Sentences with phrase «income neighborhoods the children»

My education experience (not as a classroom teacher, but often in classes with teachers) is that in the lower income neighborhoods the children out behaviorally more than in calmer neighborhoods.

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If your product is household cleaning services, why call a random neighborhood where you have no knowledge of income levels, the number of household wage earners or the number of children?

I've addressed the importance of geographic mobility in supporting income mobility from the perspective of providing parents options for better neighborhoods in which to raise their children.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

The apparent «marriage effect» may actually be an income effect, reflecting the benefits of having more money for children's development, such as better nutrition, better schools, and safer neighborhoods.

Maybe I'm guilty of stereotyping, but in a low income neighborhood, it may be that parents are absent or working or lacking the education to feed their children well.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

Phipps Neighborhoods Healthy Families Services help children, youth, and families in low - income communities -LSB-...]

With 46 schools across Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, Success Academy enrolls 15,500 students, primarily low - income children of color in disadvantaged neighborhoods: 75 % of students receive free or reduced - price lunch, 87 % are children of color, 16 % are children with disabilities, and 8 % are English language learners.

She found that, among families with children, neighborhood income segregation is driven by increased income inequality in combination with a previously overlooked factor: school district options.

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

Income segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those wiIncome segregation between neighborhoods rose 20 percent from 1990 to 2010, and income segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those wiincome segregation between neighborhoods was nearly twice as high among households that have children compared to those without.

The 335 pairs of mothers and children in the new study were not farmworkers, but are part of a large group of Latino and African American children from low - income neighborhoods of Northern Manhattan and the South Bronx.

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.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, tracked the progress of more than 1,500 children from low - income neighborhoods in Chicago, from the time they entered preschool in 1983 and 1984 in Child - Parent Centers (CPC) until roughly 30 years later.

October 19, 2011 Moving poor women to lower - poverty neighborhoods improves their health Low - income women with children who move from high - poverty to lower - poverty neighborhoods experience notable long - term improvements in some aspects of their health, namely reductions in diabetes and extreme obesity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and partner institutions.

WINGS organizers believe that good social and emotional skills will enable the children to overcome the hardships in this low - income neighborhood, learn more in school and, ultimately, become better workers, friends, spouses, and parents.

The school is open to any child in New York City, but most of WHEELS» 806 students come from Washington Heights, the predominantly low - income, Latino neighborhood around the school.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

But the talented, low - income child often pays the price, depending as she does on whatever supports her neighborhood school has to offer.

The book reminds the reader of the challenges facing many African Americans today, including high unemployment, staggering neighborhood crime and violence, and large percentages of children growing up in low - income single - parent households.

Brinig and Garnett assume Catholic schools» effectiveness with lower - income inner - city children and take up a different story: the effect of school closures on the quality of the social life in their surrounding neighborhoods.

Specifically, we compared children with complaints for maltreatment to peers who (a) were the same race, gender and birth year, (b) had the same income level as measured by eligibility for subsidized meals, (c) lived in the same neighborhood, and (d) attended the same elementary school.

The children being tested, ages 6 months to 3 years, are from low - income neighborhoods in Tacoma and Yakima, said Lew Kittle, a project manager for the state health department's office of toxic substances.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

Nearly two decades after they attended an experimental preschool program in a low - income neighborhood in Ypsilanti, Mich., the small group of young people monitored in a now - well - known study continue to fare better as students, workers, and citizens than children from the same neighborhood who did not attend the preschool.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

Neighborhoods are becoming less diverse and more segregated by income — but only among families with children, a new study has found.

The bill also establishes a Promise Neighborhoods grant program, through which eligible entities shall provide pipeline services to address the needs of children in low - income and distressed nNeighborhoods grant program, through which eligible entities shall provide pipeline services to address the needs of children in low - income and distressed neighborhoodsneighborhoods.

Although Deming focused on public charter schools rather than pivate vouchers, the logic is essentially the same: expand the horizon of low - income children beyond their toxic neighborhood and failing school, and you change their lives.

As with parental education, family income may have a direct impact on a child's academic outcomes, or variations in achievement could simply be a function of the school the child attends: parents with greater financial resources can identify communities with higher - quality schools and choose more - expensive neighborhoods — the very places where good schools are likely to be.

Children living in low - income neighborhoods also have increased exposure to hardship in their communities.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

It also says the vouchers are designed to give low - income families in neighborhoods where schools need improvement the chance to send their children to «higher - performing schools.»

Inclusionary zoning offers low - income families an opportunity to reside in traditionally affluent neighborhoods and have their children attend low - poverty schools.

Unsafe neighborhoods may expose low - income children to violence which can cause a number of psychosocial difficulties.

Thus, aside from children who are able to walk from low - income housing and small single - family homes in the neighborhood, students are bused.

Its record of achievement has continued to attract a diverse cross section of students, including families from each of the city's 32 school districts representing children zoned for 576 different elementary schools in both low - income and mixed - income neighborhoods.

Many community schools operate year round and serve both children and adults in low - income neighborhoods as well as other areas.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

Lower income families and students get pushed out of neighborhoods they once occupied and pushed directly into schools with lower resources and money, a cycle some parents seem to be fine with just as long as their child is being served.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

A child's future should not depend on his or her heritage, parents» income or neighborhood.

The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.

She also notices that these schools are springing up only in low - income neighborhoods, and that Rocketship's Silicon Valley investors do not send their own children to these «bare - bones Model - T schools.»

Student achievement as measured by standardized tests is highly correlated with income, the neighborhood you live in, as well as the child's prior achievement.

Klein's animating belief, and surely what he will best be remembered for, is the notion that while low - income families may not be able to choose what neighborhood they live in, they should nonetheless be able to choose what school their children attend.

They wring their hands about having some of the most segregated public schools in the country — both by race and income — then keep quiet about neighborhood unzoned schools, where middle - class parents send their children in order to avoid failing public schools.

Far too predictably, our study reported that children who attended schools in the most severely low - income neighborhoods were likely to hear far fewer explanations, with those explanations offered at lower difficulty levels, than children in middle - and upper - income areas.