Sentences with phrase «half of all poor children»

And while having lots of poor children with JIRAs — and the $ 2,000 in taxpayer contributions that come with those accounts — is infinitely better than any wealth - creating tools currently available to poor children, JIRAs will not sit well with many people.

Bunge's essay on Francke «shows that, when set within a rich theological context, original sin can provide a kind of positive, egalitarian framework of thought that opens a door to responding creatively and effectively to the needs of poor children.»

In an experiment, Dr Weston Price monitored the dental health of poor children after feeding them a very nutritious diet including lots of vitamin K2, vitamin D and various minerals.

What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide?

So that's the other part of what I wanted to explore in this book — just what was it in the lives of poor children that was holding them back, and what could be done to change that?

Overindulgence from privilege can be just as detrimental to a child's psyche (plus, he'll be a total asshole and oblivious to any problems others face, such as those of a poor child).

But I think this next stage, the process of expanding the zone model around the country, will require leaders of a different type — people who are passionate about the mission of improving the lives of poor children, of course, but more importantly people who are very focused on results and how to achieve them.

Another key component of the legislation would require elementary schools to serve free breakfast in the classroom in schools with moderate or high concentrations of poor children.

«Early planned birth linked to risk of poor child development.»

In fact, 59 % of poor children have at least one parent who is working.

That is why Nick Clegg is insisting on doubling the funding of the pupil premium because he understands that is the way to transform the life chances of our poorest children.

«But today, after accepting an offer last week to help improve education for some of the poorest children in the world, I am resigning from my position as Labour leader in Scotland with immediate effect.»

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Nearly six in ten poor adults are women, and more than half of all poor children live in families headed by women.

David Cameron's poverty adviser yesterday told the Government to «grow up» and get a grip on local authority spending cuts which threatened to «scupper the life chances» of poor children.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has defended faith schools, saying they provide education for some of the poorest children in the UK.

The figures say progress has been made in chances of poor children doing well at key stage two, in making good development in early years, in doing well at GCSE, and doing as well as richer pupils at school, as well as in adults who failed at school getting GCSEs or A-Levels after 19.

«Children in developing world infected with parasite — even without appearing ill — may be more prone to stunted growth: Cryptosporidium infects more than 75 percent of poor children in Bangladeshi slum; more than half experience stunting.»

Half of low - income children and 29 percent of poor children live with at least one parent employed full time, year round.

Forty - one percent of poor children have at least one parent with some college education.

More than half (53 percent) of low - income children and 31 percent of poor children live with at least one parent employed full time, throughout the year.

According to NCCP researchers, the number of children in low - income families increased slightly from 42 percent in 2009 to 43 percent in 2015, and the percent of poor children in the U.S. increased by 1 percentage point.

According to NCCP researchers, the number of poor children in the U.S. grew by 18 percent from 2008 to 2014 (the latest available data), and the number of children living in low - income households grew by 10 percent.

In the coming weeks, hundreds of new leaders will take the helm at agencies responsible for implementing policies that touch the lives of poor children and affect their odds of success in life.

My post this week is about how Dr. Weston A. Price designed a nutrient - dense meat - based school lunch that drastically improved the health and school performance of poor children.

How do the people of the Capitol cope with the fact of their lives of comfort and luxury next to the deaths of poor children?

In addition to being safe and non-threatening, Bier's film finds time to throw in mentions of cancer and divorce, and images of poor children starving in Africa.

By changing every aspect of a poor child's life — schools, families, neighborhoods — he believes that the Harlem Children's Zone can give youngsters the resources they need to succeed when all odds are against them.

The multiplicity of ills facing our nation's public schools can depress even the most optimistic.How can we be hopeful when we have 30 million illiterate children?And it is no longer just the well - being of our poorest children that we need worry about; our top - performing public schools are no match for the international competition.

Here's a stark fact: According to research by Georgetown's Anthony Carnevale and Jeff Strohl, less than 10 percent of poor children now graduate with a four - year college degree.

«The School Breakfast Scorecard: 2000,» an annual report released by the Washington - based Food Research and Action Center, found that more than 71,000 schools offered the subsidized breakfasts and that the average number of poor children served daily rose to 6.3 million in 2000, almost double the 3.4 million served in 1990.

Continuing his seeming obsession with the relationship between food and cognition, Rothstein writes, in a March 2001 column, «Surgeon General David Satcher reported... that more than a third of poor children have untreated dental cavities.

More than half of poorer children in Halton (56 %) and in York, Leicestershire and Cumbria (54 %) start primary without being school ready.

If this were possible, Shriver thought, why couldn't high - quality preschool also improve the IQ scores of poor children who seemed destined to fail in school?

The consequence is that successive generations of poor children are being let down by a school system that is supposed to be there to help them move up and get on.»

When the opportunity arose, Canada, who had watched public schools fail for decades, jumped at the opportunity to deliver a great school to large numbers of poor children.

He acknowledged that trying to put order into the chaos of poor children's lives is difficult at best.

Within the past 6 months, two large federal mandates in education have taken schools in contradictory directions — and both in the name of poor children.

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

[13] For example, a national study of kindergartners found that 21 percent of poor children were chronically absent compared to only 8 percent of their non-poor peers.

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund concludes.

«By guaranteeing many more of our poorest children a hot meal every lunchtime during term time, the policy ensures substantial numbers of children need no longer struggle to concentrate on an empty stomach.»

The report said: «In the context of creating a fairly funded system, government should also consider the external effects that may combine to compound the effects on pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, including place poverty (living in neighbourhoods with high proportions of poor children, attending schools serving higher proportions of disadvantaged pupils) gender and ethnicity.»

The report said: «At a national level, some progress has been made in closing the gaps for some of the poorest children and young people in England.

A House subcommittee approved a Republican welfare - reform bill last week that would give states most of the responsibility for administering aid programs serving millions of poor children and their families.

The same patterns still hold: The United Kingdom has the largest proportion of poor children, by far, followed by the United States, with a higher child poverty rate (but not much higher) than Germany's and Finland's.

State senator Darrell Steinberg, a Sacramento Democrat who has focused on reducing the number of high school dropouts in California, said he thinks Schwarzenegger sincerely wants to improve the lot of poor children.

Parents and civic leaders should demand to know whether their district uses funny - money accounting to benefit senior teachers at the expense of poor children.

That legislation would have redirected federal funding to millions of poor children, which they could use to attend private or public schools of their choice.

«We must avoid a future that continues to consign millions of poor children to inadequate schools lacking the great teachers and principals they need.