Sentences with phrase «improving education for poor»

«I am committed to improving education for poor kids, as a former poor kid myself.

As the tuition grant proposal was aimed primarily at improving education for poor black children, the black - led coalition could not avoid being accused of promoting urban black interests at the expense of rural and suburban areas.

Only policies such as the one carried out in Raleigh, North Carolina, which purposely merge city and suburban school districts, adequately improve education for poor kids.

The education - reform movement argued that poverty was an «excuse» for failure, but these developments embody a shift in perspective: America may not have to solve poverty before improving education for the poorest children, but we definitely have to address it.

Not exact matches

«That is not only unfair, but it's a policy mistake in that those [low - income] kids would be the ones who would benefit the most,» Marr said, adding that a large body of research has found that extra income for poor families improves their kids» health, education, and career outcomes.

During his 14 years in office, Chávez tightened his grip on PDVSA while simultaneously pursuing programs aimed at improving access to health, education and food for poor Venezuelans.

That means working with a Senate Majority committed to bringing economic and tax relief to the communities I represent, demonstrating compassion for the poor and respect for the middle class, and a commitment to improving public education and easing the burden on tuition - paying parents.

«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.»

The green paper suggested that there was «much more» that independent schools could be doing to improve education for young people from poorer backgrounds and suggested that if they did not meet new requirements set out by the government, such as sponsoring under - performing state schools and being responsible for their performance, then independent schools could have their charitable status taken away.

School Ties Edison Schools has indeed found itself caught in a fiery debate in which both sides claim to want the same thing: to improve K - 12 education, particularly for poor, urban children.

The Education, Skills and the Economy Committee has been strongly critical of the government for failing to improve provision after a July report highlighted it was poor in many schools across the UK.

The economist Milton Friedman was the first to propose vouchers as a different way of distributing public funds for the education of all children, rich and poor - with the assumption that parents, as consumers, would act in ways that improved education for all students, not just their own children.

The NAHT goes on to say that academies «are an important part of a complex self - improving education system», but the government is wrong to assert that they are the «panacea for poor performance».

Funded by: The Spencer Foundation Amount: $ 50,000 Dates: 9/1/17 — 8/31/18 Summary: Improving the special education teacher workforce is especially important for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD), as these students are at high risk for poor long - term outcomes.

A former U.S. Secretary of Education (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool acEducation (1993 - 2001), he helped launch initiatives to raise academic standards; improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged; increase family and business involvement in education; promote afterschool aceducation; promote afterschool academic...

[12] As Aud notes, the Education Finance Incentive Grant is particularly problematic because it incentivizes states to equalize spending across districts when there is no evidence that such an approach is an effective way to improve outcomes for poor children.

Serving for both of President Clinton's terms, Riley helped to launch many historic initiatives to raise academic standards, improve instruction for the poor and disadvantaged, modernize schools, expand grant and loan programs for higher education, and improve teaching, among other significant advances.

In the process, Obama and Duncan are retreating from the very commitment of federal education policy, articulated through No Child, to set clear goals for improving student achievement in reading and mathematics, to declare to urban, suburban, and rural districts that they could no longer continue to commit educational malpractice against poor and minority children, and to end policies that damn children to low expectations.

Sturgeon said she was taking the right steps, including releasing # 11m for the Scottish government's attainment challenge fund, which was focusing on improving standards and education at 300 primary schools with the poorest outcomes.

Ryan Smith, executive director of The Education Trust - West, a nonprofit that works to improve education for minority and poor students, says a lot of that money was spent to ramp up technology, since the tests are taken on Education Trust - West, a nonprofit that works to improve education for minority and poor students, says a lot of that money was spent to ramp up technology, since the tests are taken on education for minority and poor students, says a lot of that money was spent to ramp up technology, since the tests are taken on computer.

«The idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term economic gains from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

The key aims of the programme, the government says, are to improve standards of education in England, particularly for poorer pupils - and to give parents more choice.

In support of his view, Professor Alice Sullivan of the UCL Institute of Education said: «There is no robust evidence that any particular school structure or type --- such as academies, free schools, faith schools — is beneficial for improving the performance of poor pupils.»

The consequences — from allowing states to render poor and minority kids invisible altogether through such subterfuges as lumping all of subgroups into a so - called super subgroup category, to ignoring the failures of suburban districts to improve education for all children, to intolerable incoherence in federal education policy — were clear from the beginning.

The UK Department for International Development's Girls» Education Challenge (GEC) is helping up to a million of the world's poorest girls improve their lives through education by funding 37 projects across 18 cEducation Challenge (GEC) is helping up to a million of the world's poorest girls improve their lives through education by funding 37 projects across 18 ceducation by funding 37 projects across 18 countries.

What NAACP's leadership doesn't fully seem to understand — despite Jealous» own response last month to the complaints of ivy tower civil rights guru Richard Kahlenberg to the contrary — is that desegregation alone will not address achievement gaps or improve the quality of education for poor black and Latino kids.

The law brought accountability to American public education, forced revelations of inflated graduation rates, and showed the poor performance of suburban districts in improving student achievement for all kids (including those from poor and minority backgrounds).

This Wallace - written feature examines the «Thriving Minds» initiative, which aims to improve arts education for Dallas» children, especially the poorest.

What's more, Pathak and his colleagues worry that, absent sufficient information for parents, choice - based education systems «penalize schools that enroll low - achievers rather than schools that offer poor instruction» and give school leaders a perverse incentive to focus on «making sure your school's got the best kids» rather than improving school quality.

The other draws on the deep experience of a compassionate teacher who finds fault not with teachers, unions, or students, but with a society that refuses to take responsibility for the conditions in which its children live and learn — and who has demonstrated through her own efforts how one dedicated teacher has improved the education of poor young people.

The guide advocates for a shift towards rebalancing teacher tenure policies to not only improve students» education, but strengthen the teaching profession by putting to rest concerns that it tolerates poor performance.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

Districts that do get flagged qualify for increasing levels of state intervention — starting with a data analysis conducted by a county office of education that's aimed at understanding the root causes of poor performance, and escalating up to possible state takeover if a district fails to improve.

It also means that teachers who are improving the quality of education for poor and minority children will also end up being deported, harming the futures of the children they serve.

At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.

«The concentration of population growth in the poorest countries will make it harder for those governments to eradicate poverty and inequality, combat hunger and malnutrition, expand education enrollment and health systems, improve the provision of basic services and implement other elements of a sustainable development agenda to ensure that no - one is left behind,» notes the report.

As improved education is not matched by better prospects for many of the world's poor, the resulting sense of marginalisation provides a more hospitable environment for insurrection.

Such programs would provide parent education classes for divorcing parents, increase the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit for poor working parents, establish paternity and increase the payment of child support, and improve the quantity and quality of time that nonresident parents, especially fathers, spend with their children.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

Implemented in 1967 in response to poor attendance, low achievement, and parent disengagement with schools, the CPC Education Program provides comprehensive education and family support services from preschool to third grade (Pk - 3) that aim to improve school readiness skills and early school achievement and increase parent education and home support for Education Program provides comprehensive education and family support services from preschool to third grade (Pk - 3) that aim to improve school readiness skills and early school achievement and increase parent education and home support for education and family support services from preschool to third grade (Pk - 3) that aim to improve school readiness skills and early school achievement and increase parent education and home support for education and home support for learning.