Sentences with phrase «lower social mobility»

Increasing the number of faith schools could lead to «increased social segregation, with a risk of lower social mobility», according to a new report.

«Listen to this: Britain has the lowest social mobility in the developed world.

In 2015, a study by Lahtinen and Wass suggested that low social mobility reduces turnout among lower classes.

Marking its official launch, the charity has released its new «Ambitious for Every Child» report, which examines student progress in the new «Opportunity Areas», identified by the government as areas of low social mobility and targeted with # 60 million of investment.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to

The expansion of the RSC's office is another move away from the original Govian model, as are a range of other DfE programmes designed to remedy the weaknesses of the original design, such as the regional partnerships the department has set up to tackle low social mobility and school underperformance, through initiatives like the 12 opportunity areas.

The regions were identified as having the lowest social mobility in the country.

Persistent parental economic advantage means that a son's income is strongly influenced by his father's, indicating low social mobility.

Not exact matches

(Despite America's love of a good rags - to - riches story, the data backs him up that social mobility is actually lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries.)

Although the relative isolation and the low geographic mobility of their island may have sheltered them somewhat from the winds of social change, the study shows that families on Kauai were experiencing the same stresses as American families generally.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/gini-index-of-money-income-and-equivalence-adjusted-income — 1967.html Social mobility in America is low compared to other developed countries.

High housing costs — and the growing gap between those on the property ladder and those who are not — lie at the heart of falling social mobility, falling savings and low productivity.

Social mobility is too low, educational outcomes for the poor are all too often well below average and entrepreneurialism is well behind many of our competitors (as Allister Heath reported yesterday).

Proved to be the best way of getting good results from a low cost and best at social mobility — getting students from non traditional and less privileged backgrounds into elite universities and courses.

New Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has launched a commission tasked with investigating Britain's low levels of social mobility.

«We are making good progress with social mobility — we have increased the national living wage, cut income tax for the lowest paid and doubled free childcare.

Yet social mobility in Britain today is lower than it was a generation ago — and lower than in almost all other European countries.

Lower - ranked females have little social mobility and must silently bare their teeth to higher - ranked females.

Effortlessly authentic in its depiction of working - class despair and the hope engendered by hip - hop's promise of upward social mobility, 8 Mile brings to the forefront the lower - class anger bubbling just under the surface of Eminem's music.

And there's a powerful case to be made for accelerating social mobility by educating high - ability, low - income children.

If already only six per cent of the doctors come from working - class contracts, what will even lower pay and even worse working conditions do to social mobility?

The figures have been branded as «appallingly low» by Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye and led to an inquiry into social mobility within the county's grammar schools.

The costs of these gaps (most commonly associated with low income, limited education, and minority group status) are reflected in higher school dropout rates, lower economic productivity, decreased social mobility, increased need for medical services, and higher rates of incarceration.

If the Left can't understand and sympathize with the plight of at least some low - income and minority, largely urban, populations who are stuck in woeful schools and want to «get out,» and if the Left can't characterize that desire for educational and social mobility as anything other than a drive for «privatization,» well... so much for the Rainbow Coalition.)

Rates of social mobility are also lower for these families.

The social benefits of the ECO-C Intervention are harder to define in dollar terms, but they are the benefits associated with increased income and sociodemographic mobility for high - achieving students from low - income families.

The areas selected have been identified as having low levels of social mobility by schools and councils, and will receive a share of # 72 million to be used to build teaching and leadership capacity, and improve access to careers advice.

Alan Milburn, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: «When low income young people from the same area with the same school results are progressing less than their better - off classmates, that is not about lack of ability.

The hubs will be based at schools in the government's «opportunity areas», regions identified as having low levels of social mobility which are due to receive investment in school improvement, teacher support and other schemes in the coming years.

«That has significant consequences for social mobility and leads to many young people becoming trapped in low skilled, low paid jobs.

But I think it would be hard to have been a part of TFA and not walk away as an advocate for ensuring that students from a low - income background and students of color are not being served or have access to social mobility.»

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

West Somerset has the lowest place on the government's social mobility index - and is also one of the lowest - funded areas.

None of the lowest - funded 20 authorities makes it into the top 50 for social mobility.

campaign over school funding shortages say that if the government is serious about promoting social mobility in education, then it needs to look at how low funding seems to mirror low mobility.

The Department's strategy to improve social mobility has so far centred on identifying 12 «Opportunity Areas» which are local authority districts where educational performance and capacity to improve is low.

«Children from high - income backgrounds who show signs of low academic ability at age five, are 35 % more likely to become high earners than their poorer peers who show early signs of high ability,» Ms Greening told a Social Mobility Commission event.

In her speech, the education secretary is expected to set out a new direction for free schools, which will in the future be opened in areas of the country with low levels of social mobility.

But 2,000 respondents to an Ipsos MORI survey have faith in the capacity of comprehensive schools to enable social mobility, with 47 per cent backing high - quality schools over other educational alternatives, such as lowering tuition fees, to help poor pupils.

They are areas identified as having low levels of social mobility, and their schools and councils will receive a share of the funding pot, to be used to build teaching and leadership capacity, and improve access to careers advice.

It comes as the US economy has greater economic inequality than many developing nations (including India, China, and Iran), joblessness is on the rise, and social mobility is nearly at an all - time low.

Social mobility in particular is such an important issue as young people trying to qualify face enormous hurdles including student debt, unpaid or low income work experience placements, and fewer legal aid firms offering training contracts.»

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The SMF is a charity that aims to make a practical improvement in social mobility for young people from low - income backgrounds.

The members of Essex Court Chambers have for a number of years supported the Social Mobility Foundation («SMF»), which provides assistance and guidance to high - achieving students from low income backgrounds seeking access to top universities and career opportunities.

In comparison with European and other wealthy industrialized countries, social mobility in the United States ranks among the lowest.17 A 2015 Pew Charitable Trusts report documented that the effect of parental income advantage is persistent over all levels of parental income but is especially strong for children born to wealthy families.

During the recovery of the Great Recession, income inequality in the United States accelerated, with 91 % of the gains going to the top 1 % of families.19 Left out of the recovery were African American families who, during the downturn, lost an average of 35 % of their accumulated wealth.20 African American unemployment increased, home ownership decreased, and child poverty deepened to approximately 46 % of children younger than 6 years.21 Because social mobility is lowest for people in the lowest income quartile, half of African American children who are poor as young children will remain poor as adults, approximately twice as many as white adults similarly exposed to poverty as children.22

Early childhood education is a springboard for educational attainment, economic mobility, and social well - being for children in low - income families.

Results highlight the need to improve school climate, especially in schools serving communities of low SES, to enhance social mobility and equality of opportunity.