Sentences with phrase «most kids in poverty»

«If your parents don't teach you — and most kids in poverty are not taught about money by their parents — then there literally is no one who is going to teach you about that.»

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PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

Geoffrey Canada is a teacher who came up against the most - difficult - to - educate group of kids a teacher can face: kids who grew up in poverty, with broken homes, surrounded by drugs and guns and alcohol.

Asthma is the most common childhood medical condition, with rates 50 percent higher in families below the poverty line, who often live in run - down homes, than among kids in wealthier households.

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

For instance, just in the past year, Harvard's Tony Wagner coauthored Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era; Richard Milner of U. Pittsburgh authored Rac (e) ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms; and Columbia University's Tom Bailey copublished Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success.

And are we talking about kids who are born into poverty, or spend most of their lives in poverty, or are in poverty for just a few years?

With an unrelenting belief in what kids can achieve — despite race, poverty, or zip code — we will see the needle move urgently in the state of South Carolina for the kids who need it most.

According to research, most students lose two months of math proficiency during summer break — almost a full quarter of the school year — and kids in poverty also lose two months of reading.

«Kids in poverty need to have the most credentialed, effective teachers if they're going to get out of poverty,» she said.

As education reform leaders and unions fight over policies that mandate rigorous teacher evaluations and encourage the growth of charter schools, poor kids are losing out in the most basic of ways — a situation that embeds them deeper in the cycle of poverty.

But in my experience, a modicum of education is possible in almost any situation, and surely we could be providing a much higher quality of education than only 1 in 10 low - income kids graduating from college, and most kids in high poverty schools graduating high school reading on an eighth grade level.

These kids (and adults) live in the most depressing poverty and despair, yet the children's hope flourishes through baseball.

«We need to look at all kids in poverty, but especially look at those in extreme poverty - those are where resources are most immediately needed.»