Sentences with phrase «of access to high»

Poverty, discrimination and lack of access to high - quality educational opportunities and healthcare hurt young people's chances of future success.

Gilbert's story highlights the importance of access to high - quality, affordable early childhood programs for low - income working families.

Despite evidence of the positive impact of high - quality early childhood education for all children, it remains out of reach for most low - and moderate - income families.15 The average price of center - based care in the United States accounts for nearly 30 percent of the median family income, and only 10 percent of child care programs are considered high quality.16 Publicly funded programs — such as Head Start, Early Head Start, child care, and state pre-K programs — are primarily targeted at low - income families, but limited funding for these programs severely hinders access.17 This lack of access to high - quality early childhood education perpetuates the achievement gap, evidenced by the fact that only 48 percent of low - income children are ready for kindergarten, compared with 75 percent of moderate - or high - income children.18

Sfraga says the two - day Arctic Broadband Forum, for example, will address the lack of access to high - speed internet connections around the far north.

Her work with differentiated instruction focuses on developing classrooms that provide equity of access to high - quality learning opportunities for all students.

Lack of access to high quality summer learning opportunities has real consequences — more than half of the achievement gap between lower and higher - income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities.

We study the effects of access to high school math and science courses on postsecondary STEM enrollment and degree attainment using administrative microdata from Missouri.

When we vary the ways in which information is presented to students, create a range of opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning, and engage students in authentic learning experiences, we create multiple means of access to high levels of learning for ALL students.

Poverty, lack of access to high - quality preschool, low levels of parental education attainment, and hypersegregated schools all play a crucial role.

For too long, our most underserved students have gotten shortchanged out of access to a high - quality education — from disparate funding formulas to teacher contract issues.

The grouping practice is associated with efforts to eliminate a «dumbed - down» curriculum and to allow all students the benefits of access to high - level instructional practices.

Maile Hadley connects all of her work to equity of access to high quality educational opportunities for underrepresented students.

In Massachusetts, 34,000 children remain stranded on waitlists for charter schools while the state legislature continues to ignore the demonstrated wishes of their constituents, forcing the question of access to high quality schools to a ballot question this fall.

This report, which synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies, finds community schools can improve outcomes for all students, and especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

Widespread attention to the standards increases equity of access to a high - quality education for every student, not just for those lucky enough to attend schools in more advantaged communities.

This brief and related report synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies and finds that community schools can improve outcomes for all students, especially those facing lack of access to high - quality schools and out - of - school barriers to learning.

I am voting YES on Question 2 to support the advancement of the long delayed civil right of access to high quality education for all students.

The EPI says that if the government believes that introducing the Opportunity Areas initiative would address the lack of access to a high performing school, then its analysis suggests that there should be one in the North East.

The widening gap between rich and poor, which is made worse by lack of access to high - quality health care and K - 12 education.

The Tamale South legislator who is also the Employment and Labor Relations minister also said the NDC is the only political party in the 4th Republic with unparalleled record of access to higher education in the history of the country.

«From lack of access to higher education and job opportunities, to managing trauma from these experiences in violent environments, and in many cases, recidivism, these policies have served to punish youth for life.

SOL also represented a community response with sense of urgency to find reachable solutions to pressing issues facing the Latino community, including the hostile political climate, crisis of affordable housing, threats to immigrants rights, low graduation rates and lack of access to higher education, and lack of job opportunities.

But Daniela Alulema, a board member of the New York State Youth Leadership Council, a supporter of access to higher education for illegal immigrants, said she hoped the Regents would eventually throw their support behind a version of the Dream Act introduced in the State Legislature in March.

Merisotis is regarded as a leading expert on education policy, including issues of access to higher education for underrepresented minorities.

Community colleges are the first point of access to higher education for millions of students looking for an affordable path to a bachelor's degree.

This usually occurs through a variety of loopholes (some schools maintaining neighborhood, sibling, or other preferential treatment), lack of equal access in the stratification by race and class in terms of access to higher performing schools.»

Findings and recommendations from a 10 - state study Community colleges are the first point of access to higher education for millions of students looking for an affordable path to a bachelor's degree...

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This is at the root of the president's policies to improve access to high quality childcare, preschool for all, and free community college.

High - frequency traders were using superior connection speeds and access to exchanges to suss out his orders and get ahead of them in the market.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

Yes, Danes have a stable government, low levels of public corruption, and access to high - quality education and health care.

It has a high - resolution screen, operates the latest version of iOS, has access to millions of apps, and runs for about 10 hours between charges.

And we found that access to capital remains a huge challenge, especially for minority - owned businesses, which have loan denial rates three times as high as those of non-minority-owned firms.

Companies can now drive loyalty, and therefore higher lifetime retention and value, by leveraging convenience with even further granularity of access to products or information or both, giving specific customers specifically what they want every time, in a way that caters to their product preferences (and possibly their belief system).

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

The clear fact, though, is that middle and higher earners without access to a pension from their workplace are at strong risk of reaching retirement with inadequate income set aside.

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

The new ease of access is surely going to drive home prices higher, especially as before the rail line opened, access to the city essentially required use of the often - standstill 210 and 605 freeways.

Musk, 43, also has publicly talked about using satellites to provide Internet access to remote parts of the Earth, a mission that Google also has embraced in a separate project that relies on high - altitude balloons.

Since late 2012, the once high - flying charity — which has raised some $ 500 million over the years to help 2.5 million patients, caretakers, and survivors get access to services such as fertility preservation, clinical - trial matching, and insurance assistance — has lost some of its biggest sponsors, including Nike and RadioShack.

At the higher end of that price range, there are certainly options that don't require sharing, and that's where other considerations — a shorter commute, better coffee shops, rooftop access and a roommate to come home to at night — come into play.

Endeavor finds what Rottenberg calls «high - impact» entrepreneurs around the world and supports them through intense mentoring — each participant gets his or her own board of advisors — and access to a network of local investors.

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

But we've passed some important milestones, including super-fast internet access for a critical mass of consumers; PCs and handhelds with enough graphics and computing power to deliver quality video and audio; and big, high - resolution TV / PC flat panels available at commodity prices.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

High prices particularly affect the US, though some other countries have trouble getting access to the medication in the first place, said Sarah Lucas, the CEO of Beyond Type 1, a non-profit focused on education and advocacy related to the disease.

As well as money to get your company off the ground, they will provide you with access to qualified business mentors with a high level of knowledge in their industries.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

«We deliver low - cost, healthy food to zip codes across the country that before Amazon had limited access to a large selection of high quality foods,» Huseman wrote to Fudge.