Sentences with phrase «disadvantaged families»

They want to prepare kids, many of them from disadvantaged families with few, if any, high school graduates, to attend college.

The graduation rates for students with disabilities and those from economically disadvantaged families also are higher than they were five years ago.

Although parents from advantaged backgrounds spoke more with their children, there was no difference between advantaged and disadvantaged families in the quality of the word - learning experiences parents gave their children.

This is particularly the case for disadvantaged families where there are fewer studies and where the average impact appears to be lower.

This is especially true when exploring strategies to engage your most disadvantaged families including low socioeconomic, English language learners, and traditionally underrepresented groups.

A greater fraction of children is being born into disadvantaged families with fewer parenting resources.

We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families.

Notice from the table that positive long term results were only obtained for children from disadvantaged families who were at the high end of the low birth weight dimension.

Question: Does a peer - led parenting intervention improve behavioural problems in children of socially disadvantaged families?

This nonprofit is on a mission to reduce food waste while helping disadvantaged families get access to fresh produce.

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.

First - generation college students, pupils from public (as opposed to elite private) high schools, and students from financially disadvantaged families are all underrepresented in the undergraduate population.

Government programs that provide disadvantaged families with access to high - quality center - based care are better and more effective alternatives than no formal care.

Instead, charters are freely chosen — mainly by disadvantaged families of African American background in urban areas.

So, no I will be offering classes at our public library free of charge to see if it draws disadvantaged families.

In fact, there is substantial evidence that escape from the harmful effects of ability tracking in the district schools is a major factor driving disadvantaged families to charter schools and private school choice.

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.

Schools, particularly those that enroll disadvantaged families, must stop asking parents to do things they're ill - equipped to do.

There is broad interest from across the political spectrum in programs that might help improve parenting in highly disadvantaged families.

To leave funds to pay for your child's wedding, business, or for disabled or disadvantaged family members.

Most significantly, the courses successfully engaged disadvantaged families with significant problems (40 % of sample) and these families benefited most overall.

To be effective, professional services need to devise better ways of engaging and retaining disadvantaged families, particularly fathers, in parenting support programmes.

Approximately 61 % of the students in the district are the children of economically disadvantaged families.

Depending upon how fees are administered, some families may feel that the sliding scale fees identify the program as being only for disadvantaged families.

Among the participants from the most disadvantaged families, just 14 percent had earned a bachelor's degree.

Because children with an experience of early childhood maltreatment come from more disadvantaged families and neighborhoods, one might expect their academic performance to lag behind that of other children.

Some advocates have raised concerns about whether expanding school choice will help disadvantaged families, especially in rural areas and other places where there may not be many schools from which to choose.

Children from disadvantaged families have been welcomed to our day camp to the tune of 30 to 50 campers each year.

WBYO is a grassroots organization focused on improving educational outcomes for children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families in Winnipeg's core.

Alright, here is my final attempt at recommendations for how to encourage good parenting among disadvantaged families:

Principal Rebecca Handley - Kirk said: «I am so proud of our students, who have worked hard to design a plan to support disadvantaged families in Norwich.

Support also moderated the negative effects of disadvantaged family background.

A surprising implication of these findings is that, relative to white children, black boys fare worse than their sisters in significant part because black children — both boys and girls — are raised in more disadvantaged family environments.

This makes planned cuts to nursery schools, who largely do serve disadvantaged families, even harder to justify.»

Empirical findings, however, vary between showing that socioeconomically disadvantaged family benefit less (e.g., Leijten et al. 2012), equally (Gardner et al. 2010), or more (e.g., Gardner et al. 2009; MacKenzie et al. 2004).

Large - scale initiatives, such as the community schools movement, are also designed to increase disadvantaged families» involvement in school by making the school a hub of social services for the neighborhood.

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

«We are incredibly pleased to see the results of this study by Dr. Matt Chingos of the Urban Institute, as it confirms what we have known to be true for years: private school choice programs provide families, especially disadvantaged families, greater opportunities to achieve academic success.

There is now good evidence to recommend dissemination of intensive home visitation by nurses to neighbourhoods with many disadvantaged families.

Our support during the critical early years, especially for disadvantaged families through an improved Sure Start programme, is explicitly intended to have an impact on future fairness.

Most of our concerns about equity of access are likely to be addressed if we simply empower disadvantaged families with higher resource amounts.

Regulators should pay special attention to providers that are obviously recruiting disadvantaged families — especially via «incentives» like free iPads, computers, and such.

New funding of # 2 million for organisations to research ways of supporting disadvantaged families during the school holidays has been launched.

To help fuel her evolving understanding of social skills, Tominey conducts research at the Yale Child Study Center, where she works to understand how disadvantaged families teach their children about resilience.

However, they also want society to serve as equal partners in the effort, lifting disadvantaged families out of poverty and closing all the gaps for children so they are as prepared for school as their higher - income peers.

The report also recommends helping disadvantaged families make better school choices, so that their children, as well as those from middle - class families, apply to the country's more popular, better performing schools.

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.