involved in their child's high school experiences, students have higher achievement (Linver & Silverberg, 1997; Paulson, 1994), are better adjusted (Hartos & Power, 1997), and are less likely to drop out of school (Horn & West, 1992).

By sixth grade, poor attendance is a proven indicator of whether a child will drop out of high school, regardless of economic background (Balfanz, Herzog, & MacIver, 2007).

The report's authors contend that the high number of suspensions and the large discrepancies in the populations of students who are suspended are extremely troubling not only because of the lost learning time, but also because suspensions are a leading indicator of whether a child will drop out of school and face future incarceration.

This legislation, which passed with overwhelming bi-partisan majorities at the time, was based upon the sound evidence that children who can not read on grade level by fourth grade begin a cycle of falling behind and are much more likely to drop out of high school, and experience a spiraling set of consequences that often lead to unemployment and incarceration.

For poor and minority students, risks are higher: 26 percent of those who face the «double jeopardy» of poverty and low reading proficiency fail to earn high school diplomas, and Hispanic and African American children who lack proficiency by third grade are twice as likely to drop out of school as their white counterparts.

Research shows that children who attend high - quality prekindergarten programs are less likely to drop out of school, repeat grades, need special education, and have greater opportunity to succeed in life.

In addition, research from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, indicates that more than three - fourths of students who drop out of high school report having reading difficulties.

Because high school dropouts earn $ 250,000 less on average over a lifetime less than graduates do (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2006), their children are more likely to be raised in poverty — and students from impoverished households with undereducated parents are themselves more likely to drop out.

Children who attend high - quality early learning programs are more likely to graduate high school, have a job and earn higher wages, and are less likely to drop out of school, depend on social services or be arrested.

The new paper reports on the sample participants at age 28, when they found the most positive outcomes among the 957 individuals who began services in preschool — especially males and children of high school drop outs.

When children struggle to read in 4th grade, they are four times more likely to drop out of high school.

If Texas is to reach its goal of graduating at least 95 percent of its students, then it must change course — from masking the number of dropouts to making each child count, from dropout prevention or recovery to a graduation plan for each student, from dropping out to school holding power, from at - risk students to high school reforms that produce high school graduates.

Children struggling to read by 4th grade are 4 times more likely to drop out of high school.

Without this possibility, a child might experience the fate of my uncle who, after dropping out of high school, lived a hard life of drugs and jail for most of his young adult years.

For all of these children, educators must contend with the correlation between being poor and dropping out of high school.

Children who are not reading at grade level by third grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school.

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.

Removing a child from an early learning environment deprives them of these experiences, and children who are removed from school in the early grades are more likely to be retained, removed in the higher grades, have trouble academically, drop out of school, and have contact with the juvenile justice system.

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.

A child of a divorced family is two times more likely to drop out of high school than a child from an intact family.

One study found that in African American families (but not European American families), children who lived with stepfathers were less likely to drop out of high school or (among daughters) have a nonmarital birth.41 Similarly, a study of African Americans living in high - poverty neighborhoods found that girls living with their mothers and stepfathers were less likely than girls living with single mothers to become sexually active or pregnant.

Some research suggests that the academic deficits associated with living with a single mother are less pronounced for black than for white children.37 One study found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted lower socioeconomic attainment among white women, white men, and black women, but not among black men.38 McLanahan and Sandefur found that white offspring from single - parent families were more likely to drop out of high school than were African American offspring from single - parent families.39 African American children may thus adjust better than white children to life in single - parent families, although the explanation for this difference is not clear.

Children who experienced a parent's death, however, scored significantly higher on several measures of well - being than did children with divorced parents.19 McLanahan and Sandefur found that children with a deceased parent were no more likely than children with continuously married parents to drop out of highChildren who experienced a parent's death, however, scored significantly higher on several measures of well - being than did children with divorced parents.19 McLanahan and Sandefur found that children with a deceased parent were no more likely than children with continuously married parents to drop out of highchildren with divorced parents.19 McLanahan and Sandefur found that children with a deceased parent were no more likely than children with continuously married parents to drop out of highchildren with a deceased parent were no more likely than children with continuously married parents to drop out of highchildren with continuously married parents to drop out of high school.

Single parenting, on the other hand, is accounted for 63 percent of teen suicides, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children and 71 percent of high school drop - outs.

Based on the research done by the US Centers for Disease Control, the Department of Justice and the Census Bureau, 90 percent of runaway and homeless youth and 71 percent of high school drop - outs were children raised by a single parent.

This word gap, and similar deficits in social and emotional skills or school - ready behaviors, lead to the achievement gap whereby society's most vulnerable children begin kindergarten unprepared for school; fall further behind; and are then at high risk of dropping out.

Many studies have found that children who are expelled or suspended are more likely to experience academic failure and grade retention, drop out of high school, and face juvenile incarceration than those who are not.

In their book Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps, sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that 31 % of adolescents with divorced parents dropped out of high school, compared to 13 % of children from intact families.