This is a great resource for those who need to prove that government investment in early childhood education for
disadvantaged children pays off for individuals and society.
As is always the case,
disadvantaged children pay a steeper price for our mistakes, magnifying the gap.
Not exact matches
• In the US, Parents Fair Share which worked with only the most
disadvantaged non-resident fathers, managed to effect slight increases in the amount of
child support
paid; and also brought about positive effects on father -
child contact where levels had been particularly low (Mincy & Pouncy, 2002)..
So while there is no doubt that the advantages of digital video baby monitors far outweighs the
disadvantages, the fact is that you should be willing to
pay more for this latest innovation that helps you take proper care of your
child.
«The marketisation and privatisation of our great public education service compounds this
disadvantage with access to important educational opportunities, for too many
children and young people, now on the basis of parents» ability to
pay.
- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor
children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for
children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths -
Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for
Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor
children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for
children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 -
Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and
disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade
By this I mean that we must
pay much more attention to what's going on in the lives of
children — especially
children who are
disadvantaged by poverty — that prevents them from taking advantage from even optimized learning environments.
Another businessman has followed in the footsteps of Eugene Lang, who started the I Have a Dream Foundation in New York City that helps
pay for the college expenses of
disadvantaged children in Harlem.
In contrast, schools in economically worse - off areas were found to be charging as little as $ 92 — the result of hardship policies implemented to ensure
children are not
disadvantaged regardless of their parents» ability to
pay fees.
For example, families that send their
child to a «free» federally funded Head Start program are much more
disadvantaged economically than the families in the present customer subsample who are
paying the full freight for a fee - for - service center.
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.
Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues -
paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine
child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly
disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.
In other initiatives some headteachers have opted to fund tutoring for
disadvantaged students using the pupil premium, which is
paid by the government to schools for every
child on free meals.
One of the objectives stated by the Department for Education (DfE) is to ensure that good school places are available to
children of
disadvantaged families, and not just those who can afford them by moving into the right catchment area,
paying for private education or tuition, or belonging to a given faith group.
«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.»
The report, Poor Grammar: Entry into Grammar Schools for
Disadvantaged Pupils in England, says pupils from very low income families are outnumbered by four to one in grammar schools by
children from fee -
paying prep schools.
The Pupil Premium, a sum of money
paid to schools to enhance the education of
children from
disadvantaged backgrounds, also depends on pupils being registered for free school meals.
Just as there are advantages, there are also
disadvantages to parents
paying for their
children's educations.
Only five out of 88 respondents who studied for the Legal Practice Course (LPC) had their studies
paid for by a firm; two had support from the Law Society through a diversity access scheme for students from
disadvantaged backgrounds; seven had scholarships; and one had a grant from a charity for the education of impoverished
children.
To leave funds to
pay for your
child's wedding, business, or for disabled or
disadvantaged family members.
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.
The team also found that families on the subsidy waitlist are at a particular
disadvantage as they have the greatest difficulty
paying for care, the least access, and the poorest quality
child care.
She
paid tribute to the work of staff at a Galway - based family research centre established six years ago to help
children and families break the cycle of poverty and
disadvantage.
Third, although there are some data about various
child and family characteristics that predict outcome (e.g., socioeconomic
disadvantage, severity of
child behaviour, maternal adjustment problems, treatment barriers), there has been a relative dearth of attention
paid to a) the actual processes of change that are induced by PMT and b) whether there are certain subgroups (e.g., based on
child gender or minority status or family socioeconomic status) for whom PMT is more or less effective.15 - 17