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.
The investigators chose schools for this study that serve substantial proportions of
children from poor families who live in high - crime neighborhoods.
Post hoc tests confirmed that, by age 18 years,
children from poor families who had participated in the full intervention were significantly more attached to school than their control counterparts from poor families (P =.001).
Not exact matches
Poor parents
who have been enabled to choose any school for their
children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free
from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.
They all belong in FEMA camps, except their
poor abused
children,
who should be put in foster homes to protect the innocent
from the lunacy of their dangerously deluded
families.
And these days, unless
children from poor families get a college degree, their economic mobility is severely restricted: Young people
who grow up in
families in the lowest income quintile (with household income below about $ 21,500) and don't obtain a B.A. now have just a one in two chance of escaping that bottom economic bracket as adults.
Children who grow up
poor are more likely to smoke cigarettes than those
from wealthier
families, according to research.
The
children who fared the worst were those
who had
poor attachments (had fewer feelings of trust) and / or
who were taken out of their communities right after the traumatic event, i.e. if they had to evacuate and were separated
from their
family and community.
Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and
family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be
poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations
Children's Fund [
WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support
from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.
Cahill says he wants to do more to protect
children at Charter Schools,
who often come
from the
poorest families in the state, and says he sees it as «the civil rights issue of our time».
Five lucky
children, including Charlie (Highmore), a good - hearted boy
from a
poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets
from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy - making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years.
Intended to help schools address the attainment gap amongst
children from low income
families, some of this funding could be used to address the digital divide and ensure pupils
who have
poor home access are equipped with the resources they need.
«
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 Univers
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 Univers
from poor families,» says Dearing,
who coauthored the study with Kathleen McCartney, a professor at HGSE, and Beck Taylor, an economist at Baylor University.
But they were surprised to find that
children in
poor families who benefitted
from increased income scored about the same as
children who were not
poor to begin with.
Quality Preschool Benefits
Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids
from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of
family income
children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids
who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in
Child Development.»
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.
While public schools in New Orleans educate mainly
children from poor families, «several new schools are attracting
families who could afford private or parochial school, the same type of
families who started leaving the school system 45 years ago,» writes Danielle Dreilinger on nola.com.
Schools might have to address
poor teacher —
family relationships,
children who have difficulties with their classmates, and students whose homes are relatively far
from school.
Both tests are designed to fail the vast majority of
children and are particularly discriminatory to
children who face challenges such as those
who come
from poorer families, those
who are not fluent in the English language and those
who need special education services.
Teachers and administrators
who work with
children from low - income
families say one reason teachers struggle to help these students improve reading comprehension is that deficits start at such a young age: in the 1980s, the psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley found that by the time they are 4 years old,
children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than
children with professional parents.
While the states primary school funding grant provides 30 percent more money for
children from low - income
families, experts
who testified for the plaintiffs during the trial testified that it costs two to three times as much to educate
poor children who often show up for school with major deficiencies.
Making the case that choice allows for all
families,
poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their
children can win support, especially
from white middle class
families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.
He came
from a rural
family so
poor and rootless that even their name was not their own — his father was given away, perhaps even sold, as a
child to a farming couple called the Pollocks,
who used him practically as a slave.
But (
from a
family lawyer's perspective) it beats turning away the working
poor who stand to lose everything they own and whose
children will go without support because their opposing party has relatives with deep pockets whose skilled and zealous counsel can overwhelm them.
Life and
family events premigration and postmigration have been found to have a profound effect on the health and well - being of immigrant
children.1, 2 Risk factors include trauma, separation
from parents, nonvoluntary migration, obstacles in the acculturation process, 3 and
children who immigrate in their mid - or late teens.1, 4 Research also shows that parents
who have experienced or witnessed violence have
poorer mental health, 2,5 which is likely to affect parent —
child attachment and negatively impact
child development and mental health.5 Transitioning to a new country may be beneficial for both parents and
children, but it may render new and unexpected constraints in the parent —
child relationship (eg,
children tend to acculturate to the new country faster than their parents), cause disharmony and power conflicts, 6 — 8 and, subsequently, affect the
child's mental health.9
Direct risks may arise
from activity level or other behavioral risks, which may have a genetic component.27 Indirect routes include the possibility that the parent,
who may have a history of risk - taking, provides a high - risk
family environment for the
child, which may include
poor parental monitoring and supervision.
Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged
families,
who have the most antisocial
children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large,
from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the
poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come
from more distressed
families, and receive less empirically supported interventions
from staff with heavier caseloads.
Albeit based on older
children than in GUS,
children aged 13 to 14 years
who live in
families with five or more problems (such as neither parent in work,
poor housing conditions, parents with mental health problems) are 36 times more likely to be excluded
from school than
children in
families with no problems and six times more likely to have been in care or to have contact with the police (HM Treasury and DFES, 2007).
During the prenatal and infant periods,
families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other
family (e.g. maternal depression) or
child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of
child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on
families from lower socioeconomic strata,
who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills,
poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income
children's social and emotional skills.