Sentences with phrase «income children appear»

«Low - income children appear to have more difficulty accomplishing planning tasks efficiently, and this, in turn, partially explains the income - achievement gap,» according to Gary Evans, Elizabeth Lee Vincent Professor of Human Ecology at Cornell University, one of the study's researchers.

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One of the simplest ways to make a small income appear bigger is to refrain from having children.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

All of these things would appear to happen at once: * Start paying the new 40p rate on further earnings (reducing the value of the additional income) * Lose child benefit (the amount will differ according to the number of children, but could be # 2500 for 3 children), esp if there is no taper.

An increase in the income tax personal allowance and changes to national insurance contributions and child tax credits appeared to close the gap between the top and bottom fifths of the population.

These figures illustrate why it's essential for advocates and policymakers to understand the long - term impact of child poverty and the factors — like parental education and race / ethnicity — that appear to distinguish low - income and poor children from their more economically advantaged peers.»

For that, I think we need compassion to an even greater extent than ever, when teachers» incomes may be linked to children's achievement and the children do not appear to be motivated or responsive to greater and greater efforts to boost their scores.

Reardon's research on the relationship between academic achievement and family income found an increased link between family income and children's academic achievement, noting in earlier studies, «The income achievement gap does not appear to be a result of a growing achievement gap between children with highly educated and less - educated parents.

Private schools that seek to participate in the program usually must work directly with the state department of education, and many appear to have concluded that the burden of compliance with federal regulations governing the program outweighs any benefits low - income children might receive.

Full - day preschool appears to be particularly effective for low - income children.

In what would appear to be a strategic shift, the organization leading an effort to open more charter schools in LA Unified now intends to expand its mission to support traditional public schools that serve low - income children.

From this, it would appear that the old adage of children's fiction lacking prestige holds true in comics too, though the survey also notes that 58 % of respondents have seen an increase in their comics income in the past five years.

But research has failed to establish substantial causal linkages between low family income and children's psychosocial outcomes; indeed, other characteristics of low - income families appear to be more important.

However, these positive effects are not large and appear to diminish over time, suggesting that reducing income poverty by itself is not sufficient to improve children's cognitive functioning.3, 4,5

The finding for fathers» unemployment appears to reflect lower family income, rather than availability, as unemployed fathers were most likely to say they had «plenty of time» to spend with their child [6].

Full - day preschool appears to be particularly effective for low - income children.

Children from low - income family environments appear to be at greater risk of negative mental health outcomes following trauma exposure compared to adolescents from high - income families.