Sentences with phrase «more kids live in poverty»

The fact of the matter is more kids live in poverty in our borough than anywhere else.

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In his last book, How Children Succeed, author Paul Tough identified a litany ways that living in poverty can affect kids» brains, making it more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their behaviors and achieve in schooIn his last book, How Children Succeed, author Paul Tough identified a litany ways that living in poverty can affect kids» brains, making it more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their behaviors and achieve in schooin poverty can affect kids» brains, making it more difficult for them to regulate their emotions, control their behaviors and achieve in schooin school.

• More than half of the charter kids studied live in poverty — higher than the traditional public school rate.

Beyond being my friends, they represented the «other half» — the more than 50 percent of kids in my high school who lived in poverty and weren't lucky enough to be tracked into the gifted program.

There are 11 million students in rural public schools, and kids in rural America are more likely than their peers in any other geography to live in poverty.

For example, describing these students as living in homes with a low income or with low SES (socioeconomic status) is very different, and more accurate, than calling them «low - income students,» «low - SES students,» or «high - poverty kids.»

More than 12 million US kids live in poverty.

Kids growing up in poverty are more likely to experience trauma, to live without their fathers, to go home to more violent neighborhoods, and to otherwise face all manner of difficult circumstances that make it more likely that they may misbehave at school.

Kids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilKids growing up in poverty and fragile families, and dysfunctional communities need a whole lot more than kids living with affluence and stabilkids living with affluence and stability.

«I know kids can overcome poverty, but when students are living in abject poverty in segregated communities with poor health care and housing, that makes the work for our teachers all the more challenging.»

So the answer to high international test scores is really quite simple, just make sure no US school has more that 10 % of the kids living in poverty.

In Oakland, more than one in six children now live in extreme poverty, according to the 2012 Kids Count Data BooIn Oakland, more than one in six children now live in extreme poverty, according to the 2012 Kids Count Data Booin six children now live in extreme poverty, according to the 2012 Kids Count Data Booin extreme poverty, according to the 2012 Kids Count Data Book.

Fifteen thousand kids live below the poverty line, and almost a third of children are in households that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.

More than a million Florida children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty — 25 % compared to 18 % in 2005, according to the 2014 Kids Count Data Book published by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

More than 12 million US kids live in poverty.

We must do more to improve reading proficiency among all kids while focusing attention on children in lower - income families who face additional hurdles of attending schools that have high concentrations of kids living in poverty.»