Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged children face»

Since oral language and vocabulary are so connected to reading comprehension, the most disadvantaged children face increased challenges once they enter school and start learning to read.

Simply marrying to provide children with a two parent family, particularly if the spouse is not the child's biological parent, will not eliminate the disadvantages children face (Lichter, 2001).

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Research shows that young mothers who feel supported by their baby's father adjust better to motherhood and behave more positively towards their children — for whom a good relationship with «my dad» proves protective in face of other disadvantage.

Tough's latest book, titled Helping Children Succeed, outlines some antidotes to the structural disadvantages that poorer students face.

Liz Accles, executive director of Community Food Advocates, and leader of the Lunch 4 Learning campaign, said in a press release, «Hungry children face great disadvantages academically.

«But even where places may be available, too many parents and children, particularly from disadvantaged backgrounds, face selection by stealth because of the Government's failure to ensure compliance with the fair admissions code.

These formulas send some funds on a uniform, per - disadvantaged - child basis, but direct close to half of federal dollars in a way that recognizes high - poverty districts face greater challenges, using weights to allocate per - eligible funds progressively with respect to a district's poverty rate.

When identifying another student pushes a district over a risk ratio threshold, the district faces a clear incentive to under identify — that is, to withhold services from — children who already face a broad array of systemic disadvantages.

Schools that receive federal Title I funds to improve learning among disadvantaged children and fail to make AYP for two years in a row are considered in need of improvement and face a range of consequences.

What harm is there in learning about the crisis in American education, or the challenges faced by disadvantaged children, or the antics of school boards and union leaders?

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

The figures are based on calculations by the NUT and ATL, who have warned that schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest cuts when the government reallocates school funding.

For us, this belief translates into service to the children of Washington, D.C., where the majority of schoolchildren face some disadvantage or adversity.

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.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

Schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest funding cuts when the Government reallocates school funding, according to calculations by the NUT and ATL.

In addition to living in poverty, minority children face disadvantages that include living with one parent (as 65 percent of Black children do) and lacking access to preschool (as 53 percent of Hispanic children do).

In this study, Caitlin Patler uses original longitudinal and mixed - methods data to address a series of questions about DACA's role in influencing the educational disadvantages faced by undocumented children and youth.

No Child Left Behind required all schools to bring all students to high levels of achievement but took no note of the challenges that disadvantaged students face.

However, the approach they take is to holistically address the manifold disadvantages low - income children face: hunger, physical and mental health issues, and lack of safe spaces to play and learn while not in school.

This includes closing the gender pay gap, increasing access to affordable child care and tackling the poverty facing disadvantaged women including single mothers, Indigenous women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, and women facing domestic violence and sexual harassment in the workplace and community.

While early parenthood can pose many challenges for anyone, it is particularly problematic for early and chronic female offenders, who face increased risks of pregnancy complications, socioeconomic disadvantage, relationship violence, and compromised parenting skills.41 Several studies have linked a history of maternal conduct disorder with unresponsive parenting.42 Particularly troubling are data suggesting that mothers with a history of aggression or conduct disorder, or both, pass on at least three risk factors to their offspring: antisocial biological fathers (because of assortative mating), prenatal exposure to nicotine, and coercive (hostile) parenting style.43 The most common trajectories followed by female offenders tend to increase the odds that their children will follow in their footsteps.

While children from CALD communities can have high levels of resilience and resourcefulness, recent research shows that they also face disadvantage in health, education and access to social opportunities (1).

In brief, however, EChO centres are places for children facing disadvantage to participate in engaging learning experiences, make friends, learn how to regulate big feelings, build their communication and literacy through play, build strong relationships with trusted educators and be seen as a little person with great play ideas and potential.

We know from the research that children facing disadvantage stand to gain the most benefit from early learning but may not attend or may under - attend due to a range of barriers.

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.

The loss of income facing many children after divorce puts them at a financial disadvantage that has a pervasive effect on the rest of their lives.

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There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that poor children face other disadvantages (Oroyemi et al., 2009) and that this can reduce life chances in adulthood (Feinstein, 2003).

We also counted how many of these disadvantages children have and focused on children that face multiple problems.

«Ireland is currently facing a very challenging situation and our children represent one of the most vulnerable groups, particularly those in disadvantaged areas.

COAG agreed to six ambitious targets to address the disadvantage faced by Indigenous Australians in life expectancy, child mortality, education and employment.

Center for Learning and Development focuses on children, youth and families facing challenges from economic disadvantage, disability, teenage parenthood, neighborhood decay and other risk factors.

HREOC welcomes the proposal in the Discussion Paper to develop new service for models for Indigenous families that are responsive to the specific forms of disadvantage faced by Aboriginal children and families, and the differing cultural contexts.

Indigenous peoples face a comparative disadvantage and discrimination across a range of indicators including life expectancy and health, housing and homelessness, education, welfare, employment, incarceration rates and child abuse and family violence.