Sentences with phrase «from poor families»

The benefits were most obvious for students from poor families.

We've long understood the primary reason, too: A higher proportion of black and Hispanic children come from poor families.

Ideally many of those hired would come from poor families in those areas.

Many kids from poorer families with less educated parents ended up in this group.

One - third of 4 - year - olds from poor families do not attend preschool, and others are receiving poor quality service.

There are several schemes which aim to raise the attainment of pupils from the poorest families, such as the pupil deprivation grant, but the report claimed the system was too complex.

After participating in 24 play sessions, 4 - and 5 - year - olds from poor families were tested on empathy and other social skills.

The influx of Hispanic students, many from poor families, has brought about many changes in classrooms, with more expected as that population continues to grow.

Curious children do better in school, and this is especially true of youngsters from poorer families, a new study suggests.

A study focusing on the first year of the program, which started in 1995, found that it was successfully serving infants and toddlers from poor families.

If anything, children from poor families generally need extra assistance to do as well as students from more affluent families.

By the time children from poor families enter kindergarten, many are already far behind children from higher - income families.

Because of charter schools, parents from poorer families now have real school choice.

He would take her away from her poor family and boring small town and would give her a more desirable life.

And students from middle - income families maintain their achievement when they go to school with students from poor families, if the school maintains a majority of middle - class students.

The average Black student attends a school in which 77 percent of the students come from poor families and 87 percent are Black.

When he introduced the one - to - one laptop program the goal was to even the playing field for kids from poor families.

«Thus, a positive change in income - to - needs was a powerful protective factor for children from poor families,» they conclude.

It's expected they they will gain from the the government's pupil premium scheme, and receive extra money for pupils from poorer families.

Community colleges are full of students who are a lot like the students at YES Prep and the other urban charter schools Duckworth is studying: first - generation college students from poor families who have to balance work and family while going to school.

But kids from poor families often don't.

The study also revealed that girls from poorer families in single - sex schools received better GCSEs than their counterparts in mixed schools, whilst less of an advantage was identified for boys in single - sex schools.

Research shows that children from poor families start school substantially behind children from more advantaged backgrounds in vocabulary, knowledge of the world, social skills, and pre-academic content such as letter recognition, all of which are strongly predictive of later school success.

In the New York Times, David Kirp writes about efforts to raise college enrollment and graduation rates among students from poor families by texting the students regularly with helpful information and reminders.

Today, Vance County Schools serves more than 6,000 students near the Virginia border, many of them hailing from poor families.

«It is a shocking fact that only 20 % of young people from the poorest families achieve five good GCSEs, including English and maths, compared with 75 % from the richest families.

Ojo said that rapid population growth among the global poorest group results from poor family planning habits.

Since students from poorer families already get these kinds of subsidies in New York, Cuomo's plan holds the biggest boost for middle - income families in the suburbs, according to an analysis by the Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank based in Albany.

For the first time ever, our schools get given money — our Pupil Premium — to stop children from the poorest families from falling behind — the first time ever.

Under new plans, state schools in England will receive some # 430 more for each pupil they accept from the poorest families.

Five lucky children, including Charlie (Highmore), a good - hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy - making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years.

They wrote in the Kappan magazine, «The conventional wisdom on which detracking policy is often based — that students in low - track classes (who are drawn disproportionately from poor families and from minority groups) are hurt by tracking while others are largely unaffected — is simply not supported by very strong evidence.»

Panelists discussed how education reform, vocational programs and family police can help children from poor families climb the economic ladder into the middle class.

«Some of the students from poorer families say that with limited resources, they are glad they didn't have a sibling and now they don't want their child to go without.

By tapping philanthropist and school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary, Trump has signaled that he intends to make good on his pledge to use $ 20 billion in federal funds to give students from poor families more options.

David Liben, who works for Student Achievement Partners, a non-profit set up by the authors of the Common Core to help teachers put the standards into practice, says the «text to self» technique often puts kids from poor families at a disadvantage in the classroom.

In 1968 Michael Katz published a revision of his Harvard doctoral thesis, The Irony of Early School Reform, arguing that public schooling had not always been as beneficial for American children, particularly ones from poor families, as it had been traditionally portrayed.

The naming of that category makes students from poor families visible and vulnerable in a whole new way.

«We are concerned about the prospects of students from poorer families following the announcement of the withdrawal of the Educational Maintenance Allowance and would like to see more detail about what is meant by «more targeted support» for these young people.

Here he meets Bruno, a cow herder from a poor family, and the two boys form a tight bond.

In 1997 Detroit, «PaRappa», a young and unhappy blue collar worker from a poor family, struggles with various aspects of his life.

Pathways from poor family relationships in adolescence to economic adversity in mid-adulthood.