Sentences with phrase «income preschool children»

But low - income preschool children also face many risks to their social - emotional development that can affect their school experiences and social outcomes for years to come.

Low - income preschool children face many risks to their social - emotional development that can affect their school experience and social outcomes for years to come.

Conclusions Among low - income preschool children, those whose mothers had either depressive symptoms or obesity were more likely to watch 3 or more hours of TV a day.

Among low - income preschool children, we examined the hypotheses that hours of TV viewing would be greater in those whose mothers had either clinically significant depressive symptoms or obesity and would be greatest in mothers who had both.

Among low - income preschool children, those whose mothers had either depressive symptoms or obesity were more likely to watch 3 or more hours of TV a day.

GHSA represents the 31 Head Start and Early Head Start agencies in the state of Georgia that provide these services to over 25,000 low - income preschool children birth through five - years - old and their families.

For the first time in decades, reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity rates declined among low - income preschool children, a particularly vulnerable demographic group.

Television viewing and television in bedroom associated with overweight risk among low - income preschool children.

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ABOUT BOOKS FOR KIDS The mission of Books for Kids is to promote literacy among all children with a special emphasis on low - income and at - risk preschool - aged children.

Most preschools and schools that serve low - income children in this country don't operate anything like Educare or Polaris.

Valley Point Head Start is a federally funded preschool program nestled in Resaca, Georgia that specializes in young children three to five years of age from low - income families.

Many women yearn to be with their children during the preschool years and maintain a professional identity and an income for the family and feel forced to sacrifice something.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

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.

Years of research has found high - quality preschool programs to be especially beneficial to children of low - income families, children with disabilities, and children of color, since all often face learning gaps when entering kindergarten.

«This has very important implications for early education policy in the United States, where we are debating how early to start and whether preschool should be provided to all children or exclusively target low - income children,» said Dearing, a professor of applied developmental psychology who is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development at the University of Oslo.

«Montessori preschool boosts academic results and reduces income - based inequality: Not only do Montessori children do better overall than those in conventional preschools, but Montessori preschools help low - income children to perform as well as wealthier children.»

Strikingly, the Montessori preschools significantly helped low - income children to perform as well as wealthier children academically.

Statistically, after 3 years in the preschool programs, low - income Montessori children performed as well as high - income children in both Montessori preschools and conventional preschools.

The study, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, is the first to examine and find that a multicomponent nutrition - education program for low - income preschool - aged children and parents in a child care setting can affect a child's at - home diet.

Using mobile apps in preschool classrooms may help improve early literacy skills and boost school readiness for low - income children, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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.

A few years later, Peabody developmental psychologist Susan Gray launched a preschool intervention program for low - income children that inspired the national initiative known as Head Start.

When asked about support for a proposal «that would allow low - and moderate - income four - year - old children to be given the opportunity to attend a preschool program, with the government paying the tuition,» no less than 60 percent of the public responded favorably, with just 27 percent voicing opposition.

Virginia's governor, Tim Kaine, for example, hopes to convince his legislature to create a new UPK program to replace the Virginia Preschool Initiative, a small program that targets children from low - income families.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et aPreschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et apreschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et apreschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

Today, Head Start serves almost 1 million preschool - age children; research has shown that it lives up to its name, giving low - income children a much - needed boost that leads to improved academic performance in their school years.

Webster brought the memory of that special child with her to a professional day in which the entire preschool staff examined the data collected about an incoming group of kindergarten students.

High participation of women in the workforce and growing disposable incomes has led to the growing dependence of working women on child care and preschool facilities.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child DevelopmenPreschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Developmenpreschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

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 younger students, research has shown that chronic absenteeism in kindergarten is associated with lower achievement in reading and math in later grades, even when controlling for a child's family income, race, disability status, attitudes toward school, socioemotional development, age at kindergarten entry, type of kindergarten program, and preschool experience.

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.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

This examination of the problem by the founder and director of the Project on Global Working Families at Harvard University's school of public health demonstrates the plight of two - income working families that need to care for dependents such as preschool - age children, children out of school for vacation or due to illness, and elderly parents.

Upper - middle class and wealthy parents do not need universal preschool options, on average, but low - income children may substantially benefit from these programs.

Similarly, information on market price can inform decisions by states or localities on how to set sliding fee schedules or eligibility cutoffs so as to focus state expenditures on families in greatest financial need, while not at the same time driving away families with higher incomes whose children can provide needed socioeconomic diversity in daycare and preschool centers.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

With broad support across the political spectrum, states and localities throughout the country are expanding preschool programs for low - income children.

Research shows quality preschool programs, like We Can Early Learning Curriculum, significantly reduce referrals to special education and virtually eliminate the learning gap for children from low - income families.

The results illustrated in the graph suggest that family support in the form of putting more money in the pockets of low - income parents produces substantially larger gains in children's school achievement per dollar of expenditure than a year of preschool, participation in Head Start, or class size reduction in the early grades.

Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, and one of the most published researchers on the topic, writes in recent letter to the editor of the Times that, «Publicly funded preschool, currently offered through Head Start, state programs or child care subsidies, returns modest benefits for low - income children.»

Research shows that all children benefit from high - quality preschool, with low - income children and English learners benefiting the most.Hirokazu Yoshiwaka et al., Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education, Foundation for Child Developmepreschool, with low - income children and English learners benefiting the most.Hirokazu Yoshiwaka et al., Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education, Foundation for Child DevelopmePreschool Education, Foundation for Child Development, 2013.

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

Instead, she posits that «buying» poor children classroom access to their higher income peers and the political capital of their peers» parents is the likely reason for the success of universal preschool.

But when she compared the end - of - year test scores of low - income children who had attended preschool to those who hadn't, she found that low - income preschoolers who had attended preschool classes with peers from other economic strata performed the best.

Research shows that all children benefit from high - quality preschool, with low - income children and English learners benefiting the most.Hirokazu Yoshiwaka et al., Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education, Foundation for Child Development, 2013, http://fcd-us.org/resources/evidence-base-preschool, http://www.srcd.org/policy-media/policy-updates/meetings-briefings/investing-our-future-evidence-base-ppreschool, with low - income children and English learners benefiting the most.Hirokazu Yoshiwaka et al., Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education, Foundation for Child Development, 2013, http://fcd-us.org/resources/evidence-base-preschool, http://www.srcd.org/policy-media/policy-updates/meetings-briefings/investing-our-future-evidence-base-pPreschool Education, Foundation for Child Development, 2013, http://fcd-us.org/resources/evidence-base-preschool, http://www.srcd.org/policy-media/policy-updates/meetings-briefings/investing-our-future-evidence-base-ppreschool, http://www.srcd.org/policy-media/policy-updates/meetings-briefings/investing-our-future-evidence-base-preschoolpreschool.

The measure aimed to reverse a 10 - year slump in education spending and would have expanded preschools to serve an estimated 10,000 more low - income children.

The candidates did not spell out what they meant by universal preschool, but it generally is understood to mean ensuring access to high quality preschool for all 4 year olds, with the state subsidizing the costs for low - income children.

Chiang made a point of saying that he would support expanding full - day preschool programs, in part he said because it is much harder for low - income parents to have their children attend part - day programs.