For women of color, a demographic that
experiences high poverty levels, these circumstances take on an ever deeper significance.
Not exact matches
The
high levels of childhood abuse, homelessness, drug use and
poverty experienced by those involved strongly suggests that survival is the overriding motivating factor.
As I note in this article, people who grow up in
poverty experience high levels of stress, and may therefore be at
high risk of developing stress - related diseases, atherosclerosis, autoimmune disorders, and cancer.
Whilst all four countries are
experiencing high levels of fuel
poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.
Whilst all four countries are
experiencing high levels of fuel
poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries.
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In addition, the variance of our value - added measure is significantly
higher within
higher -
poverty schools than in lower -
poverty schools, even after we control for the
experience level and other observable characteristics of teachers within each school, which supports the second prediction.
The first is the quality of teachers: Research shows that the country's best and most
experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with low
levels of
poverty.49 On the other hand, new and inexperienced teachers disproportionately work in
high -
poverty school settings.
Larger schools with
high -
poverty student populations are most likely to
experience limited leadership — even when we control for the effects of school
level and urbanicity.
State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District
poverty (
high, medium, low) District diversity (
high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School
level (elementary, middle school,
high school) School
poverty (
high, medium, low) School diversity (
high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role
experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site
experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).
These teacher felt that due to the
high poverty level in the school, many of the students had few opportunities to
experience the world.
Preferred candidates will have demonstrated
experience working with culturally diverse populations as well as
experience working with urban
high poverty and Title One schools; the preferred candidate should also have a background in and willingness to assume a leadership role at the local, state, and / or national / international
levels.
Another study of low - performing,
high poverty schools, shows that years of teaching
experience at the 2nd grade
level was associated with
higher reading achievement, for up to 20 years.
But in my
experience, a modicum of education is possible in almost any situation, and surely we could be providing a much
higher quality of education than only 1 in 10 low - income kids graduating from college, and most kids in
high poverty schools graduating
high school reading on an eighth grade
level.
The report, «Double Jeopardy: How
Poverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill levels and poverty exper
Poverty & Third - Grade Reading Skills Influence
High School Graduation,» breaks down for the first time the likelihood of graduation by different reading skill
levels and
poverty exper
poverty experiences.
Nevertheless, these informal kinship carers and the children they look after, remain an overlooked group who
experience high levels of
poverty and disadvantage with little or no statutory support.
Families in which the mother developed a persistent limiting health problem were more likely to subsequently have a
high level of home chaos, live in income
poverty,
experience poor maternal mental health and
high conflict in the parent - child relationship.
Adolescence is an important decade in a child's development, marking the period of transition from childhood to adulthood.7 Adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group,
experiencing a third of all new HIV infections worldwide, 8
high levels of violence, lower school attendance and enrolment than primary schoolchildren, early marriage and
higher levels9 of sexual abuse victimisation.10 Furthermore, adolescence is a time where the intergenerational transmission of
poverty, violence victimisation and perpetration, gender inequalities and educational disadvantage manifest themselves.9
Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was
higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with
higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a
high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in
poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families
experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated
level of stress.
Growing up in an environment that exposes young children to
high levels of sustained stress, such as households
experiencing poverty or violence, can impair vital early development and have a lasting effect throughout a child's life.