Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged children during»

The campaign began in 1976 as a charitable initiative to help raise money for disadvantaged children during the holiday season.

Not exact matches

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

The Maxi Cosi RodiFix Booster doesn't feature cup holders which may seem a disadvantage for some children as they like to have drinks or snack during the trip.

Women in particular will be disadvantaged, despite Edelgard Bulmahn's eager assertions, because 2 years are considered to be enough for the raising of children during the mentioned 12 - year period.

A sponsorship programme to make BBC micro: bit classroom kits available upon request will be opened during the 2016/2017 school year, in particular aimed at disadvantaged children.

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.

During the era of No Child Left Behind very little progress has been made in narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

Seeing the challenges confronted by highly segregated and under - resourced schools in crime - ridden neighborhoods, I realized that most urban children in America were as or more profoundly disadvantaged than children I had met in India, Nepal, and Mexico during previous international development work.

Adult reading mentors from organizations and corporations help disadvantaged elementary school children during lunch hour.

In addition, EdTech resources can help reduce the stress levels of disadvantaged children and children with disability during exams.

During the school year, disadvantaged children manage to catch up somewhat to more advantaged students.

According to the social mobility action plan, which is called «unlocking talent, fulfilling potential», the future talent programme will «trial approaches and present clear recommendations on what works» to support «the most able disadvantaged children, particularly during key stage 3 when they so often fall behind».

It says these children have the «double disadvantage» of disability and of bullying during critical life periods.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children,» President Trump said during his first address to a joint chamber of Congress.

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.

The research will look into «how best to ensure more children from disadvantaged families benefit from healthy meals and enrichment activities during the holidays, including through targeted pilots», Zahawi said.

«During the summer months, disadvantaged children tread water at best or even fall behind [while] better - off children build their skills steadily....

Doris Entwisle, Karl Alexander, and Linda Steffel Olson noted, «children from poor and middle - class families make comparable gains during the school year, but while the middle - class children make gains when they are out of school during the summer, poor and disadvantaged children make few gains or even move backwards academically.»

During the 2013 - 14 school year, The Rashi School began a partnership with the Epiphany School, an independent, Episcopal middle school in Dorchester, MA, that serves children of economically disadvantaged families.

The agreement made no provision for spousal support in spite of the fact that the wife was economically disadvantaged by the role she assumed during the marriage (homemaker and primary caregiver of the 3 children) and by the breakdown of the marriage;

In some cases one spouse may have suffered a financial loss or disadvantage as result of joint career and lifestyle decisions made during the marriage or relationship (for example the decision to move the family so that a spouse can take a new job, or that the mother will give up her career to stay home and raise the children).

As research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and economics demonstrates, early social - emotional, physical, and cognitive skills beget later skill acquisition, setting the groundwork for success in school and the workplace.15 However, an analysis of nationally representative data shows that 65 percent of child care centers do not serve children age 1 or younger and that 44 percent do not serve children under age 3 at all.16 Consequently, child care centers only have the capacity to serve 10 percent of all children under age 1 and 25 percent of all children under age 3.17 High - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and development.19

Designed to narrow the gap between disadvantaged children and their more affluent peers, Head Start provides comprehensive programming during the preschool period to improve children's social competence and academic readiness for school.

Low birthweight and social disadvantage: Tracking their relationship with children's IQ during the period of school attendance.

Psychosocial interventions in disadvantaged communities (without HIV), delivered during pregnancy and early childhood, have been shown to provide long term benefits to children and their families.

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.