Sentences with phrase «give disadvantaged children»

Sesame Street was founded in 1969 to give disadvantaged children the same opportunities as middle - class children.

Both Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Education and Childcare Minister Liz Truss have stressed the need to give disadvantaged children, who tend to do worse at school, the best start in life.

«If you spread grammar school places throughout the country and make them available to lots of disadvantaged children then you would give these disadvantaged children the same opportunity to get an academic education.»

Here, we lay out how this whole - city approach can look in practice — and what types of partnerships and programs can give disadvantaged children the same chance to reach their academic, professional, and social - emotional potential as more - advantaged peers.

If the government is truly committed to social mobility, surely it should make the easiest of changes to give all disadvantaged children the support they deserve.»

Anything short of a serious effort to give disadvantaged children a better chance of succeeding in school is irresponsible.

E.D. Hirsch, Jr., has long been making the social justice case for giving disadvantaged children access to the knowledge and language that have long been assumed by the privileged and powerful.

Professor Heckman studied decades» worth of data from early childhood development programs that gave disadvantaged children and their families developmental support.

Not exact matches

The brothers dream of creating a billion - dollar global company (they give themselves 15 years) that improves the culture by promulgating inspirational messages and — this is the important part, they say — by raising money and awareness for sick and disadvantaged children.

(When Killmonger gives the order to distribute Wakanda's weapons so disadvantaged people can overthrow their oppressors, it's understandable until he says something like, «With these, our people can kill the ones who keep us down, and their children.»

The building - blocks model is, at present, mostly a theoretical framework, but it gives educators and anyone else concerned with child development a different and valuable lens through which to consider the problems of disadvantaged kids in the classroom.

I would either keep it and give my childs DS to someone who can't afford one or give thisone away to them — and there's plenty of disadvantaged kids out there!

Since many of these dads were young and poor, this is particularly good news, since these fathers are among the least likely to maintain contact with their children, yet are probably the most important to their children — given that highly disadvantaged children suffer most from «father absence».

Give your favorite children's book, along with an Oxfam gift of books for disadvantaged children in honor of the new baby.

Extending the pupil premium — extra money given to schools for disadvantaged children — to three and four - year - olds will help, but is not enough.

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.

«Given the limited accessibility of traditional mental health services for children — particularly for children from minority and economically disadvantaged backgrounds — school - based mental health services are a tremendous vehicle for overcoming barriers to mental health care and meaningfully expanding the reach of supports and services for so many children in need.

«Given that disadvantaged children and teens enrolled in Medicaid, a public insurance program, are disproportionately diagnosed with ADHD, these are important policy questions to address: why are there more children taking ADHD drugs today than a decade ago, what benefits do they deliver and at what cost.»

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A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The pupil premium is providing vital support to disadvantaged children and helping to ensure every child, regardless of their background, is given the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Teachers can be given better tools to enlist parents» support, and schools can address some critical deficiencies of disadvantaged children, such as the lack of a quiet space for studying.

Also in line with current studies is the report's finding that «for any groups whether minority or not, the effect of good teachers is greatest upon the children who suffer most educational disadvantage in their background, and that a given investment in upgrading teacher quality will have most effect on achievement in underprivileged areas.»

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 Tribunal

A: I've given top priority to issues of equity and access for many disadvantaged groups, such as the illiterate, youth from remote rural areas, minority groups, the disabled, and children of migrant workers.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

It is about the simplistic notion that giving disadvantaged young children academic training will provide them with the skills and motivation to continue their education and break the cycle of poverty.

Increases in pupil premium (# 1,300 per pupil in 2014) now give schools more responsibilities and freedoms to use this funding to raise attainment and level the playing field for disadvantaged children.

Finally, a key issue given little attention in the book is the continuing wide educational disadvantage of poor, particularly black, children, and the hope that educational intervention in the early years may reduce it.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

The Washington law gives priority to charters that have a mission of serving children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

He also wants to reverse a policy that allows school districts to give teachers raises with money designated to help English learners, economically disadvantaged students and foster children, saying the money needs to get to the children who need it most.

One of the objectives stated by the Department for Education (DfE) is to ensure that good school places are available to children of disadvantaged families, and not just those who can afford them by moving into the right catchment area, paying for private education or tuition, or belonging to a given faith group.

That must change if children in disadvantaged situations are to be given a genuine opportunity to fulfill their potential.

The education secretary said all grammar schools should change their admissions code to give priority to disadvantaged children.

The weight states give to closing achievement gaps is an important factor, said Amy Wilkins, the vice president for government affairs and communications of the Education Trust, a Washington - based group that advocates on behalf of disadvantaged children.

• Give priority to charter organizers who want to serve disadvantaged children and students trapped in poorly performing traditional schools.

«Making schools favour poorer children would revolutionise school intakes, but if schools are left to make their own choices few would give preference to disadvantaged pupils because, on the whole, educating them is much more demanding as many need far more help and resources.

Essentially, the Senate bill would take money from programs that serve the state's most disadvantaged students, and give that money to schools that often exclude those children.

That includes an additional $ 10.4 billion in Title I funding for disadvantaged students, $ 3 billion to recruit and train principals and teachers, and $ 200 million for charter schools to give parents more options and provide children alternatives to failing schools.

In contrast, though teachers perceive no disadvantage, both Asian and non-English speaking Hispanic parents give their children low scores on approaches to learning or social skills compared with how White parents score their children.

This settlement is about giving our most disadvantaged children a fighting chance at their schools.

``... he waded in with a controversial new voucher plan that would give parents of disadvantaged children funds that could be spent in private and parochial as well as public schools.»

Further, while there might be some argument for an annual test that could contribute to closer monitoring of those symptoms, there is no argument that convincingly says that such tests must be given to every student in every grade in order to get a good picture of how schools and school systems serve historically disadvantaged children.

The fate of neighborhood schools in big - city school districts is perhaps the most sensitive education topic out there, given their historic role in disadvantaged communities, their struggle to educate children to high academic levels, and the process of gentrification and the disruption of the traditional education system via charter schools.

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Pranamar Villas» employees also will have a donation box, in lieu of exchanging gifts, at the hotel to give toys and / or money to purchase toys for disadvantaged children in town.

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«If children are not given enough natural movement and play experiences, they start their academic careers with a disadvantage.

Moreover, given [the husband's] own willingness to look after the children when he brought them to Canada, it also seems hard for him to accept that, after bearing the child - care burden (which, of course, continues) for many years, [the wife] is somehow now economically disadvantaged.

This is a little shocking given that a child who may be participating in proceedings is often, almost by definition, disadvantaged — «diminished» or a «vulnerable» individual as the draft proposed rules for children in family proceedings has it (Report of the Vulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group, Februarchildren in family proceedings has it (Report of the Vulnerable Witnesses & Children Working Group, FebruarChildren Working Group, February 2015).