Sentences with phrase «disadvantage children compared»

There are plenty of studies showing that formula feeding doesn't significantly disadvantage children compared to breastfeeding.

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His most recent study, comparing 1,025 public and Catholic high schools, shows not only that the Catholic schools were more effective overall, but that they were especially beneficial to children from economically disadvantaged homes or where relationships between parents and children were disturbed.

As someone who's children are 3rd generation formula fed, all with extremely healthy constitutions, 3rd generation with gifted IQs, I do not feel like we are disadvantaged compared to those who were breastfed.

No studies have found risks to or disadvantages for children growing up in families with one or more gay parents, compared to children growing up with heterosexual parents (Perrin, 2002).

They compare human - canine sleeping with adult - child co-sleeping and argue that both forms of co-sleeping share common factors for establishment and maintenance, and have similar advantages and disadvantages.

In particular, those who experienced parental separation before the age of 16 were more likely to be materially disadvantaged in adolescence and had lower educational qualifications by adulthood, compared to children who grew up with both parents.

Children from such families are doubly disadvantaged compared to children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the Children from such families are doubly disadvantaged compared to children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the children from two - parent families: they have only one breadwinner and that breadwinner — the mother — typically earns less than the primary breadwinner in a two - parent family (who is typically the father).

During Lewis - Carter's four years as principal, she has led these children — disadvantaged by every conventional measure and further handicapped by the hardships of Katrina — to a stunning performance record on state - mandated standardized tests, one that compares favorably with the city's selective - admissions schools.

The figures show only 54 per cent of children from disadvantaged families reach a good level of development, compared with 72 per cent of the age group overall.

The report said: «Compared with disadvantaged children who did not attend after - school club at the age of 11, those who attended after - school club one or two days per week had made significantly more progress than predicted.

However it highlighted that there was still a large 18 per cent gap between the proportion of disadvantaged children reaching these levels compared with their peers.

IPPR thinktank has found that only 47 per cent of disadvantaged children in the North achieve a «good» level in the early years foundation stage, compared to 59 per cent in the capital.

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 access to certified school media specialists, the children of Millburn will be at a tremendous disadvantage, compared to other students in New Jersey.

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

In 2015, LightSail's SummerSail Reading Program provided at - risk middle school students with access to LightSail for seven weeks in an effort to combat «summer slide» — a phenomenon by which economically disadvantaged children rarely read during the summer as compared to their more advantaged peers.

In contrast, though teachers perceive no disadvantage, both Asian and non-English speaking Hispanic parents give their children low scores on approaches to learning or social skills compared with how White parents score their children.

And while the number of disadvantaged children going to university has increased, only 2.2 % end up at the most selective third of universities, compared with 18.1 % of their better - off peers.

In 2016, 0.7 per cent of disadvantaged White British children went to a grammar, compared with 0.9 per cent of White non-British children, 0.8 per cent of Black children, 2.8 per cent of Indian children, 5.2 per cent of Chinese children, and 1.5 per cent of other Asian children.

While each subgroup of students — including economically disadvantaged children — made progress this year, achievement gaps remained stubbornly large: 92 percent of white students were proficient in reading, for example, compared with 52 percent of Hispanic students, 44 percent of black students and 42 percent of poor children.

Having read the recent Carol L. Tilley study finding that comics have no disadvantage compared to traditional prose, I am really keen to develop Manga and graphic novel resources especially for younger children.

Without access to certified school media specialists, the children of Millburn will be at a tremendous disadvantage, compared to other students in New Jersey.

In studies of sequencing per se, declines in income have been found to be associated with poorer developmental outcomes.6 13 27 Furthermore, economic fluctuations seem especially consequential for children living in poverty, 6 22 and it has been suggested that economic fluctuations may pose even greater risks to development compared with disadvantaged, but stable, economic circumstances.28

Finally, we hypothesised that the intervention would ameliorate health and developmental disadvantages for vulnerable children compared to the population.

In 2012, data on 96.5 % (n = 289 973) of Australian children were captured by the AEDC; 22.0 % of children were developmentally vulnerable in one or more AEDC domains.18 There was geographic variation in ECD, with higher rates of developmental vulnerability typically found in poorer areas; 15.2 % of young children living in the least disadvantaged areas were developmentally vulnerable on one or more AEDC domain, compared with 31.7 % of young children who lived in the most disadvantaged areas.18

Schools and Local Authorities must take reasonable steps to make sure that disabled pupils, including children who are not yet at school and in some cases former pupils, are not put at a substantial disadvantage compared with a non-disabled pupil.

Another workshop which looked at the issues faced by disproportionate numbers of Aboriginal children in out - of - home care said the poorer financial and other support provided to kinship carers compared to foster carers in Victoria disadvantaged Aboriginal children and families.

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

Compared to 50 years ago, a greater fraction of American children is being born into disadvantaged families where investments in children are smaller than in advantaged families.

Compared to other areas, the 3 % of most disadvantaged post codes has at least twice the rate of unemployment; criminal convictions; imprisonment; child maltreatment; disability support recipients; and psychiatric admissions.

The Stolen Generations and their children and grandchildren are twice as likely to be arrested by police and a third less likely to be in good health, compared to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are already at a disadvantage.

In line with previous research on the disadvantage of the incongruence of prenatal and postnatal environments on early child development [25], we hypothesized that children whose mothers had elevated postnatal maternal depressive symptoms when compared to that during pregnancy may show greater atypical frontal EEG activity and frontal functional connectivity and greater internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems.

Overall, children born to teen parents experience disadvantaged cognitive achievement at school entry compared with children born to older parents.