Sentences with phrase «most disadvantaged children»

Acelero Learning has a proven track record of producing breakthrough child outcome gains for some of America's most disadvantaged children through our unique outcomes - focused approach.

These developments accentuate the need to monitor the well - being of the most disadvantaged children, but income inequality also has far - reaching consequences for society, harming educational attainment, key health outcomes and even economic growth.

We know what works — we know it worked in London — and we need to see the London Challenge rolled out to the 10 worst areas where we know that most disadvantaged children are not getting the schooling they need.

It is a matter of whether we have the will to change the system we have in place and to offer our most disadvantaged children something greater.

The evidence shows that investment in early years is the best way to close the attainment gap between the most disadvantaged children and their affluent peers.

Universal prekindergarten reduces inequality because its largest positive effects are on the most disadvantaged children.

Preschool, small class size and counselors are among the educational resources the plaintiffs in Connecticut's pending school funding case, CCJEF v. Rell, seek for Connecticut's most disadvantaged children.

«I think when you shift to that model, what it means is that the losers are going to be the most disadvantaged children, whose families lack the information and resources they need in order to access high - quality options.»

This settlement is about giving our most disadvantaged children a fighting chance at their schools.

It fundamentally lacks social and cultural relevance for the most disadvantaged children, impacting on their confidence and engagement in learning.

«The government is therefore opposing this bill, however, as I have already confirmed, the government will support the proposal to investigate the best way to ensure the most disadvantaged children have access to activities and healthy meals in the school holidays.»

«We agree that early intervention and financial support for our most disadvantaged children and young people is essential in addressing inequities and so we welcome announcements in those areas.»

It will reduce the barriers to the most disadvantaged children getting in front of the best teachers — which is exactly the intervention required to make a difference.

Education charity the Sutton Trust is to oversee a new US - style endowment fund to help England's most disadvantaged children succeed.

«The Welsh government is taking practical action to deliver better educational opportunities for our most disadvantaged children.

The report found schools serving the most disadvantaged children, which make up 40 per cent of all schools in England, would need «10,000 more school leaders by 2022».

Congress must act before the March 1 deadline so that our most disadvantaged children do not lose access to vital education programs and services that are already inequitable at current funding levels.

Schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest funding cuts when the Government reallocates school funding, according to calculations by the NUT and ATL.

We will continue to stand alongside elected officials, Democratic or Republican, who support parents and protect our school choice programs that serve the state's most disadvantaged children.»

«If the pupil premium turns out to be a token amount of money compared to existing deprivation funding, extra funding on top of a smaller budget, or paid for by cutting other programmes that help the most disadvantaged children then this announcement may turn out to be little more than a gimmick.»

The entry fee of # 5 per child is donated to onebillion, a charity working with some of the world's most disadvantaged children, to provide tablet devices to schools in Malawi, where classes have well over 100 pupils with a single teacher.

He said schools in the most challenging circumstances and the most disadvantaged children would be worst affected.

A criticism of the programme so far has been the omission of any Opportunity Areas in the North East — a part of Britain with poor attainment and progress, particularly for the most disadvantaged children, and sparse access to high quality schools.

The event included a compelling keynote address from Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the nation's leading advocates for school choice to serve the most disadvantaged children in America.

We will not back down in our commitment to protecting Louisiana's school choice programs that serve the state's most disadvantaged children.»

«The biggest losers in this model will likely be the most disadvantaged children, whose families lack the information and resources to access high - quality opportunities.»

As part of the «War on Poverty,» the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act of 1965 was designed to direct federal education dollars to the most disadvantaged children living in poverty.

The Song Room is a unique provider of in - school, long - term, tailored arts - based programs for the most disadvantaged children in Australia.

Since oral language and vocabulary are so connected to reading comprehension, the most disadvantaged children face increased challenges once they enter school and start learning to read.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

Ofsted's report recommends ways that schools, early years settings and childminders can improve the situation, such as ensuring key information is shared promptly at points of transition, so that the needs of the most disadvantaged children are identified quickly.

That» s because the most disadvantaged children — especially those who are born poor, and stay poor, for most of their childhoods — have the following, more deep - seated challenges in common:

Evidence shows that patterns of participation in the arts are determined in childhood, and that participation varies considerably between different socio - economic groups, with the most disadvantaged children the least likely to have access to the arts outside school.

tackle inequality with the provision of classroom support to the most disadvantaged children in the UK with the Burnet News Club.

The Holiday Activities and Food Research Fund will go towards exploring how best to help the most disadvantaged children to benefit from healthy meals and enriching activities.

The figures are based on calculations by the NUT and ATL, who have warned that schools with the most disadvantaged children are likely to face the biggest cuts when the government reallocates school funding.

The overarching goal of this effort is to leverage new knowledge in the service of generating and testing innovative intervention models to produce substantially greater impacts on learning, behavior, and health outcomes than existing programs and policies, particularly for the most disadvantaged children and families.

This is especially true when it comes to the education of our most disadvantaged children: those growing up in poverty, in single - parent homes, in dangerous neighborhoods.

The entry fee of # 5 per child to enter the Junior Language Challenge is donated to onebillion, a charity working with some of the world's most disadvantaged children, to provide tablet devices to schools in Malawi.

Kevan Collins, EEF chief executive, said: «We know that effective teaching and parental engagement have a positive impact on educational achievement, particularly for the most disadvantaged children.

«Extending the entitlement to 30 hours per week for working families is likely to place further strain on quality and access for the most disadvantaged children.

It is a grass roots organization whose aim is to provide the most disadvantaged children with education.

Early intervention programmes that prevent the most disadvantaged children becoming tearaways: 6.89

«Cutting the roll out of universal free school meals, abolishing one - to - one tuition, pulling the plug on funding for breakfast clubs and other extended services, aborting the school building programme and siphoning off money to allow the pushy and the privileged to set up schools will hit the poorest and most disadvantaged children hardest.

Jonathan Rallings of children's charity Barnardo's said: «Today marks a victory for the UK's most disadvantaged children, on which the government should be congratulated,» he said.

Finally # 20 raised from the lottery scheme can provide football boots for some of the most disadvantaged children in Leeds.

You don't get to call yourself «pro-life» and oppose programs like Head Start that provide basic education, health and nutrition for the most disadvantaged children.

«Instead of helping some of the most disadvantaged children in our communities, Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals spent $ 182 million on a computer mess,» said Michelle Mungall, New Democrat spokesperson for social development.

Not exact matches

His most recent study, comparing 1,025 public and Catholic high schools, shows not only that the Catholic schools were more effective overall, but that they were especially beneficial to children from economically disadvantaged homes or where relationships between parents and children were disturbed.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»