Sentences with phrase «lives of poor children»

The extra staffing and resources help charters achieve one of their prime goals: interceding in the chaotic home lives of poor children to keep problems from derailing learning.

The federal welfare overhaul of 1996, which required many mothers receiving cash assistance to get a job, hasn't significantly improved the home lives of poor children, according to the latest results of an ongoing study.

What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide?

So that's the other part of what I wanted to explore in this book — just what was it in the lives of poor children that was holding them back, and what could be done to change that?

But I think this next stage, the process of expanding the zone model around the country, will require leaders of a different type — people who are passionate about the mission of improving the lives of poor children, of course, but more importantly people who are very focused on results and how to achieve them.

Perhaps, he says, it's because we don't yet fully understand what's happening in the lives of poor children.

In the coming weeks, hundreds of new leaders will take the helm at agencies responsible for implementing policies that touch the lives of poor children and affect their odds of success in life.

The other Wendy Brandes is a brilliant attorney who seems to have done things to improve the lives of poor children and people who are without health insurance.

Global Village's demise also highlighted what some might call the hypocrisy of the market - based reform movement, which consistently emphasizes that its sole purpose is to improve the lives of poor children.

I came into teaching, above all, to make a difference to the lives of our poorest children.

Canada was asking... What would it take to change the lives of poor children not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in a programmatic, standardized way that could be applied broadly.

Sadly, there are more impediments to learning in the lives of poor children than there are in the lives of children from more advantaged circumstances.

A charitable organisation dedicated to improving the lives of poor children in the Philippines through education.

They themselves consider golden rice to be a «Trojan horse» for GM technology in general, so they essentially admit that their motivation is to oppose GM technology, even if that means opposing a technology that can save the sight and lives of poor children.

If society attaches some benefit to improving the lives of poor children (beyond the value we attach to saving people money), then the cost - benefit analysis of prevention programs begins to look even more favorable.

Equally intriguing in this study was that raising the income of families to improve the lives of poor children was actually a bit less expensive than the annual cost per - child of attending Head Start.