Sentences with phrase «income minority children»

These are the few low - income minority children whom some high - profile charter schools serve.

And families and educators are starting to push back against the model of charter school that has dominated in some communities, including New Orleans: That model, its critics argue, is segregated by design in that it's created specifically for low - income minority children.

Yet when fictional classrooms are filled with lower - income minority children, the teachers tend to be superheroes who triumph over poverty and racism by sheer force of personality and perseverance.

Is it enough that Success serves low - income minority children exceedingly well?

For Silver, those results validate his decision in the late 1990s to look beyond the strictures of traditional American classrooms and dream boldly about what could be done to reach low - income minority children struggling to make the grade.

The teacher who understand the importance of his or her role in all of this; the awesome responsibility and power they have as — unfairly — the last line of defense for a low - income minority child in a battle for future prosperity and equality.

Not exact matches

While low - income, ethnic - minority families displayed less sensitivity overall to their children, positive father involvement and close mother - father relationships were especially beneficial in the case of maternal risk.

In June 2012, CDC awarded a 3 - year cooperative agreement to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to assist 89 hospitals, mostly located in states that have lower breastfeeding rates and that serve low - income and minority women, with improving maternity care practices to support breastfeeding and to move toward the Baby - Friendly designation.

The tactics are «part of a politically and racially - motivated scheme to prevent minorities and other lower income children from attending PS 24 and other schools in the area,» the suit states.

Do you think that U.S. education policy should work on improving the science - math performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities, rather than the performance of all children?

Raising America's average scores on international comparisons is, therefore, not a matter of repairing a broken educational system that performs poorly overall, as many critiques suggest, but rather of improving the performance of the children at the bottom, overwhelmingly from low - income families and racial and ethnic minorities.

Scientific research has shown that low - income and minority children who grow up in segregated neighborhoods and attend segregated schools have worse educational and economic outcomes than children in more integrated areas.

It affects a disproportionally higher percentage of low - income, urban minority children, and is also the most common disease - related reason for children missing school.

To investigate this effect, Fallin and her colleagues analyzed data from almost 1,400 mother - child pairs in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominantly low - income minority population.

She is more determined than ever to work on behalf of the children that she feels are affected most by the failures of the current system: those educated in inner - city, lower - income, ethnic - minority majority public school districts.

However, the combination diminishes student learning, particularly for minorities and low income children, who are most likely to have weaker teachers.

And they must report the results, for both the student population as a whole and for particular «subgroups» of students, including English - learners and students in special education, racial minorities, and children from low - income families.

She taught in middle schools with minority and low - income children in Atlanta and Boston for eight years (she notes in passing that she was tenured in the Boston school system), after majoring in philosophy at Yale and receiving a doctorate from Oxford.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

Test scores are up — especially in math, and especially for our lowest - performing, low - income, and minority children.

The evidence would suggest that No Child Left Behind has led to modest improvements in student achievement in math that were most pronounced for low - income students and traditionally disadvantaged minorities — exactly the students whom the law was attempting to reach.»

For example, they suggest that the parents of low - income, minority, and low - achieving children are much less likely to take advantage of informal opportunities to exercise choice from among teachers.

The Efficacy of a Voluntary Summer Book Reading Intervention for Low - Income Latino Children from Language Minority Families.Journal of Educational Psychology, 99, (3), 505 - 515., (2010)

And it's worked — national assessment results show huge gains for the country's low - performing, low - income, and minority children since the late 1990s, especially in the early grades, and especially in math.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

While we live in a market - driven economy ~ where winning and wealth accumulation are desired outcomes ~ education advocates on all sides of the political aisle currently assert that public schools are failing our children ~ especially minorities and low - income students.

In the Vergara v. California trial, nine students argued that the laws protected ineffective teachers, who were assigned to work with low - income, minority children.

With a focus on increasing access to STEM careers for «girls, underrepresented minorities, and low - income children,» US2020 and Citizen Schools have partnered to provide expanded STEM learning opportunities for students across the country.

The suit, filed on behalf of Beatriz Vergara, a Los Angeles high school student, and eight other public school students, claims that the law protects poor - performing teachers assigned to working with low - income, minority children.

Under the agreement with the district and the plaintiffs in the case, the state has agreed to provide funding for reading instruction, preschool and kindergarten programs, and training to help teachers work with low - income and minority children.

For one, it works: test scores for America's lowest - performing students, including many low - income and minority children, rose significantly, at least in the early grades, after the advent of the standards, testing, and accountability movement.

When working with low - income or minority families, keep in mind how their children, particularly boys, are often overidentified as having learnning or behavioral challenges.

Parents can grow defensive about their children's behavior, and, especially in low - income or minority communities, many families may have years (if not decades) of negative associations with school systems.

However, dezoning allowed many dissatisfied parents, including many minority and low - income parents, to withdraw their children immediately from poorly performing schools.

There is some evidence that full - day attendance in Tulsa supports better outcomes for low income and minority children.

Nationwide, about one in 10 children must repeat at least one grade, and they tend to be disproportionately low - income or come from minority groups.

A disproportionate share of low - income and minority children are enrolled in charter schools and a recent study by CREDO found that charter schools do a better job educating low - income and minority children than traditional district schools.

Before they even enter the classroom, many children from low - income and minority households are at a distinct educational disadvantage.

Many charters, backed by state law, specialize in serving low - income and minority children.

Maintaining and updating the requirement that State title I plans describe how low - income and minority children enrolled in title I schools are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective (this term was «unqualified» in the prior version of the ESEA), out - of - field, or inexperienced teachers.

Especially worrisome: The risk that low - income and minority students, as well as children with disabilities, could be pushed into the vocational tracks.

Enrolling primarily low - income, minority children through a random lottery, Success Academy has consistently ranked at the very top of all New York schools in both math and English Language Arts.

Effects of Full - Day Kindergarten on the Long - Term Health Prospects of Children in Low - Income and Racial / Ethnic - Minority Populations.

And even if some parents base their decisions on educational quality, many observers worry that low - income and minority parents will be less informed about or interested in school quality, placing their children at a disadvantage in the education marketplace.

I'm not sure how to square that with the fact that California passed Proposition 30 by a 55/45 margin in November, increasing both income and sales taxes to raise nearly $ 7 billion per year for schools, minority children and all.

«If we want to address educational opportunity at large we need to intervene at a structural level,» he said, explaining that there are many social policies in effect that make it difficult for low - income and minority parents to support their children's education.

Low - income, low - achieving, and minority children are now reading and doing math two to three grade levels higher than they were in the mid-1990s, and Ed Trust deserves a ton of credit for that incredible progress.

The proposed reforms, outside and inside schools — to reduce the test - score gap between whites and poor minorities; to help poor minority families increase their income through steady work at livable wages and then their children's test scores will improve; to establish research - proven reading programs for every single, poor, or minority child; to give each kid a laptop computer — are endless and uncertain in their outcomes.

She was a 2014 — 2015 Julius B. Richmond Fellow, and has focused much of her research on human development, early childhood care and education, and the general well - being of families with young children, with a focus on children and families from low - income, minority, and under - served populations.

If all three efforts succeed, one outcome is clear: the state and school districts would have new responsibilities aimed at providing students a better learning environment through changes that could hold important benefits for low - income and minority children.