Sentences with phrase «income families succeed»

Also, many of the grants aim to improve the local community and help low - income families succeed — a win - win for everyone involved.

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, launched in May 2010, is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and more than 140 communities across the nation to ensure that many more children from low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship.

The Campaign is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states, and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.

They suggest the possibility that strong schools could help children from low - income families succeed.

Offering substantial cash rewards to students and their teachers, the NMSI program has helped hundreds of thousands of students from low - income families succeed in Advanced Placement coursework.

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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.

We also provide their families, who are struggling to make ends meet, but have incomes too high to qualify for federal and state subsidies, with a supportive safety net from welfare and the opportunity to succeed.

Our students face many risk factors once they leave us — peers who do not always encourage good decisionmaking, bureaucratic educational institutions, employers who do not always treat them well, family members who do not necessarily believe in their ability to succeed, and a society that has too little regard for low - income black teens.

In order to see students from diverse backgrounds succeed in their science education, LPS works primarily with schools that have a high - proportion of students from low - income families.

Helping Low - Income Children Succeed New York Times, 3/24/14 «Diverging incomes among families lead to diverging destinies among children, undermining the promise of equal opportunity.

A student from a poor family is much more likely to succeed academically in a school filled mostly with middle - class students than in one filled mostly with lower - income students.

Initiated in 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty,» Head Start was created out of concern for the well - being of children in low - income families based on evidence that they were less likely to succeed in school than their more advantaged peers.

Students from some racial - and ethnic - minority groups and those from low - income families enroll in college and succeed there at lower rates than their white, wealthier peers.

By and large, L.A. Unified charters also outperform the district average in API scores and graduation rates for Latino and African American students, and students from low - income families; in other words, they are succeeding at closing the socioeconomic achievement gap that plagues U.S. education.

Equal educational opportunity means ensuring schools have the resources they need to provide real and meaningful opportunities for all students to succeed, regardless of family income or race.

Many children of color and children from low - income families enter kindergarten without the academic skills they need to succeed.

Janet's article highlights that the benefits to low - income and affordable housing must include strategic steps towards community engagement that are then implemented to ensure that children and families have the ability to succeed.

The foundation recommends six strategies to help move low - income families onto the path to prosperity and ensure the nation's next generation is able to compete in our global economy, including preserving and strengthening programs that supplement poverty - level wages, offset the high cost of child care, and provide health insurance coverage for parents and children; promoting responsible parenthood and ensuring that mothers - to - be receive prenatal care; ensuring that children are developmentally ready to succeed in school; and promoting reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade.

PowerMyLearning provides low - income families with the computers, software, and technology training that they need to help their children succeed academically and to become good digital citizens.

They know that their children's schools get less funding and that when low - income students of color succeed, it is largely due to two things: their own hard work in the classroom and support from family at home.

The state's growing achievement gaps were at the center of the five - month CCJEF v. Rell trial, in which attorneys for a coalition of parents, teachers, school boards and mayors suing the state argued that «lawmakers are on the hook for ensuring students from low - income families are provided with an opportunity to succeed in school.»

Teachers today are being asked to do more than ever before: implement more rigorous standards, teach students to succeed in the 21st century, provide differentiated instruction to a myriad of learners, employ rapidly changing technology, and support the socio - emotional development of students who, increasingly, come from low - income families and speak a language other than English at home.

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

In a matter of days, he has gone from talking about «Opportunity Schools» in Baltimore to claiming that «there are organizations in other parts of the country that are operating schools that are succeeding in leading children from low - income families — especially children of color — to reach much higher levels of academic success than the norm for their communities.»

The $ 500 million competition, which is jointly run by the education and health and human services departments, is intended to help more high - need children — including those from low - income families — enter kindergarten ready to succeed.

«All children in Chicago deserve access to high quality schools and the preparation needed to succeed in college, career, and life — no matter their zip code, ethnicity, income level, or family background,» said Jelani McEwen, Director of External Affairs for INCS Action.

«Wisconsin's groundbreaking school choice programs have proven that when you give low - income families the opportunity to choose better schools for their children, those children are much more likely to succeed and break the cycle of poverty,» said Senator Johnson in press release.

«We need a lot of donations to succeed, but we hope to offer pet sterilization to truly low - income families that need this service at very reduced prices, or in some cases at no cost.»

It indicated that those born into large or single parent families with low incomes and poor housing were much less likely to succeed in school, were likely to be on average three and a half years behind other children in reading skills and were more likely to exhibit behavioural problems in class.

Speakers at the summit, which will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, include keynote speaker John E. Pepper, Jr., retired Chairman and CEO of The Procter & Gamble Company and current chairman of the board of the Walt Disney Company; Judith Van Ginkel, Every Child Succeeds; Libby Doggett, Pew Center on the States; Frank Putnam, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; David Olds, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; and Deborah Daro, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago; Federal officials scheduled to speak include: Martha Coven, Special Assistant to the President, White House Domestic Policy Council; Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; and Robert Gordon, Associate Director for Education, Income Maintenance and Labor, Office of Management and Budget.