Sentences with phrase «minority children from families»

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

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For example, the mothers of the vast majority of the children born out of wedlock are racial minority teen - agers who come from broken families living below the poverty level.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

Dutchess County Legislature Minority Leader Barbara Jeter - Jackson said, «This budget continues Dutchess County's focus on services for our youth and families — everything from a $ 1.5 million investment in supportive programming to protect our families and children, to our continued commitment for our countywide Sexual Assault Response Team and domestic violence advocacy.

Intervening on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in the Commons, his Labour shadow, Helen Goodman asked: «Could you explain to the House why cutting tax credits for large families is a fair thing to do when it will be concentrated... on families where children are living in poverty, on Roman Catholic families, on Catholics from other minorities.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

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.

He hopes to engage underrepresented minority students, children and families from diverse backgrounds in the scientific research.

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 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.

«I applaud the Court's common sense decision to side in favor of the Louisiana school children, all of whom are from low - income families and almost all of whom are a minority,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for Cchildren, all of whom are from low - income families and almost all of whom are a minority,» said Ann Duplessis, president of the Louisiana Federation for ChildrenChildren.

Student performance in charter schools was significantly lower than regular nearby schools in just five states with about 30 percent of national charter enrollment, mostly minority children from poor families.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

This article provides an overview of the demography of language minority children, children from immigrant families, and English language learners — three populations that are related but not synonymous.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

TAKING ON TEACHER EQUITY: Today, the Obama administration is asking states to create plans ensuring that all students have access to effective teachers — and it will publish profiles of all states that will include information about where children from minority and low - income families aren't getting their fair share of these teachers this fall.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's hostility to race - conscious integration and in recognition of the disproportionate number of minority, and especially black, children from poor families, localities have adopted plans to integrate schools by income instead of race.

In this A Word interview, Spellings recalls that before school accountability gained traction in No Child Left Behind, it was all too easy for schools to hide the performances of low - achieving students, many of whom came from disadvantaged homes and minority families.

And the breakdown of family culture in impoverished and minority communities has made it less likely that smart children from these communities will end up in the challenging classes they need to thrive.

The conviction jump - started the much - needed discussion over expanding inter-district public school choice and forced a new discussion about ending zip code education practices that condemn poor and minority children to the worst American public education offers (and keeps middle - class families from improving their own options).

Yet far too many children, especially those from poor and minority families, are placed at risk by school practices that are based on a sorting paradigm in which some students receive high - expectations instruction while the rest are relegated to lower quality education and lower quality futures.

This can include: constant insults and put - downs that damage your feelings of self - worth, threatening harm to you, your children, your loved ones, your family pets, or your belongings, isolating you from others, threatening to «out» you as a member of a sexual minority group.

Three reviews, bridging somewhat different topics and using different methods for comparing the efficacy across groups, have all concluded that minority children and families appear to benefit as much as or more than other groups from evidence - based interventions like those proposed here.75 At the same time, because the success of a program depends importantly on participants» remaining engaged until they complete the program, as well as the fidelity with which the program is delivered, cultural adaptations that increase the likelihood of optimal delivery and receipt of these programs to practitioners, parents, and children would seem well warranted.76

The NSPCC's services concentrate on seven important issues and groups of children most at risk: those who experience neglect, physical abuse in high - risk families (those families with violent adults, alcohol and drug abuse and mental health issues, those who experience sexual abuse, children under the age of one, disabled children, children from certain minority ethnic communities and looked after children.

By working together, families and early childhood education and care (ECEC) services can create supportive environments for children from majority and minority racial and ethnic groups.

Families retained in the one - year follow - up (n = 1,135 of 1,237, 91.8 %) did not differ from nonretained families in child sex, minority status, or marital status, but were more likely to have higher respondent education (75.1 % having at least a high school education vs. 58.8 %, p <.01) and to be nonpoor (67.6 % vs. 50.5 %, Families retained in the one - year follow - up (n = 1,135 of 1,237, 91.8 %) did not differ from nonretained families in child sex, minority status, or marital status, but were more likely to have higher respondent education (75.1 % having at least a high school education vs. 58.8 %, p <.01) and to be nonpoor (67.6 % vs. 50.5 %, families in child sex, minority status, or marital status, but were more likely to have higher respondent education (75.1 % having at least a high school education vs. 58.8 %, p <.01) and to be nonpoor (67.6 % vs. 50.5 %, p <.01).

As expected, minority and children from low - income family have poor chances of being enrolled in high - quality education programs.

Only 10 percent of early childhood providers across the United States are considered high quality, 2 and children from low - income families and minority families are more likely to be in lower - quality care.3 QRIS offer a framework to:

While the majority of children perceive high levels of supportiveness from resident fathers, a significant minority perceiving low levels of supportiveness also have lower overall wellbeing, regardless of other family circumstances.

Several early family characteristics (whether one or both parents from a minority ethnic group, both parents» ages when their child was born, the number of children in the family, adverse family events such as illnesses and deaths) are not associated with later father - child relationships.

Thus while a small minority of families may benefit from support in strengthening the child's relationship with both parents, father - child relationships may benefit from more targeted measures helping a wider group of families.

As outlined in the previous section, a substantial minority (16 %) of ten year - old children in GUS couple families perceive low levels of supportiveness from fathers, and are categorised as having a «poor» father - child relationship.

For example, birth cohort children from ethnic minority communities were more likely to have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, as were children whose mother had low education, whereas child cohort children from families whose parents had split up during the observation period were more likely to face multiple negative outcomes than those whose parents remained together.

This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.

Unfortunately I ve seen minority families enroll and withdraw their children from this school that expressed these same concerns but were unwilling or unable to express these feelings on a public forum such as GreatSchools.