Sentences with phrase «damage poor children»

Nothing is harder to discuss than the ways in which poverty, implicit bias and school policies interact to damage poor children of color.

Output - driven reform not only damaged poor children of color by treating them as test scores, it has undermined liberals and Democrats who seek a larger agenda of equity and justice.

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By affirming the importance of surrounding and supporting communities to poor children and children whose home life is in disarray, the Kauai study challenges us to reflect on what might be done to shore up, or at least to avoid damaging, these structures.

In the parenting community, there's a belief that too much screen time can severely damage a child's development, and iPads have been blamed for everything from poor eyesight to high blood pressure to childhood obesity.

Poor communication between parents can damage the joint custody arrangement and damage the child psychologically.

Of course everyone wants a good «experience» but choosing to give birth in a location that dramatically increases your child's risk of death or brain damage to get it is a poor trade.

Parents struggle every day with making wise decisions when it comes to their child, knowing that their poor choices might damage him or her.

Poor quality toys are more likely to break or become damaged, and they present a much greater risk to your child's safety than a higher quality toy.

Children who were exposed to significant levels of mercury while in the womb, have displayed delayed walking and talking, poor attention span, and irreversible brain damage.

If it were at all practical she would spend her entire life in a sleeper put on backwards, but 1) that would make diaper changes impossibly time consuming and 2) I'm trying, even if ineffectually, to minimize the psychological damage on my poor child.

And public health experts believe that as many as 500 million poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America are being slowly poisoned by long - term cumulative exposure to aflatoxins, which can stunt a child's growth, suppress the immune system and lead to liver damage or cancer.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Despite a lack of symptoms, more than half of the children experienced stunted growth in the first two years of life, leading to irreversible damage and contributing to poor cognitive development, poor educational performance and reduced earning potential in adulthood, trapping individuals in a lifetime of poverty.

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.

They encourage poor practice, waste instructional time, and materially damage reading achievement, especially for our most vulnerable children.

More importantly, the most - successful efforts to expand school choice (including Virginia Walden Ford's work in Washington, D.C., Steve Barr's work with Latino communities in Los Angeles, and Parent Revolution's Parent Trigger efforts), have been ones led by poor and minority communities who explicitly made the case for helping their own children escape failure mills that damaged their families for generations.

Poor behaviour in classrooms in England is damaging children's education, according to an Ofsted report.

But Petrilli isn't the only school reformer or education traditionalist who defends continuing a system that has done far too much damage to generations of poor and minority children.

I disagree with most of the Democrat Party agenda, but no position is more EVIL than their mindless fealty to the teacher unions and the resulting damage they do to poor children — overwhelmingly minority children.

Education Minister Elizabeth Truss rejected calls for formal schooling to start later in England, saying this would damage the life chances of children from poorer homes.

Benn questioned the government's commitment to expanding selective education, «despite clear evidence that grammar schools educate few children from poorer backgrounds, damage other local schools, and subject thousands of children to stressful, life - defining, tests when they are only 10».

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

By the time adequate sources were to be developed and perfected untold damage would occur in the poorer countries affecting the lives of billions of people, mostly children.

Both organisations believe that the current Bill could bring about a damaging shift in the State's relationship with families and potentially cause poor decisions about the placement of children in the care system.