Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged children getting»

It will reduce the barriers to the most disadvantaged children getting in front of the best teachers — which is exactly the intervention required to make a difference.

Kent County Council has approved a number of ideas to try to enable more disadvantaged children get the chance.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: «The pupil premium has been one of the most significant changes in our education system for a long time and is already closing the attainment gap by helping up to two million disadvantaged children get the support, education and skills they need to get on in life - whether it's through literacy classes, catch - up lessons or one - to - one tuition.»

Not exact matches

You don't get to call yourself «pro-life» and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children.

A larger percentage of such births are to children in disadvantaged / poor / broken households, who then often get poorer and less adequate educations than the general population does.

Putting aside kids who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, one theory I have is that children rarely get truly hungry before a meal, due to our society's misguided belief that kids must have a snack every five minutes!

So, although it is certainly true that we should be spending more money on children in disadvantaged neighborhoods, the primary problem is that what we are already spending gets spent in really unhelpful ways, haphazard ways: different programs, different agencies, different levels of government.

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

A couple of disadvantages are the children don't have the main one - on - one attention they'd get when they were aware of a parent or gaurdian or nanny.

«Despite all the money that has been spent by Labour, schools taking disadvantaged children aren't getting the money they need to break this link by cutting class sizes and providing them with extra support,» he said.

«Getting rid of school libraries also risks increasing inequalities and further disadvantaging the most deprived children who are less likely to have access to books or computers at home and will have less access to public libraries since so many are closing.»

Indeed, the strongest argument in favor of reading by the end of kindergarten and Common Core's vision for early literacy is simply to ensure that children — especially the disadvantaged among them — don't get sucked into the vortex of academic distress associated with early reading failure.

Alan Milburn MP, chair of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (SMCPC), said the installation of written exams could mean excluding disadvantaged pupils and only allowing access to pupils from richer backgrounds who could use private tutoring to get through the tests.

This investment will be targeted at the most disadvantaged areas of the country — including the Department for Education's Opportunity Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best start in life.

So the message is I think is that it's really good to do these morning ritual things and try and break that ice, but you've also got to consider that the group of children you're going to try and initiate this contact with, if they don't know you it's a big disadvantage.

Many children from disadvantaged backgrounds may rarely get the opportunity to go beyond their immediate neighbourhood let alone visit a working farm.

After 10 years of running prekindergarten programs for disadvantaged children, some Florida districts are planning to get out of the early - childhood - education business rather than dip into their K - 12 budgets to pay for preschool.

«If you spread grammar school places throughout the country and make them available to lots of disadvantaged children then you would give these disadvantaged children the same opportunity to get an academic education.»

We expand to Early Years - We expanded our primary provision to include early years to help ensure that some of the UK's most disadvantaged young children get the excellent education they deserve.

However, I will also say that if you think those neighboring districts are getting an awesome deal and thus delivering better education with their extra couple of thousand that comes for their disadvantaged students, most likely you have the ability to enroll your child there via interdistrict transfer even if you don't want to actively move your residence into that district.

Disadvantaged white children far less likely to get grammar school places than ethnic minority kids (Lynn Davidson, The Sun)

He also wants to reverse a policy that allows school districts to give teachers raises with money designated to help English learners, economically disadvantaged students and foster children, saying the money needs to get to the children who need it most.

We want to see more children from disadvantaged families get into grammars - that's vital.»

«What we're planning is now that children from the most disadvantaged families will not only continue to get a free school meal at lunchtime, they will now also get a breakfast and that's really important in terms of making sure that we continue to lift up the education for those children that we want to target.»

If you've seen the modern day Kindergarten class, you should know that children who don't attend Pre-K (or get appropriately home - schooled) are going to be at a serious disadvantage.

The report found educational attainment by disadvantaged children had improved but the gap between them and their better - off peers has only got marginally better — by one percentage point.

Further, while there might be some argument for an annual test that could contribute to closer monitoring of those symptoms, there is no argument that convincingly says that such tests must be given to every student in every grade in order to get a good picture of how schools and school systems serve historically disadvantaged children.

We know that disadvantaged children who go to grammars have a better chance of getting into university, including Russell Group universities, and that is because their attainment improves.

We know what works — we know it worked in London — and we need to see the London Challenge rolled out to the 10 worst areas where we know that most disadvantaged children are not getting the schooling they need.

Teachers and others who offer programs for the economically disadvantaged, special education or disabled children can get codes to distribute.

Previously, children that were from an un - married couple often had some big disadvantages to get on with; for example, a smaller amount of alimony which did not include the custody time of the parent in charge.

Women who keep getting impregnated by guys who fail to stick around and help out with the kids may find themselves at an evolutionary disadvantage because they have to provide for themselves and their children entirely on their own (which probably proved exceptionally challenging in the days of hunter - gathers).

Will Consciously Try To Break All Rules And May Even Get Into Anti-Social Behavior: Another disadvantage that could happen as a result of the permissive style of parenting is when your child actually starts looking for those boundaries and limits that you never set for them.

Every child needs effective early childhood supports — and at - risk children from disadvantaged environments are least likely to get them.

The Smith Family is a national, independent children's charity helping disadvantaged Australians to get the most out of their education, so they can create better futures for themselves.