A partnership led by Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Brains seeks to improve
outcomes for children living in poverty through interventions that nurture and protect early brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life.
Because children in poorer families are more likely to experience poor - quality child care, the data suggest that high - quality child care might serve as an important early childhood
intervention for children living in poverty.»
The other privatization options, including those that are not
targeted for children living in poverty and that have no accountability, operate more as private school subsidies for the very wealthy.
In studies of sequencing per se, declines in income have been found to be associated with poorer developmental outcomes.6 13 27 Furthermore, economic fluctuations seem especially
consequential for children living in poverty, 6 22 and it has been suggested that economic fluctuations may pose even greater risks to development compared with disadvantaged, but stable, economic circumstances.28
Once again, as often happens under the privately managed charter school model, underprepared teachers will end up in the poorest and neediest schools, thereby exacerbating the problem of inequitable educational
outcomes for children living in poverty.
«Education is the civil rights issue of our own time — especially
for children living in poverty or subjected to inferior education,» says Grant.
According to Annie E. Casey Foundation President Patrick McCarthy, improving outcomes
for children living in poverty will require several social and economic measures such as tax credits, food stamps, and job training for parents.