Sentences with phrase «from early disadvantages»

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It's a smart move, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie, which says oil and gas companies that adopt renewables early will be at a competitive advantage, while slow adopters could find themselves at a structural disadvantage.

But before you get carried away, it's necessary to be fully aware of the disadvantages of those early hours (apart from waking up when most other people are still in their beds).

How exactly do the neurobiological adaptations that result from an adverse early childhood evolve into the social and academic struggles that so many disadvantaged students experience in school?

He believed that to truly make a difference in a disadvantaged community, he must provide comprehensive services to residents from birth (or earlier) until death.

He said his earlier experience dealing with British deployments in Bosnia and Kosovo had taught him the disadvantages of overstretching UK soldiers, who he found were simply «being rotated from one theatre to another».

«All the evidence shows that the well - documented gap in attainment between pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their peers begins at an early age.

It provides # 300 for every child from a disadvantaged background in a maintained early years education setting to help tackle the attainment gap between richer and poorer pupils which develops from an early age.

All proceeds from this tournament will benefit United Way of the Southern Tier, one of the region's largest charitable organizations dedicated to supporting early childhood education and disadvantaged people of all ages in our area.

Consistent with earlier research before 2010, the study indicates that UKIP's loyal supporters are the most disadvantaged; they tend to have no educational qualifications and come from the lowest income groups.

The allocations of over # 4.6 million secured by the Welsh Liberal Democrats to support early years pupils in Wales from disadvantaged backgrounds have been announced.

The research by leading early learning scientists looked at children from a wide variety of backgrounds, including those from advantaged and disadvantaged families, and those who had suffered brain injury.

Anita works with foster kids and, too often, sees disadvantaged kids who have been on a cocktail of psychiatric medications from as early as age 6.

The goal of the Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program is to recruit and retain individuals who are from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, early in their careers.

Proponents of greater public funding for early childhood education (ECE) argue that too many children, often those from challenged communities and homes, arrive for kindergarten with insurmountable development gaps and that low - income and disadvantaged children who are exposed to high - quality pre-K programs gain lifelong benefits.

Imagine that all of our reform efforts prove successful, from initiatives to bolster the prenatal health of disadvantaged babies, to high - quality early - childhood experiences, to dramatic improvements in K - 12 education, to serious interventions and supports at the college level.

The policy, which is due to come into force in September 2017, could mean that children from disadvantaged backgrounds may receive worse off access to good quality early - years education.

As part of Samsung's commitment to help close the digital skills gap in the UK, Samsung wanted to encourage the development of digital skills from an early age by enabling access to vital technology for some of the most disadvantaged learners in the UK.

Each year from July 2016, around $ 10 million is available to integrate early childhood, maternal and child health, and family support services with schools in a selected number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities experiencing disadvantage.

Also important is universal access to high - quality, affordable, integrated early childhood education and care, especially in the year before full - time school and for developmentally vulnerable children and children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

For this reason, we think that the evidence from New York continues to support the conclusion - also reached in a wide variety of earlier studies - that disadvantaged African - American students living in urban environments benefit from private schooling.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the TriEarly Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the TriEarly identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Triearly years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Triearly years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Triearly years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Triearly support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

When Congress zeroed out funding for Reading First — the program authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act for K - 3 pupils primarily in disadvantaged schools — it increased spending for Early Reading First, which targets 3 - and 4 - year - olds from low - income families.

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.

«Although the number of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education has reached record levels again this year, there are early signals that the good progress made in recent years may be slowing down.

Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «Our earlier trial of Philosophy 4 Children found it had a promising impact on maths and reading results for primary school pupils, especially those from disadvantaged homes.

Although the policymaker's challenge is to figure out how to expand access to such programs while preserving quality, evidence suggests that investment in early childhood education has the potential to significantly address disparities that arise from family disadvantage.

Policymakers must do everything in their power to ensure all children — particularly the disadvantaged — benefit from a knowledge - rich curriculum from the earliest possible moment.

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

That approach is based on the results of many earlier studies that have found attending preschool helps kids from disadvantaged backgrounds start kindergarten on a stronger academic footing.

While there, she recognized a desperate need in the system to better support and educate children from disadvantaged or underprivileged backgrounds at an earlier age.

The first component of this success is Pre-K programs that provide high quality early education to all students — particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Children that enter kindergarten classrooms where most of the children have not benefited from high - quality early education are at a disadvantage, as the teacher is forced to teach to the lowest common denominator.

«Key foundations for learning are established from birth, and it's likely that early disadvantages will pose serious challenges to students throughout their academic careers,» said García.

Now that two years of data from California's new standardized test are available, we are in a better position to evaluate early implementation of both the Common Core State Standards and the new Local Control Funding Formula, particularly its impact on economically disadvantaged students and English Learners.

Implementing effective early childhood education requires policymakers and politicians to go beyond the traditional notions of formal education to understand that quality is defined by how we support children and families, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to set them up for success.

He said this resulted in all children being «slowed down», but was particularly damaging for the most able pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds who «disproportionately fail to fulfil their earlier potential when they come to sit their GCSE examinations».

Arguing that the early optimism about No Child from reformers «proved unfounded», Carey declares that there is little evidence that the law has led to «a new era of educational opportunity for disadvantaged children» or for all children in general.

Two school leaders testified that the format of the report cards disadvantages schools that only serve early childhood students, because it only includes growth from 3rd grade onward.

Phonics can be an important component in the development of early reading skills, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Paying down early on the principal is a disadvantage from a tax perspective.

A puppy who's taken away from her littermates too early is at a major disadvantage in her canine social skills.

Early statistics from some of the UK's largest law firms suggest students from disadvantaged backgrounds are up to 50 % more likely to be hired by firms when they are able to consider their performance in the context of their background.

I can understand when this situation arises with students from disadvantaged backgrounds who may not have had early access to technology.

Two school leaders testified that the format of the report cards disadvantages schools that only serve early childhood students, because it only includes growth from 3rd grade onward.

The School Meals Programme aims to supplement the diets of school - going children from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them fulfil their potential within the educational system and to reduce the risk of early school - leaving.

Heckman and co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis García and Andrés Hojman find that disadvantaged children benefit the most from a variety of early childhood interventions, society receives a higher return from targeted investments and that Head Start works.

Disadvantaged children benefit the most from a variety of early childhood interventions and society receives a higher return from targeted investments.

Conclusions From very early childhood, social disadvantage was associated with poorer outcomes across most measures of physical and developmental health and showed no evidence of either strengthening or attenuating at older compared to younger ages.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

Pathways from problems in adolescent family relationships to midlife mental health via early adulthood disadvantages — a 26 - year longitudinal study.